section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rod Pattenden
- 05 October 2011
12 Comments
Controversial Fairfax art critic John McDonald is scathing in his assessment of the 60th Blake Prize for Religious Art. His frustrated search for traditional religious symbols in the works reveals a lack of understanding of the role of images within Australia’s living religious imagination.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 05 October 2011
7 Comments
One time my brother Kevin and our father had a fistfight. Our sister herded the kids into a back room, made us kneel and pray. We could hear crashing; sometimes I still hear crashing when I pray. In his 50s Kevin, who I loved but sometimes disliked, got sick. It looks like he will die before Christmas.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Maria Takolander
- 04 October 2011
Talk of morality is bad for rationality ... it's a derailment-factor, a self-sabotager, a barbecue-stopper, plain un-Australian ... I can help you leverage your life-goals, so that you can experience real change with improved results.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 30 September 2011
5 Comments
Few dump masters are as erudite as Steve. 'Had a bloke here the other day, a Yank. Said he was after a couple of barrels. "You mean drums," I says. But no. He didn't want to play the bloody drums, he wanted barrels. Well, I says, the only barrels round here are wine barrels. What you want is drums.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 September 2011
5 Comments
During the 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim was placed with and raised by a human family, with the aim of seeing whether he could learn language. On a larger canvas the experiment asked the question, 'how much can we make Nim human?'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Debi Hamilton
- 28 September 2011
14 Comments
She is a beautiful, understated woman. She lives in a rented house where, four years ago, she nursed her husband while he died. Since then, she has been raising three children there by herself. One day, the owner turned up at the door and told her he was selling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Gebhardt
- 27 September 2011
2 Comments
It might be an epitaph on a tombstone, or an ancient call to prayer ... Forget the ancestral trespassers, the heritage forbears, the gin and bitters people. They didn't ask, they just used their guns.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 September 2011
2 Comments
The interviewer snaps at one archaeologist, who is attempting, with little success, a demonstration of Palaeolithic spear-throwing. At other times he is astute and discerning, drawing experts out on both the academic and mystical significance of one of the world's most significant archaeological sites.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 21 September 2011
3 Comments
The day my father died I was at the beach. Strangely, that morning one friend and I had been discussing death. My phone had been switched off, but as I walked away at the end of an almost perfect day, I turned the little time-bomb on again. It exploded almost immediately.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Waller
- 20 September 2011
2 Comments
Hans shows me an invention which magnifies letters for his failing eyes, so that still he may read, so that still the winds may turn the bronze art coins of his perception. Cobweb-like sculptures dream upon some shelves, poetry is the wing of his bird-like speech.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 September 2011
2 Comments
UN peacekeeper Kathryn Bolkovac uncovers evidence that some of her colleagues have been involved with sex slavery and human trafficking. Her interactions with one victim reinforce her determination to achieve justice, while highlighting the limits of her ability to do so.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jordie Albiston
- 13 September 2011
6 Comments
Thank you feet, for putting one after another along shorelines and long paths ... Sorry for all the concrete, landmines and shoes. To hands, many thanks, for touching many things ... I hope you enjoyed the feel of another's occasional flesh.
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