Written by: Fiona Gruber Photos by: Garth Oriander Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier are in the middle of making another album. It hasn’t got a name yet, says Conway, but after a few gigs to warm up, in August they’ll head to a recording studio in Melbourne, where they live. ‘We’ve got 15 songs and probably ten […]
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Wednesday 1st March Published by: BBC News Facebook has blocked an Australian auction house from advertising an acclaimed artist’s painting depicting nude figures. Charles Blackman’s oil work Women Lovers features two nude women resting on a bed beside a cat. Art broker Mossgreen tried to promote it on Facebook, but the social media network rejected […]
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Tuesday 28th February Published by: The Australian Written by: Michaela Boland In the latest instance of social media prudishness, Facebook has forbidden a Melbourne auction house from advertising a 37-year-old Charles Blackman painting of a black cat and two nude women in repose. The oil on paper, thought to feature the artist’s lover at the […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber When Daniel Crooks was a film student at VCA in the 1990s, he filled his bedroom with old TVs. The local Northcote tip sold obsolete sets for a dollar and he’d take them home and play around with their capabilities. ‘It’s amazing what you can do with a magnet, he quips; “the […]
Monday 9th July Written by: Tom Lowenstein Read the latest article from Tom Lowenstein.
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Written by: Fiona Gruber Catherine Hill says inexperience was sometimes a plus when making her first feature film, Some Happy Day. The shoot involved 60 actors, 60 crew and more than 150 community supporters. “It didn’t occur to me that a huge cast would be a problem; that was definitely a bit naïve,” she says. The […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber One of my first encounters with the writer Arnold Zable was in the form of a small suitcase that had belonged to his father. It was part of an exhibition at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum in 2011. Called Mameloshn, the Yiddish word for mother tongue, the exhibition told the story of a once […]
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1.Tom and Sylvia Lowenstein with Moira at Mario’s Fitzroy for the launch of Finucane & Smith Rapture/Antarctic photographs, August 2019 2. Main wall of Rapture/Antarctic exhibition, August 2019 3. Imants Tillers’ film launch at Federation Hall, Journey to Nowhere, VCA South Bank, Imants Tillers and Professor Ian Smith, August 2019 4. John Wolseley exhibition at Australian Galleries, July 2019 5. John Wolseley exhibition at Australian Galleries, July […]
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From top: Opening night speeches, Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, NGVA, 30 August 2018 – 28 January 2019, Wendy Whiteley, Tess Baldessin Deakin University Donors Dinner L-R Evan Lowenstein, Leanne Willis, Stephen Wickham Tom Lowenstein and Michael Brand (Director AGNSW) at Charles Blackman memorial, AGNSW, 8 September 2018 Joe Fitzpatrick, Evan Lowenstein, Kamahl, Tom Lowenstein, Kate Fitzpatrick at […]
As we go to ‘press’ some Australian art museums are opening up! But during lockdown we’ve seen museums and galleries large and small go online: see AGNSW virtual tour of the Archibald Art Gallery at Home – Art Gallery NSW Virtual Visit and Canberra Contemporary Art Space.