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Sunday 01 August 2010
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A museum, according to Didier Maleuvre, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California Santa Barbara, is by definition exclusive. It selects certain objects to add to its collection and excludes others, and it does this on the basis of scholarship. It is not the role of the museum to advocate principles of multiculturalism, social justice, or to give pride of place to minority groups and their special interests.
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We're becoming very used to technology turning one device into two or more - mobile phones with cameras - fridges with internet screens - most are clever gimmicks. But one dual-function device is rapidly becoming much more powerful than even the manufacturers could have imagined. Digital SLR cameras, which sit at the upper end of the market for taking photos, are suddenly sporting video capabilities that allow professional photographers to also create extraordinarily high quality video clips.
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Do not go gentle into that good night is a famous line from a Dylan Thomas poem, and now it is the title of a new play by Patricia Cornelius. What is it about death and dying that so attracts writers?
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Is there a connection between psychoanalysis and the theatre? Sigmund Freud gave us the Oedipus complex, a disorder he diagnosed on the basis of one of Sophocles' characters. Now, this condition is part and parcel of popular culture. So it should be no surprise then, that playwrights have brought this diagnosis full circle by turning the Oedipus complex back into theatre.
Sunday 25 July 2010
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Do you remember a couple of years ago how people on the Greek island of Lesbos went to court, to try to reclaim for themselves the word Lesbian: to get an injunction against its use as a term to describe female homosexuality? They lost the court case, perhaps unsurprisingly; that horse had long bolted, way back in 7th century BCE with the poet Sappho.
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Time now to tackle the big question -- the one that haunts the art world like no other, the question to end all questions. Yes today on Artworks we find out how to determine is this art? And how do we find out the answer? An expert? A panel of eminent judges? No, an iPhone app of course.
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Susan Vogel is one of the world's leading experts on African art and she's visiting Australia as a guest of the US Studies Centre. She is also promoting her new film, Fold Crumple Crush, a documentary about El Amatsul, a Ghanian artist living in Nigeria. Susan Vogel talks to Lyn Gallacher about her film and her groundbreaking book African Art, Western Eyes.
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Milton Moon is one of Australia's most distinguished potters. He's now in his eighty-fourth year, and he's still getting his hands on clay and making beautiful things in his studio in Adelaide -- as he's been doing for the past sixty years. Today he takes Amanda Smith on a tour of his kilns.
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Sunday 18 July 2010
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The Johnstone Collection is a jewel in the heart of Melbourne. It was the home of William Johnstone, an antiques dealer, who when he died in 1986, left his house and collection of art, ceramics, mirrors and Georgian, Regency and Louis the 15th furniture to become a public gallery.
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Australian video artist Lynette Wallworth is working at the cutting edge of immersive art, as many people would have found at the Sydney Festival earlier this year. In fact all across Australia over the past decade, in galleries, festivals and in very public spaces, her installations have invited people to slow down to experience sublime and intimate encounters, through the veil of a video screen.
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Marcel Proust, the French novelist, was a sickly, asthmatic child of well-to-do parents and he spent the last three years of his life confined to his cork-lined bedroom, sleeping during the day and working on his novel at night - a story which tracks his evolving consciousness, details the disillusionment of love and leads to an epiphany about the enduring power of art.
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Death be Kind is the intriguing name of an art project being put on in a small gallery space in inner Melbourne. It's being curated by two artists -- Elvis Richardson and Clare Lamb -- and is designed to evolve over the next 12 months.
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For three days Hobart was alive with the sound of music. Streets were dotted with band members lugging instruments as more than 4,000 musicians and 60 bands from Australia and overseas converged for the nation's premier band competition.
Sunday 11 July 2010
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What's the difference between a fake and a forgery? Do owners of paintings by Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson have anything to worry about?
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One of the most talked about works in the 17th Biennale of Sydney is Brook Andrew's Jumping Castle War Memorial. As the name suggests, it is a jumping castle, decorated with geometric black and white diamond shapes. This design is a Wiradjuri pattern which was traditionally inscribed on trees. It's the pattern of Brook Andrew's family and he says the Jumping Castle War Memorial is for the victims of war who do not have their own memorials and this one, even though it looks like a fairground attraction, is for them.
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Exactly 30 years ago a recording empire began in PNG. It was called CHM Supersound.
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Time now for a trip to the Central Victorian town of Castlemaine where you are about to be let in to a very special place called Lot 19. Up the road off the highway that leads to the tip -- past the sewage works, is a block of industrial land that has been transformed from a weed infested wasteland to a space for artists, by artists, and anyone who likes their art down-to-earth, and a little bit country.
Thursday 08 July 2010
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What do own specialist broadcasters think of the place of the arts in this election campaign? What do they have to say about Election 2010? We will cover film, music, design and indigenous culture with Julie Rigg, Andy Ford, Alan Saunders and Daniel Browning as each one gives their view on the state of the arts come Labor or Liberal.
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