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Sunday 05 September 2010
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What's the thing that's most likely to make you go to an exhibition or to a concert or play or film, or read a novel? Is it what a critic writes in the newpaper? Is it a blog or a tweet from someone? In an age where anyone can and is posting an opinion somewhere in cyberspace, do audiences, do artists, need professional reviewers anymore? Is the critic on the critical list? Or, can the professional reviewer still contribute in a way that the citizen reviewer can't?
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Stephen Vitiello started his career as a punk guitarist but from there he become more interested in microphones as instruments, rather than guitars. Indeed, in 1999, he turned one of the World Trade Centre towers into a gaint microphone -- a recording that now, of course, has a particular poignancy.
Stephen Vitiello is in Australia because he's been commissioned to create this year's Kaldor Public Art Project and as a result he's produced two works; the first, in Sydney Park's Brickworks, is called The Sound of Red Earth, and the second is The Birds and it is outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Each of these pieces involves sound recordings made during field trips to the Kimberley.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take all your clothes off in front of a group of people and have them minutely study your every curve, bulge and wrinkle? Well today Suzanne Donisthorpe goes to the Life Models Society Ball, where they are celebrating their 20th anniversary.
Sunday 29 August 2010
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Green Power, politically speaking, is very much in our minds at the moment -- as things hang in the balance.
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If you've ever trawled through mountains of archives without finding very much, this story will make you quite jealous. It's about the unexpected discovery that Victor Hugo's famous character the Hunchback of Notre-Dame was not as fictional as we've always thought.
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Now to the contemporary urban world of Anthony Lister. He's a Brisbane boy who now lives in Brooklyn and earlier this year he was named among the hundred leading figures in urban art around the globe, in a book called Beyond the Street.
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And now to The Vent, a regular spot we're running at the moment, where people can get things off their chests about something or other to do with the arts world. Today it's Görkem Acaroğlu.
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Robert Gray was born in 1945, in Port Macquarie in New South Wales. Later, in Sydney, he worked variously as a mail-sorter, a book-seller and a copywriter in advertising.
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Sunday 22 August 2010
Listen Now - 2010-08-22 | Download Audio (34.6 MB)
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In suburban homes across Australia in the 1950s and 60s, it was virtually de rigeur to have, hanging in your loungeroom, a print of an Albert Namatjira painting. If you could afford it, you'd have an original watercolour by him -- in the 1950s, when Albert Namatjira was at the height of his fame, his exhibitions sold out in a matter of minutes. Every artist's dream!
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One of the more unusual events on the Australian arts and crafts calendar is the Beanie Festival in Alice Springs. It started in 1997 as a way of selling the crocheted hats that Aboriginal women in remote communities were making.
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If you say the name Jerry Hall you might immediately think of glamorous shots of her, or the long off-and-on marriage she had to Mick Jagger. But did you know she's also a seasoned theatre actor and is about to perform the seminal role of Mrs Robinson in a production of The Graduate in Perth? She's also a poet and, as Suzanne Donisthorpe discovered, you can take the girl out of Texas but you can't always take Texas out of the girl.
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In the wash-up after the election, social democracy comes in for a bit of a spray with this week's Ventor. Andrew Frost is a TV presenter and blogger. His finest creation is The Art Life.
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In this week's Artworks Feature, we're checking one of the global economic pulses -- the stratospheric end of the art market, where the wealth is almost immeasurable ... and the figures on the price-tags? Well, if you have to ask you are most definitely in the wrong place.
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Sunday 15 August 2010
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Last week in Artworks, one of the guests in our election special was Jonathan Mills, the director of the Edinburgh International Festival. He was on a quick visit back to Australia before the opening of his festival last Friday.
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Last week's Melbourne Art Fair was a big glossy biennial extravaganza where the art market went to town showing off what it has to offer. People flew in from all over, champagne flowed and a million art deals were done. The buzz was huge and off the back of all that, another event took shape.
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While hardened culture lovers in much of Australia are battling wild, wintry weather to get to the theatre or visit a gallery, smart people have flown north to catch the rich mix of events that distinguish the Darwin Festival -- events that highlight Darwin's proximity to both South East Asian and Top End indigenous cultures.
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Another of the events at the Darwin Festival -- one that's for children and adults but mostly for children -- is a show called After Hours at the Dinosaurs' Museum. And it's being performed at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory by Erth Visual and Physical Theatre -- that's Erth spelled E-R-T-H. Scott Wright is the artistic director of Erth.
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Today we start a new series on Artworks called The Vent, where people get things off their chests. Our inaugural Venter is, who else, but Catherine Deveny, who describes herself as a Caucasian fancier, dog whistler, atheista, torturer of middle-aged, middle-class, uptight white honkies in suits, and lover of little boys and swear-words.
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Bill Henson is known worldwide for his haunting and beautiful photographs. He's also known for the massive controversy that blew up in 2008 when some of his photographs were seized from a gallery in Sydney. This started a public debate about whether his images of nude or semi-nude teenagers constituted child abuse. Much has been said about that and now we hear from the man himself. Bill Henson delivered the opening address of the Melbourne Art Fair and this is an abridged version of his talk.
If you want to hear and see the full lecture, it'll be on Big Ideas TV this Tuesday, at 11am on ABC 1.
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Sunday 08 August 2010
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Everyone's saying this is a bland election campaign. There's no money for big new initiatives, and no grand vision for our future. Well, this week Artworks investigates what is and isn't left of our nation's cultural agenda.
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In the lead-up to the election, Amanda Smith hosts a forum on the state of the arts featuring presenters from the Radio National cultural family, including Daniel Browning from Awaye, Andrew Ford from The Music Show, Julie Rigg from Movietime and Alan Saunders from By Design.
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