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1. The Flying Dutchman (Melbourne Opera)

(ABR Arts)

... s Senta with Melbourne Opera Chorus (photography by Robin Halls) Interestingly, unlike Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde, neither protagonist shows any affection for the other – their only  ...

2. Ron Radford reviews 'Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our eyes' by Joanna Mendelssohn et al.

(January-February 2019, no. 408)

... y of Australian printmaking, sculpture, decorative arts, and particularly photography. Photography, barely acknowledged in the 1960s as an art form, has now become one of the most popular areas of historic ...

3. 2019 Jolley Prize Judges

(Competitions and programs)

Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Clarke's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The ...

4. Ben Vine reviews 'These Truths: A History of the United States' by Jill Lepore

(January-February 2019, no. 408)

...  discourse as the nation industrialised, grew more unequal, and encountered technological developments that constantly reshaped political discourse – photography, mass production, radio, television, and ...

5. Alan Atkinson reviews 'The Land of Dreams: How Australians won their freedom, 1788–1860' by David Kemp

(January-February 2019, no. 408)

This is the first of a five-volume series, apparently all by David Kemp, with the general title Australian Liberalism. The second volume, A Free Country: Australians’ search for utopia 1861–1901, is planned ...

6. David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art)

(ABR Arts)

... Town © The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust Goldblatt came to photography in his late teens, inspired by the American pictorial magazines such as Life and influenced by the work of Ansel Adams. Goldblatt ...

7. Boy Erased

(ABR Arts)

... that here it is the son rather than the father who speaks of the necessity to accept love and speak truthfully. The real Garrard Conley (photo by Colin Boyd Shafer Photography)The real Garrard Conley ...

8. Wildlife

(ABR Arts)

Paul Dano, one of the most soulful and intense actors of his generation, has appeared in a number of films over the last decade in which rupture and dysfunction serve to undermine a family unit. In Little ...

9. David McCooey reviews three poets at the height of their powers

(November 2018, no. 406)

... in Anywhy cover ancient history and archeology, war, photography, suburbia, birdlife, and so on. A number of poems are ekphrastic in nature, which is to say they respond to other works of art, such as ...

10. 'The art of pain: Writing in the age of trauma' by Beejay Silcox

(November 2018, no. 406)

...  enter, either, with its lurking potential for moral judgement. But, as a friend wisely said to me, ‘Trauma is pretty fucking uncomfortable.’ Beejay Silcox (photo by Elizabeth-Richelle Photography)A ...

11. Andrea Gaynor reviews 'The Allure of Fungi' by Alison Pouliot

(October 2018, no. 405)

... and unruly life. Photo essays comprising stunning macrophotography of fungi appear between substantive chapters. Pouliot’s use of a very shallow depth of field in most of the photographs evokes a sense ...

12. Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

(ABR Arts)

I don’t watch the World Cup or even Wimbledon, so I may have some Australian gene missing. But by the time the string quartet winners were announced at the end of the Melbourne International Chamber Music ...

13. The Update - July 3, 2018

(ABR Arts)

... weaving, sculpture, video, prints, photography, metalwork, and glasswork – and will focus on issues of identity, racism, displacement, Country, nuclear testing, sovereignty, and the Stolen Generations. ...

14. Paul Morgan reviews 'The year everything changed: 2001' by Phillipa McGuinness

(June-July 2018, no. 402)

... she writes. Phillipa McGuinness (photography by Mel Koutchavlis)Another chapter focuses on what McGuinness terms John Howard’s ‘Falklands Election’, won after the infamous Tampa and SIEV X incidents. ...

15. Paul Giles reviews 'Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century' by Margaret Plant

(June-July 2018, no. 402)

... In ranging widely across architecture, film, photography, music, dance, and popular culture, as well as literature and painting, she demonstrates convincingly that, as she puts it, there was ‘no dormant ...

16. The Update - May 22, 2018

(ABR Arts)

... s studio neighbours at the Boyd Community Hub, Southbank – are currently presenting ‘Memory Tearoom’, an immersive art installation about ‘the intersections between rituals, memory, and photography’. T ...

17. Marama Whyte reviews 'The face that launched a thousand lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy' by Jessica Lake

(May 2018, no. 401)

... in a long history of privacy invasions enabled through technological advances. Modern photography was the invention of George Eastman, who made photography accessible to the amateur when he developed ...

18. Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars (National Gallery of Victoria)

(ABR Arts)

... the Swan River, an interlude with silver, another with early photography, then into South Australia, the Port Phillip District, a desk case slightly oddly combining the Gold Rush with Thomas Baines in ...

19. Open Page with Sarah Sentilles

(April 2018, no. 400)

... Amélie. And your favourite book? Toni Morrison’s Beloved. A close second right now is Ariella Azoulay’s book, The Civil Contract of Photography. Name the three people with whom you would most like ...

20. The Update - March 13, 2018

(ABR Arts)

... and the Arts Centre Melbourne on 5 May. Riccardo Muti (Todd Rosenberg Photography)   The seventy-six-year old Naples-born conductor has led many of the world’s major orchestras including the Berlin, ...