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1. 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 ...
2. 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. ...
3. 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. ...
4. 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 ...
5. 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 ...
6. 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 ...
7. 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 ...
8. 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 ...
9. 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, ...
10. The Update - February 27, 2018
(ABR Arts)
... ature photography as a work of art, whilst raising questions about our crucial role in shaping a sustainable future’, said Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum. The exhibition opens on  ...
11. Kevin Rabalais reviews 'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson
(March 2018, no. 399)
... the way you knew the music.’ To say that Avedon changed the game by introducing movement to fashion photography only scratches the surface of his achievement. Some photographers obsess over equipment, ...
12. Helen Ennis reviews 'Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife' by Pamela Bannos
(March 2018, no. 399)
... movie footage, wasn’t known. She didn’t take photographs for public consumption, for publication, or for exhibition – she took them for herself. Photography was her obsession, but its outcomes came perilously ...
13. News from the Editor's Desk - March 2018
(March 2018, no. 399)
... Photography), Katherine Healy (photograph by Ben Liew Photography, Adelaide), LK Holt (photograph by Nicholas Walton-Healey), Tracey Slaughter, Nicholas Wong (photograph by Sum at Grainy Studio)     ...
14. Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar' by Christian Ryan and 'Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror' ...
(January–February 2018, no. 398)
... a plate camera. This all sounds very technical, but in Christian Ryan’s hands it is fascinating stuff and invites a discussion of the changing nature of cricket photography. Who or what prompts memory? ...
15. 2018 Jolley Prize Judges
(Competitions and programs)
Patrick Allington was the recipient of the inaugural ABR Patrons’ Fellowship. His novel, Figurehead (Black Inc. 2009), was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His short fiction and book criticism ...
16. Wonder Wheel
(ABR Arts)
... from those responsible for the costuming, lighting, and photography, with lurid sunset and Ferris wheel neons streaming in through the apartment windows, crossing the characters’ faces as they flicker ...
17. Nicholas Jose reviews 'A New Literary History of Modern China' edited by David Der-Wei Wang
(January–February 2018, no. 398)
... History of Modern China hopes to encompass. There are essays on film, photography, and popular songs; the definition of literature is as flexible as can be. There is particular interest in minor, unfinished, ...
18. John Rickard reviews 'Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana Fund' edited by Jennifer Sanders
(December 2017, no. 397)
... artefacts and nothing representative of Torres Strait Islanders. One art form not represented is photography. Why not a Bill Henson? Or would that be too ‘controversial’? And there is no indication of ...
19. Gemma Betros reviews 'Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year' by Peter Brooks
(December 2017, no. 397)
... from its literary and political worlds, to its photography, to the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, built in a confused attempt to expiate the past. In his account of the Commune, we smell the fires smouldering  ...
20. Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
(ABR Arts)
... Instructive signage placed at strategic points tells us that throughout his career Mapplethorpe sought perfection through photography which he considered the perfect medium because it was ‘intimate and ...