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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Bob Connolly |Megan Davis |Alison Croggon
How Glenn Murcutt’s architectural vision created a space – and inspiration – for artists Lynne Eastaway and Sydney Ball The Glenn Murcutt–designed Ball-Eastaway House at Glenorie is about as far from ostentatious as you can get. It feathers gently into the environment. It’s not that the house is disguised in any way, or that it seeks to mimic its surrounds either through material (predominately corrugated tin) or form (a deceptively simple curve, open at both ends).
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Nam Le |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Megan Davis |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Alison Croggon
From now until referendum day, we have removed the paywall on all Voice coverage. Read and share this article for free. As October 14 approaches, opposition to the Voice has been dominated by false claims and discredited ideas Recognition in constitutions is not a novel thing. It’s why it’s been discussed here since the republic referendum in 1999. Nor is the recognition of Indigenous peoples in constitutions novel – it is a pedestrian act globally.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Shane Danielsen |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
October 2023Arts & LettersHistories of violence: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘El Conde’ Martin Scorsese’s first Western mishandles its story of colonial exploitation, while Pablo Larraín’s darkly humorous, black-and-white satire delivers Pinochet as a vampire For a boring state, Oklahoma has a pretty bloody history. The Trail of Tears. The Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis |Alison Croggon
The filmmaker returns to PNG for the funeral of the mixed-heritage coffee plantation owner who was the subject of his 1980s acclaimed documentary New Guinea’s highlanders know that when someone dies their spirit lingers among the living, insistent on proper respect being paid and still capable of doing good or evil. So the spirit must be appeased with public mourning, and on a scale that’s the measure of the departed.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
The author of ‘Tracks’ takes stock in middle age, in a memoir encompassing her mother’s tragic early death, mental health, and her relationship with Salman Rushdie “I’m working on this infinite book,” said Robyn Davidson in a 2012 interview, “a memoir based loosely around my mother … It’s quite a difficult book. I started it 12 years ago. I feel absolutely that I have to write it and absolutely that I can’t write it.”The “infinite book” was Unfinished Woman.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Claire Coleman |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
The Kamilaroi multi-disciplinary artist’s spectacular works bridge contemporary and ancient traditions When you think of Indigenous art, what comes to mind? Is it beautiful cultural mindscapes in acrylic paint on Belgian linen, or a canvas painted on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of what is now known as South Australia?
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Miriam Cosic |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
The latest work of the American classical music superstar – famed for his subway busking experiment – is a collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra “He was a bit of a party boy,” a former artistic director of a leading European orchestra told us, on condition of strict anonymity. American trumpeter and composer Chris Botti said: “I first met Josh when he was 16 and he was a legend in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
The four young characters of the Swedish author’s slender volume grippingly embody everyday life, its enduring relationships and its anxieties The Details (Hachette) is only 155 pages long, so I am committing it to memory. The details in these pages are my life, probably your life – zephyrs glancing through our skin moment by moment, so nuanced that we don’t notice. Swedish writer Ia Genberg has an idea about what that weird concept “self” is: “traces of the people we rub up against”.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Alison Croggon |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis
Underestimating the economic value of arts labour reminds of the Aesop fable ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ I have long been suspicious of Aesop’s fable in which a hungry grasshopper comes across a bunch of ants drying out their grain in the winter sunshine and asks for something to eat. In an early version, translated from Ancient Greek by Olivia and Robert Temple, the grasshopper is a cicada. The ants ask why she didn’t store up food for the winter. “I didn’t have time for that,” says the cicada.
