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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe February 2025 Arts & Letters The work of the great Australian documentary photographer proposes portraits as mirrors, containing both the subject and the artist I have a special love for good documentary photography. You know the kind – the images that show life in all its beautiful, complex, world-making everyday glory.
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May 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Laura Tingle |Kate Manne |Katherine Wilson
A survey exhibition coming to the AGSA showcases the abstract figurative paintings through which the artist examines his troubled childhood Brent Harris still recalls the moment when his father first told him of his plan to murder Harris’s mother, his two sisters and him. He’d do it at night, he said, as they slept in their beds, before turning the weapon on himself.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Mark Dreyfus |Nick Feik |Connor O'Brien
February 2024Arts & Letters The NGA’s newest acquisition, a controversial American artist’s animatronic steel cube, fuses abstraction with classical figure sculpture In 2003, while a student at New York’s Rhode Island School of Design, the artist Jordan Wolfson encountered a classical Buddhist sculpture in the campus museum. It was a simple thing, but something about it lodged deep in his consciousness and stayed there.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Jess Hill |Katherine Wilson |Anthony Ham
A major exhibition of the late Anmatyerr desert painter is welcome, but the influence of the rapacious art market on Aboriginal art is inescapable On October 14, while Australia was busy making the wrong kind of history by resoundingly voting against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, another event was unfolding at the heart of the old empire: the Frieze Art Fair, which spills annually over London’s Regent’s Park, and is billed in the art world as the most influential fair of its kind.
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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.
