The Arts
Who bought Magpies history for $825,000?
THE Collingwood Football Club didn't buy it, nor did the National Gallery of Victoria for its Magpies-barracking premier John Brumby.
A private jam with tap's best
Deborah Jones DANCE: Bare Soundz. With Savion Glover. Spring Dance, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 31
Chinese writer who took on Google
Rosemary Sorensen THE grunge writer from Shanghai who challenged Google and contributed to the online company's decision to get out of China has no regrets.
Fest takes younger direction
THE Venice film festival has opened with a spotlight on the new generation of filmmakers.
Excuse me, does my Boheme look big in this?
Rosemary Sorensen OPERA Australia's vulgar ad for its new production should get the boot.
Not in the league of other nations
Robert Bevan AUSTRALIA'S hi-tech offerings at Venice's architecture expo lack depth.
Ned Kelly rides again as Nolan works sell
Michaela Boland, National arts writer THE run of interest in Ned Kelly artworks by Sidney Nolan continued at Sotheby's Important Australian Art auction last night.
Diverse field in directors contest
REEL TIME: Michael Bodey THE nominees for the 2010 Australian Directors Guild Awards, to be announced in Sydney on September 23, represent a diverse set of films for the year.
Endeavour offers release for Bali's death-row denizens
Deborah Cassrels FIVE years after the notorious police shots of the Bali Nine drug smugglers hit the papers, one member on death row has become a minor art celebrity.
Getting a leg-up on her career
Michaela Boland EVERYBODY has made a mix tape. Some of us have imagined dance sequences for those songs.
Murphy's lore prized as the premier pick
Rosemary Sorensen CORRIGAN, a dot on the map, in the wheatbelt a couple of hours drive east of Perth, is an unlikely place for a prize-winning author to live.
Another mad, mad, Mad Men Emmy year
Tim Teeman THE awards ceremony was an occasion of celebration and the usual back slapping.
'Insular' story with global appeal
Michael Bodey EVEN the director had reservations about making a film based on a suicide.
'New nice' is right for Emmy awards
3:22PM ANALYSIS: Michael Bodey WHEN an Emmy award winner notes their show is about the importance of arts education, you know something different is happening in television.
Mad Men, Modern Family win top Emmy Awards
2:31PM AUSTRALIAN Emmy hopes Toni Collette and Rose Byrne left the awards show empty-handed as Mad Men and Modern Family took out the top honours.
AB showcases some home-grown talent
Eamonn Kelly THE Australian Ballet has an exemplary track record of fostering local choreographic talent.
A rewarding life in theatre
Rosalie Higson THE Playbill founder is being honoured at the Helpmann awards this year.
Star turn saves a play showing its age
John Kinsella THE New York Times view of the 1967 movie version of Charles Webb's novel The Graduate was unequivocal.
A visitor admires a model of a building in Barcelona on display at the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Picture: AFP
A private jam with tap's best
Deborah Jones DANCE: Bare Soundz. With Savion Glover. Spring Dance, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 31
Australian Literary Review, September 2010
Editorial, contents and contributors to the September 2010 edition of The Australian Literary Review
Fest takes younger direction
THE Venice film festival has opened with a spotlight on the new generation of filmmakers.
Cult comfort
FIRST WATCH: Graeme Blundell They may not win the ratings but there are shows that get a devoted, possibly even obsessive, following
Parr for the course
Iain Shedden NEXT time you're in Duluth, Minnesota, on a Wednesday night with nothing to do it may be worth checking out Fitger's Brewhouse Brewery and Grille.
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize 2010
The winners and finalists in this year's Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
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Has Houellebecq come in from the cold?
Matthew Campbell A FEROCIOUS battle has erupted over whether Michel Houellebecq deserves to receive France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt.
From Russia with a love of the Nazis
Ben MacIntyre A beautiful ballerina set a lethal honey trap for the British military.
Artists put a face on interactive jungle
Rosemary Sorensen AN animated video that puts the viewer's face into a fantasy story has won the $75,000 National New Media Art Award in Brisbane.
Parr for the course
Iain Shedden NEXT time you're in Duluth, Minnesota, on a Wednesday night with nothing to do it may be worth checking out Fitger's Brewhouse Brewery and Grille.
X marks the spot
Iain Shedden Natalie Imbruglia and Guy Sebastian bring special understanding to their new roles as talent-show judges
Moving on
Sharon Verghis JON English is instantly recognisable as he strides into the foyer of The Australian's offices in Sydney's Surry Hills.
Laughing through adversity
Rosemary Neill He's one of our top comedians but Anh Do's early life as an impoverished refugee was no joke
Me and my shadows
Lynden Barber 'MERYL Streep to play Margaret Thatcher", ran the headlines. The internet lit up with Oscar predictions and commentators went into overdrive.
Slipshod Sybils
Christopher Allen SLOW Burn is the title given to the exhibition of a private collection designed to represent a century of Australian female artists.
How to make rock bands green
SPIN DOCTOR: Iain Shedden ONE of the key presentations at the upcoming Big Sound Music Conference is a plan to rid nasty, high-pollutin' rock bands of their carbon emissions.
Public Works: Beizam
Bronwyn Watson WITH its odd-shaped head and wide-set eyes, the hammerhead shark is perfectly designed to scan the ocean.
This week's music reviews
Reviewed: Jazzgroove; Richard Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra; Melinda Schneider
Buffy creator turns a new page
Michael Bodey JOSS Whedon is a modern master of film and television, as big a geek hero as Batman or his own creation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Hogan's lawyers to meet tax office
10:21AM LAWYERS for Paul Hogan will meet the Australian Taxation Office this afternoon in the hope of clearing the way for the actor to leave Australia.
Gallery bolsters indigenous collection
Michaela Boland THE National Gallery of Victoria has bolstered its collection of indigenous artworks with three new paintings for its Aboriginal section.
Loner funnyman hard up for laughs
Michael Bodey PAUL Hogan's cultural cachet can be measured in many ways.
Portrait of a blooming institution
Michaela Boland THE National Portrait Gallery has a new director.
Small joys in ordinary for pair with dark view
Stuart Rintoul What does an urbane English writer have in common with an American writer who celebrates redneck culture?
Blissful marriage of genius and legend
Ian Shedden WHEN he was four, Brian Wilson liked to curl up next to his grandparents' record player and listen to the soothing sounds emanating from it.
Hogan hit with $150m tax bill
Susannah Moran PAUL Hogan is facing a tax bill of about $150m after huge penalties and interest charges were imposed by the Australian Taxation Office.
