The Culture Quarter
A look at what's on show and behind the scenes at Australia's cultural institutions
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In this episode: a Canberra festival strives to create character amidst the concrete; and 99 year old Australian war artist Alan Moore makes a piligrimage to the capital to revisit works he created more than 60 years ago.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, animation, art-history, australia
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In this episode of The Culture Quarter, Indonesian stories are told at the National Gallery, 100 years of animals on the frontline, and the National Museum of Australia turns 10.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, photography, animals-and-nature, art-history, history, australia
The Culture Quarter Ep.2 Video
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In this episode: a tribute to animals on the front line; the Australian National Gallery's new Indonesia exhibition; and The National Museum of Australia turns 10.
Topics: popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment
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In this episode, the gore and the glory of the ancient Incan empire, and we look at Australia's best political cartoons at a new exhibition in Canberra.
Topics: popular-culture, australia
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On this episode of The Culture Quarter: Librarians bare their skin for a history of body art in Australia and renowned portrait artist Ben Quilty turns his attention toward the landscape to track an ongoing interest with the myths and taboos of Australian history.
Topics: books-literature, art-history, indigenous-culture, history, contemporary-art, visual-art, art-and-creativity, australia
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On this episode of The Culture Quarter, a convoy of vintage caravans travel to Canberra from all around the country, the thrills and spills of the skateboarding world and braving the elements for art.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, education, australia, canberra-2600
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On this episode of The Culture Quarter, The Stiff Gins take retro to a new level and put it on wax, schoolkids from the Kimberly travel to Canberra to launch books they've penned about life in remote communities, nature and art come together for the Waterhouse Art Prize, and photographers have fun at Floriade.
Topics: contemporary-art, early-music, indigenous-music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, flowers, photography, fine-art-photography, australia
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In this episode the work of late celebrity photographer Richard Avedon on show at The National Portrait Gallery.
