Arts & Culture
Portraits of a fictional artist
Photographs no longer reflect the world; rather the world reflects them. They deliver a version of reality that at a surface level is consumed as “truth”.
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Old Danks Store Yard, Bourke St, during demolition, 1958
As the photographer Pierre Robin stopped outside the John Danks & Co Store Yard at 409 Bourke St, it is likely he had one thing in mind; to record the site before it disappeared from view.
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Courtney Barnett was in Babe Ruth mode, hitting an extraordinary home run during lockdown when she recorded and filmed with her band at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building.
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Czech and Slovak Film Festival at the drive-in and online
Melbourne cinema-lovers rejoice … the city’s first post-lockdown film festival is about to hit the big screen.
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A good place for buskers
Every busker adds a personal touch to their performance and Jorge Cuba is taking his gig in Degraves St seriously.
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Melbourne’s 20 Decades
It took Melbourne’s population 94 years from European settlement – from 1835 to 1929 – to reach one million. In 2018 it reached five million, having jumped by a million since 2011, in only seven years.
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Intersection of Swanston and Flinders streets, looking north, 1890s
At first glance there is little that is familiar about this street scene taken some time in the early 1890s.
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Deck the walls with awesome art
Hosier Lane has seen some hard times in the past few years, with the opening of Culture Kings and much of the street art being destroyed by tags and bad art.
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Final John Nixon works on show
There is still time to catch the cool minimal- ism of John Nixon in an exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery in Flinders Lane.
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Jack Howard
Small Moments of Glory (Brolga Press 2020) is the name of Jack Howard’s first book.
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