A NEW LOOK AT TRADITIONS This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton looking at some traditions that have been turned on their head or interpreted with a twist. First up meet Belinda Von Mengerson, the Curator of Slipstitch, a new exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery. This is the first contemporary embroidery exhibition to […]
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Arts Thursday 1 December 2016.
VENICE & CENTRAL AUSTRALIA This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton travelling to two iconic and extraordinary parts of the world. First up meet Desmond Freeman, who has hidden a talent for drawing behind many years as a master designer of museums and exhibitions. Desmond studied art and design at the National Art School, Sydney and […]
Surface Snorkel Insanity
Senator Pauline Hanson’s in depth analysis of the Great Barrier Reef gleaned during a strenuous “surface snorkel” during her first ever outing in a wetsuit, has brought the spectacular peculiarities of our times into stark relief this week. Senator Hanson was able to fall back on years of ignorance when she announced that the […]
Arts Thursday 17 November.
WILDTHING and Behind the Museum This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton in a conversation with Frank Howarth PSM, the President of Museums Galleries Australia, the membership organisation for these organisations across Australia. This forms part of an irregular series on ‘thought leaders’ in the arts and cultural world. If you’ve ever wondered about the museum […]
Counting Women in the Arts – The Countess Report
Join me, Jane Raffan on Arts Monday 14 November for a program that focuses on women and their representation in the visual arts sector. Guest interviews are with Elvis Richardson, artist and author of The Countess Report, “a benchmarking project and online resource on gender equality in the Australian contemporary art sector.” Richardson has compiled […]
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Arts Thursday 3 November.
Cultural Leadership and the Wonders of Lake Eyre This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton to meet arts leader Cheryl Stock AM, the Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Cultural Leadership Course at NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Cheryl is a dancer by training and has had a stellar […]
Arts Thursday 27 October.
ASIAN INTERSECTIONS and YOSHITOSHI This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton for the second discussion in a special series, Asian Intersections, examining how we intersect with Asia through culture and art. The program will also focus on the exhibition of Japanese woodblocks at the Art Gallery of NSW Yoshitoshi: One hundred aspects of the moon. Asian Intersections […]
Asian Intersections and Artists in Residence.
Arts Thursday 6 October. This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton to commence a special series, Asian Intersections, examining how we intersect with Asia through culture and art. The program will also include the final interviews in the series e 2016 Woollahra artists in residence. Asian Intersections In the first of a two-program interview, Jackie Menzies OAM, […]
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The Public Body & ‘The Days are as Grass’-Arts Monday
The Public Body co-curator, Talia Linz, and Jane Edwina Seymour, Director of ‘The Days are as Grass’, are my guests today. The Public Body .01 explores the sexualized body and, in particular, the types of sexualized bodies that proliferate in the public sphere today – high key, orgasmic, debased, agitated, violent but also self-empowered, vulnerable, […]
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Boiling Point Smithsonian Interview Series_Graham Zemunik
Enjoy this 8minute interview with Australian post doctoral fellow (his 2nd PhD!), Dr Graham Zemunik. Who is Dr Zemunik? Graham is currently based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and specialises in soil driven vegetation assemblages. His research examines how soil elements, especially phosphorus, might drive tropical tree growth. What has he found? In the […]
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Coming up Arts Thursday 8 September
The Art of Politics and Artists in Residence Art-speak is the segment where I interview influencers and forces in the arts sector in Australia. This Thursday, the focus is on arts and its role in politics. The federal election is past and while the parties in government continue to wrangle, let’s find out what is […]
GIG REVIEW – Julien Wilson Quintet at SIMA Sound Lounge, Sydney 6th August 2016.
Julien: tenor sax, Carl Dewhurst: electric guitar, Barney McCall: piano, Jonathan Zwartz: bass, Hamish Stuart: drums. I knew this wasn’t going to be just another gig! Five of Australia’s top artists all on the one stage was guaranteed to create fireworks! Ostensibly this was a CD launch of ‘This Narrow Isthmus’ which was recorded in […]
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