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Sunday 04 January 2009
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Have you ever wondered why new and different styles of art emerge in different places and at different times? Or even why we make art at all? A new field that combines art history and neuroscience tries to answer these questions, in ways that haven't been attempted before. We meet the originator of neuro-art history.
(first broadcast 2 March 2008)
The newest museum in Paris showcases 200 years of immigration, with objects and artworks that tell the story of France's immigrant cultures. It's a controversial project, though, at a time of racial tensions and when President Sarkozy is more interested in promoting integration than highlighting diversity.
(first broadcast 25 May 2008)
Sunday 28 December 2008
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Jim Sharman's early childhood was spent on the road with the famous boxing troupe run by his father and grandfather. The experience gave him no taste for boxing. However, later in life, whether directing rock musicals like Hair and The Rocky Horror Show, or the plays of Patrick White or operas by Mozart, something of the showground and the sideshow has infused his work.
(first broadcast 31 August 2008)
The great still life painter of the 20th century Giorgio Morandi lived his whole life in one room in Bologna. He was born there and he died there. In between, he painted pictures of bottles, jugs and tins, and in the concentration of the exercise, gave his paintings a metaphysical power.
(first broadcast 24 February 2008)
Sunday 21 December 2008
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Today if you want to draw or paint the human body, you can learn all about anatomy from books. For artists of the Renaissance like Michelangelo and Leonardo, however, a far more hands on approach was necessary. They dissected corpses. Why did they have to do this themselves—and where did they get the bodies from?
(first broadcast 13 July 2008)
What's the purpose of a picture frame? If you change the frame do you change the painting? This is a program that puts the frame in the centre of the picture!
(first broadcast 13 April 2008)
Sunday 14 December 2008
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Each year, someone involved in music in Australia is invited to give the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. Peggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer, most prolific in the 1950s. And this lecture, in her name and spirit, is intended to 'challenge the status quo and raise issues of importance in new music'.
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It's a chilly mid-winter Monday night, deep in the suburbs of Melbourne and Dave Wearne is holding auditions for the Frankston Theatre Group. This is the third and final part of our feature series on the Amateurs. This week the production is a British farce called Out Of Order, and everybody's hoping it will be a box office winner.
Sunday 07 December 2008
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At the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra there's a big exhibition of the French Impressionist Degas's paintings, pastels, prints, drawings, and sculpture -- on loan from forty-five different collections around the world. Jane Kinsman is the curator of the show.
Degas Master of French Art opens December 12 and runs until March 2009.
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A look at the new Melbourne Recital Centre with architect Ian McDougall. The centre will open to the public next March.
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The iconic Australian poem 'My Country' by Dorothea McKellar was published in 1908. A young and homesick Dorothea wrote it during a trip to England. She originally called it 'Core Of My Heart' and it was first published in London, in The Spectator, then in Australia, in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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The final in our ISMs in art series. Over the past six months we've tracked everything from impressionism to egotism and brought you a whole series of personal reflections by a wide range of artists, curators and historians. Now, it's time to end it all, with Post-ISM.
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This is the second in a three-part series called The Amateurs -- celebrating those who haven't given up their day jobs, those who make art for love and not for money and this week, the stout-hearted men of the Australian Rugby Choir.
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