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Slow down, reminisce if it feels right: practical tips for talking to people with dementia
The basics are the same: be respectful and don’t make assumptions. But these practical tips can make conversations more meaningful and less distressing.
Out with the NPEA, in with Catalyst: expert response
Following a sustained and vocal campaign by the arts sector, the controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts has been rethought and renamed. Should we be celebrating or concerned?
Loops, flashbacks and fractured narratives: why filmmakers love to play with time
Cinema, almost from its infancy, has been drawn to telling stories out of sequence – and forcing audiences to reassemble what they have just seen.
Joan Lindsay published Picnic at Hanging Rock at 71. Her writing life presents its own mysteries
Discretion, silences and underachievement marked Joan Lindsay’s life and work – despite writing an Australian classic. A new biography investigates her many mysteries.
Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing has been described as art history’s equivalent of Mao’s Little Red Book. It changed how we look at art.
Classical music training and abuse cultures – we need to act now
Like the medical profession, classical music is being forced publicly to confront an endemic culture of sexual harassment. Self-regulation has failed young musicians and action is long overdue.
Bri Lee’s and Louise Milligan’s predictable first novels combine noughties feminist politics with the swagger of 80s bonkbusters
The debut novels of two forceful, intelligent journalists are bold, brash stories of powerful women at the top of their game. One details a horrific sexual crime, the other ugliness in the art world.
Au revoir Mirka Mora, your joie de vivre will live on
Mirka Mora survived the second world war to carve out a unique place for herself in the Australian art world. Over six decades, her creativity was legendary.
Yoko Ono, ‘the first female punk rocker’, is an artist of benevolent magic
Yoko Ono has long been abused as a homewrecker – and worse. A new biography celebrates her joyful positivity in adverse circumstances – and celebrates her as an artist.
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