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Guns of Navarone actress, Irene Pappas, dead at 96
In her long-running career, she was considered a quintessential symbol of Greek beauty and a famous representative of Mediterranean culture…
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Uncle Jack Charles, actor and revered Victorian Aboriginal elder, dies aged 79
Actor, musician and revered Victorian Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles is being mourned as a cheeky, tenacious “father of black…
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Archie Roach obituary
Celebrated performer whose songs, including Took the Children Away, revealed the suffering of Australia’s stolen generations Robin Denselow The Guardian…
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Why John Byrne is one of Scotland’s greatest artists
During an illustrious career he has traversed a number of cultural genres with success as an artist, playwright and scriptwriter…
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Pablo Picasso was not a lone genius creator – he was at the centre of several creative hubs, and changed the course of western art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is not presented as the lone genius creator – a mythology promoted by the artist himself –…
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Vangelis – as Thucydides once said “The whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men”
An Argonaut of the Cosmos, Vangelis Papathanassiou departed from this life, a modern Jason from the land of the Argonauts…
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Raphael: it’s time we stopped dismissing Italy’s great painter as style over substance
In 1848, a new group of painters who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood identified the art of Raphael as a watershed moment…
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‘I felt sick’: Opera Australia under fire for using ‘yellowface’
No government-funded Australian arts organisation would put a white performer on stage with their face painted black in 2022 without…
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Afghan string quartet written as Taliban took Kabul
The resulting music, A Melody of Hope Amidst the Chaos has recently been recorded by a group of Melbourne musicians. Janine…
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Emma Thompson invited a 16-year-old refugee over for Christmas dinner. He is now her son.
Dame Emma Thompson is an icon: an incredibly successful actor, screenwriter, activist, comedian and more. Isabella Ross MamaMia Amid Thompson’s life in…
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Michael Sheen turns himself into a ‘not-for-profit’ actor
The Welsh actor and activist sold his houses to ensure the 2019 Homeless World Cup went ahead in Cardiff. BBC…
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Henri Matisse was an artist of colour and sensuous line; an unerring eye until the end
It was a tapestry, Polynesia, newly acquired for the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation…
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Adele 30: the psychology of why sad songs make us feel good
Last month, hundreds of millions of us streamed its first single, Easy On Me. Simon McCarthy-Jones The Conversation This song evokes…
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On the intimate and character-revealing photographs of Linda McCartney – Paul’s wife, and a stunning artist
The Linda McCartney Retrospective has toured the world, taking on a new life in each location, morphing and connecting to…
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Renowned Australian Indigenous artist and NT Yolngu woman N. Yunupingu passes away
Born in 1945, Ms Yunupingu — whose full name cannot be used for cultural reasons — lived in the remote…
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Sleep stories by First Nations storytellers to help you get snoozy
That’s the pitch for Dreamy, a new podcast bringing together five sleep stories voiced and written by Indigenous creatives, with…
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