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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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Mikis Theodorakis obituary
For those with only a nodding acquaintance with Greece and Greek music, the name of Mikis Theodorakis, who has died…
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Greece mourns Mikis Theodorakis, composer and political activist
ATHENS — Greece is to hold three days of mourning in memory of Mikis Theodorakis, the composer of “Zorba the…
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Joséphine Baker to be first black woman to enter France’s Panthéon
The government says Baker will be inducted into the monument in November. BBC The Panthéon is a burial place for…
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation Since 1963,…
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Iconic Detroit artist Charles McGee has died
He was 96. Anthony Curis of the Library Street Collective, which represented McGee in recent years, confirms to Metro Times that the…
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Ravel’s Bolero — a sinuous and sexy composition with ‘no music in it’
Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense…
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