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Psst... Have you heard? @NicholsClaire & @LEstrangeTimes interviewed all @TheStellaPrize finalists: 📕Vicki Laveau-Harvie 📕Melissa Lucashenko 📕@catalog03 📕@JennyAckland 📕@EnzaGandolfo 📕Maria Tumarkin Subscribe to #TheBookShow podcast & never miss out ab.co/2HQIrjH
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These sustainable urban design ideas on show at #MelbourneDesignWeek could help Melbourne reclaim most liveable city crown: ab.co/2JxWqxa
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Meet a group of Australian Muslim artists fighting anti-Islamic bigotry with imagination and irreverence in the documentary You See Monsters: ab.co/2Jvpaqn
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the light in this particular painting is unreal. the whole show radiates with adoration for the South Australian bushland.
Hans Heysen's 'Droving into the Light' is one of Australia's most iconic paintings. We asked a curator at @NGVMelbourne to explain to us the techniques that Heysen used to paint it.
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“Being liked on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly” @MichaelReidArt
In the age of social media, do artists still need representation? @ArtsonRN spoke with gallerists @MichaelReidArt and Skye O’Meara about the changing art market, 10 years on from the first @artmonthsydney
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Hans Heysen's 'Droving into the Light' is one of Australia's most iconic paintings. We asked a curator at @NGVMelbourne to explain to us the techniques that Heysen used to paint it.
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Britain's National Portrait Gallery has severed ties with the Sackler family over their links to America's opioid crisis: ab.co/2U1eZh9
And after two weeks in exile, I'm finally let back into the studio m̶a̶n̶s̶p̶l̶a̶i̶n̶ t̶o̶ co-host with @beverleywang! (She has missed me enormously.) Today at 10am on @RadioNational and ABC Listen. Or catch up later via ABC Listen or in your pods.
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Today on #StopEverything: 💔 We finally bring ourselves to watch #LeavingNeverland ... and really need to talk. 🤳 Sarah T Roberts (@ubiquity75) chats Facebook and social media regulation in the wake of Christchurch. 👩‍👧‍👦 Our teen correspondent @KaseyTheuma chats @OneDayAtATime.
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Here's the special project that @LEstrangeTimes and I have been working on this week: a series of interviews with all six of the shortlisted writers for the #2019StellaPrize! Congrats and good luck to all. @TheStellaPrize @ArtsonRN #TheBookShow abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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To celebrate #worldpoetryday we've unearthed this 1963 interview with Judith Wright, ‘nature poet’, passionate conservationist and supporter of the Aboriginal land rights movement. #RewindABC
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A Geraldton photographer has captured a perfect shot of the International Space Station passing surface of the moon: ab.co/2TRwJfA
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Today on #TheScreenShow with @jdrrr: ➡️ Karyn Kusama on her new film Destroyer ➡️ Our TV critic @DrLaurenCH + @markhumphries on Ricky Gervais' After Life ➡️ @rsowada on Melbourne's Design Week Film Festival @NGVMelbourne 👂10am @RadioNational @ABCArts
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In the age of social media, do artists still need representation? @ArtsonRN spoke with gallerists @MichaelReidArt and Skye O’Meara about the changing art market, 10 years on from the first @artmonthsydney
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A flea market find in a Roman market and the spectacle of recent French protests inspired Australian artist Angelica Mesiti's powerful entry in this year's @la_Biennale in Venice: ab.co/2FeLmzD #BiennaleArte2019 @AusAtVenice
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On #TheBookshelf with @HistoryGirlKate & @cassiemccullagh, @NicoleAbadee discussed Leïla Slimani's Adèle, her first novel which has now been translated into English after the success of Lullaby. So how does it compare? Listen: ab.co/2T8MrO9
"Adele was a book that confronted expectations about likeability and relatability in fiction.” @NicoleAbadee discusses Leila Slimani's new novel on #TheBookshelf @ArtsonRN ab.co/2T6xw79
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Today on #TheArtShow with @EadricAyres: ➡️Chris Heysen and @NGVMelbourne curator Angela Hesson on Hans and Nora Heysen ➡️A visit to the Lyon Housemuseum and new gallery with @FionaGruber ➡️Royal portraits come from the @NPGLondon to @BgoArtGallery 👂10am @RadioNational @ABCArts
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In tribute to the late Edmund Capon, we're revisiting a 1987 interview in which he discusses a controversial Sydney sculpture and the enduring legacy of art made ‘in good taste’. #RewindABC
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Where's the cake now?
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The model of it is at @maasmuseum!
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