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ABC Arts Newsletter: Friday 7 December, 2007

Each week this newsletter brings you information on coverage of the arts across ABC Online, TV and Radio. Find out how to subscribe to this newsletter at http://abc.net.au/arts/mail.htm

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Latest Arts News | Arts Features | Latest Reviews | Arts on Radio | Arts on TV

----------------- LATEST ARTS NEWS ---------------------

ROMULUS, MY FATHER SWEEPS AFIS [06/12/2007]
The autobiographical feature film Romulus, My Father has won a swag of awards, including best film, at the Australian Film Institute's annual night in Melbourne.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2112084.htm

'MESMERISING' PHOTO CAPTURES PORTRAIT PRIZE [06/12/2007]
A photo capturing ancestral and family history has taken out the inaugural Photographic Portrait Prize.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111961.htm

KERNAGHAN SCORES SIX COUNTRY MUSIC NOMINATIONS [06/12/2007]
The finalists for the 2008 Country Music Awards have been announced in Sydney.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111410.htm

MINING BOOM FUELLING ART MARKET [06/12/2007]
Australia's appetite for art shows little sign of stopping.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111366.htm

GULPILIL TREATED FOR LUNG INFECTION [06/12/2007]
Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil is being treated for a lung infection in Sydney's Royal Prince Albert Hospital.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111247.htm

'CANADA'S PICASSO' DEAD AT 75 [06/12/2007]
Indigenous painter Norval Morrisseau - described by friends and admirers as "the Picasso of the North" and "the most important painter Canada has ever produced" - has died.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111152.htm

ANCIENT SCULPTURE BRINGS $65M AT AUCTION [06/12/2007]
Sotheby's auctioned a tiny, ancient Mesopotamian sculpture for $US57 million ($65 million) in New York overnight, a record sum for any sculpture or antiquity sold at auction.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111055.htm

MORE AWARDS FOR 'HOME SONG STORIES' [06/12/2007]
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) held the first of two award ceremonies in Melbourne last night.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111005.htm

WHITELEY PAINTING SELLS FOR ALMOST $1.7M [05/12/2007]
A painting by Australian artist Brett Whiteley has fetched $1.68 million at an auction in Sydney.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/05/2110864.htm

THE 'REAL' LAWRENCE OF ARABIA ON DISPLAY [05/12/2007]
Rare footage of Lawrence of Arabia - never seen before in Australia - is part of a new exhibition at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/05/2110779.htm

CHASER TEAM TAKES A BREAK FROM TV [05/12/2007]
The Chaser's War on Everything will be missing from our screens in the first half of 2008.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/05/2109998.htm

SMH JOURNALIST TO REPLACE TRIOLI ON 702 [04/12/2007]
Journalist Deborah Cameron from the Sydney Morning Herald is to be the new presenter of 702 ABC Sydney's morning radio program in the new year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/04/2109550.htm

MARBLE STEVE IRWIN SCULPTURE UNVEILED [04/12/2007]
A sculpture of the late Steve Irwin has been unveiled on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/04/2109488.htm

More arts news at http://abc.net.au/news/arts/default.htm

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SHINING A LIGHT ON A FADED TOURIST ICON
Pitchi Richi is a faded tourist icon, camping spot for Albert Namatjira and the site of the house of Charles Chapman, the first newspaper baron of Central Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/alicesprings/stories/s2105560.htm

VAL CAMONICA PIECES
Download the Val Camonica Pieces by David Young, a heterogenous collection of works for diverse ensembles and soloists created over a ten-year period in response to the composer’s experience of the huge collection of rock carvings scattered across northern Italy’s Camonica Valley.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/valcamonica/

More arts features at http://abc.net.au/arts/default.htm

------------------ ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS BLOGS ------------------

ARTICULATE
ABC News Online's daily take on arts news and events in Australia and throughout the world.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/

THE SHALLOW END
Casting a critical eye over entertainment news from Australia and the world.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/theshallowend/

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------------------ FILM REVIEWS ------------------

COEURS (PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES) [06/12/2007]
At the Movies
Thierry, (Andre Dussolier), manages a real-estate office and is trying to find an apartment for Nicole, (Laura Morante), whose unemployed, alcoholic fiance, Dan, (Lambert Wilson), keeps making objections.
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2086696.htm

BEE MOVIE [06/12/2007]
At the Movies
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2086734.htm

THE BANQUET [06/12/2007]
At the Movies
The Banquet unfolds in the year 907, the time of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2066110.htm

HITMAN [04/12/2007]
Triple J Film Review
review by Marc Fennell.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/film/s2111355.htm

More Film Reviews at http://www.abc.net.au/arts/review/film/default.htm If you are interested in RSS feeds of movie reviews, they can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/rss.htm

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A GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS AND DESPERATION [03/12/2007]
From Liverpool UK, three piece the wombats first rose to prominence about a year ago after meeting at a performance arts school, soon became darlings of the NME and are now dominating the UK charts and abroad with their debut album "A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation".
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s2106610.htm

More Music Reviews at http://www.abc.net.au/arts/review/music/default.htm If you are interested in RSS feeds of music reviews, they can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/rss.htm

------------------ THEATRE REVIEWS ------------------

BERLIN [30/11/2007]
Reviewed by Nigel Munro-Wallis for ABC Brisbane
Berlin is the result of collaboration between the enigmatic Graeme Murphy and two outstanding musicians - composer Iva Davies and pianist/composer Max Lambert and originally premiered in 1995 to great acclaim.
http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/stories/s2106445.htm


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LONDON: CITY OF DISAPPEARANCES, EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR (REVIEW) [01/01/2008]
There's losing yourself in a city and losing yourself in a book. Then there's the disappearance of buildings from a city -- and the disappearance from our memories of those buildings and the people who lived and worked in them. As a way of bringing these lost things back to us, Iain Sinclair has edited a book called London: City of Disappearances.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2109179.htm

More reviews at http://abc.net.au/arts/review/default.htm ]

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------------------ RADIO NATIONAL ------------------
http://abc.net.au/rn

------------------ RN Arts Highlights --------------------

BY DESIGN [08/12/2007]
Strolling down a supermarket aisle we are assaulted by colours, leaping forward from product packaging competing for our consumer dollar.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2111798.htm

BY DESIGN [08/12/2007]
We find out about a very surprising development in Dubai.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2112442.htm

ARTWORKS [09/12/2007]
He prefigured reality TV and in the sixties alerted us to the big 'Cs" celebrity and consumerism.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2007/2107899.htm

EXHIBIT A [09/12/2007]
Our state symphony orchestras are increasingly strapped for funds and audiences.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/exhibita/stories/2007/2111927.htm

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MUSIC DELI [07/12/2007]
For more than twenty years Emily Saliers and Amy Ray have been making music as The Indigo Girls.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicdeli/stories/2007/2110039.htm

SOUND QUALITY [07/12/2007]
I'll talk about the second hour of this week's program - no usual set from the solid steel radio show, rather it is the whole second part given over to a selector/manipulator who brought us one of the most appealing and entertaining solid steel sets of the last few years.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/soundquality/stories/2007/2101702.htm

THE DAILY P***T [07/12/2007]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2103994.htm

THE WEEKEND P***T [08/12/2007]
Ana Moura is a leading light in the ongoing revival of fado – the genre some insist on calling ‘The Portuguese Blues’.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendp***t/stories/2007/2095015.htm

THE MUSIC SHOW [08/12/2007]
On The Music Show this week: pianist and composer Satoko Fuji, who is in Australia for the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival; New York composer Martin Bresnik, who will discuss his latest works inspired bt the likes of Willie Dixon, Pinocchio and the 20th century; and we discuss two new composer biographies of two Australian composers, Malcolm Williamson and Peter Sculthorpe, with the biographers.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow/stories/2007/2111802.htm

INTO THE MUSIC [08/12/2007]
Making Juditha is a musical journey from Venice’s Grand Canal to George Street in Sydney.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/stories/2007/2070330.htm

SINGERS OF RENOWN [08/12/2007]
Singers include tenors Dino Borgioli and Nicolai Gedda, sopranos Elisabeth Schumann and Anneliese Rothenberger and Marilyn Horne with Ernesto Palacio singing a duet from "Tancredi" by Rossini.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/singersofrenown/stories/2007/2096099.htm

QUIET SPACE [09/12/2007]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2007/2112014.htm

THE WEEKEND P***T [09/12/2007]
New Zealand, Australia and the USA are all happy to ‘claim’ Mike Nock.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendp***t/stories/2007/2101813.htm

QUIET SPACE [10/12/2007]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2007/2110495.htm

THE DAILY P***T [10/12/2007]
Mike Marshall and Darol Anger with Väsen pairs two of America’s premier acoustic improvisers with the Swedish super group Väsen, with very pleasing results.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2109680.htm

THE DAILY P***T [10/12/2007]
The Sirba Octet, a sub-group of the Orchestre de Paris, balance classical form with a wide range of Jewish musical styles on their CD
A Yiddishe Mama.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2109683.htm

THE DAILYP***T [11/12/2007]
Iron and Wine’s CD The Shepherd’s Dog is full of literate, complex and dystopic songs focusing on the detritus of our modern world.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2109685.htm

THE DAILY P***T [12/12/2007]
Powerful Swedish acoustic group Väsen pay a tongue in cheek tribute to their countryman Carl Linnaeus on their new CD, Linnaeus Väsen.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2109687.htm

THE DAILY P***T [13/12/2007]
Balkan Beat Box’s new CD Nu-Med is a very New York interpretation of Balkan brass band music, with snippets of different music weaving in and out, owing as much to DJ culture as to Eastern European music.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2109690.htm

if you want more on Radio National's Music programs you can sign up at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/maillist/default.htm

------------------ RN Book highlights ------------------

LINGUA FRANCA [08/12/2007]
The classical Indian language of Sanskrit, the progenitor of all Indo-European tongues, was fixed into perfected form in one great act of language reform almost 2,500 years ago but is still used in contemporary communication.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2007/2111250.htm

POETICA [08/12/2007]
Ross Bolleter talks to Mike Ladd about his life and writing and reads a selection of his work.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2007/2070066.htm

THE BOOK READING [10/12/2007]
A new version of Charles Dickens's much lvoed seasonal tale, with music by Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookreading/stories/2007/2103158.htm

THE BOOK SHOW [10/12/2007]
How do young writers negotiate the pitfalls and obstacles of writing their first book?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2105955.htm

------------------ RN Drama highlights ------------------

STREET STORIES [09/12/2007]
In the dry and dusty northwest corner of Australia -- the boomtown of Port Hedland in Western Australia’s Pilbara region -- there is a hidden accommodation crisis.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/streetstories/stories/2007/2106163.htm

AIRPLAY [09/12/2007]
Every parent's worst nightmare is the death of a child.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2007/2070036.htm

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------------------ ARTS ON ABC TV ------------------

ELVIS: THE GREAT PERFORMANCES - CENTRE STAGE [08/12/2007]
The King, Elvis Presley, returns to centre stage in the first of a series of hour-long performances. This revealing documentary series contains live performances and video clips as well as rarely seen television footage.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200712/programs/ZY7670A001D8122007T133000.htm

ABC2:COUNTDOWN SPECTACULAR 2 [08/12/2007]
This concert extravaganza is a blast from the past, featuring a stack of Australian favourites and international stars performing their chart topping songs.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc2/200712/programs/LE0701V001D8122007T213000.htm

ALICE COOPER: PRIME CUTS [10/12/2007]
This engaging biography tells the story of Alice Cooper's phenomenal success and legendary status, using original footage from the 1970s through to the 1980s, as well as interviews and clips. In addition, there are incredible performances of School's Out, Elected, Poison and Welcome to the Nightmare.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc2/200712/programs/ZY8855A001D10122007T210000.htm

more details about arts programs on ABC Television across the next few days at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/

------------------ LIMELIGHT: ABC ARTS IN PRINT ------------------

Free exclusive Andre Rieu DVD for every reader of Limelight this month receives a FREE DVD, containing over 60 minutes of music and footage by violin superstar Andre Rieu - exclusively selected for limelight readers by Andre himself.

In the country's only reader voted music awards, we reveal who Australia has voted for in categories such music personality of the year, the best chamber performance, best orchestra performance, best recording, best newcomer and much more. We have everything you need to enjoy the most musical Christmas ever. Find out what live performances are happening around the country, or if you prefer some musical fare in your own home, then our top 10 of Christmas CDs should do the trick. PLUS we have the complete A to Z Christmas Gift guide to satisfy even the fussiest of friends and family!
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=602040

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