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ABC Arts Newsletter: Friday 14 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 ---------------------

WRAPPING ARTISTS RETURN TO SYDNEY [13/12/2007]
When it comes to big environmental art projects, few artists are in the same league as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who are back in Sydney this week.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2118451.htm

EXHIBITION EXAMINES ANIMAL-HUMAN RELATIONSHIP [13/12/2007]
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is getting ready for its largest-ever exhibition to open tomorrow.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2118032.htm

WA GOVT INJECTS $73M INTO ARTS AND CULTURE [13/12/2007]
Premier Alan Carpenter has announced the biggest single state government funding injection into the arts industry in Western Australia's history.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117983.htm

TODAY TONIGHT PROMO 'NOT FAIR' [13/12/2007]
The High Court has ruled against a claim of fair comment by Channel Seven in Adelaide over an item advertising its Today Tonight program.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117760.htm

MUSEUM SAYS GAUGIN'S FAUN A FAKE [13/12/2007]
A sculpture by French artist Paul Gauguin which has drawn crowds to a Chicago museum for the past decade is a fake, museum officials say.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117571.htm

AUSSIE ART HEADING HOME AFTER LONDON AUCTION [13/12/2007]
An auction of Australian art in London is expected to see several significant works return home, after 98 paintings went under the hammer at Christie's auction house.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117437.htm

TOP LITERARY PRIZES AWARDED [13/12/2007]
A Canberra-based translator has taken out the ACT's Book of the Year award.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117406.htm

MUSIC FESTIVALS AGREEMENT WITH GREENING AUSTRALIA [13/12/2007]
Three Tasmanian music festivals have taken steps to reduce their carbon footprints.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117383.htm

ACT ART AWARDS RECOGNISE ARRAY OF TALENT [12/12/2007]
Writers and artists from Canberra are among artists from across Australia who have been recognised in the ACT's most prestigious art awards.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2117339.htm

MELBOURNE HOSTS 'COOL' CAVE COLLECTION [12/12/2007]
When musician Nick Cave left Australia in search of broader musical horizons in London and Berlin in the early 1980s, the idea he might one day become an Australian cultural hero seemed ridiculous.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2116453.htm

SYDNEY DANCE CO SET FOR GLOWING 2008 SEASON [11/12/2007]
After a traumatic year, the Sydney Dance Company thinks it may have turned the corner, locking down a new season with temporary choreographers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2116110.htm

SUMMERNATS 'COMING OF AGE' [11/12/2007]
Summernats organisers say they have measures in place to ensure troublemakers do not cause any problems.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115808.htm

EXHIBITION RECOGNISES CAMELEERS' PLACE IN HISTORY [11/12/2007]
An exhibition recording the contribution of Muslim cameleers to Australia's history will open tomorrow at the National Library in Canberra.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115630.htm


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

------------------ ARTS FEATURES ------------------

DIG: NICK CAVE INTERVIEW
After years of sell-out tours with his band 'The Bad Seeds' and AFI Awards for his film The Proposition, Cave was recently inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame and is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition in Melbourne. dig TV's Tracee Hutchison caught up with Nick Cave - the one-time maverick, now teetering on the brink of respectability and mainstream appeal.
http://www.abc.net.au/dig/stories/s2117218.htm

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 ------------------

BEE MOVIE [13/12/2007]
ABC Adelaide
It’s very clear that the Christmas holidays are on their way: we’ve got the first of the season’s family films, here in the shape of the “computer-animated comedy voiced by Hollywood royalty” - Bee Movie.
http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/stories/s2118462.htm

BEOWULF [12/12/2007]
ABC Alice Springs
I’d like, at the outset, to stress that I have only seen the 2D version of this film, so while I was impressed by the motion-capture animation (or mo-cap as the acronym-lovers are calling it), I was far from overwhelmed by it, which is a pity really, because it gave me time to notice this film is a bit light on when it comes to plot.
http://www.abc.net.au/alicesprings/stories/s2116851.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


------------------ MUSIC REVIEWS ------------------

DEVIL'S ELBOW [10/12/2007]
Sydney's The Mess Hall have released their second album 'Devils Elbow' and its a corker! jed kurzel and cec condon have turned the energy up to 11 on this record, one which is bursting at the seams with gutsy, bluesy aussie rock.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s2112320.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]
Alison Croggon: I have no idea how to talk about this book.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2109179.htm

LAND OF THE HEADLESS [12/12/2007]
Reviewed by Anne-Maree Dyer for ABC Capricornia
Science fiction author Adam Roberts has created an eerie futuristic world inhabited by the 'headed' and 'the headless', in a tale of revenge, ethics, injustice, and love.
http://www.abc.net.au/capricornia/stories/s2117011.htm

CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT [11/12/2007]
Reviewed by Sue Gammon for ABC Wide Bay Qld
It is a truth universally acknowledged that of the large number of Jane Austen fans worldwide, many are fans almost solely because of Colin Firth and his wet duds.
http://www.abc.net.au/widebay/stories/s2115561.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 [15/12/2007]
Is a car green if it doesn't use fossil fuels?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2116668.htm

What would be your last meal on earth?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2116563.htm

Cities such as Melbourne and Sydney have had annual editions of the Good Food Guide for some years – and other cities also have guides to eating out.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2116540.htm

In a society obsessed with tidiness, clean surfaces and organisation, could there be an upside to living with clutter?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2118772.htm

Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin are best known as the architects behind the master plan for Canberra.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2007/2116593.htm

EXHIBIT A [16/12/2007]
Apart from Lord Byron, most foreigners find Athens a hard city to love.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/exhibita/stories/2007/2118327.htm


------------------ RN Music Highlights --------------------

MUSIC DELI [14/12/2007]
Pharoah Sanders was in Australia in May this year as a guest of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicdeli/stories/2007/2115761.htm

SOUND QUALITY [14/12/2007]
The first item on the show is a re-release from 2002, it is hotly sort after and yours now.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/soundquality/stories/2007/2105776.htm

THE DAILY P***T [14/12/2007]
Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily P***t next week.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2118201.htm

THE WEEKEND P***T [15/12/2007]
Merry Christmas! Tonight and tomorrow, we review the very best music to reach us in 2007.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendp***t/stories/2007/2105562.htm

THE MUSIC SHOW [15/12/2007]
Profiles of two major composers whose lives briefly overlapped in the 1930's but musically they could have been from different p***ts: Sir Edward Elgar would have turned 150 this year, and the father of concert hall electronica, Karlheinz Stockhausen, died at 79 this week.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow/stories/2007/2116999.htm

RN INTO THE MUSIC [15/12/2007]
Danny Thompson has been playing gigs since he was a teenager in London in the fifties.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/stories/2007/2070336.htm

SINGERS OF RENOWN [15/12/2007]
Singers include tenors David Lloyd and Walter Widdop, sopranos Régine Crespin and Eileen Farrell, the baritone Hermann Prey, and singing the duet "Ah, c'est l'amour" from Lakmé by Delibes, are Natalie Dessay and Gregory Kunde.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/singersofrenown/stories/2007/2096101.htm

QUIET SPACE [16/12/2007]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2007/2118496.htm

THE WEEKEND P***T [16/12/2007]
As Christmas draws nigh we review the very best music to reach us in 2007.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendp***t/stories/2007/2105573.htm

THE DAILY P***T [17/12/2007]
We begin the first of our 5 'Best of the Daily P***ts' today with new and old tango from Argentina, traditional and forward looking Irish music, and our favourite newest great Texan songsmith, Sam Baker.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2118172.htm

THE DAILY P***T [18/12/2007]
Brazilian music and banjos abound in this second best of the year shows but don't forget Bulgaria and a Danish pianist who channels Erroll Garner.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2118179.htm

THE DAILY P***T [19/12/2007]
We'll hear the standout tracks from Paul Kelly's and Lyle Lovett's most recent albums, music from Africa and Ben Winkelman's century-wide vision of jazz.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2118184.htm

THE DAILY P***T [20/12/2007]
Unusual music from Spain -flamenco pianist Diego Amador and Son de la Frontera - a group which uses the Cuban lute, the très, in flamenco.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyp***t/stories/2007/2118192.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 ------------------

POETICA [15/12/2007]
Clouds have long been used in poetry, both literally and metaphorically.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2007/2070073.htm

BOOK SHOW [17/12/2007]
Journalist and writer Matthew Condons's Trout Opera romps through 20th century Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2112650.htm

BOOK SHOW [19/12/2007]
The essay is a conversation in print and the Book Show takes the pulse of this form with the release of The Best Australian Essays 2007 and The Griffith Review winning its first Walkley.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2112642.htm

THE BOOK READING [20/12/2007]
A classic European story that explores the weird and the wonderful.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookreading/stories/2007/2104942.htm


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

AIRPLAY [16/12/2007]
Set in 1975, 'A Silence Not Like Sand' is a coming of age story.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2007/2070041.htm

STREET STORIES [16/12/2007]
This is an inspiring story of a river and a group of unemployed people who are being given a second chance.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/streetstories/stories/2007/2112982.htm

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

ELVIS: THE GREAT PERFORMANCES - THE MAN AND THE MUSIC [15/12/2007]
Second in a series of hour-long performances by The King, Elvis Presely. 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/ZY7670A002D15122007T133000.htm

CLASSIC DRAMA: VICTIM [17/12/2007]
Classic, groundbreaking British film. A successful married barrister is plunged into a scandal after the suicide of his former male lover. CAST: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price DIR: Basil Dearden (1961)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc2/200712/programs/ZY2818A001D17122007T233000.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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