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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 13d

The Culture Issue out now! Featuring Boyer Lectures’ Julia Baird on threats to democracy, and The Monthly Awards: Sebastian Smee, Marcia Langton, Alison Croggon and more name their 2025 arts highlights. Plus Ashley Hay, Robert Skinner, and lots more. www.themonthly.com.au/magazine/oct...

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4h

St John succeeds in teasing apart the contradictions that vined around McKenna’s varied personas: a hippie esotericist barely interested in Eastern religion or non-drug-induced altered states; a habitually stoned but unfailingly punctual ragamuffin.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’

The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 12h

A collage of the influences between early 20th century photographers and painters, expressionists and surrealists, non-binary tricksters and romantic poets, to show the accomplishments of a woman’s eye and the obstacles faced by her sex and gender.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’

A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 18h

A collage of the influences between early 20th century photographers and painters, expressionists and surrealists, non-binary tricksters and romantic poets, to show the accomplishments of a woman’s eye and the obstacles faced by her sex and gender.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’

A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

He would, I suspect, have been deeply ambivalent … perhaps most especially at the spectacle of white-coated “squares” dreaming up non-hallucinogenic “hallucinogens” in state-funded laboratories.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’

The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy | Karen Middleton
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Brereton for the NACCery?

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

“Why on earth do we allow a commissioner who’s on $800,000 a year to engage in things which potentially mean that we’re going to have to get someone else to do the job that he’s been paid so much [to do]?” Pocock asked. mnth.ly/W08nYeG

Brereton for the NACCery?

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Listening to Denver and Rich read this letter, translated from English to Stuurman’s native language, is a powerful intervention to the colonial archives, offering an opportunity to rediscover the man outside the colonial gaze.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Listening to Denver and Rich read this letter, translated from English to Stuurman’s native language, is a powerful intervention to the colonial archives, offering an opportunity to rediscover the man outside the colonial gaze.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Her book was banned by the fascist regime, not because it was polemical but because it was honest. A far greater danger.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation | Bri Lee
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‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation | Bri Lee
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‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Her book was banned by the fascist regime, not because it was polemical but because it was honest. A far greater danger.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

The development of photography, as Modjeska narrates it, becomes influenced by the development of psychoanalysis and what both mean for a truly modern perspective.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’

A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

The development of photography, as Modjeska narrates it, becomes influenced by the development of psychoanalysis and what both mean for a truly modern perspective.
mnth.ly/M23edLL

Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’

A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

Abel Selaocoe has a voice that could chase the clouds out of the sky. It is the voice of Anohni and Nina Simone, a breaking, sweeping, witching voice.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

Abel Selaocoe has a voice that could chase the clouds out of the sky. It is the voice of Anohni and Nina Simone, a breaking, sweeping, witching voice.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

‘Whip It’, like much of their work, was meant as satire, an apple pie in the face of America’s misogynistic, good ol’ boy culture. Instead, it became their ‘Born in the USA’.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

‘Whip It’, like much of their work, was meant as satire, an apple pie in the face of America’s misogynistic, good ol’ boy culture. Instead, it became their ‘Born in the USA’.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

The surgery was difficult for everyone except me. A team of experts gathered around my bed to put me to sleep, using the same drug that killed Michael Jackson.
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A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

‘65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art’ is an articulation of the primacy of Indigenous art, so clear and complete that it will inevitably be referred to by a before and after.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

‘65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art’ is an articulation of the primacy of Indigenous art, so clear and complete that it will inevitably be referred to by a before and after.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

Early on, a journalist asks the undefeated Kerr what it would feel like to lose a fight, and he tries his best to imagine it. “I’m trying to intellectualise it,” he says, ultimately drawing a blank.
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Mad dogs: ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘The Smashing Machine’

Two understated character portraits, one of a melancholic art thief and the other an introspective champion MMA fighter, from Kelly Reichardt and Benny Safdie

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

The surgery was difficult for everyone except me. A team of experts gathered around my bed to put me to sleep, using the same drug that killed Michael Jackson.
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A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

The book details how Grounds was introduced to compact apartment planning in London; tested these ideas on his holiday shack at Mount Eliza, on the Mornington Peninsula; and then developed a design repertoire for everything from floor plans to furnishings.
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Grounds zero: Tony Lee’s ‘Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living’

Might the acclaimed architect’s compact apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne be a model for addressing housing problems with single-occupancy dwellings?

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

A family tree that branches through more than 2400 generations; contains more than 65,000 years of time. A tree that grows across these four walls and up, up, up towards the ceiling.
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Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work kith and kin in Brisbane’s QAGOMA