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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1h

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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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 · 2h

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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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 · 3h

‘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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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 · 4h

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

A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4h

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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Road tripped

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4h

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

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5h

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

Mad dogs: ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘The Smashing Machine’

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5h

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

A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 6h

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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Road tripped

Grounds zero: Tony Lee’s ‘Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living’

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 6h

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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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 · 7h

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

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 7h

There’s a sense, says the man who’s coordinated the installation of what he calls this “beautiful behemoth” at QAGOMA, that this “is where the piece belongs”: that it has come at “a tipping point in Australian history, in terms of who we are and who we can be”.
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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

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 7h

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.
mnth.ly/3FtkqB9

Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work kith and kin in Brisbane’s QAGOMA

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 8h

There’s a sense, says the man who’s coordinated the installation of what he calls this “beautiful behemoth” at QAGOMA, that this “is where the piece belongs”: that it has come at “a tipping point in Australian history, in terms of who we are and who we can be”.
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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

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 8h

The matt-black blackboard-walls, the writing in white chalk: “That’s the way I learned history at school,” Archie Moore says now. “And there was no Indigenous history.”
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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

Mad dogs: ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘The Smashing Machine’

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 9h

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.
mnth.ly/CGWm32z

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 · 9h

The matt-black blackboard-walls, the writing in white chalk: “That’s the way I learned history at school,” Archie Moore says now. “And there was no Indigenous history.”
mnth.ly/hNQT8TI

Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work kith and kin in Brisbane’s QAGOMA

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 9h

Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work ‘kith and kin’ in Brisbane’s QAGOMA | Ashley Hay
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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

Grounds zero: Tony Lee’s ‘Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living’

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 10h

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.
mnth.ly/4RK7xmv

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 · 10h

Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work ‘kith and kin’ in Brisbane’s QAGOMA | Ashley Hay
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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

Brereton for the NACCery?

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 11h

“Unfortunately, I think Mr Brereton’s role has been bungled in so many respects that him remaining at the NACC is just damaging its reputation,” Watson told The Monthly on Thursday. mnth.ly/ltGbhgi

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

Remembering Australia’s first poet laureate, a convict transported for a poetic blackmail who ingratiated himself with the colony’s governors

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 16h

Michael Robinson chose the route of sycophancy to elevate himself – a more conscientious poet might, on occasion, feel the need to speak truth to power and tell our leaders things they don’t want to hear.
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Poetic conviction

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

To be sure, unconventional-founder-of-exciting-start-up stories are a dime a dozen, but this one is something else.
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

When any one person anywhere in the world today is looking for car parts, they are pulling on strands of this incredibly chaotic web of possibilities.
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AI playing its part