Australia’s best blog devoted to theatre criticism has frozen in time. There are fewer opportunities for thoughtful arts criticism, robbing culture of important conversations.
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ART CRITICISM
Robert Hughes, an obituary
Driven creator, towering stylist, often insufferable, it is impossible to imagine either Australia or modern art without Robert Hughes.
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Arts editor shits on theatre blogging, flame war ensues
The Global Mail opened its coverage of Australian arts on Monday with a curious piece from Stephen Crittenden about theatre blogging. Online writers haven’t stopped talking about it since.
READ MOREThe problem of being exceptional
Excellence. It might be a goal of our national cultural policy, but do we really know it means?
READ MOREBook people face audience verdict: “Boring”
While Rome fiddles, book people burn. A brief illustrated report on a small but critical event beyond Canberra, by W H Chong.
READ MOREIt’s just not critic(al)
As a form, the newspaper theatre review is not without its charm. But it is a problematic form, particularly since it is the priority of that review form to give judgement, writes Andrew Furhmann.
READ MOREMarieke Hardy: Bill Henson is a wimp and Australia is to blame
Bill Henson’s controversial photos of naked children whipped the public into a frenzy back in 2008 and sadly the madness has dulled his work, writes Marieke Hardy.
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