Arts

Success at Cannes for VCAM film-makers

Volume 6 Number 6 June 14 - July 12 2010

VCAM students Ariel Kleiman and Edward Housden, along with staff from the School of Film & TV, have been celebrating films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. By Katherine Smith.

Possessing the dead

Volume 6 Number 6 June 14 - July 12 2010

Helen MacDonald walks with the dead in a new study of the nineteenth century trade in human corpses. By Silvia Dropulich.

Performance experience on the world stage

Volume 6 Number 6 June 14 - July 12 2010

A student quartet from the Faculty of the VCA and Music at the University of Melbourne has recently represented Australia’s cultural life to the world in the Shanghai World Expo. By Katherine Smith.

If you choose to vanish, you probably won’t be found

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

Back by popular demand, Noni Hazlehurst will join Asher Keddie and Nicholas Bell in the new American play Madagascar, directed by Sam Strong in his MTC debut. The play will open Wednesday 17 February 2010 at 8:00pm at the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio.

Melbourne><Brisbane: punk, art and after

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

An explosive interaction between art and punk music in the mid-1970s, which drove a charged decade of creative activity between Melbourne and Brisbane, will be explored in a major new exhibition opening at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne this month. Katrina Raymond reports.

City of light and love

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

Celebrity chef of Vue de Monde fame, Shannon Bennett, along with a kitchenful of mates, explore Parisian food from the Michelin stars to market bars and kebab stands in a new MUP book. By Shane Cahill.

Objects of desire

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

As information becomes available at the touch of a button, publishers are responding by making books objects that are desirable and innovative as well as continuing to be informative. By Silvia Dropulich.

Universal language of child art at Boorai

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

A child’s right to freedom of expression on matters that concern them is a binding provision written into the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but the voices of small children are seldom heard, and for the very young, nearly every decision is made on their behalf by parents and carers. Katherine Smith reports.