The high roller
Rosemary Neill GALE Edwards is investing all her big-picture, high-stakes style in her new production of Carmen for Opera Australia. Now all she needs is clear skies.
Up late with Clive James
Dwight Garner ONE of the world's great conversationalists talks about the duty of criticism, the dreck of Downton Abbey and nourishing Diana, princess of Wales's `under-stocked' mind.
Wounds of intimacy
Kate Kellaway RALPH Fiennes has met his match in Dickens, playing Magwitch in Great Expectations and directing and acting in a film about the author's love life.
Frames and fortune
iain shedden AFTER his debut solo album, Glen Hansard returns to Australia this month with his band.
New arrivals
JM Coetzee IN this opening chapter of JM Coetzee's new novel, The Childhood of Jesus, a man and a boy seek assistance from the authorities.
Thursday a play to remember
3:57PM MURRAY BRAMWELL "THIS is a play, not a documentary,'' Bryony Lavery writes in the program notes for Thursday, about the day of the London bombings.
Frames and fortune
iain shedden AFTER his debut solo album, Glen Hansard returns to Australia this month with his band.
The high roller
Rosemary Neill GALE Edwards is investing all her big-picture, high-stakes style in her new production of Carmen for Opera Australia. Now all she needs is clear skies.
LATEST ALBUM REVIEWS
The grand parade
Graeme Blundell TOM Stoppard's audacious adaptation of four classic texts makes for an enjoyable, if perplexing, period saga.
Simply brilliant
Evan Williams GILLIAN Armstrong's Little Women (Sunday, 4pm, 7Two) is a masterpiece - for me the best Hollywood version of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
PICK OF THE DAY
Uncovering heroism and bravery
Ian Cuthbertson HOST Jules Hudson begins this new three-part series about digging up World War II relics with a walk along the white cliffs of Dover.
Film policy is 'confusing, flaky and fluky'
Michael Bodey and Michaela Boland AUSTRALIA'S most successful film producer on the global stage has slammed the federal government.
War's long reach
AS a child growing up during the Vietnam War, Nguyen Thai Tuan witnessed many atrocities.
LATEST ISSUE
The Weekend Australian Review, March 2-3, 2013
'One thing that can be deduced from the short film is that Bowie's gift for acting is as elusive as it ever was'
iain shedden THOSE teetering on the verge of apoplexy at the prospect of a new David Bowie album got a second taster this week with the release of a new single, The Stars (Are Out Tonight).
'Perhaps MONA should be renamed the Museum of Old and Passe Art, or MOPA, for that is what it seems'
Luke Slattery IN a New Yorker essay published exactly two decades ago, critic Adam Gopnik wrote of the dispiriting contemporary art scene of the time.
'If I had to guess how long Dan Mazer's film will last in the multiplexes, I'd give it a couple of weeks'
Evan Williams I GIVE It a Year is a romantic comedy written and directed by Dan Mazer, who worked on Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof documentaries Borat and Bruno.
'Art should make us think, but it should not tell us what to think. And above all it should not be cynical'
Christopher Allen THOMAS Demand treats photography as the final stage in the production of an image that has evolved through a long pre-production phase.
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8 February – 19 May 2013
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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
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Australian Tour 2013
26 Feb 2013 - 9 March 2013
New arrivals
JM Coetzee IN this opening chapter of JM Coetzee's new novel, The Childhood of Jesus, a man and a boy seek assistance from the authorities.
Up late with Clive James
Dwight Garner ONE of the world's great conversationalists talks about the duty of criticism, the dreck of Downton Abbey and nourishing Diana, princess of Wales's `under-stocked' mind.
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Matthew Westwood, the newspaper's chief arts correspondent, was arts editor from 2008 to 2011. He has been writing about the performing arts, particularly classical music and opera, for two decades. He writes a column in the arts pages every Tuesday.
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Stephen Fitzpatrick, deputy editor of Review, previously spent five years as The Australian's correspondent in Jakarta, where he won a Walkley award for news coverage. His interests include music, literature, film and theatre, and all the odd bits of popular culture that take a bit of rooting around to get at.
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Michael Bodey
Journalist
Melbourne Bureau, Australia
Michael Bodey is a film and media writer for The Australian and was previously arts editor, showbiz editor and media editor at The Daily Telegraph and film critic for The Age. He is the author of Broadcast Wars and co-author of Aussiewood: Australia's Leading Actors and Directors Tell How They Conquered Hollywood.
bodeym@theaustralian.com.au
Twitter: @michaelbodey
Michaela Boland
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Melbourne Bureau, Australia
Michaela Boland has been The Australian's national arts writer since 2009. For the decade before that she was the Australia reporter and theatre critic for Variety, and film and television contributor to the Australian Financial Review.
bolandm@theaustralian.com.au
Twitter @michaelamarea
Iain Shedden
Journalist
Sydney Bureau, Australia
Iain Shedden has been The Australian's music writer for the past 14 years. He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music and writes profiles, news, reviews and a weekly column for Review. He also spent many years as a professional drummer, most successfully with rock band The Saints.
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Twitter @sheddy12
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