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Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critical Odyssey / Non-Fiction

With Daniel Mendelsohn

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Podcast episode

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Simon Schama / History

Simon Schama is a familiar figure on the BBC as well as a professor at Columbia University, and he’s produced multi-volume histories of Britain, documentaries with momentous names like The American Future and a TV series called Simon Schama’s Power of Art. He's a heavyweight scholar, best known for in-depth works on French history, Jewish history, art history and Dutch history. But he’s also a writer of great versatility who has concerned himself – through his columns for the New Yorker and the Financial Times – with a dizzying array of topics, from poetry and baseball to Tom Waits and ice-cream.

At Montalto, in conversation with David Hansen, he draws from his new BBC series, Civilisations – which explores the origins of human creativity, and its universal importance – and from … well, millenia of artworks and ideas.

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Working with Words: Jane Clark / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Jane Clark

We spoke with Senior Research Curator at Mona, Jane Clark, about avoiding heffalump traps, looking at what makes humans human and the unreliability of memory.

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Subversion / Art history

With Maria Quirk, Susan van Wyk, Eloise Grills and 1 other

Inspired by Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic, on display at NGV Australia, explore contemporary artists, writers and thinkers whose work features the same figures again and again. How do these representations subvert traditional notions of the muse?

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Country / Art history

With Judith Ryan, Bridget Caldwell-Bright, Laniyuk and 1 other

Consider community and country as inspiration in the work of Indigenous artists, writers and performers, responding to women artists currently on display in Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Sirens / Art history

With Angela Hesson, Vidya Makan, Roj Amedi and 1 other

Explore representations of destructive and seductive women in mythology, looking at Bertram Mackennal’s Circe (1893) and John Longstaff’s The Sirens (1892) in the NGV’s 20th Century Australian art gallery.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Anything and everything in Art history from across our archives.

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Sirens / Art history

With Angela Hesson, Vidya Makan, Roj Amedi and 1 other

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David Walsh: On the Origin of Art / Art

With David Walsh and Jennifer Byrne

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Patrick McCaughey in Melbourne / Art history

With Patrick McCaughey

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Creative Complex: Art, Legacy and Accountability / Social justice

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Emerging Writers’ Festival Programme Launch: Not Another Slide Night / Biography & memoir

With Izzy Roberts-Orr, Eugenia Flynn, Andy Butler and 3 others

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Fame, Feast and Femme Fatale: The Banquet of Cleopatra

The Legend / Art history

With Ted Gott, Ali Alizadeh, Mark Wilson and 1 other

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State of Play: Political Art in 2017 / Visual art

With Emily Sexton, Andy Field, and Deborah Pearson

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Working with Words: Jane Clark / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Jane Clark

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Ken Done / Art

With Ken Done and Penny Modra

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Strange Here: George Saunders / Fiction

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Ken Done / Art

With Ken Done and Penny Modra

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Subversion / Art history

With Maria Quirk, Susan van Wyk, Eloise Grills and 1 other

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Country / Art history

With Judith Ryan, Bridget Caldwell-Bright, Laniyuk and 1 other

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The Longform Society

Meeting #2: The Argonauts / Sex & gender

With Sophie Cunningham, Hannah McCann, Quinn Eades and 1 other

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art / Art

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Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critical Odyssey / Non-Fiction

With Daniel Mendelsohn

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Lunch with Simon Schama / Art history

With Simon Schama and David Hansen

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Wild Things: The Lives and Loves of John and Sunday Reed / Australian stories

With Georgia Moodie, Kendrah Morgan, and Lesley Harding

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