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Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critical Odyssey / Non-Fiction

With Daniel Mendelsohn

This event has been cancelled as part of our preventative measures to stem the spread of coronavirus COVID-19. If you have tickets for this event, we’ll be in touch with you directly via email; refunds will be automatically issued.

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What do readers want from critical voices? And what does it…

10 Jan 2020

Podcast episode

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.

12 Nov 2019

News

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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.

31 Oct 2019

Past event

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.

24 Oct 2019

Past event

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.

17 Oct 2019

Past event

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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