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Sherlock – Shrewd, Sexy and New Age?
From England comes the news of an exciting new three part series (lets hope that expands) about one of the most popular characters in fiction, yes you have guessed it, its the world’s favourite detective Sherlock Holmes. The first episode on Sunday night in England apparently polled way ahead in the ratings against a great combination of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, starring with Hammond, May and Clarkson, on Top Gear. Now that’s really something in Britain where they love the boys with their toys. This new, exciting, hip and updated Sherlock is all about texting with his mobile fast and furiously while chasing villains on foot through the back lanes and alleys that lead off Baker Street very near to 221b, the home and haven he invites Watson to share.
Residence – Profile of a Stylish Designer
Residence splendidly showcases the ability of Sydney based international designer Thomas Hamel to produce an interior that accommodates the needs of the client in a timelessly elegant and unforgettable way. This beautiful illustrated volume provides an insight into some of his favourite projects. Chapters are accompanied by a description of the design process used in each transformation
Pinchgut Opera – Orpheus & Eurydice – Don’t Look Back!
Joseph Haydn’s Orpheus is an opera in Italian in four acts, the last he ever wrote. The libretto, by Carlo Francesco Badini, is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
The story of Orpheus has fascinated composers and librettists over the centuries. Pinchgut Opera presented Monteverdi’s wonderful version of the [...]
Impressionable Masterpieces at Melbourne
Exclusive to Melbourne, European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th-20th Century provides an unprecedented opportunity to see a spectacular group of painting and sculpture masterpieces spanning the dynamic and transforming years of the 19th and 20th century.
Call to Action – Slay the Dragon but, Not for Profit
American Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. In her short and powerful new book called Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities she makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. She challenges us all to strive be truly human – ‘to remain childlike, to keep an open mind, to refine an ability to remain humble, to eschew pride and arrogance and to be reverent towards other people and towards the natural world’.
Liberal Arts & Technology 21st Century Style – Apple iPhone 4
The New Apple iPhone 4 comes into the public domain through the genius of a whole team of talented technology developers, but the simplicity and sleek design is that of one man, award winning English industrial designer Jonathon Ive CBE, who has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company’s significant hardware products since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. Ive joins the ranks of another of the world’s greatest industrial designers of the C20, Englishman Christopher Dresser, who was one of the gurus at the core of the advent of Modernism in the late C19 and C20.
Masterpiece London – A Stroke of Genius?
In facing the crisis of the global economic downturn a brave group in London have come up with Masterpiece London, a whole new way of marketing fine quality wares by showcasing the most covetable objects in the world: traditional and modern, old and new, from the finest of fine and decorative art to the best of wines, classic cars, jewellery and contemporary design.
Fête de la Musique – Celebrating Community & Culture
Get set to let your hair down when the world’s largest international live music event – Fête de la Musique – returns to Brisbane for the third year running Monday 21 June 2010.
Art & Soul – Is No Risk Too Great?
The Next Wave Festival of Melbourne presents an open invitation to take a leap into the unknown and answer the question ‘How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in both art and in life’?. Is no risk too great?
St John’s Rose at Brisbane – Planted by an Optimist
The Rose, delicate and ephemeral, represents the frailty of the body and the transitory nature of human life. The rose chosen for the gardens of St. John’s Cathedral at Brisbane to celebrate its completion is a rich red rose….the rose triumphant.
