On our You Tube Channel you will find our mini-documentaries, which provide an insight into the evolution of art, design, music, fashion and style.

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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’.

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We seldom realize the extent to which Photography has influenced our own cultural growth in Australia. Iconic shots such as Max Dupain’s Sunbaker 1937 shaped an image of Australia abroad for 50 years as a nation of deeply sunburned muscle bound beautiful men.

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While tradition may have kept its bespoke tailors a cut above the rest, it is the upholding of a standard in excellence in tailoring that makes the clothes fit the man so well that is at the heart of Savile Row and its continuing success. From Beau Brummell to Benedict Cumberbatch for 160 years + the tailors of Savile Row at London have been all about peerless cut and precision, not peacockery.

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Author, photographer, painter and keynote speaker Elizabeth Murray in California sent me the link to this beautifully filmed video presented at the TED conference 2011. TED is all about ideas worth spreading.  This presentation was given by Louie Schwartzberg award-winning cinematographer, director, and producer. His notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery [...]

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This is the starting segment for our course of study the evolution of western art, design, style and culture antiquity until today. It is surveyed in chronological order from antiquity to the contemporary age with respect to intellectual and philosophical ideas, other cultural influences and social change.

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Hello, my name is Carolyn McDowall and I would like to welcome you to the October edition of Muse~News the newsletter of The Culture Concept Circle (The Circle). We hope this issue demonstrates our purpose well and that Muse~News will become of increasing value and interest to our readers. Our main aim is to provide [...]

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Joyce Evans lives in Melbourne and continues to photograph what she calls ‘her heart’ – the Australian landscape. Her next Exhibition opens on Sunday April 18. It is called Imaging the Spiritual, with selected photographs that span the years 1980 – 2010, ‘seeking out the beauty, synergy and the spiritual in the everyday’.

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