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An Impossible Conversation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is showing a sumptuous exhibition entitled Impossible Conversations: Schiaparelli and Prada.

Judy Davis plays Schiaparelli in a Baz Luhrmann video being projected in the Exotic Body gallery. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is wonderful insight into the work of two Italian [...]

Keating and the arts

An excerpt from The State of our Creative Nation, the 2010 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture that I delivered at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 21 October:

“When it was over, the performers joined Keating on stage in an exuberant throng.  The newspapers the next morning showed a photograph of the Prime Minister, wearing a [...]

The Lost Mother short-listed for the Age Book of the Year

I am honoured to have been short-listed for the non-fiction category of this award, along with several other wonderful memoirs by women writers.  The winner is announced on August 27.

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