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Hear a rich tableau of performance, film, literature, and music from ABC RN's Weekend Arts.
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The power of music in West Papua as a vehicle for dissent and protest is well understood.
Indian author Meena Kandasamy did not shy away from difficult topics when she began her debut novel, The Gypsy Goddess. It deals with a massacre of 44 men, women and children who were burnt to death after campaigning for higher wages.
British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock is our guest, talking about the The Beatles' seventh studio album, Revolver.
Does doing something monstrous make you a monster?
In late 2013 photographer Lee Grant travelled to Beijing as part of a co-production between Australia and China to photograph, and be photographed.
Maori's living in Australia
New Zealand poet Tusiata Avia
Playwright and columnist Van Badham takes us through The Handmaid’s Tale.
If you go about 200 k north of Kalgoorlie in outback West Australia, you get to one of the world's great art installations. Back in 2003, the acclaimed UK sculptor Sir Anthony Gormley who was in Australia for the Perth Festival, created a massive artwork way out on the Lake Ballard salt lake.
What does travelling abroad mean for an artist? Is it more of a distraction than an inspiration?
After publishing erotic fiction with a pseudonym, Anne Buist has published her first book under her own name, a psychological thriller introducing us to Natalie King, a messed up forensic psychiatrist.
The authentic cowboy music of Texas: a personal story.
Just on 60 years ago, Elvis Presley went into Sun Studio in Memphis and recorded his first ever single - “That’s All Right”. Along with his guitarist Scotty Moore, he produced a song that sparked a revolution in rock 'n roll and changed music forever.
The Masterpiece looks at a work of art that is special to a prominent Australian artist, and why. This week, Ken Done reveals his favourite painting.
They’re some of our most public artworks, yet memorials must forever be in service to personal memories. So how do artists approach making them?
This is the story of The Gramophone Company of London's early 20th century recording trips by donkey-back and train along the Silk Road and of the relationship of the music they recorded onto wax cylinders to Silk Road musicians today.
Israeli-Australian musician Lior explains why he has chosen Alain de Botton's book Religion for Atheists as his masterpiece.
When Fairfax recently took the knife to its photo department, it was the push news photojournalist Tamara Dean needed to fully immerse herself in her critically acclaimed art career. Weekend Arts talks with her about this transition.
Following Andrew Bovell’s keynote speech at the National Play Festival, provoking audiences to address racism on our stages, we ask how Australia can we represented more accurately on stage and screen.
Why did that very modern 20th-century composer, Maurice Ravel, compose images of spectres, goblins and death?
Gaspard de la Nuit is the title of one of the most arresting and spectacularly difficult works ever written for the piano, but this remarkable piano work by Ravel is actually a conversation between the composer and a little-known poet living more that 60 years earlier. And today's Into the Music feature enters into their dialogue—between the words and the music.
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