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Peter Manning — Taking a stand (opens the original)
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Veteran journalist Peter Manning died earlier this week. He will be deeply missed, not just by family and friends, but also by the many ABC viewers whose minds he opened to new information as well as new interpretations and assessments.On the ABC website, his daughter Thea Burke is quoted as saying: ‘Dad was an incredible journalist, but he was an even better man. He embodied joy, love and laughter.’Cheerfulness and integrity: these are the two words that I associate with seeing Peter Manning’s
The Necessity of Memoir: Edmund Gosse and Jeanette Winterson (& me) (opens the original)
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In a recent Substack, Caroline Baum railed against the lumping together of the genres of biography and memoir in the guidelines of the National Biography Award, causing (it would seem) an unfair weighting against biography: in this year’s NBA shortlist there were five memoirs and only one biography. As things turned out, it was the biography that won, but this does seem unbalanced.Baum has herself written a memoir, and she interviews biographers in her podcast Life Sentences (her Substack has th
Vale Vivienne Binns, Feminist Artist: Part 2 ‘The Process’ (opens the original)
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Two weeks is a long time in Substack Land, and so some of you may have forgotten where we got to in our story about the search for Truth-with-a-capital T by artist and feminist Vivienne Binns, who was declared a SHOCKER (in a two-inch headline) by art critic Rodney Milgate…And if you missed it, here is the link to Part 1That last piece concluded with gallerist Frank Watters’ description of Binns’ first show (held at Watters Gallery in 1967) as &#
Vale Vivienne Binns, Feminist Artist: Part 1 ‘She’s a shocker!’ (opens the original)
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Sydney’s commercial art galleries close over January. For the esteemed Watters Gallery, the January of 1967 was no exception. But before going on holiday, director Frank Watters gave the gallery key to a twenty-seven-year-old artist named Vivienne Binns, so that she could spend the month installing her first exhibition. A couple of weeks later, Watters received a frantic phone call from a friend who had just happened to walk past the gallery, and had looked through the window.‘Someone has broken
Crud for Kids?: From George Orwell to Mac Barnett (opens the original)
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First, a reminder about the webinar celebrating the Papunya School Book of Country and History tomorrow night (Thursday 23 July) from 6.30 to 7.45: To join this free virtual event, hosted by the CREATE Centre of the University of Sydney:CLick hereTo mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of the multi-award-winning Papunya School Book of Country and History I will be
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