Latest Arts News from around the World

Ensemble Offspring Celebrates the Composers of Generation Next
Arts Hub
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (Australia)
Acclaimed new music group Ensemble Offspring will premiere the sounds of the future at 3pm on Sunday 26th October. Australia’s youngest emerging composers will steal the spotlight in The Sibelius Composer Awards when Ensemble Offspring present their works for the first time, on the stage of the Music Workshop at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Seven playwrights
Arts Hub
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (Australia)
Seven playwrights from all corners of the country, one theme, one play. How do you make it work?

Resale Royalty Scheme: A step in the right direction
Arts Hub
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (Australia)
The Artists’ Resale Royalty Scheme announced today is a step in the right direction, according to the Coalition for an Australian Resale Royalty (CARR). However, CARR is seeking changes to deliver a scheme that is truly fair to both established and emerging Australian artists.

NT Literary Award Finalists and Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
Arts Hub
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (Australia)
The Northern Territory Literary Awards 2008 and the Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award were announced this evening at a ceremony at Parliament House.

MIAF SPECIAL FEATURE: Kudsi Erguner
Arts Hub
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (Australia)
Kudsi Erguner is a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute. He comes from a family of musicians, and his father renowned musician Ulvi Erguner introduced Kudsi to the musical and spiritual teachings of various Sufi Muslim brotherhoods.

Portrait of our times
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
Images of the rich and famous are now adorning the walls of galleries and museums. But do they deserve a place in art?

Strict codes for scouting schools
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
PAYING children to model naked for photographs is strictly prohibited in NSW, and there are robust protocols for school principals to follow if requests are made to "scout" playgrounds.

Listening welcomes in a world of imagination
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
WE SPEND our lives taking in the news on television by watching images while listening to words. Films and television (and computer games) structure much of our conception of the world.

A human board game
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
CARLTON Primary School is a little epicentre of multicultural dreaming in the long and sometimes ominous shadows of the nearby Housing Commission towers.

Masterpieces given touch-up in public
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
IN 1955, when the National Gallery of Victoria wanted to restore Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's masterpiece The Banquet of Cleopatra, they sent it to the Queen's restorer in London.

'Swan Lake' has Paris in a swoon
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
ON AN opening night in Paris, you expect an invited English and Australian audience to cheer and call "bravo". And so it did for Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake last Thursday.

Towelhead is sure to shock
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (USA)
Towelhead has sparked controversy with its title, which is a derogatory term referring to Arabs that definitely needs to disappear from the lexicon. But it's the content of this movie that ought to stir discussion.

Olympic champion defends Henson-row principal
The Age
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
Olympic champion James Tomkins has defended the principal who let Bill Henson scour for subjects in a St Kilda primary school, comparing the controversial artist to a sporting scout looking for talent.

MIAF SPECIAL FEATURE: The Rape of the Sabine Women
Arts Hub
Monday, October 06, 2008 (Australia)
For Eve Sussman, success she says comes in small steps. It was her acclaimed video installation 89 Seconds at Alcázar (a 12-minute loop), which premiered at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and was funded through a single grant and her own money, that brought Sussman more prominently into the limelight. With her latest work however The Rape of the Sabine Women, she was able to dedicate close to two years on the project.

As fresh archive comes to light, Mick Jones tells Andrew Perry what gave the punk band soul
The Telegraph
Thursday, October 02, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Next Monday, the posthumous career of punk rock's most prolific and ferocious band reaches a new peak, with the release of a vintage live album, a live DVD collection and a group autobiography. The Clash, who split up 25 years ago, shine on through the mists of rock history, as somehow more than just a band.