From the yearly archives: 2018
I have been reconnecting with my younger existentialist self. Joe and I attended a week of lectures put on by theUniversity of Melbourne’s School of Continental Philosophy from July 16 to 20, entitled A Show About Nothingness: Episodes From Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and …. The two presenters, Dr Robert Boncardo and Steven Churchill were terrific. [...]
We visited the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Into Light exhibition last week. It consists of paintings on loan from the Musee de la Chartreuse in Douai, in the north of France, an art museum based in a former Carthusian monastery. They’re the monks who made Chartreuse liqueur; it would have been a nice touch to [...]
Here I am starting to select the movies I want to see at MIFF 2018 and I realise I didn’t ever finish writing up the all of the films I saw last year. So here is a quick blog to finish the job! That’s the problem when you see 60 films! I know it’s a [...]
I was going to say that all of the books I read in June were old fashioned paper books. But I was mistaken. At the start of the month I threw myself into three different versions of the story Babylon Berlin. First up I watched the Netflix series which was fantastic. Intense and over the [...]
I got to see the MoMA at NGV exhibition on 8 June 2018 and enjoyed it a lot; my experience enhanced a lot by the Curator’s talk that preceded it. Not knowing much about art, I find these talks for members preceding major exhibitions the best thing about NGV membership. This one was given by [...]
