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Australian jazz - innovative - Australia's Culture PortalMarvellous Melbourne Jazz Festival - Bernie McGann Group - Bernie McGann, sax; John Pochee , drum; Chuck Yates, keyboard; Jeff Kluke, bass. An Australian jazz sound has developed through a practice of innovation where performers improvised within particu...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: P01404.028. One of the most well-known Australian engagements of the Vietnam War was the Battle of Long Tan, 17-20 August 1966. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: COL/67/0140/VN. ...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. Image courtesy of the artist, Boutwell Draper Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ken Unswor...
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Australian jazz - innovative - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture Portal )Marvellous Melbourne Jazz Festival - Bernie McGann Group - Bernie McGann, sax; John Pochee , drum; Chuck Yates, keyboard; Jeff Kluke, bass. An Australian jazz sound has developed through a practice of innovation where performers improvised within particu...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. Anti-authoritarian, anti-elitist, anti-careerist and anti-censorship, these men and women chose an eccentric lifestyle that united social and political criticism with drinking, gam...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: P01404.028. One of the most well-known Australian engagements of the Vietnam War was the Battle of Long Tan, 17-20 August 1966. Contained within the circle suspended above are the names of those Australians...
Image courtesy of the artist, Boutwell Draper Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ken Unsworth, Robert Owen and John Davis were the first to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978 as contemporary artists. These confronting public ...
Freestyle: New Australian Design for Living (showing in Sydney, followed by Brisbane and Adelaide) brings together the work and stories of 40 outstanding Australian designers. Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award fosters and promotes contemporary Aus...
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