Author: Suzie Keen
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Best books of 2024, as chosen by South Australian writers and publishers
It’s become a December tradition for me to share my best books of the year in my final column before Christmas. This year, I’ve decided to ask some other South Australian writers, editors, critics and publishers to share theirs, too – and I’m glad I did. I love reading best books lists, but I’m also very…
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Gathering Light: You’ll be blown away by these glass works
Wow. This exhibition packs a visual punch. Visitors enter the gallery through a facsimile kiln door, rimmed with golden heat. A series of videos swims into view. Glass is being tortured, abraded, slumped, spun and pulled. Forget routine glass-blowing exercises. That is the intention of the curator, Brian Parkes. He’s on a mission to sell…
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Film review: A Real Pain
Two Jewish cousins who were once as close as brothers meet at the airport for a trip to Poland in honour of their grandmother who, “thanks to a thousand miracles”, survived the Holocaust. They join a tour group and plan to break off on the last day to seek out their grandmother’s old house. It…
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Film review: The Dead Don’t Hurt
A Western starring Viggo Mortensen promises a lot. The Danish-American actor skirted around mass stardom playing Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, but mostly stays below the radar in films like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2009), the hard-core Eastern Promises (2007) and the almost perfect small thriller A History of Violence (2005). Mortensen wrote, directed…
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The rich legacy of South Australian artist Geoff Wilson
Geoffrey Wilson OAM 1927 – 2024 Geoffrey Ronald Wilson was born in 1927 in Bridgetown, Western Australia. He moved around with his family, first to New South Wales and then Victoria, before settling in Adelaide in 1941. When his youthful ambition to be an architectural draftsman was thwarted, he undertook an art teaching course at…
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SA’s latest emerging art stars showcase their creativity
2024 Graduate Exhibition Adelaide Central School of Art Every year, the graduate exhibition at the Adelaide Central School of Art (ACSA) provides audiences with a glimpse of the potential art stars of the future. This year was no exception, with a high standard of work on display. The exhibition features a broad range of works,…
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Music review: This might be the concert of a lifetime
Joshua Bell is more than a familiar name. A Grammy Award-winning, best-selling artist, and known for being equally at home performing Bernstein in the Hollywood Bowl as he is collaborating with Sting and playing bluegrass, he is widely revered as one of the finest violinists of the present day. Suffice to say, this American violinist…
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Music review: Tis the season for Messiah
You know it’s that time of the year when Messiah gets its annual dusting off. Never mind that Handel wrote his marvellous oratorio to celebrate Easter, or that we’re not quite at Christmas anyway. Hearing the “Hallelujah chorus” could not come at a better moment. And to have the full, uncut Messiah done with such…
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The year in film: That’s (not) all, folks
Each year, cinema is meant to die and never does. But there were dark clouds this past 12 months, with audiences down and production companies pulling back so tightly that Clint Eastwood’s likely final film, Juror No.2, went unceremoniously to streaming. One of the problems in 2024 was lack of product. The long tail of…