A new home for Robin Lovejoy’s papers
Pictures Librarian Linda Groom describes the process of acquiring the archive of theatre designer and director Robin Lovejoy.
Anne Fraser,
, performed by the Victorian State Opera, 1980, nla.pic-vn3060965
Drew Forsythe chasing chooks was not enough. I vividly remembered those moments at the Parade Theatre in 1972. To anchor a scene in rural Australia, the director had given two lordly roosters a brief strut on stage, and Drew was only just managing to keep their strut to the brevity intended. I needed, however, to remember more. As the taxi flicked through Mosman streets, I tried to recall the rest of the production. It was
Classics teacher a delightful contradiction of a fellow
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HARRY NICOLSON: 1923 – 2021
Some 15 years ago, standing on the remains of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, I found myself drifting away from the incredible view, and the sheer gravitas of where I was, back into a history classroom in Sydney. I was in two places at once. It was unexpected, yet remarkable and moving.
In its day, Delphi was the most sacred and mysterious slice of real estate in Greece. Now the ruined remnant of the Oracle, it remains an astonishing monument to the mystical yearnings of the baffled midwives of Western civilisation.
National Art School given heritage protection
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Heritage protection has been awarded to the historic buildings of the old Darlinghurst Gaol, which house the National Art School.
One of the oldest surviving gaol complexes in Australia, it was placed on the state heritage register on January 27 to safeguard the original sandstone perimeter walls – constructed started in 1822 – chapel, and radial cell blocks from major redevelopment.
The National Art School in the historic Darlinghurst jail.
Credit:Ben Rushton
The listing was announced by Arts Minister Don Harwin at a preview event of the National Art School’s Postgrad Show on Wednesday night, featuring the work of graduating Masters students.
Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer 10 December 2020 Hazel de Berg interviewing physicist Professor Harry Messel, 1972,nla.cat-vn4759844
Largely regarded as Australia’s first oral historian, Hazel de Berg recorded interviews with 1,290 Australians who were born between 1865 and 1953. Without her work, many of these people would never have their voices recorded for us to listen to today.
Hazel interviewed very widely but artists were particularly well-represented – she recorded around 250 painters and sculptors. But she also interviewed individuals as diverse as Don Banks (composer), J. H. Carver (physicist), Harry Seidler (architect), Robert Helpmann (dancer), Jack Lang (politician), Jessie Street (feminist), Peter Weir (film director) and Bruce Williams (economist) to name just a few!