Sunshine Coast Council
As we barrack for the Australian team at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, this Backward Glance commemorates our sporting nation and the sporting heroes who represent this great country we live in.
Edwin (Teddy) Flack was Australia’s first gold medallist, winning the 1500m and 800m at the 1896 Athens Games.
Australia has competed at every summer Olympic Games since then and has hosted two summer games – Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000 and now has the won the hosting rights for Brisbane and South East Queensland in 2032.
Did you know one of our early Yandina pioneers who came to Australia in 1915 was Otto Raisanen, a champion wrestler who represented Finland as a young man aged 16? He competed at two Olympic Games for Finland before migrating to Australia.
Undine Spraggâs Life in Objects
Undine Spraggâs Life in Objects
Beauty, charm and luck all factor into the social ascent of Edith Whartonâs ambitious protagonist â but money, crucially, matters the most.
Mrs. Sidney Smith, P. A. Clark, Mrs. James T. Burden, Stanford White, James Henry Smith, Norman Whitehouse, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Sidney Smith (seated) at the 1905 James Hazen Hyde costume ball.Credit.Byron Company/The Museum of the City of New York/Art Resource, NY
By Samuel Rutter
This article is part of Tâs to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation, led by Claire Messud, about âThe Custom of the Country,â to be held on Jan. 28.
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When she began writing âThe Age of Innocence,â in September, 1919, Edith Wharton needed a best-seller. The economic ravages of the First World War had cut her annual income by about sixty per cent. Sheâd recently bought and begun to renovate a country house, Pavillon Colombe, in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, where she installed new black-and-white marble floors in the dining room, replaced a âhumpyâ lawn with seven acres of lavish gardens, built a water-lily pond, and expanded the
potager, to name just a few additions. She was still paying rent at her apartment at 53 Rue de Varenne, in Parisâa grand flat festooned with carved-wood cherubs and ornate fireplaces. The costs added up.
Inside gallerist Stefan von Bartha’s art-filled Basel home
Inside gallerist Stefan von Bartha’s art-filled Basel home
Second-generation gallery owner Stefan von Bartha invites us (virtually) into his art-studded Basel home to reflect on an unconventional childhood, eclectic collection and building on 50 years of his family’s eponymous gallery
Exterior view of von Bartha gallery in Basel, 2020.
Photography: Ben Koechlin
In Stefan von Bartha’s childhood, everything was about art, and very little was conventional. The second-generation owner of von Bartha gallery first graced the booths of Art Basel as a one-month-old baby. He began attending studio visits with his parents aged six, skipping school with a range of ‘wild’ excuses for why school had been ‘cancelled’. ‘I was always more interested in spending time with people, experiencing art and going to shows,’ he says over Zoom from Basel.