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...restore your sense of wonder Broken Hill has always lured the occasional painter. But authorities are giving formal encouragement these days through the establishment of international artist exchanges, artist-in-residence programs and annual scholarships. Hobby artists from around Australia are also flocking to the town for workshops in outback landscapes. The result is a blue-collar outpost with uncommonly lofty aesthetic values and more than 30 galleries (including the Pro Hart Gallery, housing one of the largest private art collections in the country). Pretty impressive for a population of just 25,000. "It is definitely unusual to find...
...collection, titles for the writers’ narratives range from the angsty feminist “Pissed off in Nepal” to the sexually naive “Prude in Patpong.” One woman told of downing tequila shots until dawn with dreadlocked Aboriginals in the Outback while others recount less unconventional tales of European vacations and camping trips. Writer Lori Mayfield discusses diarrhea on safari, while Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth instructs readers on the ideal disposal of a “turd.” Ellen Degeneres devotes two paragraphs to an airport bathroom story wherein...
...exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain flown in to a remote region of Western Australia, and the photo is untouched by any digital wand...
...music has resonated with the sacred quality of nature. The Requiem is his masterwork. Based on an old Aboriginal lullaby, Sculthorpe's soaring choral work is punctuated by weeping cellos and grounded by the majestic hum of soloist William Barton's didjeridu, suggesting the long horizon of the Outback...
...woman set out to explore the Australian outback. Sandy (Toni Collette) is a healthy, hearty geologist, bored and impatient in her role as guide. Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) is an emotionally closed businessman who is dangerously insistent on taking the less traveled desert roads. They almost die on one when their SUV gets stuck in the sand...