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Arts in the City / ‘Poles’ head off to the Old Dart

"Blue Poles"... off to London.
“Blue Poles”… off to London.
JACKSON Pollock’s “Blue Poles 1952” is temporarily leaving the NGA for the first time since it was loaned to MoMA in New York 20 years ago.  This time it will travel to London to be exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition “Abstract Expressionism”. It goes off display on July 25 for cleaning and conservation.

Janis Joplin… new biopic.
Janis Joplin… new biopic.
CANBERRA’S documentary film festival “Stronger than Fiction” is back, July 28-31, for the fourth year and among the top choices, according to co-directors Deborah Kingsland and Simon Weaving, are Amy Berg’s new biopic of Janis Joplin, “Janis: Little Girl Blue” and Werner Hertzog’s musing on the internet, “Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”. Bookings and details to palacecinemas.com.au

Artwork by Gail Mabo… exhibiting in Phillip.
Artwork by Gail Mabo… exhibiting in Phillip.
GAIL (daughter of Eddie) Mabo, from Townsville, will exhibit under the title “Zogo Zogo Teter Mek” (Sacred Footprints) at 8 Townshend Street, Phillip, July 22-August 15. Opening 5pm-8pm, July 22, all welcome.

“A CLASS Act” is a show by 30 of Michael Winters’ students enrolled in the ANU Centre of Continuing Education’s visual arts access program classes, which are conducted at the “off-campus” venue, Strathnairn Arts Centre, Stockdill Drive, Holt. And that’s where the show runs, Thursdays to Sundays, 10am-4pm, July 21-August 14.

SACRED choral and trumpet music will be the focus in the next free concert at the High Court of Australia when Igitur Nos Chamber Choir joins Zach Raffan and the Trumpet Club at 1.30pm, on Sunday, July 24. Bookings essential to hcourt.gov.au/about/concerts

“AN Evening Inspired by Bean” will see the opening of an exhibition about historian Dr Charles Bean, followed by a film, a panel discussion and performances by the Burgundian Consort and the Gabriel Choir (from the Canberra Girls’ Grammar School) of compositions by Ian Munro and Dan Walker based on Bean’s poem “Non Nobis”. Academy Library, Building 13, UNSW Canberra at ADFA, Northcott Drive, Campbell, from 4.30pm on Friday, July 29. Registrations to eventbrite.com.au close on Monday, July 25.

FRIENDS of the ANU Classics Museum are combining Dr Estelle Lazer’s talk on July 28 about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD with the launch of the ANU Classics Museum app, which gives an overview of some items in the collection. Launch at 6pm in the museum, then a quick dash to the lecture, at 6.30pm, in Theatre 2 of the Manning Clark Centre.

 

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