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The art of the salon
WE TYPICALLY THINK of the grandest, most impressive parts of European culture in terms of physicality: castles, palaces, libraries,...
A little moment
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doores about thee; hide thy selfe as it...
From Bosnia to Australia
IT IS DISTURBING and painful to be told that the world that formed you, held you, has now ceased...
Lords of the ring
VIENNA’S RINGSTRASSE, BUILT from 1865 on the site of the old city wall, has long been derided for its...
Behind the scene
IN THE MIDDLE of the twentieth century, most Australian actors who wished to consider themselves ‘legitimate’ would still have...
Stranger than the dreams of Ptolemy
Although Europeans had believed in the symmetry of the two hemispheres for nearly two centuries, they silently forgot the...
Negotiating botanical collections
IT IS NOT widely known that many Australian colonial natural history collections are represented in German museums and herbaria,...
Asking the relevant questions
THE FIRST QUESTION. Why European thinking – again? My exchange with Europe goes back to the beginning: my father fled the...
Atrocity, remembrance, spectacle
The process of experiencing the European city is one of corrosion, in which the screens of the city are...
Climate of stagnation
AT COP25 IN Madrid – the twenty-fifth United Nations climate summit, held in December 2019 – I watched as the vice...
Brexit, Australian-style
IT WAS ALWAYS going to be ‘Australian-style’. When Boris Johnson unveiled his government’s new points-based immigration system in early...
The kindness of strangers
FOR ALL HER long life, Baba Schwartz baked two yeast cakes every Friday: one laced with chocolate and nuts,...
