Canberra Cancerians charity auction

Hi everyone,

A friend is organising a charity auction at the Canberra Cancerians Ball – they raise money for cancer research.  She is looking for donations of paintings etc for the auction.  I gave a couple last year, and got a few commissions as a result, and I wondered whether anyone else would be prepared to donate work this year.  It’s an A-list kind of event (I never go; it’s much too posh).  Could you email me if you’re interested?

julie.brooke@anu.edu.au

In Our Time (radio program)

This is a BBC Radio 4 program hosted by Melvyn Bragg in which a panel of academics etc discusses a subject relating to the history of ideas – there’s a searchable archive of some hundreds of shows, and I’ve listened to a few on anatomy, artists, Baconian science, beauty (I’m working my way through alphabetically!).  Bragg can be a bit irritating, but on the whole they’ve been really good.  If you’re interested, you can download them from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/

Melinda Hinkson studio visits

Melinda Hinkson is planning to visit Lennox House studios next Wednesday morning, to talk to anyone who’s around.

Julie

Article from Nature on painting

I’ve put an article in the media library about visual perception by (art historian) Martin Kemp, from the latest edition of Nature

KempNature

Reading for Group Two- Friday 4 September 2009

Hello everyone – Here are the links for Julie’s readings, she has also emailed the texts to you. Please let her know if there’s any problem with this, or if you’d like a hard copy instead.

Julie also Viv the editor.

BorgesExactitude

ZimmerAbstraction