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Sean Miller cracked the art market back when he was in prison thanks to art program The Torch that got him his first NGV commission. Now the full-time artist is helping others see the light.
Would you pay $15,000 for this three-day stay?
“I’ve had more champagne than water!” To which sommelier Seamus Brandt replies: “You’re at Hotel Clicquot. We wouldn’t have it any other way.”
On a bucolic road to camping romance
The VW Caddy was my ticket to freedom. Now I’m selling my beloved van to make space for something bigger – we will need more than two seats to take our little fella on his first trip.
‘Some people definitely deserve to be cancelled. Not me, however’
After his bawdy joke about Jesus on The Project earlier this year, the cabaret star has some advice for anyone who finds themselves cancelled.
‘No one gives a sh.t about you in America, not even the government’
The Lincoln Lawyer’s Angus Sampson reflects on a decade of living in LA ahead of his fourth season in Aussie comedy Bump.
Comedian Michelle Brasier on living with a 97 per cent chance of developing cancer
After losing her father and brother to the disease, the Melbourne comic has a potent message for those who are afraid of dying.
Harry Connick Jr on the acting gig that changed it all
On the eve of his Australian tour American crooner and actor Harry Connick Jr, 56, talks grief, gadgets and the film that saw his career skyrocket.
Rhys Nicholson on the audience members to worry about
The comedian reveals that one of the unexpected flow-on effects from Covid – we all forgot how to be an audience.
‘My 1710 Stradivarius had done a somersault through the air’
Celebrated German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter says she ‘shrieked’ when a rehearsal accident sent her precious violin flying.
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