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• ‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son

  11-12-2024 15:59
  
  Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National GalleryWhen Denise Scott Brown visited Las Vegas for the first time in the 1960s, she was overwhelmed with emotions. But she wasn’t quite sure which ones. “The first thing I felt was a kind of shiver,” she recalls in a new documentary. “Was it horror or was i
  
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• Bob Carr is up for a debate: can Australia treasure its historic buildings without romanticising them?

  11-12-2024 03:42
  The former premier is on a new quest for civic literacy and fair representations of the past as he becomes chair of Museums of History NSWFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter years in the public eye, Bob Carr is turning his attention to historic buildings – and he says we should be prepared to have a debate.As New South Wales premier, Carr led the state for more than a decade, serving as its arts minister thr
  
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