The Arts & Language

 

Art begins where language fails

 

The Arts

 

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. - Vladimir Mayakovsky

 

The Arts in Melbourne

  • Melbourne's most popular arts venue: fortyfivedownstairs at 45 Flinders Lane
    making money for artists, not from them, fortyfive downstairs is a not for profit venue: it is worth supporting

 

Materials

Speech: Why bother? – 6th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address

When is the end of the Millennium?

A reply to Pru Goward's view on ethics, business and philanthropy

 

Links of interest

Ludwig van Beethoven: a great website

Classical Music Directory

ABC Radio National

Books at Amazon Books

Chunky Move: Australia’s premier contemporary dance company

Current ideas at Arts & Letters Daily

Fine chamber music Musica Viva Australia

Lincoln Centre Music Society

Music Resources on the Web

New book of drawings by Kate Durham

New Music Network website

New York Times Review of Books

Other issues about Patronage of the Arts

Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne

Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art

Classical Music Resources at SameDay.com

 

Language

 

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. - Ambrose Bierce

 

Wordwatching

 

Links of Interest

One-look:  a terrific way of checking many English dictionaries at once

Another selection of on-line dictionaries

The King’s English (FW & HG Fowler): on-line at Project Bartleby

A selection of Samuel Johnson’s writings 

Arts and Letters Daily: the best collection of the best writing about ideas

Comment and articles about language at The Vocabula Review

Download a list of Books about language

Good language articles at Take Our Word For It

Language at HELICOM

Language reference works at Bibliomania

Read Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

Read and download stories by Saki (H.H. Munro)