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Designer of stunning Bilbao museum wants to build Melbourne’s new NGV Save Normal text size Advertisement Edwin Chan, a Hong Kong-born architect who worked with Frank Gehry designing the world-renowned Bilbao Guggenheim art museum in Spain, has pleaded with the Victorian government to relax its “Australian only” rule for designers of the new NGV Contemporary. Chan said he’d love to bid for the project in partnership with an Australian firm and bring his experience and “...

They fell in love, and set about terrifying people in their homes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement “I hate being scared,” says Nathan Alexander. Which is fair enough. But slightly ironic, given he spent most of 2020 sending shivers down the spines of Australians. Alexander and his partner Amy Johnson are the producers behind Darkfield Radio in Australia, whose three immersive horror-tinged audi...

Advertisement Ormond Street is a classic, buttoned-down, Paddington neighbourhood, lined with Audis and Land Rovers in front of tastefully renovated multimillion-dollar terraces, each tightly sealed behind heavily barred doors and windows. All, that is, apart from Number 45, whose door is flung wide open to the world on this humid summer morning. This is Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ former home, left by the great composer in trust to allow selected musicians a 12-month rent-free residency to work o...

Sarah Taryam, Arts Editor This week, our cover story is about something we don’t give too much thought to. From a young age, all of us have heard that sugar and caffeine before bed is bad for sleep. In fact, almost all of us were forbidden by our parents to snack on sugary foods before bedtime as it would keep us up. Now, new research conducted has suggested that what we eat does indeed affect how we sleep, and vice versa. For example, researchers have found that eating foods which are high...

Whos that Gal? Wonder Woman returns, just dont call her a feminist We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Whos that Gal? Wonder Woman returns, just dont call her a feminist Normal text size Patty Jenkins, director of Wonder Woman 1984, had one main direction she gave to the woman she calls “The Gal”, aka Gal Gadot, aka Wonder Woman. It was about an expression Gadot sometimes got on her face when playing fight scenes. The Gal looked too mean. �...

2020 Herald-Tribune holiday book guide With so many people staying home during this pandemic year, it has been a good time to catch up on reading. Once again this year, I asked my Herald-Tribune colleagues to look back at favorite books they enjoyed or that moved or inspired them. Some were published in the last few months, others date back much earlier. Whatever the subject or genre, we hope you will find something to trigger your own interests or make a last-minue addition to your holiday wis...

Within an investigation, how could all of this have fallen through the cracks? the city of oakland going to look at that and its processes to see why nobody got in there and blue the whistle on how ghost ship became this vast maze where so many people were residing, ana. >> paul vercammen live from oakland, thank you. the artists who lived and worked at that ghost ship warehouse were a close-knit community. firefighters found some bodies intertwined, hugging, a sign some victims had been tryin...

So this is going to be debated for years or decades to come. >> well, nice to know we have access to you get you back over here since well be talking about this for a while. jessica winter, arts editor at "time" magazine. its a good read. "time" magazine. thanks for being here. 21 minutes past the hour. a sneak peek of some of those long-awaited super bowl ads thats ahead. also the los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa about the new poll on the latino vote and the gop. stay with me. but im st...

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