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    Vale Terry Ingram, and a life observing in the Saleroom

    Saleroom’s founding columnist spent 44 years reporting stories the industry wanted to keep quiet, including the art sale story of the century on Blue Poles.

    • Elizabeth Fortescue

    Yesterday

     People openly identifying as Nazis were social outcasts at the start of the last decade; now they can become social media icons.

    Did ‘meme magic’ create the American extreme right?

    A new book, ‘Black Pill’, looks at the world of neo-Nazis and the way in which the online world has spilled into the real one.

    • Becca Rothfeld

    This Month

    Choristers of the Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge, after rehearsal at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney during a 1998 Australian tour.

    The kids of this famous choir prove busy people will make time

    Forget social media. The pre-teen choristers of The Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge, are just as happy to read and sing the sheet music of Stravinsky and Tallis.

    • Michael Bailey

    Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

    Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

    • Daniel Arbon

    This Perth artist is about to be showcased at Design Miami

    Olive Gill-Hille will exhibit her timber sculptures at the highly influential event in December.

    • Michael Bleby
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    ‘I’m in Hell’ – when AI resurrection goes wrong

    It is in its infancy but “death capitalism” will soon become big business.

    • Chris Harvey
    Actors Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman signed the ceiling at Darcy’s restaurant after Crowe’s Oscar statuette was accidentally rammed through the plasterboard during a night of celebration. The fragment has a pre-sale estimate of $800 to $1500 in Davidson Auctions.

    Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and piece of Oscar party history

    An overexcited incident with the actor’s Gladiator statuette created a piece of history that is now going to auction with other art from Sydney restaurant Darcy’s.

    • Elizabeth Fortescue
    Trump T-shirts were available minutes after the shooting.

    ‘Grazed, but not Dazed’: Trump T-shirts go viral

    Entrepreneurs in Asia were quick to cash in on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.

    • Marcus Lum and Sophie Yu

    ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ review: Johansson shines in space age romcom

    Director Greg Berlanti’s would-be screwball comedy is not concerned with plausibility – he wants us to be seduced by the characters.

    • John McDonald
    Melbourne International Film Festival: Memoir of a Snail

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    Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

    Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

    • Daniel Arbon
    “Actors open themselves up to playing someone so convinced,” says Bojana Novakovic about her role as Lady Macbeth.

    Lessons in ambition from Lady Macbeth

    The actress Bojana Novokovic admits to admiring the chutzpah of Shakespeare’s most scheming wife ahead of playing her in a new theatrical production.

    • Peter Craven
    Cameron Smith with the Claret Jug in the clubhouse at St Andrews, Scotland after his 2022 victory.

    Smith leads six-man Aussie charge at Royal Troon

    Six Australians – from a former champion to debutant – are set to tee off at the British Open.

    • Richard Allen
    Protesters clash with riot police during May Day demonstrations in Paris, France.

    Australia’s great threat is a clash of civilisations

    Seismic undercurrents of discontent are surfacing in society as religious beliefs collide and a generation is locked out of the housing market.

    • John Carroll
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    This letter advising a Sydney woman of her brother’s death on the battlefields of World War I is in a bundle of correspondence and ephemera in Davidson Auctions’ Arts, War and Social History VI auction on July 22, 2024.

    The horror of war in a century-old letter

    A letter from the WWI front line and a book of poetry by a famous Sydney eccentric will be auctioned in a sale of arts, war and social history.

    • Elizabeth Fortescue

    This biker-gang film centres on an unusual ménage à trois

    The Bikeriders is based on Danny Lyon’s book of the same name, originally published in 1968.

    • John McDonald
    The Rubik's Cube has remained one of the best-selling toys of all time since its launch in 1974.

    Why people are still solving Rubik’s Cube, 50 years on

    On the 50th anniversary of the bestselling toy’s invention, there is still a passionate fan base for Erno Rubik’s magical and mathematical cube.

    • Siobhan Roberts
    Fire Gardens at Adelaide Botanic Garden is part of the city’s Illuminate festival.

    ‘Like Vivid without the crowds’: seeing Adelaide’s Illuminate Festival

    Adelaide’s compact nature makes visiting its annual winter festival of light, technology and art a pleasurable experience.

    • Michael Bailey

    Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

    Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

    • Daniel Arbon