IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Katheleen Edwards
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MARIA DUARTE recommends an homage to the iconic showgirl that understands them as working-class women
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RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
The Last Showgirl (15)
Directed by Gia Coppola
A FADING Las Vegas showgirl has to face the reality that her decades-long dream job is over when her show abruptly closes after its 30-year run in this poignant and raw study of life on the Strip.
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