Hooray! It’s the new annual season of giving, a mid-winter, end of financial year festival of generosity in which the public, awash with choice, donates to arts companies and organisations desperate to boost sorely limited funds. It’s no different for RealTime. Arts journalism, whether in print or online, is suffering: jobs are disappearing, the number of outlets diminishing, long-form reviewing less and less sought and arts advertising declining as social media shorthand becomes the currency of critical evaluation. Can the arts be seriously sustainable without informed, considered criticism? If you think not, then bring us cheer with an all too welcome donation. In this edition of RealTime, like no other Australian arts magazine, we range from Perth to Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, traversing forms, media, a desert and a suburban creek bed, and in the company of two remarkable bears [image above]. For artists, for you. Keith & Virginia
HER SOUL IS HER OWN "While Dickinson’s life appears on the surface to be a quiet one, Terence Davies interprets it as emotionally brutal," writes Joanna di Mattia of A Quiet Passion, showing in cinemas now.
CRITICAL VIDEO: JAMES NGUYEN Poet Emily Stewart is engaged by the subtle mood shifts and rhythms of a performance captured in single-take video in a suburban underpass. Watch it now.
BEAR LIVES THAT MATTER
In a "fairytale for the hip hop generation," writes Teik-Kim Pok, Candy Bowers and Nancy Denis of the Black Honey Company play threatened bears in a wickedly funny tale of cultural appropriation.
ACTION HERO: ON A MISSION John Bailey sees British performance group Action Hero at Arts House fall prey to the delights of the American high school sports movie in Hoke's Bluff and grippingly transcend the clichés of the celebrity photoshoot in Wrecking Ball.
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