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24th April 2014 – With just over a month to go until gravity-defying racing comes to Wii U in the shape of Mario Kart 8, Nintendo has today announced that a Mario Kart 8 Premium Pack Wii U hardware bundle will accompany the launch of the game on 31st May.
The release of the Mario Kart 8 Premium Pack (SRP AU$429.95) represents an ideal offering for first-time Wii U owners, with a black Wii U Premium console with 32GB* of storage packaged alongside a black Wii U GamePad controller, Sensor Bar, and the all-important Mario Kart 8 game disc. With Mario Kart 8 set to feature 16 remixed classic courses, as well as 16 courses that are brand new to the series, both newcomers and veteran drivers alike will face fresh karting challenges with the added twist of a new antigravity feature allowing Mario and company to race upside down or up vertical surfaces.
While the likes of Bowser's minions – all seven of the pesky bunch – will be playable for the first time in Mario Kart history from 31st May, experienced drivers such as Princess Peach and Yoshi have featured in all games in the series to date. Fans wishing to pay tribute to these two legendary racers can get their hands on new Wii Remote Plus Peach and Wii Remote Plus Yoshi controllers at SRP AU$69.95 each, both of which will release on 31st May, the same day as Mario Kart 8 launches in stores and on Nintendo eShop. Decked out in all pink with signature flashes of blue and yellow, the Wii Remote Plus Peach features a regal touch on the front of the controller in the form of a white crown. Meanwhile, the Wii Remote Plus Yoshi controller comes complete in a green and white shell, with an iconic Yoshi egg adorning its front.
Just over one month remains until Mario and other legendary racers from the Mushroom Kingdom line up at the starting grid in Mario Kart 8, complete with 32 new and remixed classic courses influenced by antigravity, new items to unleash during the heat of a race, and a host of ways to enjoy the action including 12-player online competitive play**, and four-player local multiplayer.
* 32 GB total system storage, part of which is reserved for system data
** Wireless broadband Internet access required for online play
Nintendo is offering players the opportunity to nearly double the amount of content they can play in Mario Golf: World Tour, which launches on 3rd May for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
With 10 courses and 126 holes, an amount equivalent to previous titles in the franchise, extensive multiplayer modes as well as regional and worldwide tournaments, the main game offers plenty of content for golf fans already. But players who can't get enough golf and want to expand their experience can purchase up to a total of 108 new downloadable holes and additional Mushroom Kingdom golfers to open up further challenging courses for players to test their skills and enjoy*.
The downloadable content for the game will be released in three separate packs: the Mushroom Pack launching on 3rd May, the Flower Pack launching later in May and the Star Pack launching in June. Each pack includes two new 18-hole courses and a new playable character. Players will receive Toadette with the Mushroom Pack, Nabbit with the Flower Pack and Rosalina with the Star Pack.
Each pack will be available for AU$7.80 (NZ$10.20) from Toad's Booth, which can be found in the main menu of the game. Mario Golf: World Tour owners who know they want to buy all three add-on packs can buy a Three-Pack Set at a discounted rate of AU$15.60 (NZ$20.40) starting 3rd May**. Three-Pack Set holders will get access to each new pack as it becomes available, and will receive a special bonus of Gold Mario as a playable character at the time of purchase. Gold Mario has a special Golden Flower shot that gains coins for every yard it travels. For those who purchase the packs individually, Gold Mario will also be available once all packs have been released.
Nintendo will also offer Trial Tournaments for consumers interested in trying out a sample of the downloadable courses before deciding to purchase. Players who own the game and download the Trial Pack will be able to participate in these online tournaments.
* Wireless broadband Internet access required.
** Three-Pack Set launch offer ends 31st May. After this time, the Three-Pack Set will be priced at AU$19.50 (NZ$25.50).
-Depending on the Nintendo 3DS model you own and the use of it, an additional storage device may be required to download software from Nintendo eShop.
Pokémon fans from around Australia and New Zealand will once again have the chance to compete in the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships in 2014.
In the lead up to the National Championships, fans will have the chance to learn from and test their skills against some of the best players in their city at Regional Championships to be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland (NZ), with travel awards up for grabs to the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships.
2014 Pokémon Video Game Regional Championships:
Perth - Saturday 10th May
Adelaide - Sunday 11th May
Sydney - Saturday 17th May
Brisbane - Sunday 18th May
Melbourne - Saturday 24th May
Auckland - Saturday 31st May
At the National Championships, players will battle it out on the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games for Nintendo 3DS, where top finishers can win a trip to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships, to be held 16th -17th August, 2014.
The following age divisions will apply:
Junior Division: Born in 2003 or later
Senior Division: Born in 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002
Masters Division: Born in 1998 or earlier
Players can begin to familiarise themselves with the official rules for the upcoming events at pokemon.com/play
Further information regarding the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships and Regional Championships will be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to the recently launched Facebook and Twitter pages for upcoming announcements!
A new 'Championship Mode' inspired by the iconic Nintendo World Championship event - which took place in the US in 1990 - is making its way into the upcoming NES Remix 2, launching exclusively on Nintendo eShop for Wii U on 25th April. Championship Mode challenges players to achieve the highest cumulative score in three specific games using a multiplier-based scoring system, with players required to have save data from the first NES Remix in order to enjoy this competitive new feature.
With the Championship Mode line-up comprising of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3 and Dr. Mario, players will take on a series of three successive score-based challenges in these games to achieve a cumulative total score. In addition, your score can also be posted to Miiverse, so you can compete with friends and other players.
NES Remix 2 is a mashup of classic Nintendo games that features challenges from many different NES games like Kid Icarus, Kirby's Adventure and Metroid. Just like NES Remix, this sequel includes stages from NES games with added challenges, as well as modified stages that introduce new elements.
More information on NES Remix 2, releasing on 25th April on Nintendo eShop for Wii U, can be found by visiting the game's new website.
New Tomodachi Life Direct broadcast lifts the lid on uniquely quirky game coming to Nintendo 3DS on 7th June
Take all your preconceived notions about life's possibilities, crumple them into a ball and toss them out the window. It's time to enjoy a whole new life. On 7th June, visit the outrageously bizarre island world of Tomodachi Life for the Nintendo 3DS family of consoles.
Build a bustling fantasy population of friends, family and your favourite personalities from TV, movies and sports, as Mii characters come to life with their own voice and personality, all on one wild and hilarious island where there is something new to discover every time you check in. The real emotional connection you already share with your characters will keep you glued to the drama, intrigue and hilarity that ensues as everyone goes about their extraordinary daily lives, evolving and interacting in unpredictable and often uproarious ways.
The Tomodachi franchise has already taken Japan by storm, selling more than 5.5 million games*. Its first local release, Tomodachi Life, is poised to stake out unprecedented videogame territory when it launches 7th June. Nintendo announced more details today in a special Tomodachi Life-themed Nintendo Direct. To view the Nintendo Direct in its entirety, visit: http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendodirect.
"Tomodachi" is the Japanese word for "friend." After completely customising all your Mii characters (or simply scanning them into the game via QR Code), you'll recognise them instantly – from their unique vocal traits and appearances right down to their personality quirks. But you can't possibly predict what they'll do next. For the first time ever, Mii characters behave based on the personality traits you select, playing out the drama you set in motion. A pop star might fall in love with your lookalike. Your mum might jump on stage to belt out heavy metal songs. Or you could become famous striking poses down the runway of a fashion show wearing cute and silly outfits. Best of all, you can document these unbelievable moments for posterity and share them all with your friends via the Nintendo 3DS Image Share service.
The plot of Tomodachi Life thickens with the addition of each character. As they deliver one gripping twist and turn after another, you can reward them with gifts and clothes, their favourite foods or special flourishes for their apartments. Together you can further broaden your Tomodachi Life horizons by expanding a wide variety of facilities on the island, solving characters' problems and helping them with their needs.
Additional information about Tomodachi Life will be revealed in the future. For the latest updates, visit http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/tomodachi-life/. The game will play on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS systems, and will be available in stores and on Nintendo eShop.
*Combined sales of Nintendo DS version (3.76m) and Nintendo 3DS version (1.82m) by end of 2013 in Japan.
Nintendo announces new characters, launch windows, online functionality and new "Smash Run" mode
A new Nintendo Direct video revealed numerous details about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. games for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systems. At the start of the video, series creator Masahiro Sakurai announced that the Nintendo 3DS version of the game will launch this winter, with the Wii U version launching in summer 2014. Both games will be available in stores and on Nintendo eShop for their respective platform. Sakurai also detailed many of the stages and items in both versions, described the games' online functionality, revealed a new mode exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS version and announced fan-favourite Greninja, a Pokémon from the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games, as a new playable character.
Today's announcements included:
For even more new information about Super Smash Bros., visit http://www.smashbros.com/en-au/ and the brand new https://www.facebook.com/smashbros.
Piranha Plant and Boomerang Flower items join the fray across original and reimagined courses
Nintendo today revealed new information on Mario Kart 8, the latest instalment in the fan-favourite racing series launching exclusively for Wii U on 31st May - in stores and on Nintendo eShop. For the first time in HD, Mario Kart 8 introduces original course designs that highlight the game's new antigravity feature, which allows players to race upside down or up vertical surfaces. Racers will also enjoy a variety of series-favourite features including the return of 12-player online competitive play*, four player local multiplayer, hang-gliders, underwater racing and motorbikes.
New features include:
When Mario Kart 8 launches on 31st May, fans can also get their hands on the Mario Kart 8 Limited Edition software bundle, which comes complete with a Spiny Shell Collector's Item alongside a physical copy of the game. The Mario Kart 8 Limited Edition software bundle is available exclusive to EB Games while stocks last.
To check out a selection of the new (and reimagined) features coming to Mario Kart 8, a special new trailer can be viewed here.
Join Kirby on a new adventure for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems - complete with colourful worlds and hidden collectibles galore!
A magical tale of a giant Dreamstalk and the kidnapping of a king awaits on 17th May when Kirby: Triple Deluxe releases for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. In order to mark the imminent return to action for this famous pink hero, Nintendo has today revealed a new colourway to its Nintendo 2DS staple in the form of Nintendo 2DS Pink + White*, giving fans the choice to represent the Kirby colours when gaming on the go.
Nintendo 2DS Pink + White will launch on the same day as Kirby: Triple Deluxe, 17th May, and in true Kirby style, presents itself in an eye-catching pink design, complete with a white stripe across the side and back of the system. Also accompanying the release of Nintendo 2DS Pink + White will be a new silver Nintendo 2DS Carrying Case, available for purchase separately from 17th May.
Nintendo 2DS first launched in October 2013, retaining many of the hardware features of Nintendo 3DS including the same intuitive gameplay controls and wireless connectivity features for access to local and online multiplayer gameplay, Nintendo eShop and more. Bringing family-friendly value and a huge software catalogue to boot, Nintendo 2DS is an entry point into or a new way to enjoy the Nintendo handheld experience, and allows fans to play all Nintendo 3DS games in 2D.
Similarly ideal for both novice and experienced gamers alike, Kirby: Triple Deluxe provides a platforming experience full of colourful landscapes and enemies big and small for Kirby to inhale, including certain foes which he can suck up and then copy their unique abilities! Whether adopting an ability such as the Circus or the Bell, 25 different Copy Abilities found in the game allow players to dress up Kirby in all manner of different looks, with each ability possessing its own special powers and unusual combination moves. One particularly magical new ability of Kirby's is the Hypernova, acquired after finding and gobbling up a Miracle Fruit within a level. A temporarily powered-up version of his usual inhale ability, the Hypernova allows Kirby to suck up huge obstacles and even entire sections of a level that lie in his way.
Aside from playing as Kirby and unravelling the mystery of the Dreamstalk and the kidnapping of King Dedede by a shadowy being, players can discover more than 250 Key Chains in-game, many of which pay homage to the Kirby series, and which can be exchanged with friends via StreetPass encounters. In addition, game modes in Kirby: Triple Deluxe such as Dedede's Drum Dash add an extra dimension to the Kirby-themed action. As King Dedede, players are tasked with taking on rhythm-based time trials set against the tune of iconic music from the Kirby franchise. Meanwhile for fans of fun multiplayer action, Kirby Fighters is a competitive battle mode that can be enjoyed as a single-player experience or via the Nintendo 3DS family of systems' Download Play feature**, enabling up to four friends to play together, and requiring only one player to own a copy of the game to make it happen!
Nintendo 2DS goes pink on 17th May when Nintendo 2DS Pink + White releases on the same day as Kirby's new adventure in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
* Nintendo 2DS Pink + White is the third colour combination for the system, joining the Black + Blue and White + Red colourways already available to fans.
** Each player requires a Nintendo 3DS family system.
Compete to Win a Trip to take on the World's Best at the 2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships in Washington, D.C.!
Pokémon fans from around Australia and New Zealand will once again have the chance to compete in the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships in 2014.
In the lead up to the National Championships, fans will have the chance to learn from and test their skills against some of the best players in their city at Regional Championships to be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland (NZ), with travel awards up for grabs to the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships.
At the National Championships, players will battle it out on the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games for Nintendo 3DS, where top finishers can win a trip to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships, to be held 16th -17th August, 2014.
Players can begin to familiarise themselves with the official rules for the upcoming events at pokemon.com/play
Further information regarding the Pokémon Video Game Australian National Championships and Regional Championships will be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to the recently launched Facebook and Twitter pages for upcoming announcements!
Classics from the Mario & Luigi, Metroid, Kirby and Yoshi's Island series kick off the Game Boy Advance offerings coming to Nintendo eShop for Wii U
Back in 2001, Nintendo delivered the next generation of portable entertainment in the shape of Game Boy Advance, a 32-bit handheld console with an intuitive design and a host of memorable titles. To celebrate some of the classic gaming moments delivered by this handheld gem, Nintendo will begin releasing Game Boy Advance titles on Nintendo eShop for Wii U Virtual Console starting next week, allowing fans and newcomers alike to enjoy some of gaming's greatest highlights on the living room TV or on their Wii U GamePad. In addition, Restore Points that save progress during gameplay and Miiverse connectivity both offer new features when enjoying these classic games.
A selection of GBA titles will be coming to Wii U from 4th April, with a few of gaming's most renowned characters kicking off the roster.
On 4th April, three very different titles comprise the initial launch line-up:
Two more great titles follow on 11th April:
On 18th April blast to unthinkable speeds and try your hand at mystical role-play:
And on 25th April an epic 'egg-stravaganza' awaits:
Relive some of your old Game Boy Advance favourites this April on Wii U, and keep an eye out for further releases in future months. To catch a reminder of what lies in store with the above titles for April, a new Wii U Virtual Console trailer can be viewed here.
Depending on the Wii U hardware pack you own and your use of it, an additional storage device may be required to download software from Nintendo eShop.
Wii Sports Club is a new way of experiencing all your favourite Wii Sports events, enhanced with new modes and features only available on Wii U. Enjoy deeper gameplay, online multiplayer and the chance to join clubs, all while getting active with your favourite sports!
Now there's another great opportunity to try Wii Sports Club, as you can play all the available sports – that's Tennis, Bowling and Golf – for free between 10pm AEDT on Friday March 21st and 10:59am AEDT on Monday March 24th*! Invite your friends and family to challenge them to a match locally, or pair up with a doubles partner in Tennis to compete online against other players in Europe and Australia and New Zealand.
This weekend is also the perfect opportunity to check out the new Resort golf course, added on March 14th. To get access to these nine extra holes, which first challenged players in Wii Sports Resort, simply start Wii Sports Club while connected to the internet to download the free software update.
Wii Sports Club is available as a free download from Nintendo eShop now. You can also receive it automatically in your HOME Menu if you have chosen to receive automatic software downloads, and if you have sufficient available storage space**. Wii Sports Club comes together with a Day Pass that allows you to play for free for 24 hours when the game is started for the first time. If you start the game for the first time during the promotion period, which runs from 10pm AEDT on Friday March 21st until 10:59am AEDT on Monday March 24th 2014, you can enjoy the promotion and you'll still be able to use your free 24-hour Day Pass when you start the software again at a later date after the promotion ends.
To keep playing after the promotion ends, you need to purchase a Day Pass, which lets you play all the currently available sports for 24 hours starting from the time of purchase. Or, to enjoy your favourite sport with no time restrictions, you can purchase a Single-Sport Pass for unlimited access to the sport of your choice. It's up to you!
Wii Sports Club is available to download now from Nintendo eShop, only on Wii U. Tennis, Bowling and Golf are available now, while Baseball and Boxing will be released in the future.
*The promotion period starts at 10pm AEDT on March 21st 2014 and ends at 10:59am AEDT on Monday March 24th 2014. SpotPass content must be enabled for Wii Sports Club in order to take part in the promotion. Internet connection required during play. Registration of a Nintendo Network ID and acceptance of the Nintendo Network Agreement and Privacy Policy are required.
**Depending on the Wii U hardware pack you own and your use of it, an additional storage device may be required to download software from Nintendo eShop. Click here for more details...
Play some of the biggest up and coming titles for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U at the upcoming Perth and Adelaide events such as Mario Kart 8 for Wii U
Nintendo Australia announces that it will be attending Oz Comic-Con at all 5 events around Australia in 2014, with the upcoming shows in both Perth on 29th and 30th March, and Adelaide on 5th and 6th April offering attendees the opportunity to play some of the most anticipated titles for both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U right throughout the weekend.
On Wii U, fans will be able to enjoy a range of games including Mario Kart 8, releasing 31st May in Australia and New Zealand. For Nintendo 3DS, among others you'll be able to tee off in Mario Golf: World Tour or test out Kirby's new Hypernova ability in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
In addition to these upcoming titles, Nintendo booth will be brimming with multiplayer and StreetPass fun, so bring along your Nintendo 3DS and enjoy all your favourite titles like Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, Mario Party: Island Tour, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Luigi's Mansion 2 and Mario Kart 7 with other Nintendo fans.
Nintendo Australia also recently launched both a Facebook Page and Twitter Account where fans can be kept up to date with all the latest in the world of Nintendo in Australia and New Zealand.
Keep up to date with all the latest in the world of Nintendo through the newly launched local pages on popular social media platforms
Nintendo Australia announces the launch of both a Facebook Page and Twitter Account where you can be kept up to date with all the latest in the world of Nintendo in Australia and New Zealand.
With a mix of local information and global announcements, the newly launched social media pages will keep you posted on all the latest events and newly announced game information for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
We're looking forward to reading your comments and we hope you're looking forward to keeping in touch with Nintendo's latest news, games, events - and local fans!
With engines revving and gravity-defying courses awaiting, the Mushroom Kingdom's finest racers are set to line up at the starting grid on 31st May when Mario Kart 8 launches on Wii U.
For fans wishing to keep their kart tyres warm and reactions sharp before launch, the Super Nintendo classic Super Mario Kart* will release on Nintendo eShop** as a Wii U Virtual Console title on 28th March. As part of a promotion to celebrate both this legendary title and Mario Kart 8, fans who purchase Super Mario Kart on Nintendo eShop from its release until 30th June 2013 can get a discount of AU$10.40 (NZD$13.60) on Mario Kart 8 if they choose to purchase Mario Kart 8 on Nintendo eShop from the release of the game until 30th June 2014, providing the purchase takes place on the same Wii U console.
* This is the US version of the game running at 60hz, and will be priced at AU$10.40 (NZD$13.60)
**Depending on the Wii U hardware pack you own and your use of it, an additional storage device may be required to download software from Nintendo eShop.
Important information for Wii and Nintendo DS family system owners
As of May 20th, 2014, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service will be discontinued and it will no longer be possible to use online features of Nintendo DS/DSi and Wii software such as online play, matchmaking and leaderboards.
For a full list of which Nintendo-published games are affected, please visit our Support section.
The Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop will not be affected however, and will continue to be accessible after May 20th.
For more information, visit our Support section.
The Nintendo Video service for Nintendo 3DS, which has been offering free 3D videos since July 2011 will be discontinued in Australia and New Zealand on Monday March 31st 2014.
Thank you for your patronage of this service.
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The Peacemakers of Palestine and Israel
Most media reports coming from Israel and Palestine focus on the conflict there. The impression you get is that Jews and Palestinians are interested only in making each other suffer. As a Quaker who tries to follow Christ's call to be a peacemaker, I wanted to see for myself what was happening there in terms of peace-making efforts by ordinary people that often go unnoticed and unreported.
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This year's Whitney Biennial, the most poetic I can remember, feels mildly unhappy and restlessly alert. If it were a sound, it would be the muttering of a cast awaiting the inexplicably delayed rise of a curtain. The show confirms impressions of a new, gray mood among younger artists, one at odds with the recent prevalence in international art of both commercial glitz and festivalist brass. Call it a decline in producer confidence. Who is making art? For whom? Why? As usual at the Biennial, few good answers are in evidence. But, for once, bad answers prove almost as elusive. The show is conventionally anti-conventional, like most of the world's biennials, in its emphasis on installations and videos and its paucity of painting in particular and of traditional mediums in general. Its strongest suit is certain types of sculpture that have flourished lately—the same assembled, shaggy varieties that dominate "Unmonumental," the inaugural, solid show of the New Museum, downtown. Yet this Biennial is remarkably free of forced ideas, despite an occasional appeal to ecological virtue. It is full of busy ingenuities that smack of art school—but of art-school studios, not seminars. Two decades of academic postmodernizing have trailed off into embarrassed silence. One of the show's curators, Henriette Huldisch, writing in the catalogue, borrows a title of Samuel Beckett's to characterize the Zeitgeist: "Lessness." Not less is more. Less is all—get with it. (Good old Beckett, the never-fail appliance for glamorizing malaise.) I favor being encouraged. There isn't a lot in the show to like very much, but the over-all tenor puts me in mind of the "aridity" that, according to another exigent author, John of the Cross, is a key stage in the "dark night of the soul," preceding redemption. Even if little comes of it, the drama of this state—a sort of exasperated modesty—will etch the 2008 Biennial in memory.
"An Ideal Disjuncture," a big sculpture by the Los Angeles artist Ruben Ochoa, is a case in point. It is made of unprepossessing stuff: jumbled slabs of cement on wooden pallets; an off-kilter cement shape, like a blasted tree trunk, sprouting naked rebar; a swooping expanse of chain-link fence. It evokes a municipal construction site subjected to an earthquake. Ochoa, born in 1974, is an artist with a socially critical bent, whose past works have included shows that travelled in his family's tortilla delivery van and murals of absent natural landscapes on freeway containing walls. But a formal impulse overqualifies "Disjuncture" for discursive purposes. A sheer and ungainly fact in the room with you, the work transposes features of banal reality—chiefly the look and feel of concrete, the ur-material of Los Angeles—into qualities to savor. Whatever it started out to mean has been waylaid by fascination. The effect is a stuttering, halfway transcendence. Imagine a stranger who has forgotten his name and importunes you, on the off chance that you know it. It is an awkward moment, but he is a pleasant stranger. Works by Charles Long are similarly befuddling: vaguely Giacometti-esque, vaguely figurative skinny sculpture in papier-mâché, plaster, and assorted debris on steel armatures, their forms derived from found patterns of bird droppings. Bizarre in the mind while lovely in the eye, they make for another odd halt, marked by mutual, cordial incomprehension. Then there's Rachel Harrison, the leading light of new sculpture, with objects and collages that combine trashy bric-a-brac, vulgar images, and slathered paint with an uncanny confidence, as if she knew precisely what she means—and you would, too, if you were just the littlest bit smarter than you are.
The few painters in the show are well chosen and register keenly. The veteran abstractionist Mary Heilmann is famous for what may at first look to be fast, brushy messes but which hang together with the mysterious cogency of free jazz. Three new pictures that are challengingly woozy, even for her, broadcast a smiling sympathy with the show's bravely irresolute youngsters. Karen Kilimnik, with a typical installation of girlishly romantic canvases on themes of bygone European aristocracy, in a room with a pretty chandelier, offers similar reassurance, to the effect that confused feelings are a problem only if you insist on making them one. Sharply surprising is the inclusion of taciturn paintings of benumbingly ordinary suburban streets by the finest of the first-generation photo-realists, Robert Bechtle, whose style has hardly varied in more than forty years. But take their philosophical measure: a stony refusal to believe that we ever know what we see, put to a test of things—dull houses, parked cars—that seem too obvious to merit even passing attention. Like a struck tuning fork, Bechtle's skepticism finds harmonic vibrations in works by young artists of otherwise unrelated sorts. I detect something like it in Lisa Sigal's constructions of raw and painted wallboard and plaster, doors, and lighted enclosures, with irregular panels of Daniel Buren-like painted stripes. Sigal is one of several Biennial artists working with architectural elements on an architectural scale, in quizzical and anxious ways—as if asking, What is this place? Sigal has installed small, dilapidated scraps of stripe painting in the museum's stairwell, where they suggest unbidden thoughts of a worried mind.
So many melancholy characters roam the screens of the show's video projections that you're apt to contract the existential blues, too. In "Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out," by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, a woman in a plastic Valkyrie helmet, carrying a hunk of foam-rubber cheese and dabbing at an unexplained nosebleed, chatters compulsively while conducting the camera operator on a desultory tour of nocturnal, woebegone Los Angeles places. It's funny and alarming. Omer Fast's "The Casting" is a four-channel virtuoso exercise, in interview and live-action formats, based on an American soldier's anguished memories of dating a mad, self-mutilating woman in Germany and, worse, accidentally shooting a civilian in Iraq. The hero of Olaf Breuning's "Home 2"—which might better be titled "Global Jackass"—is a manic tourist who, upriver in Papua New Guinea, blathers about his fun encounters with native populations worldwide. We see him prevailing on polite pedestrians in Japan to pose for the camera in garish bunny masks. You want to slap him. "T.S.O.Y.W."—an abbreviation for "The Sorrows of Young Werther," Goethe's novel of tormented youth—by Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler, could stand as this Biennial's signature piece. In images shown on two screens, a lone motorcyclist interminably prowls the Southwest, stopping at odd roadside sites (a "Cowboy Church," which is closed) and at famous earthworks, including Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty." (An incidental beauty of the work is that it was shot in 16-mm. film, with sensuous under- and overexposures that lend a nostalgic air of modern antiquity.) Gradually, the biker comes to seem a contemporary everysoul, atingle with life that may or may not prove to have been worth living.


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Le Profil à la corde: étude pour 'Les Constructeurs' [Man in Profile with Rope: Study for 'The Constructors'] 1950 or 1951
The appearance of the man in this drawing marks him definitively as a manual worker, shown wearing a cloth cap and grasping a rope with large, strong hands. The drawing is simplified, as the subject is not depicted as an individual, but represented as a 'worker' type. Although this drawing is described as a study for the painting 'Les Constructeurs', it was in fact made after the painting was completed. It is one of several such drawings which focus on aspects of the full and finished painting, of which the Gallery owns a painted study. This work is certainly more of a highly-finished drawing than a sketch, with shading carefully cross-hatched within the strong black outline of the figure.


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SHANABANNED! Sabres' Kaleta gets five games for hit on Richards
By Allan Muir
It's clear that Brendan Shanahan hit Patrick Kaleta a lot harder than the Buffalo winger hit Brad Richards.
So why does the five-game suspension that Shanahan imposed on Monday afternoon feel like a slap on the wrist?
Not that anyone should be surprised by this verdict, especially in the wake of last week's soft touch fine handed down to Dallas' Jamie Benn. Shanny telegraphed this decision when he offered Kaleta a phone hearing, a format that ensured the sentence couldn't be more than five games. That's a significant number because a provision in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement allows a player to appeal any suspension above that level to an independent arbitrator.
And yet all the elements in play with this situation cried out for that line to be crossed. Seeing this result, instead of eight or 10 games, it's fair to wonder if Shanahan was trying to avoid turning this incident into the test case. Was he worried that Richards' return to the game and the absence of a serious injury would undermine his ruling in the eyes of the arbiter and, by extension, call his other rulings into question? Sure feels that way, doesn't it?
What Shanahan should have considered was the one overriding element of this incident: Kaleta is a repeat offender who has twice been suspended previously. He's the definition of a reckless player, epitomizing a dangerous style that everyone says they want out of the game. Here's a chance to make a statement and Shanny offers up a harshly worded "tsk-tsk."
Look at the play (VIDEO). There's nothing bang-bang about it, no way Kaleta could claim that he was simply following through on a hit and things went bad at the last instant. Kaleta had no chance to make a play on Richards or the puck, so he pushed him face-first into the boards.
Shanahan recognized that much, noting that "Kaleta was in full control of this play and had ample opportunity to make a better decision."
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In the final installment of The Road to Chicago, Billy Ray Cyrus makes his grand Broadway debut as Chicago's newest Billy Flynn! Watch him go big (not down in flames!) and take on "the funnest thing" he's ever done!
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Past and present stars of the Broadway hit Wicked came together on October 30 to celebrate the Oz-themed musical's 10th birthday. Catch up with your favorite big-belting witches in this fun video feature!October 31, 2013
"Rock of Ages" stars Adam Dannheiser and Mitchell Jarvis sing "Can't Fight This Feeling"January 21, 2010
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Angel of music Sarah Brightman talks about her new album, space travel plans and embracing her role in the making of legendary Broadway record-breaker The Phantom of the Opera.April 19, 2013
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Capt. Anne M. Montgomery, a native of North Dakota, is seen in an undated photo provided Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 by the U.S. Army. Montgomery is one of four Army aviators killed Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 when two helicopters crashed during training at a Washington state base. Joint Base Lewis-McChord released the names of those killed Wednesday, as investigators look into the cause of the collision. They are Capt. Anne M. Montgomery,; Chief Warrant Officer Frank A. Buoniconti, a native of Colorado; Chief Warrant Officer Joseph S. Satterfield, a native of Alaska; and Chief Warrant Officer Lucas Daniel Sigfrid, a native of Alabama. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)
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Had a space with limited room for our guests to sit and take-off or put-on their shoes near our entry. This was the perfect size without taking up a lot of room. It went together VERY easy. The quality seems to be quite good. Really liked the half-moon configuration. It's different than most conventional ottomans you see. Like it very much!
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Buyer beware that stated measurements are not accurate. Bench is shorter that the stated height. Item arrived with multiple "chips" off two of the three legs [which are not made of wood-made of some composite material]. Item was returned for another bench seen on OS.
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A cracking good adventure tale, full of winking outlaws and relentless villains. In 1915, an aging bank robber is trying to right his past by making amends to the woman he left behind forty years earlier, and a struggling novelist joins him in his quest.
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Set in the West in 1915 and involving a journey, Enger takes a writer with writer's block, Monte Becket, and Glendon Hale, a man with a sketchy past on a journey to find the love of Glendon's life, a woman known as Blue. It reads like a potboiler in a way, but is so full of characters you'll love getting to know and lots of writerly references that will make any fan of fiction smile. If you've cowboys or cowgirls in your past, you'll love this tale. If you think taking a trip may help you find yourself, you may be right. I just felt disconcerted that the book's title didn't relate to a principal character.
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Has only one published work; trying to get his old job at the post office back; becomes friends with Glendon; abandons his family to go west with Glendon.
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Tight labour laws and excessive government regulation have stifled productivity in this country. But the massive growth of the financial sector is likely a factor too.
Underpinned by valuable implicit guarantees that give banks artificially cheap access to loans, banks' size rose to unprecedented heights, drenching the economy with loans in the process. The total value of loans in Australia, about $2.1 trillion, as a fraction of national income has risen from around 80 per cent fifteen years ago to above 140 per cent today.
Government subsidies helped too. The Productivity Commission shows the finance sector receives more federal government budgetary aid than the car industry: $615 million last year.
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International bureaucrats are finally starting to concede this might not be a good thing.
The chief economist of the world's pre-eminent banking body, the Bank for International Settlements, recently examined 50 advanced and developing countries, including Australia, over 30 years to 2009, and concluded that credit growth reduced income growth per worker when it passed about 100 per cent of national income - far below the level it has exceeded in Australia.
The BIS economist found also that banks had become a black hole for national productivity, sucking in the most educated and talented employees, which in turn stifled innovation in other parts of the economy, especially high-end manufacturing.
International Monetary Fund research, which reached similar conclusions, pointed out: "Almost all of the countries which have been most affected by the [global financial crisis]—Iceland, the US, Ireland, the UK, Spain and Portugal—in 2006 had credit thresholds above 110 per cent."
Large financial sectors make economies more vulnerable to devastating financial crises and direct swathes of the labour force into jobs in which the social benefits are questionable.
For instance, only about 10 per cent of the global value of derivative contracts (more than $650 trillion in December) are with non-financial firms. Much of the rest is speculation among financial firms. One of the most popular derivatives among banks is the 'credit default swap' whereby banks can 'insure' themselves against the bankruptcy of other banks, companies and governments to which they have no exposure at all.
This is akin to you buying fire insurance for someone else's house burning down, which you cannot do for good reason.
Where once bright graduates might have been drawn to science or engineering - even journalism! - for many years now too many of them have wanted to work for banks.
The explosion of loans in Australia has also corrupted the country's understanding of what drives prosperity. Adam Smith said the cheapness of necessities measured a nation's wealth. Yet today we hanker for accommodation, the second most important necessity of life, to be ever more expensive. Rising house prices impoverish renters yet leave homeowners essentially no richer than before, assuming they want to live somewhere.
The need to borrow ever larger sums for what houses, which are in effect consumption goods like bread and milk, soaks up a big chunk of available loans which would otherwise have gone to businesses to invest. A little more than 10 years ago the value of loans to businesses in Australia exceeded the value of loans to homeowner-occupiers and investors. Now business loans are close to half the value of housing loans.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, economists debated which economic activities generated real wealth: agriculture, commerce or services. That debate ended in the 20th century with the triumph of the 'national accounts' and the mindless obsession with GDP that accompanied it. GDP assumes all incomes and expenditures are of equal value when they are clearly not.
In the wake of the LIBOR scandal in London we are hearing yet more calls for regulation of finance, yet the world simply needs less finance. Barclays Bank and possibly other giant banks had for years been quietly rigging the interest rate that underpins a big slice of global financial contracts.
Some good will come of the scandal if it bolsters doubt about the value of a bloated financial sector. Before Australian policy makers aim to grow Australia's financial sector beyond its already massive scale, they should look closely at what that's done to Britain, its industrial base and cohesion of British society.
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J.t says:
Good article.
As a libertarian and someone who thinks Austrian economics has the right ideas, I can honestly say the only way to bring down fractional reserve banking is to end the over night loans proccess through the RBA. Yes I'm talking about ending central banking. While this won't stop fractional reserve banking, it might stop the ease at which credit is pushed around the country and world. We should also address the concept of a limited liability company.
Something that always struck me as wierd was that risk, in actuarial terms, is always increased when there is all upside and no downside risk. Big banks have all upside, yet its managers and, directors and shareholders share no bankruptcy risk.
Brokerages used to all be small partnerships. Stock pickers who shared in any gains or losses from their businesses. These days the modern LTD is all upside and no much downside for investors and directors.
Those inside banks might be much less willing to take risks or use leverage if their personal fortunes are on the line.
not sure if more regulation is what is needed. Just an Austrian shift away from cheap credit and towards more liability.
AdamC says:
This article is about a problem that is resolving itself. The size of the finance sector globally has peaked and it is in retreat. Meanwhile, the years of easy, property market-driven expansion for the Aussie commercial banks is over. This article would have been really prescient if it were written in 2007. It is a bad history lesson today.
We need a finance sector to do some really important things. These are:
1) funding business investment and asset purchases;
2) providing a means for savers to make financial investments; and
3) managing financial risks.
Where a finance system has expanded to do things other than these three core functions, then it may be time for governments to consider policy responses to address any policy imbalances that are causing excessive 'finacialisation' of the economy. However, trying to judge (how?) which types of economic activity are beneficial is just dumb.
Full disclosure, I am sort of tangentially involved in the financial services sector in my work, though I am not employed by a financial institution. I also have a mortgage and a credit card, both of which are products made possible by financial intermediation.
TimR says:
Spot on. When the best and brightest minds are going into finance instead of science, you know the world has peaked.
ProfoundBS says:
We need capitalists/conservatives/free marketeers/right-wingers running the markets, while communists should be controlling the banks. I repeat: Keep the former group AWAY from the banks. Their self-interest factor is largely what has caused the whole catastrophe - their regime of "prvatise the profits, socialise the risk"...
Tubesteak says:
Lot of unsubstantiated claims here and your analogy of credit defaults swaps proves you don't know what you're talking about.
The countries with 110% finance doesn't even seem to show that you know what you're talking about. These countries allowed their financial system to make these loans. Any prudent regulator would never have allowed it or at least let the free market do what it wanted (which would never have done so under a properly free system without all the government largesse pumped into the system to keep the economy looking good to aid re-election prospects).
Houses are expensive due to poor government policy and planning. We all want to live within 10km of the CBD because to do so takes more than an hour to travel that distance by public transport (seriously, it used to take me 30 minutes door to desk when I lived in Redfern. That was 8 minutes walk to the station, nearly 15 minutes on a train to get off at ATown Hall and walk from TH to work). That's not the fault of the banks. It's the fault of governments.
Banks merely operate in the regulatory environemnt created by government. They exist to make money. Not help people. No private business exists to help people as they all exist to make money. If you want different behaviours then you have to regulate for them.
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Big fianance is only a symtom. The real disease is resource delpletion, particularly Peak Oil
It's the beginning of the end.
James says:
Dr Richard Bookstaber and Dr Nassim Taleb (predicted Global Financial Crisis in his book Black Swan) spoke in 2009/10 to a panel of US Congressman after the financial crisis -
Dr Taleb said, "I was on Wall Street for 21 years, and a lot of (those) people I wouldn't use for anything"...
He explains how, on the sole principle of risk management, he wouldn't even employ some of these people as bus drivers - because they would be unable to avoid a crash.
Dr Bookstaber argued that "there are people who are talented in areas like medicine and physics and other fields who seem to get by on $200000, $500000, or $1m. I don't know that the talent on Wall Street is so stellar that it is worth $50m or $100m versus these other people in other fields"
Interesting arguments about the monetary value (represented by a pay cheque) of certain people to our economy, along the same lines as the BIS chief economist's claim that banks have become a black hole for productivity.
Al B says:
Thanks adam great article, the place of the finance industry and government together in monetary policy is a little troubling as well. The Austrian school have plenty to say on this.
Super D says:
I read an article the other day saying that banks should be regulated like casinos. In casinos if anything goes wrong the guy at the top ends up in gaol. In banks the CEO's claim all care but no responsibility -unless they can be proved culpable - this actually provides an incentive to not know what is really going on. Making CEO's ultimately accountable would result in banks becoming smaller and less complicated. Unfortunately this would require global coordination lest banks simply move to more accomodating jurisidictions.
Unfortunately most people are completely clueless with regard to the nature of modern banking. If anyone wishes to educate themselves I would recommend http://www.zerohedge.com.
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So I have a rock, and that is freely exchangeable for another rock. Except that I somehow convince you that my rock is worth a hundred of your rocks. I now have a hundred rocks, and I go looking for other people with more rocks than brains. Soon, I have all the rocks. I pile them up near my house, and the redistribution of mass causes the earth to fall off its axis and spiral into the sun. Before we burn to death, the government passes a law saying that I own all the rocks.
I think that about covers how it works. There is no equitable value transfer in these transactions or the money from the share trades would go to the company whose shares were being traded, for example. Increases in valuations of my mortgaged house should decrease my equity. I'm sorry sir, your loan no longer covers the value of your house - you'll have to borrow some more money or fill in the swimmng pool.
Don't scoff - what we have now is equally surreal. And it doesn't work.
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