Steve Dow
 Steve Dow, Journalist
February 9, 2010 
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In Paris he slept in subways and in New York he sheltered in squats, but today US singer-songwriter and visual artist Devendra Banhart has his seventh album – his first with a major record label – and an eye for the cryptic and the challengingly philosophical.

Consider his new album’s title, What Will We Be: Banhart has carefully arranged the words so the question can also be read as its own answer.
As a child, David Elliott, the man appointed to run Sydney’s 17th Biennale, which opens in May, dreamed not of securing artworks for festivals and galleries but being a theatre director, his artistic turn-on the scripts of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter.

Elliott tried his hand as an assistant stage manager for a theatre company at 17 but life behind the stage door could be a theatre of the absurd.
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“Mary” was married for 30 years to a diagnosed sex addict who covered his tracks neatly. The high-flying accountant would regularly pretend to be working late or taking overseas business trips when he would, in fact, hole up in Sydney’s Shangri-La Hotel, partaking of prostitutes.

Sex addiction is in the headlines following Tiger Woods reportedly checking into Arizona’s Meadows Rehabilitation Centre for sexual compulsion t..'
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