Arts
Museum director rejects Tate Britain
ELIZABETH Ann Macgregor has rejected overtures to direct one the world’s most-visited art museums and will remain at the helm of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Art lovers prepare to embrace The Kiss
ONLY five-star travel was good enough for The Kiss when Auguste Rodin’s 1904 sculpture travelled from London to Sydney.
Love that was a work of art
ARTISTS Hellen Rose and George Gittoes’ love blossomed over 20 years and defied a similar age gap. But it’s produced an unbreakable bond. “I’d rather take a bullet with him than know that he was in a ditch somewhere on his own,” says Rose.
When a Samoan plays Othello
ACTOR Ray Chong Nee, who plays Othello at the Sydney Opera House, hopes to reach out to his Samoan and Pacific Island community now that he’s scored a lead role with Bell Shakespeare.
Spider exhibit will have you shrieking
MANY people are terrified of spiders, and who could blame them? But the producer of a arachnid exhibition at the Australian Museum hopes the new show will help us to see the beauty and brilliance of the creatures.
This crowd too busy to interact with each other
LONDON-based Israeli artist Zadok Ben-David arrived in Sydney with more than 2000 people for his newest artwork. Hailing from all over, the “people” are now standing with their feet in the sand, upstairs at Annandale Galleries.
Bali Nine death row art to headline festival
Exhibition will attract the “haters”, but will also be a chance for healing and reappraisal, says curator Ben Quilty
New dance an Untamed beauty
REVIEW: Anyone who loves dance, or the wonder of the human body, will be thrilled by the latest Sydney Dance Company production, a double bill of both muscular drama and sensory beauty.
Pianist’s skill and dedication make Bach a sublime success
PIANIST Sarah Grunstein describes performance as shifting into another dimension but the composer JS Bach is always there.
Most beautiful thing Friels has worked on
WHEN Colin Friels puts Faith Healer on the same pedestal as a great horse, you’d better believe he’s giving the play the highest praise he can confer.
Finding the fun in Trump trainwreck
As the US Presidential election rolls on, the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton with its nasty insults and shock revelations becomes ever more like a reality TV show peddling trainwreck entertainment.
Graffitied busts have a Silver lining
ARTIST Tim Silver’s colourfully daubed porcelain busts are on view from Saturday at Sullivan and Strumpf gallery.
Australian art takes London
ARIADNE, an oil painting by the great Arthur Streeton, will be the scene-stealer in an exhibition at the National Gallery, London
Symphony goes back to the future
NICHOLAS Buc is channeling the spirit of Marty McFly this week, as he prepares to live-conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to Opera House screenings of the sci-fi comedy Back To The Future.
Tears for dad whose star shone bright but too briefly
DODD Darin was noly 12 when his famous dad died. When the only child of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, watched a preview of Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical this week, he cried.
Demetriades’ Antigone a modern take on a Greek tale
ANDREA Demetriades back on stage taking on the eponymous role of Antigone in Sport For Jove’s production of Sophocles’s play, written in about 450 BC.
David set to prove he’s a Dream Lover
JUGGLING TV, radio and a theatre premiere takes the stamina of a superhero — and David Campbell is proving he has what it takes ahead of the premiere of Dream Lover The Bobby Darin Musical this week.
Debut major exhibition was 30 years in the making
TWENTY FIVE years ago, artist Louise Hearman was living in a share house in West Melbourne, waitressing and washing dishes to make ends meet. Fast-forward to today, and Hearman, this year’s winner of the Archibald Prize, is an established artist.
Catherine drawn to home
CATHERINE O’Donnell dreamt of being a Disney illustrator. She became a lab technician instead. But when her youngest child went to school, she returned to her first love and trained as an artist.
Street art is becoming big business in Sydney
Graffiti artists — once only able to work under the cover of darkness — are increasingly being sought out to transform drab inner-city walls
Homeground Fest brings indigenous arts to the Opera House
In the face of general dismissiveness to Indigenous Australians Rhoda Roberts has kept alive a sense of Aboriginal culture in her family and is now extending her influence to foster other cultures
Language no barrier when children learn to speak up
IT’S the kind of humiliation most of us couldn’t even begin to understand. Yet it’s also common across so many communities. It’s the experience of the newly arrived migrant, who cannot yet speak English.
The role Hannah Waterman didn’t want
Invited to audition for the Hayes Theatre Co’s production of Side Show, Hannah Waterman was adamant that it wasn’t something she was equipped to do, never having been in a musical before.
Ballerina Amber Scott dances into Wonderland
AMBER Scott will literally step into the pages of one of her favourite childhood books when she dances the lead role of Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland for The Australian Ballet next year.
Simon follows his Dream Lover
DIRECTOR Simon Phillips is a man of many talents and he’s bringing them to bear on the show Dream Lover starring David Campbell as crooner Bobby Darin
Artist wins scholarship
DARLINGHURST artist Lucy O’Doherty is off to Paris next year as the winner of the 2016 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship for artists aged between 20 and 30.
New Walking Dead trailer revealed
With one month to go before The Walking Dead returns, a new trailer has been released, promising Season 7 won’t be all terrible for all of our favourite characters.
A mystery of Maralinga
ARTIST Kate Downhill can only surmise that her father’s involvement with atomic bomb testing at Maralinga and other Australian test sites did something to him that changed his life.
Refugee rises up from the canvas at Archibalds
NICK Stathopoulos’ painting of refugee lawyer Deng Adut, the 33-year-old former South Sudanese child soldier who escaped to Australia at the age of 14, is the winner of the Archibald Prize People’s Choice.
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