Peter Munro is a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Of the five electric guitars owned by experimental quantum physicist David Reilly, he likes this one the best. The mustard-yellow Fender Telecaster has two pickups, a maple fretboard and country-rock twang. When he's not in the laboratory pondering the mysteries of life, the universe and everything, he likes to lay down tracks on his axe at home, alone. "It's a fantastic way of switching off."
"It's about having that keenness to be a bit fresh," says Christopher Armstrong.
Staring from a great height at the endless plains, red-dirt roads and mining pits cut like open wounds across Western Australia, artist Bec Juniper sees something surprising. This rugged, bullish land seems strangely soft and feminine to her.
The paintings arrive at the Art Gallery of NSW's loading dock via courier vans, trucks, maxi taxis, midsize SUVs and on a skateboard. Artist Patrick Hromas lugs a large portrait of his godmother in his arms from St James Station, his forehead dripping great gobs of sweat in the winter sun. It's his first time in the Archibald Prize. "I'm not a big fan of big heads," he says.
Will this do?" Gough Whitlam asked, bending down to collect a second clump of soil.
The breeze on the morning of Monday, February 18, 1839, blew light and lovely across the ocean.
Artist and taxidermist Rod McRae explores our responsibilities to animals and the planet, including the impact of pollution, climate change and hunting.
American artist Shepard Fairey's "Peace Waratah" is the largest art mural ever seen in Sydney.
Watching a diseased human cell commit suicide is surprisingly entertaining.
Members of Russian punk rock protest group are taking their show to Hobart this month.
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