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Sydney Festival daily highlight - Friday January 12
A carnival ride with an eerie twist awaits.
A carnival ride with an eerie twist awaits.
This important exhibition shows a lesser-known side to the well-known artist's work.
Cleaning is having a moment in the art world. Two works in major Melbourne galleries are using the idea of the cleaner to make a bigger point about the state of the world.
Let your six-year-old self run amok in this toy sculpture at Town Hall.
Brandon Stanton, the creator of social media phenomenon Humans of New York, will appear in Australia for the first time on Saturday 10 February for a one-off Sydney exclusive.
"Boylesque" ensemble Briefs spin, strip, and swear through the Spiegeltent.
It's flushed with bright and changing colours, inflatable domes with a labyrinth of arteries big enough to explore.
Keith Haring was an intense and energetic artist who lived life at full throttle.
All aboard: Melbourne artist David Larwill's tram mural to see the light of day
5 musicians walk into an aquarium...
On the impoverished island of Madura is a house that looks like it has taken an acid trip, with zig-zag awnings and candy-pink windows. To one man, it is beautiful.
The exhibition has plenty to offer families, especially if you're willing to let the kids decide.
Art, music and theatre galore.
A Toorak family is owed $6 million by troubled art auction house Mossgreen.
After the Weinstein revelations and the #metoo movement, ACCA’s show about feminist art is timely and provocative.
Katharina Grosse's monumental artwork saturates the foyer of Carriageworks with bright colours.
"The show really manages to make a strong representation of the diversity that Australia should be aiming for."
In the Seidler Salon Series, musicians playing in widely divergent range of styles – from the Goldner String Quartet to the Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis – will stage concerts in five of modernist architect Harry Seidler's iconic buildings around Sydney.
When media art student Jessica Long moved from Sydney to North Melbourne to attend film school, she lived in a shoebox apartment which looked into the neighbouring building. It was like living inside Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.
In a year of major anniversaries there were many impressive exhibitions.
According to influential Austrian architect Wolf Prix, 3D printing and the use of robots are the future of building complex shapes.
When the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre reopens on Sunday after extensive renovations, the theatre's staff won't blame concert-goers who could not spot too many changes.
How did a remote Arnhem Land island start producing high-class furniture?
As midnight approaches on New Year's Eve, when much of the United States will be glued to broadcasts from Times Square, Anthony Amore will be waiting for his phone to ring.
Gareth Sansom's cacophonous style can seem a trifle like gorging on sweets when viewed en masse. Yet, as this retrospective reveals, his paintings of the past 15 years have been his greatest achievements, writes John McDonald.
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