Brothers grin
Ghastly endings are hilarious and dazzling when the award-winning
umbilicals take the stage.
Echoes of greatness
Nine artists — and a critic — follow in Hans Heysen's
footsteps to reinterpret a landscape that has become one of the
sacred sites of modern Australian art.
Tears at dance company as new director moves in
There were tears at the Sydney Dance Company yesterday as its new artistic director, Rafael Bonachela, told several dancers he was not renewing their contracts.
Cate's laid-back approach to a digital portrait
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth, observed the American artist John Singer Sargent.
Aussie film earns prime slot
THINGS are suddenly turning out well for the Australian film
industry. The debut feature from the director of the Oscar-winning
short Harvie Krumpet, Adam Elliot, has been chosen to open the
Sundance Film Festival in the United States.
Next month, in a gallery not far away
Science and imagination meet in a Star Wars-themed exhibition at
the Powerhouse.
Riddle me this
Photos and letters collide with intruiging results.
Monster task
Ralph Myers's choice of Frankenstein as his directorial debut has let to sleepless nights.
The real entourage
Join Charles Purcell for a look at the wild world of the classics.
School librarian eyes $116,000 prize
JOHN HUGHES, the librarian at Sydney Grammar School, is among the final 20 nominees for the inaugural Warwick Prize for literature in Britain.
Spontaneous moments from a bowerbird
THIS exhibition has an avalanche of pictures detailing the life of the accomplished advertising designer, bon vivant and compulsive traveller Barrie Flakelar. The walls of Orange's airy regional gallery pulse with evidence of a life lived to the full
First lady of the arts
Rebecca Matthews has just swapped her Sydney Opera House office
with its sparkling waterfront view for the brutalist architecture
of the Edgecliff Centre.
Wobbler you can't tie down
Rolf Harris is 78 but he's not about to take it easy, writes Paola
Totaro in London.
Garrett accused of reinvention
THE federal Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, has been accused of "reinventing the wheel" over his decision to close the Australian National Academy of Music and replace it with a new institution at the University of Melbourne.
Colossus to rise again
TWENTY-THREE centuries after craftsmen carved the legendary statue that has inspired legions of painters, poets, playwrights and politicians, a new Colossus of Rhodes is about to be born.
Having his cake, enjoying it too
The director Stephan Elliott tells Will Lawrence about his new love
for the Queen of the Desert as she heads to the West End stage.
Happy with a portrait, but still life beckons
FOR a man who has painted so many famous heads, including Sir Donald Bradman, Dame Joan Sutherland and Paul Keating, Robert Hannaford is not much of a name-dropper.
Blended weddings a winning mix for young playwright
When Khoa Do was 20, he went to his local library and borrowed
every single book about scriptwriting.
Reasons to be cheerful
Fifteen months ago, Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) came up
with a theme for its new Australian contemporary art show:
optimism.
State school talent to shine at silver jubilee show
Some of Australia's showbiz stars will return to where it all began
to celebrate 25 years of the Schools Spectacular.
Pollies on other side of the camera
Who would have thought the quiet, unassuming former speaker of the
lower house in the Howard government had an inner artist bursting
to get out?
Link between humanity and our faithful steeds
Glenn Hunt was 11 when he got his first horse. It was a little
white one - half Australian pony, half something else. This was the
Adelaide Hills. Most of his friends already had one.
When the painter tutored the playwright
FOR Michael Garady, a young Sydney artist living in London, it was an offer too good to refuse. Would he like to teach Tennessee Williams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Streetcar Named Desire, to paint? In return, the celebrated American playwright would give him "a few hints" on writing.
Glebe Street Fair
This Sunday the fair on Glebe's main drag turns 25. Over the years
it has grown but managed to stay bohemian.
Bring out your dead, it's Noah's Cark
MOVING house is stressful, especially when your home has millions of residents that have to be ready for the big day.
A giving thing is terrible to lose
Philanthropy should survive the financial meltdown, writes Clare
Morgan.
A carnival of sorts
From a woman who sings like Elvis to a man who plays like it's 1920, Dan Kaufman talks to some of our most unusual performers.
Alcott's charm shows, but could have shone
Often an author's tone is the first casualty when a novel is
dramatised for stage or screen.
Times tough when Bacon self-portrait fails to make $63m
A Francis Bacon self-portrait failed to sell at auction in New York on Wednesday, in another sign the souring economy is having a crushing effect on autumn season art sales.
NSW's battle to pay for $16m Cezanne
The Art Gallery of NSW will sell two paintings by famous Australians to raise funds towards the $16.2 million purchase price for Paul Cezanne's landscape Bords De La Marne.
ARTS PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Manon
An impressionable heart led astray by a wealthy backer is torn in
Manon.
Shane Forrest: Deface
An urban achaeologist of paper, Shane Forrest peels back layers of pop history.
John Edward
Psychic John Edward has not time for non-believers.
Elgar Festival: Program One
Under Vladimir Ashkenazy's leadership, which begins formally next
year, the Sydney Symphony always seems to play at its best.
