Concrete Playground

Thursday, 10th December - Sunday, 11th April
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

In a world where the new is often demanded but rarely considered or discussed for any length of time, the Berlin-based Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is a memorable exception. A... Read More »

Thursday, 7th January - Sunday, 24th January
@ CarriageWorks

Humans and their desire to experience images of dazzling immediacy and sensory adventure were given a wonderful (but soon to be forgotten) gift in 1962: the ‘Sensorama’. A pre-digital and... Read More »

Monday, 11th January - 10AM
@ Seymour Centre

Can I ask you to do something? As you read this sentence would you mind imagining the sound of 43 third generation Rajasthani musicians singing and playing the following instruments:... Read More »

Saturday, 12th December - 6PM
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

A wise man once said that ‘patriotism ruins history’. While this wisdom could be applied to a soup of mistakes, misfortunes and violent actions, it seems particularly relevant to the... Read More »

Tuesday, 8th December - 5PM
@ Customs House Library, Barnet Long Room

I wonder how many family albums contain at least one photograph of the SydneyOpera House in the background? A nice shot of the kids in front of thearchitectural attraction. Yet... Read More »

Saturday, 13th February - 9AM
@ Art Gallery of New South Wales Domain Theatre (Lower Level 3)

Confucius thought that everything had it but not everyone could see it; for Kant it was located in our faculty of judgment; for Monet it was to be found in... Read More »

Saturday, 9th January - 2PM
@ Sydney City Streets and Parks

If you're like me and make it a bit of a project to complain about a city dominated by cars, or how there should be an energetic density... Read More »

Sunday, 28th February - 8PM
@ Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House

Andy Warhol is one of those paradoxical figures. While providing a wealth of worthwhile material to consider he simultaneously fertilized followers to produce an array of boring and derivative art.... Read More »

Tuesday, 15th December - 7PM
@ Serial Space

We only need to look at where horror films usually take place in orderto realise that the environment is always a contributing factor to thesuspense. It is the deserted and... Read More »

Thursday, 31st December - 7PM
@ The Red Rattler

Plans plans plans! Why does the mad rush for planning New Years Eve always seem to outweigh the night itself? A night that's usually a cocktail of anticipation, nostalgia, reflection... Read More »

Friday, 8th January - 8PM
@ The Basement

Last year Vodafone enlisted the help of Charlie Parr - the self-depreciative country and blues musician from Minnesota - for their Australian and New Zealand phone promotions. Nothing like an... Read More »

Friday, 15th January - Friday, 5th February
@ Chauvel Cinema

If you were to collect all the symbolism, totemistic allegory and florid metaphor fashioned throughout the history of art into something tangible, and, say with careful precision you placed it... Read More »

Tuesday, 5th January - 8PM
@ Sydney Opera House

Bernard Herrmann agreed to compose music for Alfred Hitchcock's films on the condition that he would be given total control over of his arrangements. A meticulous and progressive composer, Mr.... Read More »

Saturday, 16th January - Sunday, 7th March
@ Campbelltown Arts Centre

This is really very exciting. It isn't often that a platform for collaborative thinking and making is given enough time to find its roots and address something specific. Too often... Read More »

Saturday, 23rd January - 11AM
@ CarriageWorks

Since the grey wolf (the first known domesticated dog) was tamed and taken inside around 7000 BC, our pets require regular walks outside not only for their pleasure but for... Read More »

Thursday, 14th January - Sunday, 17th January
@ Red Rattler

An observant and sometimes handsome Englishman named G.K Chesterton once wrote that "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions". What he might have meant is that... Read More »

Sunday, 17th January - 8PM
@ State Theatre

When Toumani Diabaté was five years old he picked up the Kora (a 21 string hybrid between a harp and a lute) and taught himself to play. His father Sidiki... Read More »

Sunday, 10th January - 3PM
@ Seymour Centre

Underlying all symposiums is a question: how do we know what we know? What seems like a straightforward question is in fact difficult to answer. How does knowledge accumulate? How... Read More »

Friday, 22nd January - Sunday, 24th January
@ Wentworth Falls School of Arts

From the stings of damaged guitars to the fingers of laptop-musicians comes The NOW now: a festival offering experimental, impulsive and improvised music to ears that desire sounds and... Read More »

Sunday, 10th January - Sunday, 7th February
@ Slot

If you thought Abstract Art was a movement relegated to the history books and the minds of hairless historians at the end of the 1950s you would be right, and... Read More »

Sunday, 17th January - 1PM
@ Red Rattler

Music, according to recent studies conducted by David Teie, a cellist from the National Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Snowdon, a professor of psychology from the University of Wisconsin, is species-specific. While... Read More »

Saturday, 30th January - Saturday, 20th February
@ Tin Sheds Gallery

Let’s be honest. The predicaments and problems artists have to face compared to other professions are less important and largely uninteresting for the majority of people. And yet, if we... Read More »

Wednesday, 28th April - Friday, 30th April
@ Serial Space

In order to feel incredibly grateful to our early ancestors you only need to think about their persistent curiosity and hazardous experimentation with food. How many lives, throughout the history... Read More »

Sunday, 14th February - Monday, 15th February
@ College of Fine Arts

Since the 1970s Gilbert & George have been historicized and celebrated for their unique conservatism of sensible suits and haircuts, narcissistic propaganda and exhibitionist libido. Combining English sobriety, an admiration... Read More »

Friday, 22nd January - Sunday, 1st August
@ The White Rabbit

Kerr and Judith Neilson of The White Rabbit Gallery describe their extensive and dramatic collection of contemporary Chinese art as a ‘personal anthology’. Indeed The Tao of Now, an exhibition... Read More »

Thursday, 11th February - Saturday, 13th February
@ Serial Space

This techno-call to arms comes from self-professed dorks “doing strange things with electricity”. There's something appealing about Dorkbot's epigram, especially when we consider the predictable behaviour electricity is made to... Read More »

Tuesday, 9th February - 6PM
@ AGNSW

For Joseph Kosuth, poster boy for 1960s Conceptualism, art is effectively L.I.N.G.U.I.S.T.I.C. Or in his own words: "Fundamental to this idea of the arts is the understanding of the... Read More »

Friday, 19th March - Saturday, 10th July
@ Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The amazing spell of cinema is such that we are still fascinated by the same stories, albeit sometimes with different actors and set within a slightly different context. Although we... Read More »

Wednesday, 17th February - Monday, 26th April
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

You’re likely to have heard of 'Pavlov’s dog', but did you know famed physiologist Ivan Pavlov actually had four dogs — Druzhok, Sultan, Zhuchko, and Tsygan? It was with Druzhok... Read More »

Friday, 19th March - Saturday, 12th June
@ Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

If we believe the American travel writer Paul Theroux, "travel is glamorous only in retrospect". It is on reflection that we beautify and sculpt our previous experiences, assembling the pieces... Read More »

Wednesday, 7th April - Saturday, 17th April
@ Darren Knight Gallery

There is not enough time to look at everything, so we have to choose. This choice can arrive arbitrarily (a magazine in a waiting room for example) or it can... Read More »