artmusicFBi's Changing Lanes Festival
Renowned for bringing us some of the best music played on radio, FBi has now announced for your pleasure the Changing Lanes Festival, a funraiser which will take place in... Read More »
Ongoing Events
artPop Up Alphabet Co-Op
If Willy Wonka were a typographer, this would be his chocolate factory. His waterfall would not be made of chocolate but of ampersands, his cups would be full of T's,... Read More »
artAlfred Stieglitz: the Lake George years
This is the first significant Australian showing of Alfred Stieglitz's work and contains more than 150 of the finest prints of his photos. Alfred Stieglitz is important in a way... Read More »
artfreemusicperformingVerge Festival 2010
Verge is strange. That's one of the best things about it. A silent room churns with frenetic dancers, hopping and bobbing to a common beat. Comedians push to entertain a... Read More »
artfilmfree808.838 / grandfather paradox
Ms&Mr are a fortunate unity. A two-person singular-entity pursuing a single-minded dual obsession with sentimental film and science fiction. Continuing to write their shared history, lived in the parallel dimension... Read More »
artfreeMimi Kelly
Mimi Kelly's works linger in your mind. Combining a gorgeous subject, a glossy fashion aesthetic, slasher movie gore and silver-lined photographic paper, these New Works imprint in subtle ways. Kelly... Read More »
artfreeBrook Andrew: The Cell
You'll need to take off your shoes, store anything sharp and change into one of the hooded suits that hang beside The Cell before you're allowed into it. This reflects... Read More »
artPaths to Abstraction 1867-1917
An exhibition-meets-art-history-lesson, Paths to Abstraction traces the transformation of the art world over a 50-year period. While the exhibition follows a narrative, it is not a linear one; it tells... Read More »
artfreeShane Cotton: Smashed Myth
Trouble's brewing in Shane Cotton's Smashed Myth. In just over 40 square metres of canvas, Cotton (the renowned Maori artist of, most recently, Biennale of Sydney fame) has made a... Read More »
artfilmmusicperformingplaythinkSydney Fringe Festival
Ugly ducklings, scapegoats, white crows, black sheep — farmyards sure know how to single out the atypical. Thank goodness the humans of the Inner West know how to celebrate furry... Read More »
artfreeGrove
In the Bible, people are made from ribs and soil. In Mexico, it's corn. In Japan, a baby gets found in a stalk of bamboo. Loss and grief aren't usually... Read More »
artRene Vaile: Just Treasure
I learnt this week that the Queen Victoria Building has a time capsule. It was installed after the restoration of the building in the mid-1980s and won't be opened for... Read More »
artObject Gallery Spring Series
For ten weeks Object Gallery is flinging open it's doors and heading into the Surry Hills springtime sunshine with a sequence of 14 collaborative showings with artists, designers, filmmakers and... Read More »
artIn The Balance: Art For A Changing World
Honestly, I'm kind of sceptical about this sort of thing. Putting on a show about environmental crises at the MCA is comparable to putting out a zine about being shy... Read More »
artfreeThe Indian Empire, Multiple Realities
Exploring the delicate nature of contact between cultures, The Indian Empire, Multiple Realities draws together various representations of India and foreigners in India. In bringing together both local and outsider... Read More »
artPrimavera 2010
Across the first two levels of the MCA things are being re-rendered, repositioned, re-presented and reduced. Banal snapshots from Flickr and Google Image are finely replicated in watercolour by Jackson... Read More »
artplayThe 80s are back
Bleached perms. Feathered earrings and feathered hair. Acid-wash. Ra-ra skirts. Rayban Wayfarers. Swatch watch envy. Eyeliner for all. Crop tops over leotards. Bangles, tons of bangles. They may be 80s... Read More »
artplaythinkCreating the Look: Benini and Fashion Photography
There was once a time when fashion photography was about trying to get a clear, objective, crinkle-free shot of a garment. Now we know it as creating an atmosphere, telling... Read More »
artSin City: crime & corruption in 20th-century Sydney
The good, the bad and the alluringly ugly are all currently on show at the Justice & Police Museum, rather good timing for an exhibition about Sydney's underworld, given the... Read More »
artfreegetawayJames Turrell: Within, without
James Turell, a Californian artist who has worked with light and perception as his media and subject matter since the 1960s, apparently studied perceptual psychology, mathematics, astronomy and geology at... Read More »
Playground Blog
How Do You Like Your Coffee: Decaffeinated or Defecated?
We’re a perverse lot, us humans. Tread on a footpath turd or discover an unflushed log and we’ll emit high-pitched girly squeals. But we’ll quite happily fork out big bucks... Read More »
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Starting next Friday: literally HUNDREDS of plays, bands, exhibitions and other miscellaneous performances at your doorstep -...
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@ascolour No probs, cool project!
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Calling all friends and well-wishers of Bon Iver et al. Here is your new favourite band - http://ow.ly/2ylpz
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