Concrete Playground

Saturday, 31st October - Sunday, 14th March
@ Museum of Sydney

Plundering the depths of Martin Sharp's personal collection, rumoured to be  labyrinthian in its documentation, the Museum of Sydney has unveiled an exhibition comprised of some of Sharp's most iconic... Read More »

Monday, 18th January - Friday, 19th March
@ Parramatta Artists Studios

Bear Witness is the artistic output of Ehren Thomas, a multimedia artist, DJ and filmmaker from Ottawa Canada. He remixes appropriated images and sound to create video assemblages that speak... Read More »

Thursday, 4th March - Saturday, 20th March
@ Chalk Horse

Tara Marynowsky’s faint, whispering watercolors appear to float within the canvas like nebulous snapshots of REM-state imaginings, their pale delicacy unencumbered by the volumes of idea, history and myth of... Read More »

Friday, 19th March - Saturday, 20th March
@ Sydney Convention Centre

An atheist and a (insert deity-worshipping faithful here) walk into the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. They each take their seat, peer into their bag of convention goodies, and then... Read More »

Wednesday, 27th May - Friday, 26th March
@ Cockatoo Island

I can still hear the rousing tune that plays to William Kentridge's video installation, "I am not me, the horse is not mine." Such is the infectious effect of this... Read More »

Saturday, 6th February - Sunday, 28th March
@ Object Gallery

Object Gallery is reinvigorating the sustainable design/eco-friendly/carbon neutral debate just when it was starting to sound like a whole lot of codswallop - I mean what a life-cycle; from being... Read More »

Monday, 1st March - Wednesday, 31st March
@ Various Sydney venues

If your normal intake of art plateaus out at a monthly round of the AGNSW and a field trip during the Biennale, March is here to turn things up a... Read More »

Saturday, 13th February - Saturday, 10th April
@ Anna Schwartz Gallery

As a prodigy of sorts, with his work One and Three Chairs in 1965, Kosuth began a career of questioning the nature of art. He and his peers (the conceptual... Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Saturday, 13th February - Sunday, 2nd May
@ Art Gallery of New South Wales

Ukiyo — most often translated as ‘the floating world’ — refers to hedonistic Edo Japan, in particular the ‘pleasure quarters’ of Yoshiwara where brothels, chashitsu tea houses, sumo wrestling... Read More »

Wednesday, 27th January - Sunday, 2nd May
@ University of Sydney Art Gallery

Comprising two shows across three spaces, Mirror Mirror Then & Now looks at mirror as material in art from both historical-international and contemporary-Australian perspectives. Curated by Ann Stephen, the exhibitions... Read More »

Friday, 5th March - Sunday, 23rd May
@ Art Gallery of New South Wales

Let's begin by admitting that we, Australians, have a bit of a complex about being on the edge of things. Convicts, immigrants and the dispossessed, so far from the centre... Read More »

Monday, 21st December - Sunday, 23rd May
@ Australian Maritime Museum

I was about just verging into adolescence when my parents took me to Loch Ness. It was painful attempting to keep up that despondent, outsider teen thing when all I... Read More »

Saturday, 27th February - Sunday, 30th May
@ Powerhouse Museum

If fashion is your passion, as the great Henry Roth said (often) throughout the highly addictive Project Runway, then best get those obscure designer boots down to the Powerhouse Museum... 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 »

Saturday, 20th February - Sunday, 8th August
@ Museum of Sydney

There was a note stuck to the back of a Darlinghurst bus stop seat. "ROSE," it read, "Gone up the Cross. Ring me! Trevor." The year wasn't 1970, it was... Read More »

Sunday, 13th December - Wednesday, 1st December
@ Powerhouse Museum

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 80's... Read More »