freeplayFree Hip Hop Classes
A long time ago, one very white, suburban, middle-class girl wandered down to the Sydney Dance Company to give hip hop a go. Okay, maybe she had watched too many... Read More »
artfreeGo Font Ur Self*
It’s a one night stand, all types welcome. Unless your name is Times New Roman, Brush Script, Curlz or Comic Sans. Then you’re a slut, and who knows what kind... Read More »
Ongoing Events
artfreeMartin Sharp Sydney artist
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 »
filmfreeA Prophet
Jacques Audiard serves up another searing character study of crime with his taut portrait of A Prophet. Following up the beautifully realised The Beat My Heart Skipped, Audiard journeys into... Read More »
artfreeBear Witness
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 »
artfreeLinda Ngitjanka Napurrula and Tara Marynowsky
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 »
artfreeExhibitions on 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 »
artfreethinkArt Month Sydney
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 »
filmfreeHymn to Beauty Film Series
As kimono clad onlookers a few floors above traipse around the Hymn to Beauty: The Art of Utamaro exhibition ogling delicate ukiyo-e woodblock prints, rest your weary geta clogs in... Read More »
artfilmfreeSylvie Blocher: What is Missing?
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 »
artfreeMirror Mirror Then & Now
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 »
artfreeWilderness
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 »
artfreeplayMythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids
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 »
artfreeThe Tao of Now
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 »
Playground Blog
Conspirators series: Ben Frost
Iconoclastic because the icon’s elastic, Brisbane-born Ben Frost is an artistic whirlwind who has exhibited in places where the postcode doesn’t start with 2 (or is even called a postcode,... Read More »
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