Christine Johnston seized the limelight with an extravagant, over-the top-performance of Artmann’s seemingly nonsensical nursery rhymes about mice, rats and superheroes.
Even as the drums of war are beating inside the heads of some political players in Australia, the drums of peace appear to be beating in the arts world — and the Vietnam War has a lot to do with it, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
RESULTS are in from the competition run by the National Gallery of Australia for school-age artists to rethink Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting.
Anyone who remembers the hilarious 1994 BBC production of “The Marriage of Figaro”, set in a National Trust estate house with the count depicted as a Tory Eurocrat, will know that Mozart’s famous comic opera is ripe for reinterpretation, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ACTOR Robyn Nevin agreed that "Brunhilde" suggested an Amazonian kind of image, but the character she’s about to perform in Canberra was in fact small and quite forgettable in appearance.
POET, artist, philosopher and academic Sarah Rice is returning to the Oriana Chorale armed with an ArtsACT grant for an ambitious project that puts all her talents to work.