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.
Emma Batchelor has won a publication deal with Allen & Unwin for her debut auto-fiction novel “Now That I See You”, based on her experiences when her partner’s emerging transgender status shattered their relationship.
A celebration of Mozart at his most cheerful greeted patrons of the Canberra International Music Festival in “Greatest Mozart I”, says reviewer HELEN MUSA.
"Fittingly, the audience exploded at the end and they called them back on to stage with rambunctious applause". Thumbs up for the Partridge String Quartet.
There were “Happy Dance Day" greetings all round this morning (April 19) at Belco Arts, with the launch of International Dance Day and Ausdance ACT’s Dance Week.