Textile artists celebrate the beauty of mangroves
"Visitors can wander between columns of denim patchwork quilts, beautifully decorated with mangrove plants and creatures." ROB KENNEDY reviews Mangroves – Tales from the Tide, at Questacon.
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"This is an exhibition that appeals on many levels giving visitors a dramatic immersive experience through digital technology. It also caters to those who wish to know more about Pompeii and its history," says reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
The Lex Factor: from Wagga to the World Stage, is a fun exhibition at the Museum of the Riverina with a poignant touch, its subject is the Wagga-born actor, broadcaster and multicultural advocate, Lex Marinos, reports HELEN MUSA.
This weekend is the last chance to experience the ultimate outdoor dinosaur event, that's been taking Australia by storm, as it roars to a close at Black Mountain Peninsula Park, Acton.
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Pompeii makes a dramatic entrance at the museum
In a totally transformed exhibition area at the National Museum of Australia, director Katherine McMahon unveiled the new exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, to assembled media on Thursday morning.
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The Pompeii experience, up close and personal
“Everybody needs to see an exhibition about Pompeii and apart from going to Pompeii itself, our exhibition is the next best thing,” National Museum curator Lily Withycombe tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Museum exhibition reaches for the stars
Nobel Laureate and former vice-chancellor of the ANU Brian Schmidt has unveiled the Canberra Museum + Gallery’s latest exhibition, Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, marking the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory.
A live audiovisual experience created by Australian artist and composer Robin Fox continues the National Film and Sound Archive’s recent visual and audial attack upon our senses, in the best possible way.
Casts of volcano victims, detailed frescoes, carbonised bread and other ancient artefacts will help illustrate the story of Pompeii in a new Australian exhibit.
The National Film and Sound Archive’s show Ghost Trees is a moving (yes, it moves) exhibit that has to be seen and experienced in the comfort of a beanbag, reports HELEN MUSA.
The National Museum of Australia is rejoicing that its exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt has smashed all records for previous shows, with, at last count, 196,000 visits, making it the biggest blockbuster in the museum’s 23-year history.
The newest major show opening in the National Library's refurbished exhibition galleries today is one everyone can relate to – a survey of the library’s material relating to migrants, and aren’t we all migrants, asks arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"It's almost impossible to believe it, but the upcoming exhibition, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, is the first exhibition in this country dedicated to the famous French post-impressionist artist," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Riding the Olympic Wave, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, shines the spotlight emerging Olympic sport, reports HELEN MUSA.
The National Film And Sound Archive has opened a dramatic, moving exhibition of birds on huge screens in an audiovisual experience called Temple – “because it's like a temple of nature. You can feel the awe,” the artists say.
If it hadn't been for Cyclone Tracy, Katherine McMahon would never have become director of the National Museum of Australia, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Project Alchemy is a multimedia exhibition coming up at The Hive, in Queanbeyan, in which the rubble, charcoal and shattered dreams that followed the Black Summer Fires are turned into pure gold, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Discovering Ancient Egypt”, coming soon to the National Museum, is an exhibition with a difference, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The glamour and excitement of Australian press photography have been the subject of many exhibitions, but now the National Archives turns the focus on Australia's forgotten government photographers, reports HELEN MUSA.
