Kidman says achievement award is overwhelming
Nicole Kidman has joined the ranks of Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Arts & Entertainment
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Reinventing a beloved classic is never an easy task, says Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Electric Fields are looking to spark a connection by mirroring how their audience consumes music as they prepare to represent Australia at Eurovision in Sweden.
As Aarwun Gallery in Gold Creek enters its 25th year, director Robert Stephens has always had a creative approach to his packed openings, mixing music and talk with fine art, but this year he's outdoing himself, reports HELEN MUSA.
Theatre
Canberra actor John Cuffe dies aged 91
One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
Arts & Entertainment
Reuben puts on the Apocalypstik
There's arts events everywhere! This week's Arts in the City column, by HELEN MUSA, proves the point.
Canberra International Music Festival
Composer Holly’s not lost for notes
Holly Harrison is the Canberra International Music Festival's composer in residence. “Not all composers are…
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column...
When it comes to choosing themes, International Music Festival director Roland Peelman is notoriously cavalier. But for his final one he's adopted a more serious tone, titling the event “Mulanggari” (Alive), says HELEN MUSA.
LEN POWER reviews Shipwrecked, a performance of Baroque music by Tobias Cole and Apeiron Baroque.
Omar Musa, author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, will be back in Canberra next month to launch his third album of music and poetry and an arts exhibition, reports LEN POWER.
Taylor Swift has become the most-streamed artist in a single day on the music platform Spotify with the release of her new album The Tortured Poets Department.
The heritage-listed, former council chambers in Crawford Street Queanbeyan have taken on a new life as the Queanbeyan-Palerang Heritage Library, reports HELEN MUSA.
"With a collection of recorder music spanning from the Renaissance to the present day, it was a pleasure to hear the musical expressions crafted for this instrument through nearly 500 years," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Prinnie Stevens performance of Lady Sings the Blues Vol. 2.
CON BOEKEL reviews two new photographic exhibitions at At M16 Artspace.
The television interview with Prince Andrew proved a bombshell for the BBC at the time. Now its been turned into a new film streaming on Netflix, reports NICK OVERALL.
LEN POWER reviews a performance by soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal in “a concert in human solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza".
Three books, two by Australian authors, reaffirm the dramatic impact humanity has had, and continues to have, on our fragile environment, writes reviewer COLIN STEELE.
