At the media preview of his landmark exhibition, Quilty, at the Art Gallery of NSW last week, Ben Quilty told a story that indicates he’ll probably never paint anything that’s not squeezed directly out of his heart with some level of disbelief, anger or sense of injustice.
Opera and musical theatre star Marina Prior will play the ultra-efficient Violet Newstead in the Australian premiere of the musical based on the 1980 breakthrough film 9 To 5, in which Dolly Parton co-starred with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Australian Customs pounced when the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia was attempting to import a key artwork for its big summer show by British artist Cornelia Parker, which opens tonight.
Leading Australian artist Ben Quilty backs the call for a Royal Commission into shocking rates of suicide among war veterans.
Ben Quilty’s art first appeared inside the Art Gallery of NSW in the HSC major work exhibition, ARTEXPRESS, in 1991. Back then, no one could predict how closely connected to the gallery Quilty would become.
A beautiful artwork by a Sydney artist has been destroyed at Sculpture by the Sea, after a group of vandals hurled the large-scale piece, which was secured by a cement base, off the cliff.
Japanese Supernatural – the Art Gallery of NSW’s showcase exhibition for summer – pays tribute to the Japanese people’s fascination with supernatural beings, monsters and ghosts through contemporary and historical masterpieces that span 300 years.
They were sworn to secrecy for months, but now five excited Sydney tweens can reveal they will share the role of a young Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical, which opens in Sydney next year.
How would you feel if the character in your favourite painting suddenly sprang into life before you? Wonder no more. Opera Australia’s Il Viaggio a Reims has exactly that quirky twist.
Billy Elliot is a show with a huge heart, hearty laughter and a pervading sense of raw, stinging reality. Probably much like the atmosphere in a north of England mining town in 1984.
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