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Elizabeth Fortescue is the Arts editor of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

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For News/Preview.  Artist Lucienne Rickard who will draw each day for a year in the foyer of TMAG as part of her work Extinction Studies.  Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Sydney’s arts news for February

Biennale of Sydney artist Lucienne Rickard does something to her drawings that makes people cry. Sydney Symphony Orchestra commissions the music of the future. And we review the stage play War Horse.

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This is Sydney’s summer of arts

We review Bran Nue Dae and SIX, talk to the fight choreographer for Don Giovanni, reveal actor Barry Otto’s secret love, and much more. SUMMER ARTS IN SYDNEY

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parents of acclaimed artists die 11 days apart

Parents of acclaimed artists die 11 days apart

Both parents of acclaimed Australian artists Lucy and Anna Culliton have died 11 days apart, just weeks after Lucy evacuated them to her home in Bibbenluke in the Snowy Monaro region of southern NSW.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ONLY - Pictured in the Newscorp Studios today is Emma Watkins from the Wiggles. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Emma Wiggle shows deaf kids how to dance

Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins is performing a new show in the Sydney Festival without her wiggly counterparts to show deaf children their impairment is no barrier to learning how to dance — even though they can’t hear music.

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French superstar snubs Sydney Festival over ’air quality’

French superstar Isabelle Adjani has cancelled a Sydney Festival production two weeks before its Opera House debut over fears the city’s air quality will harm her in light of the devastating NSW bushfires. But festival director Wesley Enoch says she will pay.

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