Bill Henson captures Greek beauty
Two Hellenic Museum exhibitions, a Bill Henson photographic installation and a Sam Jinks sculpture, bring artefacts to startling life
Christopher Allen
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Here comes the sun
Light has come to symbolise the beginning of life, clarity of reason and a feeling of joy. We don’t call a rainy day gloomy for nothing.
The Sydney Opera Houses that weren’t
The thankfully unrealised architectural visions for the harbour city and photos from Federation capture Sydney’s colourful history.
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: the most influential poem of all time?
Albert Tucker and John Brack are among the Australian artists influenced by this important poem, whose 100th birthday deserves more recognition from our state galleries.
Soldiers away and at play, in love and war
Loneliness is always a factor in infidelity, but for the soldier abroad it is compounded with fear and the apprehension of imminent death.
Gym classes have a natural kinship with fascism
This exhibition at Tasmania’s MONA reminds us how dance classes often require participants to follow instructions barked out by a dominatrix in Lycra.
Stillness and presence mediate noise around us
Smartphone have had a devastating effect on the mental health of individuals. This meditative exhibition could be the antidote to modern life.
MONA’s latest exhibition, meditation on identity
Robert Andrew is walking a line between two cultures – his Western and modern ancestry and his Indigenous roots.
Portraits of the Holocaust
Sidney Nolan worked on a series of portraits of war criminal Adolf Eichmann and victims of the Holocaust, in images that are being shown for the first time.
Looks good on paper
Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, daughters of newspaper proprietors, caught the fashion for linoprint and Japanese printmaking.
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