Sun, 5 Dec, 2010
White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale
Massive, philanthropic art foundations had always seemed to belong to faraway cities, like New York or Madrid. Then they started popping up over here as well. A four-storey converted knitting-factory wedged at the edge of the Carlton Brewery site and the Mortuary Station, the White Rabbit Gallery showcases a massive private collection of modern Chinese art. Finding it can be […]
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 - Sun, 13 Mar 2011
Get up close with the life-size terracotta warriors that guarded the tomb of the first Emperor of China, examine their accoutrements and check out some recently unearthed finds as well.
Fri, 26 Nov, 2010
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
With the sleek morning accoutrements of cheap breakfast and swish digs, you can listen to bright young things from a range of creative industries talk about what they do. This month's theme is 'Love', and each of its five speakers loves what they do.
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 - Sat, 29 Jan 2011
Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst
The cavernous galleries of the Australian Centre for Photography are about to play host to a display of excess. Historically, over-paid elites hid their wealth behind empty shows of humility. When they didn’t, they tended to inspire harsh laws against showing off; effective or otherwise. The ancient Romans tried to ban excess. The Venetians of the rennaissance kept […]
Thu, 25 Nov - Sat, 18 Dec 2010
Chalk Horse, Surry Hills
Anthony Lister's figures are amalgamations of superheroes, shimmering colours and body parts. They look ready to walk off the walls to go out in search of whatever takes their mood, so don't let them get away before you've had the chance to get a look.
Thu, 11 Nov - Sat, 27 Nov 2010
For Ruth, the world seems split into people living safe in boxes, and wilder creatures with the ferocity to live a harder life. Her fantasies are bleak dreams of far away places, welling-up into a torrent of words and joie de vivre bursting to escape into her day-to-day life.
Wed, 17 Nov - Sun, 21 Nov 2010
Dendy Newtown, Newtown
A celebration of films on cyclists and by cyclists, this annual festival of the two-wheeler screens in more than 30 cities around the globe, and this week it kicks off in Sydney with some serious velocity.
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 - Sun, 9 Jan 2011
The Galleries, Sydney
This annual exhibition of works from the best female visual artists around the world is on once again. Art will be suspended mid-air, will be for show and sale in shops below, and for three Thursdays will be created live in a texta-only art battle.
Fri, 12 Nov - Sun, 14 Nov 2010
Woollahra, Woollahra
The inaugural Woollahra Festival this weekend plans to divide itself into two parts for your entertainment. Siteworx will feed the performance parts of your brain on stages around Queen Street, while a program of talks will feed your ears, eyes and urge you to pipe up with a question. Siteworx is curated by ex-Griffin artistic […]
Sun, 14 Nov, 2010
Newtown
With this multi-faceted neighbourhood festival the question isn't where to start but where to stop. Divided into stages, stalls, lawns and avenues, events in the festival trip over each other to entertain, edify or feed you.
Sat, 6 Nov - Sun, 7 Nov 2010
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
Everyone knows there are secret Sydneys. Not just waterfront apartments and gothic mansions of state, but quieter faces - the back rooms, offices, tunnels and storehouses that make the city function, or once did. Stone, glass, brick, old, new - scattered, strange buildings around the city that make you think. Sydney Open throws back the veil for a weekend, letting Sydneysiders peek behind the scenes. There are focus tours of individual properties over the whole weekend, while on Sunday there is a city-wide wander. So get the map, get nosy and get a look behind the curtain.
Thu, 4 Nov - Sun, 14 Nov 2010
Dendy Cinemas, Sydney
It’s a hundred years since the Mexican Revolution. Moustaches, cries of “land and freedom!” and ‘sombrero’ as a synonym for ‘big hat’ all flow from that revolutionary era. The Mexico it created is complex, layered and huge. Just like Mexico’s movies, which — thanks to this year’s Hola Mexico Film Festival — are again being […]
Sat, 30 Oct, 2010
Red Rattler, Marrickville
Live music and horror stories - what better way to celebrate Halloween. With general ghoulishness promised on the night, who knows what stories will be born and which rough bodies will be sewn together into life.
Sun, 24 Oct - Tue, 2 Nov 2010
Gaffa, Surry Hills
Former Chocolate Factory resident Mark Gerada’s new exhibition at Gaffa has two themes. One is the almost post-natal sadness that descends on you after you stage an exhibition. The other is an unreal tint of blue he saw while swimming in a sea-cave in the island of Gozo, off his ancestral Malta. Malta itself has […]
Wed, 27 Oct - Sat, 6 Nov 2010
New Theatre, Newtown
Need new drama? The New Theatre has concentrated it for you at its third annual Brand Spanking New season. A collection of authors, actors and directors have been pulled together by Stories from the 428 curator, Augusta Supple, to tell their disparate stories over a common set. This project offers seventeen different writers, each of […]
Thu, 21 Oct, 2010
LO-FI Collective, Surry Hills
On hearing that he was to be executed in Bolivia, Che Guevara reportedly turned white and said “It is better this way.” Dying Capuchin monks made churches with their deaths, their bones used for the deeply serious skeletal collages which still sit oddly in their Italian crypts. The point was to be an artistic momento […]
Tue, 12 Oct - Sat, 23 Oct 2010
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
Watching Gat's dance is like keeping track of the hands in a Jason Bourne movie. His whole figure jumps with suddenness and grace - no movement is spare, and there arrives no moment of rest.
Fri, 15 Oct, 2010
Red Bull Gallery, Alexandria
If you looked at the news in 2008, you've already seen the movement called lowbrow art, or pop surrealism. Friday evening, the Red Bull gallery will be full of it to launch this collaborative exhibition.
Fri, 8 Oct, 2010
Object Gallery, Surry Hills
Studios across the inner-city will throw open their doors on Friday afternoon - Sixteen, including Object renovators Architect Marshall, eco-furniture designers Schamburg + Alvisse and more-than-jewelry-makers Dinosaur Designs, will take guests inside their space and process.
Tue, 21 Sep - Sat, 2 Oct 2010
Wharf 2, Wharf Theatre, Walsh Bay
It's a wooden-industrial macabre story of murder and revenge and has a blues-instrumented country feel, but this production is actually an organic, funny, weird, creepy, electric kind of comedy.