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NewsA Bluffer's Guide to Art Parties
Most openings are come one, come many so we’ve enlisted the experts to help us brave our debut into the commercial art world with A Bluffer’s Guide to Art Parties.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide to Art Parties
Most openings are come one, come many so we've enlisted the experts to help you brave your debut into the commercial art world.
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NewsSydney’s Unique Jewellers
Sydney is home to incredibly creative contemporary jewellers. Concrete Playground went to Gaffa to find out more about them.
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NewsLearning to Love Again at ARTBAR
How one spurned woman reconciled with the art scene in Sydney.
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NewsInfamous Dictators Get Hipster Makeovers
Ronallman's illustrations prove that hipster wardrobes might be better suited to conservative nutjobs.
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NewsThe Ten Best Events at Vivid Ideas 2012
Dedicated to connecting industry with emerging talent and global leaders in over 100 events, this year will see events focused on discussion and creative collaboration.
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NewsWin Tickets to the First Ever ARTBAR at the MCA
Art, DJs, karaoke, and priceless views of Vivid's opening night - that's MCA's first ARTBAR for you.
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NewsReviving Dead Words with Beautiful Typography
A blog called The Dead Words is using thematically appropriate typography to breathe new life into, well, dead words.
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NewsThe Complete Guide to Finding Sydney’s Cheap Theatre Seats
Here's a guide of when and where to go to get some culture into your life, without having to eat noodles for the remainder of the week.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to See at the Sydney Film Festival
The annual Sydney Film Festival carves a cinema-going strip out of the city and makes us excited about seeing more than just the latest blockbusters.
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NewsTurn Your GPS Bicycle Routes Into Artworks
Michael J. Wallace has found a neat way of combining both of these talents, all while getting the daily dose of fresh air and outdoor exercise that we so dearly need.
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NewsHow to Find a Week’s Worth of Night Art in Sydney
In our city there are enough institutions, exhibitions and installations to fill a week's worth of evening art excursions.
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NewsThe 10 Best-Attended Art Exhibits of 2011
The Art Newspaper compiled the 10 best-attended art exhibits of 2011.
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NewsArtist Creates Immense Art with Fingerprints
Zhang Yu meditatively presses his right thumb into ink, creating infinitive patterns with the prints.
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NewsSix Australian Art Galleries Join Google Art Project
Six Australian galleries have joined Google Art Project to make fine art accessible worldwide.
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NewsLightScythe Reveals Floating Images of Light
By capturing the movement of a LED-covered stick, the Mechatronics Guy reveals beautiful text and images.
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News5 DIY Ways to Transform Your Walls
Easy enough for the craft beginner, these wall art DIY projects could fool anyone into thinking you're an interior designer.
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NewsThe Nerdy Girl Gets the Jock and Other Love Stories from the Voices Project
The Voices Project is brings together young people from different backgrounds and disciplines, and makes writers and viewers think about how storytelling changes from medium to medium.
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NewsSee Benedict Cumberbatch on Stage (Sort Of)
See his performance in Frankenstein courtesy of National Theatre Live, which captures British stage shows for the silver screen.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Oxford Street Design Store
Concrete Playground sat down to chat with Alex and Lou, and checked out a typical day in their new shopfront.
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NewsArtist Creates Large-Scale Sand Art
California artist Andreas Amador covers his local beaches in beautifully organic sand carvings.
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NewsThe Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco
The Creators Project provides techie-minded artists with the means and exposure to commune and create.
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NewsBloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution
A disused mental institution in Massachusetts becomes public art as it's filled with 28,000 flowers.
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NewsThe Top Five Non-Stuffy Operas of 2012
Lately there's more than a bit of buzz about opera in Sydney, and it's all on the creative, experimental and accessible side of things.
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NewsTheatres To Usher In Live Tweeting
The last bastion of the phone-free two hours, the theatre, might be about to crumble.
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NewsVivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced
Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.
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NewsBerndaut Smilde Conjures Clouds Indoors
In a seemingly magical act, Smilde produces and photographs his indoor clouds to explore the concept of transition and physical presence in his latest collection.
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NewsVivid Live 2012 Line-Up is Here
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florence & the Machine, The Temper Trap, Janelle Monae and Amon Tobin added to an already stellar line-up.
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NewsMakoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality
Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.
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NewsNew York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art
The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to See and Do at Art Month Sydney 2012
As Art Month turns three, Concrete Playground helps you decode its tours, talks, trails and exhibitions.
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NewsMoss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Photographer Dean Sewell
Dean recently sat down with Concrete Playground to talk about the Lonely Station, photography and the usefulness of good rope skills.
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NewsEvery World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011
They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.
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NewsWhat Music Looks Like as an Object
German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'
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NewsStuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney
An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
