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News3D Print Your Own Art Masterpiece Forgery
Here is a story to both perturb and titillate the sensitive art-lovers among us.
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NewsThe 12 Best Things to See at the Melbourne Festival 2013
105 events in 45 venues in just 17 days. If you get your head around 12 of them, your Melbourne Festival will have been a success.
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NewsUnlikely Objects from the Bizarre Imagination of an Italian Artist
Unlikely objects invite the doublest of double-takes.
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NewsThe Discerning Lego-Builder Now Has Minimalist, All-White Bricks
Lego launches a versatile set for would-be architects.
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NewsScale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
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NewsMelbourne Festival Is After Your Heart with 2013 Program
A ten-hour theatre show, a concert in the dark and a giant Welcome to Country mark Melbourne Festival 2013.
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NewsFirst FBI-Curated Art Show Puts Forgeries on Display
Warhol, Chagall, de Kooning, Gauguin, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir - what a bunch of big fat fakes.
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NewsUncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection
The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets Auckland Art Fair Director Jennifer Buckley
Concrete Playground catches up with Auckland Art Fair director Jennifer Buckley for the low down on New Zealand's one and only art fair.
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NewsUnderwater Opera Announced for Sydney Festival 2014
How does an underwater opera work? Is it through air pockets? Scuba gear? Gillyweed?
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NewsTen Reasons to Visit the Auckland Art Fair 2013
From monkeys painting to glamorous opening parties, Concrete Playground chats with Jana Beer, publications editor for Auckland Art Fair 2013, for the ten best reasons to visit the 2013 Auckland Art Fair.
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NewsSensual Body Landscapes by Photographer Carl Warner
Carl Warner makes the literary literal in a series of 'landscapes' composed entirely of naked men and women.
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NewsArt Spiegelman, Grant Morrison and More Announced for GRAPHIC Festival
GRAPHIC is like arty Comic-Con, and you don't need to be an uber-fan to feel part of the party.
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NewsGhostly Dresses Photographed Underwater
A 1000 litre pool, inner-city backyard and theatrical garments combine.
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NewsArts House Opens Door to Season Two
Fire, murder, fight clubs and a semi-sci-fi take on online journalism feature in the cutting-edge season 2.0.
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NewsArt & About to Transform City with Mirrors, Snails
Art & About organisers have revealed a sneak peek of what's to come in September.
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NewsUnderbelly Arts 2013 Program Launches
Underbelly Arts is back after a fallow year. Will the wait have been worth it?
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NewsHipsters at the Gate: Greek Agora Classics get a Wardrobe Update
Ever wondered what the Ancient Greeks might look like in 2013? Wonder no more.
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Guide to The 5th Auckland Triennial
The time to get out and experience The 5th Auckland Triennial for yourself is now, and here is a helpful guide to get you started.
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NewsPoetic Photography that Visualises Haikus
Rina Vukobratovic gives her childhood haikus a new, photographic life.
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NewsGet Your Art on a Tram (Legally)
Melbourne Art Trams will gussy up eight trams with bold works.
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NewsFive Futuristic Art Works to See at ISEA
These ISEA art sideshows show off a future far more interesting than your missing jetpack.
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NewsInstagram Goes Deep with iAfghanistan Photojournalism
Ben Lowy's mesmerising wartime photos show iPhoneography's full potential.
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NewsSurprisingly Beautiful Photographs from the Secret Underworld of Drains
There's suffering for your art, and then there's fighting off cockroach armies to take a photo.
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NewsSupport Your Favourite Cockatoo Island Takeovers by Underbelly Arts
Underbelly Arts invites you to invest (in more ways than one).
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NewsLes Bains, Paris: The Best Street Art Collection No-one Can See
Derelict Parisian nightclub Les Bains plays host to the world's most respected street artists - but alas, you're still not on the guestlist.
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NewsArt Meets MasterChef Meets Bar Fight at Art Battles
Two artists, two canvases, two hours and one big crowd. Welcome to Art Battles Australia.
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NewsMONA Reveals Dark Mofo Festival Program – And Will Fly You There for Free
Enough art, music and jet fuel to blast through the winter chill.
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NewsThe Beauty of Decaying Theatres
Photographer Julia Solis brings us 100+ images of the hub of mid 20th-century popular culture.
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NewsHow the Internet, Marina Abramovic and Dachshunds Made Performance Art Cool
What is it? Why is it? Huh?
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NewsFood Is Artist Hong Yi’s Latest Paintbrush
Hong Yi creates delicate artworks from everyday victuals.
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NewsArtist Jay Shells Swaps Street Signs with Rap Lyrics
Meet you on the corner of 'Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz'.
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NewsBook Spine Poetry That Speaks Volumes
A lifelong book fetish becomes fun and quirky poetic art.
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NewsArtist Bradley Hart Finds Unusual Use for Bubble Wrap
Bradley Hart would not like it if you popped his bubble wrap.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces 2013 Lineup
The festival turns five this year, and is celebrating with its most dazzling lineup yet.
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NewsFour Interesting Ideas in the New Australian Cultural Policy
The Gillard Government announced their long-awaited cultural policy which look set to have some unexpectedly awesome consequences
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NewsSeven Forward-Thinking Foodies Create Meals from the Future
Good news for people who like needles, kelp and insects.
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