• Event

    Fiona McGregor: Water Series

    Tue, 1 Nov - Sun, 20 Nov 2011

    Artspace Sydney, Woolloomooloo

    Fiona MacGregor uses her body as an instrument to investigate the complex and vital relation we have with water.

  • Restaurant

    Gelato Messina

    1/241 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst

    The OG store that spawned a nationwide gelateria empire.

  • Event

    House

    Sat, 15 Oct 2011 - Sun, 5 Feb 2012

    Museum of Sydney, Sydney

    Big beautiful photos of things from big beautiful houses provide a lesson in Australian history and a reflection on the inherent meaningfulness of objects.

  • Event

    Titus Andronicus

    Mon, 17 Oct - Sat, 5 Nov 2011

    ATYP Studios, The Wharf, Walsh Bay

    Major trigger warnings for the Shakespeare play that reads most like an Odd Future track.

  • Event

    October Shows at Firstdraft

    Wed, 12 Oct - Sun, 30 Oct 2011

    Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo

    Karla Dickens on NRL, darts with Diana Smith and a chance to catch up on your laundry courtesy of Tega Brain. It's art. No, really.

  • Event

    Money Shots: STC Next Stage

    Fri, 30 Sep - Sat, 15 Oct 2011

    Wharf 2, Wharf Theatre, Walsh Bay

    Five 15-minute plays threaded together by the presence of money as a determinant of character and action showcase contemporary Australian playwriting as part of STC's Next Stage program.

  • Event

    Claudia O’Doherty: What Is Soil Erosion?

    Tue, 18 Oct - Sun, 30 Oct 2011

    Belvoir Downstairs, Surry Hills

    Claudia O'Doherty explores the most pressing issue of our time, Soil Erosion, in an hour-long experience of the 26-hour TV show 'they' won't let her make.

  • Event

    Antenna International Documentary Film Festival

    Wed, 5 Oct - Sun, 9 Oct 2011

    Chauvel Cinema, Paddington

    We are all documenting all the time now. This festival is both a state of the nation on what documentary is and does now and a space for consideration of what it can be and do in the future.

  • Event

    PAN Magazine Launch: Issue 2

    Wed, 28 Sep, 2011

    The World Bar, Kings Cross

    For those who like independent publications to read in their small bars, PAN Magazine laughs off the sophomore blues with its second issue.

  • Event

    Warwick Thornton: Stranded

    Wed, 7 Sep - Sat, 8 Oct 2011

    Stills Gallery, Paddington

    Indigenous filmmaker and artist Warwick Thornton casts himself in a recreation of the Crucifixion in a series of stills and a 3D film.

  • Event

    The Paper Attic

    Sat, 30 Jul - Sun, 25 Sep 2011

    Object Gallery, Surry Hills

    A room full of painstakingly made paper replicas of junk call into question our ideas about use and value.

  • Event

    On Sale! Shops and Shopping

    Mon, 8 Aug - Sun, 30 Oct 2011

    State Library of NSW, Sydney

    Take a sneak peek into Sydney's shopping trolley with this department-store style setup of advertising, packaging and photos.

  • Event

    Big Fashion Sale

    Fri, 12 Aug - Sun, 14 Aug 2011

    Paddington Town Hall, Paddington

    Virtuously support the Australian fashion industry while honing your overall shopping fitness.

  • Event

    Naeem Rana and Nusra Qureshi: The way you look at me

    Fri, 8 Jul - Sat, 20 Aug 2011

    4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

    Two Pakistani born arists investigate and document their experience as migrants in Australia using traditional art forms adapted within the context of contemporary art, society and politics.

  • Event

    New exhibitions at Gaffa

    Thu, 30 Jun - Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

    All four shows in this set of exhibitions at Gaffa are, in one way or another, about place. How we construct it, how we occupy it, how it shapes the way we think.

  • Event

    Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

    Thu, 7 Jul - Sat, 13 Aug 2011

    Chalk Horse, Surry Hills

    In their second group show since the re-open earlier this year, Chalk Horse show that though they've gone commercial they are definitely still the indie conceptual darlings of yore.

  • Event

    The Poetry of Drawing

    Sat, 18 Jun - Sun, 4 Sep 2011

    Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

    Beautiful drawings of beautiful women by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: way more revolutionary than you'd think, but just as lovely.

  • Event

    Social Sculpture

    Sat, 2 Apr - Sat, 18 Jun 2011

    Anna Schwartz Gallery, CarriageWorks, Eveleigh

    The show, which might look like a jumble of videos and of stuff comes together as something meaningful and involving with the application of a little time and contemplation.

  • Event

    Four Shows at Firstdraft

    Wed, 8 Jun - Sun, 26 Jun 2011

    Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo

    Sydney's oldest ARI showing some of Sydney's newest artwork. You know the drill. This time round it's Penelope Benton, Alison Locke, Tully Arnott with Charles Dennington, and Samuel Bruce.

  • Event

    Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011

    Thu, 16 Jun - Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    Korean and Australian art co-curated by the MCA and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea for the Korea-Australia Year of Friendship. Hugs all round!

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