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    World Press Photo 2012

    Saturday, June 30 - Sunday, July 22, 2012

    State Library of NSW, Sydney

    At its best, an exhibition of the extremes of life: good and bad.

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    The Other’s Other

    Wednesday, May 9 - Sunday, June 17, 2012

    Artspace Sydney, Woolloomooloo

    Explore that feeling of finally seeing a real, flawed place you've previously imagined as more glamorous.

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    Games in the Backyard

    Thursday, November 17 - Friday, December 2, 2011

    ATYP Studios, The Wharf, Walsh Bay

    As effective art often does, this play examines a cultural sore spot, picking apart a real-life rape and its fallout.

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    Judith: A Parting from the Body

    Tuesday, October 18 - Sunday, November 6, 2011

    Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach

    This revisionist take on the biblical story of Judith toys with the idea that seduction can play on the vulnerabilities of both parties.

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    Orange Flower Water

    Saturday, March 26 - Sunday, April 17, 2011

    Darlinghurst Theatre, Potts Point

    Orange Flower Water is gorgeously scripted and wrenchingly incisive on topics like desire, guilt, obligation and, most of all, regret.

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    Spunk Records Xmas Party

    Tuesday, December 14, 2010

    Good God Small Club, Sydney

    Raising the bar for Christmas party caper, Spunk are turning it on with an impressive lineup to celebrate the end of a momentous year for the cult record label.

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    The Grenade

    Tuesday, November 9 - Tuesday, November 30, 2010

    Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    Tony McNamara’s new play The Grenade is well paced, competently acted and funny at times, but it’s hard to get too excited about a show so keen to diffuse its own narrative tension. Ostensibly about the paranoia that ensues when political analyst and family man Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) finds a hand grenade left in […]

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    Matt Huynh: Alluvia

    Wednesday, November 3 - Saturday, November 13, 2010

    The Paper Mill, Sydney

    I recently went to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Which, contextually, is neither here nor there except that it houses the world’s largest collection of ancient Chinese art, stretches for floor upon floor of exhibits and is utterly mind blowing. There were so many incredible artifacts to see that I stopped taking things in […]

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    An Exhibition of Russian Artists

    Wednesday, August 18 - Sunday, August 29, 2010

    Global Gallery, Paddington

    One of the artist statements for Global Gallery’s current Russian Artists show proudly proclaims painter, Leeka Gruzdeff, as the “winner of over 100 first prizes in local and country exhibitions.” That’s a pretty good summation of this show, with most of the five artists’ work displaying the sort of technical competence that would fare well […]

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    In The Balance: Art For A Changing World

    Saturday, August 21 - Sunday, October 31, 2010

    An artistic response to a diverse range of ecological concerns, much of this exhibition is quite spectacular, with a good deal of excellent photography covering both verdant and destroyed landscapes, alongside numerous plant installations which lend each room a beauty and liveliness.

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    Bret Easton Ellis with Models

    Tuesday, August 10, 2010

    Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst

    Book tours and gigs don't normally sit together. But Bret Easton Ellis doing a book signing at Oxford Art Factory, supported by Australian new wavers Models somehow works in a weird way, like chilli and chocolate.

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    World Press Photo 2010

    Monday, July 5 - Sunday, July 25, 2010

    State Library of NSW, Sydney

    There's an amazing stillness and beauty to every shot, often of scenes that should surrender neither: the aftermath of the Iranian elections, Israel's bombing of Palestine, the workings of an abattoir. It's also wrenching viewing.

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    Akira with live score by Regurgitator

    Sunday, August 8, 2010

    Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    There’s a certain pleasure to events that might be great or that might bomb, badly. So-crazy-it-just-might-work shenanigans lend themselves to an excited trepidation. You know, as exemplified by the prospect of Regurgitator live-scoring a screening of Akira. If you like animation, it’s pretty much a given that you’re big on Akira. How could you not […]

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    Hijacked 2

    Tuesday, June 22 - Saturday, July 17, 2010

    Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst

    It's a nebulous Australian/German mix that places photos of leather jackets, panties and [i]great parties[/i] alongside photographer's art that's actually good.

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