• Event

    Seizure ‘Music’ launch

    Thu, 6 Dec, 2012

    107 Projects, Redfern

    An unplugged evening of sound and words to launch the journal's new edition.

  • Event

    Ripple Effect: Boomalli Founding Members

    Fri, 23 Nov 2012 - Sun, 20 Jan 2013

    Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Cooperative, Leichhardt

    Big names as this indigenous artists' collective celebrates 25 years.

  • Event

    Beck Hansen’s Song Reader

    Wed, 19 Dec, 2012

    The Standard, Surry Hills

    The ever-ambitious, ever-irresolute Beck has a new high-concept project: his latest album, Song Reader, has been released as sheet music only. The 20 tracks will be brought to life by fans and musicians around the world and posted online, with the first local performance also raising money for the Sydney Story Factory.

  • News

    Five Art Projects Remixing Urban Spaces in Sydney

    By taking dead patches of urban space and transforming them into creative destinations, these artists are reinvigorating the barren, the forgotten and the just plain boring.

  • Event

    Robin Clare: Badda dan dem star

    Fri, 30 Nov - Sun, 2 Dec 2012

    China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills

    Art at the collision of painting, design and Jamaican dancehall popular culture.

  • News

    The Silent History Reinvents Storytelling

    One of the first applications to expand the unchartered boundaries of e-book storytelling.

  • Event

    Passing Parade

    Thu, 22 Nov - Thu, 13 Dec 2012

    Alaska Projects, Kings Cross

    Alaska Projects' last 2012 show promises a hurricane of unblinking, raw, political art.

  • Event

    Index 2012: Vertical Street Party

    Tue, 27 Nov, 2012

    Building 6, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, Ultimo

    DAB's end of year show takes on all levels across a single UTS low-rise.

  • News

    Concrete Playground talks to Rohan Anderson (Whole Larder Love)

    We preview the new book and talk about cities without supermarkets.

  • Event

    Margaret Olley: Home

    Sat, 10 Nov 2012 - Mon, 1 Apr 2013

    Museum of Sydney, Sydney

    A celebration of the living, breathing art installation that was Margaret Olley's home.

  • Event

    Elizabeth Street Gallery

    Mon, 12 Nov 2012 - Tue, 12 Nov 2013

    Elizabeth Street Gallery, Sydney

    Just a couple of weeks ago, the stretch of Elizabeth Street between Goulburn and Campbell was a "cultural chernobyl": one of the most God-forsaken, bricked-up eyesores in the CBD. Now a crew of professional photographers have unilaterally hijacked this carpark wall, installing a street gallery of 40 large-scale works.

  • Event

    The 61st Blake Prize

    Fri, 9 Nov - Sun, 16 Dec 2012

    S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks

    A spiritual art prize loses its religion.

  • Event

    ARTBAR curated by Nell

    Fri, 26 Oct, 2012

    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, The Rocks

    Nell takes over the MCA for a Halloween ARTBAR.

  • Event

    Bites After Work: Storytelling 102

    Tue, 16 Oct, 2012

    Glebe Library, Glebe

    Learn to tell real stories around the proverbial campfire.

  • Event

    ARTBAR curated by Daniel Boyd

    Fri, 28 Sep, 2012

    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, The Rocks

    Catch video works, The Crayons, a Dreamtime Ink Australia tattoo parlour, and a panel discussing 'When I die bury me inside the Gucci store'.

  • Event

    Go Figure!

    Sat, 15 Sep - Sat, 1 Dec 2012

    Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington

    Our love affair with contemporary Chinese art rolls on thanks to portraiture that's both fun and political.

  • Restaurant

    Gelato Messina Surry Hills

    389 Crown Street, Surry Hills

    The gelato gods have set up shop in Surry Hills.

  • Event

    Double Take

    Fri, 31 Aug - Mon, 2 Jan 2012

    White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale

    The new show from the Sydney art world equivalent of wide-eyed, out-and-out pop music.

  • News

    The Ten Best Things to See and Do at Art and About 2012

    Secret lunchtime gigs, light projections on Hyde Park canopies, a house that rains on the inside, and more art in unconventional places.

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