Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Formed from a collection of real African traditions and seasons, Kwanzaa isn't religion, it's heritage all the way. This party will be rolling the seven-day festival into one big, principled omnibus of sound.
Wednesday, December 15 - Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Paper Mill, Sydney
The four artists showcasing their work in this latest exhibition at the Paper Mill have looked inside and turned back to their instincts for inspiration. While the name may be flippant, the works themselves are anything but.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Switch Digital Arts Centre, Parramatta
The product of months of work with local artists, this community project has taken young people from central and western Sydney and equipped them with digital and physical skills to get their stories across to the wider world.
Wednesday, December 15 - Saturday, December 18, 2010
A trio of Sydney's top designers aren't content to stick to the tradition of starting sales after Christmas, and insist on giving you your Boxing Day joy a little early.
Friday, December 3 - Sunday, December 19, 2010
MOP, Chippendale
Silhouettes, projected images, vodka and condoms - three artists play with profiles and perceptions in this effecting and at times confronting exhibition.
Thursday, December 9 - Saturday, December 18, 2010
Locksmith Gallery, Alexandria
Anna John's exhibition plays drapery against abstract skeletons of figures or buildings. It puts together anti-figures in the past - the detail's there, but the bodies have gone elsewhere to be implied by what remains.
Wednesday, December 8 - Sunday, December 12, 2010
aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo
This collaborative exhibition matches wall-based art with cotton-based style, encouraging you to walk away wearing the treasures of the exhibition on a t-shirt of your very own.
Tuesday, November 30 - Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
This is the third time that John Waters has toured his biographical combination of music and words about the life of superstar ex-Beatle, John Lennon. Waters wears Lennon easily, catching his rhythms and attitude. His builds a Lennon who is likeable, human and irreverent. He strips the fame from him and returns a likeable man in midst of a whirlwind. The real Lennon had little of the slow gravitas often adopted in the glare of public life. He just seemed to be himself. This critically acclaimed production gives you some idea of the man behind some of the most timeless tunes ever written, and what they meant to him. By end of the show, John Waters owns the meaning of John Lennon, if only a version of it. Lennon as a whole person, and taking up a person's space. No more, no less.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
With a strong, clear new voice cutting its way out across the heavily engineered landscape of pop, this Britpop princess is sure to pack a punch during her Sydney tour.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale
Massive, philanthropic art foundations had always seemed to belong to faraway cities, like New York or Madrid. Then they started popping up over here as well. A four-storey converted knitting-factory wedged at the edge of the Carlton Brewery site and the Mortuary Station, the White Rabbit Gallery showcases a massive private collection of modern Chinese art. Finding it can be […]
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - Sunday, March 13, 2011
Get up close with the life-size terracotta warriors that guarded the tomb of the first Emperor of China, examine their accoutrements and check out some recently unearthed finds as well.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
With the sleek morning accoutrements of cheap breakfast and swish digs, you can listen to bright young things from a range of creative industries talk about what they do. This month's theme is 'Love', and each of its five speakers loves what they do.
Friday, November 26, 2010 - Saturday, January 29, 2011
Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst
The cavernous galleries of the Australian Centre for Photography are about to play host to a display of excess. Historically, over-paid elites hid their wealth behind empty shows of humility. When they didn’t, they tended to inspire harsh laws against showing off; effective or otherwise. The ancient Romans tried to ban excess. The Venetians of the rennaissance kept […]
Thursday, November 25 - Saturday, December 18, 2010
Chalk Horse, Surry Hills
Anthony Lister's figures are amalgamations of superheroes, shimmering colours and body parts. They look ready to walk off the walls to go out in search of whatever takes their mood, so don't let them get away before you've had the chance to get a look.
Thursday, November 11 - Saturday, November 27, 2010
For Ruth, the world seems split into people living safe in boxes, and wilder creatures with the ferocity to live a harder life. Her fantasies are bleak dreams of far away places, welling-up into a torrent of words and joie de vivre bursting to escape into her day-to-day life.
Wednesday, November 17 - Sunday, November 21, 2010
Dendy Newtown, Newtown
A celebration of films on cyclists and by cyclists, this annual festival of the two-wheeler screens in more than 30 cities around the globe, and this week it kicks off in Sydney with some serious velocity.
Friday, November 19, 2010 - Sunday, January 9, 2011
The Galleries, Sydney
This annual exhibition of works from the best female visual artists around the world is on once again. Art will be suspended mid-air, will be for show and sale in shops below, and for three Thursdays will be created live in a texta-only art battle.
Friday, November 12 - Sunday, November 14, 2010
Woollahra, Woollahra
The inaugural Woollahra Festival this weekend plans to divide itself into two parts for your entertainment. Siteworx will feed the performance parts of your brain on stages around Queen Street, while a program of talks will feed your ears, eyes and urge you to pipe up with a question. Siteworx is curated by ex-Griffin artistic […]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Newtown
With this multi-faceted neighbourhood festival the question isn't where to start but where to stop. Divided into stages, stalls, lawns and avenues, events in the festival trip over each other to entertain, edify or feed you.
Saturday, November 6 - Sunday, November 7, 2010
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
Everyone knows there are secret Sydneys. Not just waterfront apartments and gothic mansions of state, but quieter faces - the back rooms, offices, tunnels and storehouses that make the city function, or once did. Stone, glass, brick, old, new - scattered, strange buildings around the city that make you think. Sydney Open throws back the veil for a weekend, letting Sydneysiders peek behind the scenes. There are focus tours of individual properties over the whole weekend, while on Sunday there is a city-wide wander. So get the map, get nosy and get a look behind the curtain.