Arts and Entertainment Archive

Treat yourself — that’s the motto of Sydney’s Donny Benét. This year’s Sydney Festival has done just that and has suggested that we all do the same by getting down to the Spiegeltent to kick-start our weekends this January. Donny Benét is …

  Daniel Boyd and electro duo Canyons are collaborating at the Sydney Festival with 100 Million Nights. The first sign that Daniel Boyd is an artist is his sneakers, which are a Pollock-like palette of splattered paint. Looking down at his shoes, …

A crowd of more than 50,000 fans showed up to Bon Jovi’s sold out Because We Can tour at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium last Saturday night. Their set list comprised over two hours of powerhouse ballads and blue-collar rock hits that catered to all audiences, …

To say Emma Pask has had a busy year is somewhat of an understatement: the 36-year-old scatted her way on to season 2 of The Voice Australia; made a very special friend in none other than Ricky Martin; was signed to Universal Music; …

Conceptual art divides people as fiercely and clearly as it divided the Old from the New early in the 20th  Century. Art that can be an idea, or a mere instruction or a thought – often independent of a material resolution or …

My six-hour journey to this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is punctuated only by roadkill and the land itself, burnished and charred by bushfire. The trees lie out eerily by the roadside, black and skeletal, topped by amber leaves. After …

In my desperation to see Foals I was willing to travel abroad, and so booked tickets to their show at Le Zénith in Paris where the Oxford quintet are performing as part of Festival Les Inrocks, a series of live music nights …

Tamarama sculptor Lucy Humphrey won this year’s Sculpture by the Sea first prize with Horizon, a stunning glass globe that gave a crystal clear albeit distorted perspective to the beach surrounds. Another standout was New Zealand artist David McCracken’s Diminish Ascend – a …

Australia and America share many similarities historically. Both are young countries, both are built on a pioneering spirit, and both were quick to create their own mythologies, royalties and national characters from the very start. Taking in the Art Gallery of New …

Renowned for their frolicsome take on what could be misjudged as fustily antique Renaissance and Baroque music, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has found soul mates in Ensemble La Chimera, an Argentine group formed by lutenist Eduardo Eduez to celebrate a fusion of …