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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 …

Last Saturday grief and shock overwhelmed what had been relief and happiness as France celebrated the release of French hostages kidnapped three years ago in Niger by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. But only days after the release of Pierre Legrand, Daniel …

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 …

From Tom Waites to Claude Debussy, 31-year-old Australian classical saxophonist Amy Dickson’s musical tendencies are as far reaching as dusk is from dawn. Dickson’s latest offering, titled Dusk and Dawn, is a stylish reworking of classical, jazz and popular tunes including Chopin’s “Nocturne”, Bellini’s …

Based on the classic 1988 film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now on at Sydney’s Theatre Royal, returns the audience to memorable classic moments of this highly successful comedy. Directed by Roger Hodgman(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grey Gardens, Sweeny Todd) this all new Australian …

I don’t generally spend my Saturday nights watching middle-aged women pose nude in front of strategically placed baked goods and floral displays, but when I do I make sure it’s for an excellent cause. Epicentre Theatre Company’s production of Calendar Girls at …

Bursting with the energy of youth and fuelled by vodka, hormones and the addictive madness of first lust, Sydney Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet is a stunning modern interpretation that reworks Shakespeare’s classic love story into a tale of teenage rebellion fit for a …

Human rights experts warn that involving those most affected in policy-making is the only way to tackle global hunger, questioning the benefits of “investor-driven” public-private partnerships (PPPs) such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa …

Whenever I hear the saxophone used in classical orchestral music – after years of digging the instrument in jazz and rock with all its attendant growls, snarls, bleeds and honks – it sounds like a completely different instrument to its earthier-music sibling. Its …