Clive Paget -
May 16, 2013
Victorian Opera bring John Adams' 20th century operatic masterpiece to Melbourne in its first home-grown Australian staging.
Clive Paget -
Apr 24, 2013
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the seminal dystopian novel celebrated the 50th year of its first publication in 2012. This production comes from UK theatre company Action To The Word. Seymour Centre, Sydney, April 23 to May 5 then on tour around Australia.
Clive Paget -
Apr 24, 2013
While cinema, theatre and the visual arts have always boasted a range of glamorous ceremonies, international opera has so far had none. The awards, presented at London’s Hilton Park Lane, were made possible by opera-loving businessman Harry Hyman and were organised in conjunction with the British magazine Opera. Nominations were solicited from a range of international critics as well as from the public.
Clive Paget -
Apr 20, 2013
“If genius is the atheist’s word for God… then attempting to visualize the great nude would be the highest point of creation, for perfection is impossible, and no distortion can be extreme enough.”
Thus spake Brett Whiteley in 1981 and his attempts to do just that are the focus of the latest exhibition at the Brett Whiteley Studio, the artists former workplace and home in Surry Hills, now managed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales which runs until September 1.
Clive Paget -
Apr 19, 2013
Conceived by two of the world's most acclaimed curators Klaus Biesenbach (MOMA, NY) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London), 13 Rooms features 13 individual rooms of performance art works created by some of the world's most well known contemporary artists including Damian Hirst, John Baldessari, Marina Abramovic and Xu Zhen.
Clive Paget -
Apr 19, 2013
Part circus, part cabaret, part burlesque and entirely original, El’ Circo is a truly magical experience that captivates, the moment you enter the room. Created by French born Marc Kuzma, the show features a range of circus acts influenced with the matchless charm and flavour of Parisian cabaret.
It it currently running at Slide, 41 Oxford Street, Sydney every Saturday night and selected Fridays until 2014.
To the immortal tunes of B-Boy Bach, Limelight deputy editor Melissa Lesnie learned how to lock, pop and baby freeze.
Melissa Lesnie -
Apr 15, 2013
Direct from Covent Garden, this charming production delighted island audiences at Theatre Royal.
Clive Paget -
Apr 15, 2013
Lisa Tomasetti's photographs have been documenting the Australian Ballet on tour for several years. Her latest exhibition juxtaposes classical form with the urban landscape. The show runs at the Salerno Gallery, 70 Glebe Point Road, April 14-28.
Clive Paget -
Apr 15, 2013
The Melbourne-based artist has won this year’s Bulgari Art Award for his triptych entitled Imagine a Raft (Hard Rubbish 4+5). Cattapan is one of Australia’s finest contemporary painters whose subject is often contemporary cities, both their architecture and organisation and how we inhabit them.
Clive Paget -
Apr 12, 2013
Jessica Pratt is the latest winner of the coveted Siola d'Oro which generally takes the form of something tasteful in diamonds. But which of her illustrious predecessors wins our battle of the bling?
Clive Paget -
Apr 11, 2013
Conceived by two of the world's most acclaimed curators Klaus Biesenbach (MOMA, NY) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London), 13 Rooms features 13 individual rooms of performance art works created by some of the world's most well known contemporary artists including Damian Hirst, John Baldessari, Marina Abramovic and Xu Zhen.
Clive Paget -
Apr 6, 2013
The satirical alternative to the Archibald Prize, traditionally chosen by a cockatoo.
Melissa Lesnie -
Mar 26, 2013
Classical music made flesh, from classically-trained Kat Von D's Beethoven portrait to Zombie Mozart.
Clive Paget -
Mar 25, 2013
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming documentary film about a remarkable orchestra where musicians play instruments made from rubbish. The documentary features “The Recycled Orchestra”, the creation of Favio Chavez, a landfill worker and musician and focuses on Chavez and an inspiring group of children beating the odds in poverty stricken Cateura, Paraguay.
