Richard Avedon People
American photographer Richard Avedon produced portrait photographs that defined the twentieth century. The exhibition Richard Avedon People explores his photographic practice and includes iconic portraits from the Richar...
Tag Archives: Canberra
New Sounds of Australia are the real thing
Russell Morris’ Molly Meldrum-produced single The Real Thing, Peter Allen’s iconic I Still Call Australia Home and Archie Roach’s powerful song about the stolen generations, Took the Children Away, are among the ten reco...
From a Black Sky
In January 2003 when the fires raged and the seemingly impossible happened in Canberra, the city and the people in it changed. From a Black Sky is a gripping chamber opera set in the maelstrom of that day. In Weston Cree...
Bijou – a cabaret of secrets and seduction
In a Parisian cafe bar in 1932, we meet Bijou draped in her tattered finery. Over many glasses of wine, she reads palms, tells and sells saucy stories, sings snatches of song and relives the adventures of her long-lost y...
Empire takes over Canberra
After rave reviews, sold out performances and standing ovations in New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, Spiegelworld will bring its all-new show Empire to Canberra, pitching its opulent spiegeltent at Civic S...
2013 Possible Worlds Film Festival
The eighth annual Possible Worlds Film Festival opens this week showcasing the best new cinema from Canada and the United States, focusing exclusively on independent films. In Sydney, the Festival will open with Sarah Po...
Roy Lichtenstein: Pop remix
Roy Lichtenstein was a master of appropriation. Applying a systematic approach to his creative energy, the artist’s entire body of work was constructed following a sophisticated strategy of image selection, reinterpre...
Slava’s Snowshow storms into Australia
Since its creation by renowned Russian clown Slava Polunin in 1993, Slava’s Snowshow has played to millions of people in more than 30 countries and 120 cities including New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, H...