Written by: Fiona Gruber What rhymes with Fidel Castro? Carolyn Burns says she’s not allowed to say too much about her current project, a musical she’s been tinkering with for several years based on Cuba’s turbulent post-war history. As for its chances of getting up, she says, as a TV and stage writer with several decades […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber Photos by: Garth Oriander Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier are in the middle of making another album. It hasn’t got a name yet, says Conway, but after a few gigs to warm up, in August they’ll head to a recording studio in Melbourne, where they live. ‘We’ve got 15 songs and probably ten […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber When Daniel Crooks was a film student at VCA in the 1990s, he filled his bedroom with old TVs. The local Northcote tip sold obsolete sets for a dollar and he’d take them home and play around with their capabilities. ‘It’s amazing what you can do with a magnet, he quips; “the […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber Catherine Hill says inexperience was sometimes a plus when making her first feature film, Some Happy Day. The shoot involved 60 actors, 60 crew and more than 150 community supporters. “It didn’t occur to me that a huge cast would be a problem; that was definitely a bit naïve,” she says. The […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber One of my first encounters with the writer Arnold Zable was in the form of a small suitcase that had belonged to his father. It was part of an exhibition at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum in 2011. Called Mameloshn, the Yiddish word for mother tongue, the exhibition told the story of a once […]
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1.Tom and Sylvia Lowenstein with Moira at Mario’s Fitzroy for the launch of Finucane & Smith Rapture/Antarctic photographs, August 2019 2. Main wall of Rapture/Antarctic exhibition, August 2019 3. Imants Tillers’ film launch at Federation Hall, Journey to Nowhere, VCA South Bank, Imants Tillers and Professor Ian Smith, August 2019 4. John Wolseley exhibition at Australian Galleries, July 2019 5. John Wolseley exhibition at Australian Galleries, July […]
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From top: Opening night speeches, Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, NGVA, 30 August 2018 – 28 January 2019, Wendy Whiteley, Tess Baldessin Deakin University Donors Dinner L-R Evan Lowenstein, Leanne Willis, Stephen Wickham Tom Lowenstein and Michael Brand (Director AGNSW) at Charles Blackman memorial, AGNSW, 8 September 2018 Joe Fitzpatrick, Evan Lowenstein, Kamahl, Tom Lowenstein, Kate Fitzpatrick at […]
As we go to ‘press’ some Australian art museums are opening up! But during lockdown we’ve seen museums and galleries large and small go online: see AGNSW virtual tour of the Archibald Art Gallery at Home – Art Gallery NSW Virtual Visit and Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
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Photos by: Evan Lowenstein Recent exhibitions and launches from January 2021 1. Louise Paramor art opening February 2021, Finkelstein Gallery 2. Louise Paramor art opening February 2021, Finkelstein Gallery 3. Peta Clancy, Bendigo Art Gallery 4. Castlemaine Art Museum, show curated by Jenny Long – ‘Naming Clouds’ 5. Castlemaine Art Museum, February 2021 6. Bernadette Emmerichs, Scott Livesey Gallery 7. Julia Ritson, Scott Livesey Gallery
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The Field, NGV. Photos: Predrag Cancar Top: Dale Hickey, Untitled. Left: Alun Leach-Jones. Right: Peter Booth