A giant four-metre steel Murray cod, was installed at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Friday, launching a collaborative project culminating in a lakeside artwork at November’s Craft + Design Canberra Festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Former curator at The National Portrait Gallery, April Phillips, will step into the role of artistic director and CEO of Canberra Contemporary while director Sophia Cai takes maternity leave.
Canberra Repertory is about to embark on its most ambitious show of the 2026 season, The Glass Menagerie, and it has a world expert on Tennessee Williams at the helm of the production, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A long-running environmental art award exhibition was unveiled on Sunday at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery where the major prize of the day went to Sophie Baker for an impressionistic interpretation of Lake Ginninderra.
Billed as "a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, sexual innuendos, unsuccessful repressions and delicious discoveries", the play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche is coming to ACT Hub, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA has filed her latest Arts in the City column.
Members of Canberra’s artistic, academic and diplomatic communities have been saddened to hear of the death on Monday of diplomat, scholar and Renaissance man Kyle Ralph Wilson. He was 76.
The Marion Halligan Award, which recognises a work demonstrating uniqueness and literary excellence that transcends genre, has been awarded to The Dingo's Noctuary, an illustrated verse novel by Judith Nangala Crispin.
Here's the latest Artsweek column by arts editor HELEN MUSA
Sydney Fringe hit Gia Ophelia, written by playwright Grace Wilson and directed by Canberra-born Jo Bradley, is coming to Canberra for a limited season at the Courtyard Studio.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA has filed her latest Arts in the City column.
A new theatre company, directed by Isaiah Prichard, is mounting a production of Albert Camus’s rarely performed Caligula. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has the story.
