The innovative Blamey Street Big Band tackled the music of Abba. Reviewer BILL STEPHENS reckons they nailed it, in their own distinctive way.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
American artists Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson will be in Canberra this year as the first participants in the new American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Visiting Creatives Program, HELEN MUSA reports.
The 2025 Local Heritage Awards have been announced at the recently-named Frank Pangallo Heritage Library during the Queanbeyan-Palerang Heritage Festival.
Here's the latest edition of HELEN MUSA's all-singing, all-dancing, all-arts column, Artsweek.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews SPLIT OPEN, the first solo exhibition by artist Natasha Tareen.
Around 2700 musicians – most of them young – took part in 85 concert, school and jazz bands, orchestras and ensembles at the Australian National Eisteddfod’s Bands & Orchestras competition.
The National Gallery is welcoming the winter with an exhibition of European masters that shows not so much their differences, but their almost familial connections, writes HELEN MUSA.
After the disheartening demise in the past year of Bungendore Woodworks Gallery and Beaver Galleries, news that a huge commercial art gallery is about to open in Fyshwick is bright news indeed, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest mix of arts news featured in her weekly Arts in the City column.
Former Palestinian diplomat and long-time Canberra identity, Ali Kazak, died on Saturday en route to Palestine.
Tributes have been pouring in from members of the Canberra theatre community for the late actor, broadcaster and writer Jan William Smith, who died in Gordon on May 14. He was 89.
An unusual match of talents takes the stage at Smith this week when yarn spinner and musician Jan "Yarn" Wositzky, teams up with theatre worker Penny Glass, who for 23 years has been creating theatre in a Chilean men’s prison.
