Luminescence is turning 10 with a gala concert and Canberra Rep's staging a sequel to a notorious play lead the arts news in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Opening night for this provoking play about what humanity is doing to the planet was cut short when a cast member was taken ill, but the second night saw a solid audience with returnees wanting to see how this epic was going to finish.
"One can be sceptical of the many local remounts of older works we see these days, but this show has more relevance than many." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Noel Coward's Present Laughter.
Memories were to the fore when Governor-General Sam Mostyn took to the podium at Canberra Museum and Gallery on Tuesday to launch a petite but significant exhibition, Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Honours system.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that 99 years after the birth of Italian-Australian architect Enrico Taglietti comes an exhibition unique to the nation’s capital.
The Spanish Film Festival really means not just Spain but the Hispanophone world, where Spanish is spoken, and in all there'll be a selection of 30 films from Spain and Latin America, writes HELEN MUSA.
Japanese artist Keizo Ushio's granite sculpture, Oushi Zokei, Dream Lens for the Future, has been relocated to the Lake Tuggeranong foreshore, reports HELEN MUSA.
The NGA's winter season kicked off in fine style on Thursday morning with the media launch of Cézanne to Giacometti: highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie.