In a poignant reminder of the ephemerality of art and life, a new sculpture has been unveiled at the ANU to replace a glass sculpture shattered in a 2020 hailstorm – and this one’s built to last, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
At age 87, legendary photographer Heide Smith, now living at Tuross on the south coast, is looking to her legacy, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts in the City is HELEN MUSA's weekly wrap of arts news from around the town.
Canberra conductor Leonard "Lenny" Weiss was on Thursday judged co-winner, with Argentine-Italian conductor Fernando Oscar Gaggini, of the 21st Khachaturian International Competition, held in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
HELEN MUSA reviews Northern Lights, a performance by Scandinavian violinist Johan Dalene and Tasmanian pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith.
When the curtain rose on the new Canberra Theatre on June 24, 1965, a crowd of VIPs crammed in to see Minister for the Interior Doug Anthony launch Australia's first multi-purpose theatre centre, reports HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA lines up all the big arts events of the coming week in her latest Artsweek column.
From modest beginnings when a bunch of ANU students got together, Luminescence singers have catapulted on to the wider Australian music scene as a respected professional six-voice ensemble, writes HELEN MUSA.
A 19-year-old Canberra jazz singer is well on her way to success, with a scholarship and a place at the noted Eastman School of Music in upstate New York, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A planned changing of the guard at the Cultural Facilities Corporation has seen a swag of exceptionally high-profile appointments to its board, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Turkish-Australian soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal is returning to Canberra on Sunday with a passion project, a concert of all-Cuban music simply titled, Cuba.
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.
