Artworks by Cézanne, Braque, Giacometti, Klee, Matisse and Picasso are coming from Berlin to the National Gallery of Australia this winter.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
A Canberra artist whose unusual muse is his rescue greyhound is about to unveil his debut exhibition, which he describes as “a cultural statement”.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column, roll call of a what's what, where and when around the local arts scene.
HELEN MUSA previews the new production of Willy Russell’s seminal 1986 play Shirley Valentine, starring screen identity and pop singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte in the title role.
Newsboys, remember them? In Arts in the City this week, HELEN MUSA reports there's a new musical about them coming up. But first the auditions.
Contesting the oft-repeated phrase that "women aren't funny", a group of Canberra comedians are taking the stage together for the Canberra Comedy Festival with a menacing-sounding show called Why Women Kill… at Comedy.
Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield has carried off the $6000 SOHO Art Prize for 2025, reports HELEN MUSA.
One of Canberra's most flamboyant personalities is about to bid farewell to her adopted home. Arts editor and friend HELEN MUSA salutes Coralie Wood on last time.
Landscape architect, environmental educator and host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia, Costa Georgiadis, has been chosen from 25 Australians as the subject of the National Portrait Gallery’s next commission.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that getting to stage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a dream come true for Mockingbird Theatre Company director Chris Baldock.
The arts and lots of them feature in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column, a weekly wrap of what's on where and when.
"I get itchy feet when I'm home too long," country singer Kasey Chambers tells HELEN MUSA ahead of her 30-date Backbone national tour, which includes Canberra.
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![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
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Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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