Keith Urban pops up at a country pub, accepts honour
Global country star Keith Urban surprised fans with unannounced appearances at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the place he was first discovered.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
This month millions of people around the world have returned to the bizarre, bloody and brightly coloured corridors of Squid Game, writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
There was quite a buzz on Thursday evening at M16 Artspace in Griffith when its board chair, Kishwar Rahman, introduced the organisation’s new general manager, Lucy Chetcuti.
The ANU’s Glass team has been busy hand-crafting the 36 intricate glass sculptures that will be Australian of the Year Awards, made every year at the ANU Glass Workshop.
Craft
A big exhibition as Swen says goodbye
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews Endless Horizons: The Art of Hiroe Swen at the Canberra Potters Gallery.
Reviews
A long evening but a worthwhile opener
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Mojo, Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play set in the sleazy shallows of the 1950s British music scene.
Film
Netflix musical Emilia Perez leads Oscar nominations
Netflix contender Emilia Pérez has picked up the largest number of nominations for Academy Awards.
Annual music festival Splendour in the Grass has been cancelled for a second year running as organisers say it needs more time to "recharge".
What's what and on where is HELEN MUSA's Artsweek column challenge.
The fast-paced script of the play Mojo by Jez Butterworth, rich with expletives and poetic Cockney language, sees the gang members working out what to do, comforted by an endless supply of little pills to pop, reports HELEN MUSA.
Child Players ACT are busy preparing for a rerun of their show, Dr Dolittle, reports HELEN MUSA.
The Lex Factor: from Wagga to the World Stage, is a fun exhibition at the Museum of the Riverina with a poignant touch, its subject is the Wagga-born actor, broadcaster and multicultural advocate, Lex Marinos, reports HELEN MUSA.
When a festival director starts quoting the ancient Vedas, you know you're in for something out-of-the-ordinary, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA starts her new arts year with news of singers Sarah Blasko and Amy Shark.
"It’s hard to think of a more perfect subject for an opera than the story of Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried and Roy," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Recent international research shows Australians are buying and reading fewer books than people in many other countries. But why?
Here's Artsweek, arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest weekly round-up of arts event in Canberra.
For its twin summer exhibitions, the National Gallery of Australia has chosen to look at two female artists partly lost in the shadows of art history, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's the latest Arts in City column from arts editor HELEN MUSA.
