CAPO turns donated art into grants for artists
CAPO, the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation, is preparing to distribute more than $52,000 in grants and fellowship support to artists in 2026, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
The Australian String Quartet gave a breathtaking rendition of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, a work as technically challenging as it is original and affecting, reviews MICHAEL WILSON.
There may have been a storm raging outside, but the calming Limestone Consort program of secular works by Nicolas Bernier and André Campra proved to be the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon, reviews LEN POWER.
When an artist with such an international reputation presents a solo recital, expectations are high. And Daniel Röhn exceeds them splendidly, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
Arts & Entertainment
Ami’s new album and one-woman show
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Art
‘Favourite’ art historian dies at 68
The visual arts community has been shocked and saddened by the death on October 14 of art historian, educator and former head of the ANU School of Art, Gordon Bull, after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.
Music
Big band gets into the Rat Pack swing
"It was song after song in a generous program of 28 classics, interrupted only by an interval or an interesting tidbit about a song or Rat Pack member." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Blamey Street Big Band.
"There was much colour and sunshine in this spring concert. If Wattle keep playing at this standard, they will go far." That's the prediction of music reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
"The cast are working hard but you sense they’re enjoying it all as much as the audience. They even have an elephant!' LEN POWER reviews an adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days.
"Tabitha is an entertaining script, and the audience followed the twists and turns with evident enjoyment," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Paramount has now completed its $A160 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. While it could be some time coming, it’s clear a major shake up to the streaming landscape is in the pipeline," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"The major work of the exhibition is a massive six-metre wide and 1.5-metre deep screen print in 36 joined frames. Titled Spider Warrior, Girl Protector, Infinite Internet, it takes your breath away." writes reviewer DAVID WHITBREAD.
"If you come expecting the lushness and atmospherics of the 1975 film you will find instead a steady clear rendition of the bones of the novel." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Chaika Theatre's haunting production of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Canberra’s Mockingbird Theatrics is spreading its wings with an ambitious 11-play season for 2027, as Chris Baldock’s independent theatre company enters its third year as company-in-residence at Belconnen Arts Centre.
It was all glitz and glamour at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday morning when drag performer Courtney Act made a show-biz style entrance for the unveiling of her newly-commissioned portrait, created from thousands of found objects.
The Spilt Milk music festival will remain in Canberra until at least 2030 under a new five-year agreement signed between the ACT government and event organiser Kicks Entertainment.
Ausdance ACT’s Youth Dance Festival continues to be one of Canberra’s most enduring youth arts programs, with its emphasis firmly on student creativity rather than competition, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Anengkerr-penh/From the Dreaming, a free exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, explores the work and legacy of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, known to his Anmatyerr people as Peltharr, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Rosalie Gascoigne retrospective opens to the public at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday, with more than 80 significant works spanning the late artist’s career.
