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‘I wanted to yodel’: How renovation transformed three awkward homes
5+ hour, 19+ min ago (561+ words) September 2, 2026 — 11:00am Architect Brian Zulaikha and artist Janet Laurence share their time between an apartment in the 1960s Gazebo building, a modernist edifice in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and a house just outside Berry, south of the city. The couple were looking for…...
Unpacking ‘Aboriginalia’: Meet the man turning Australia’s kitsch history into art
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (715+ words) September 1, 2026 — 12:00pm Among the ubiquitous plates, tea towels and boomerangs sent to the Museum of Contemporary Art is a rare artefact: an Australian explorer board game by the long-defunct manufacturer Murfett Games. Its box cover displays every mid-century trope imaginable – pink-skinned,…...
Powerhouse joins our serried history of building public institutions
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (550+ words) August 31, 2026 — 4:50pm NSW Arts Minister John Graham certainly hit the nail on the head when he told a parliamentary budget estimates committee on Monday that the Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta was “the Opera House of the west”. He was speaking of…...
A loo with a view and no railings on ‘an impossible site’ in Sydney
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (631+ words) August 26, 2026 — 11:30am Holland House in Sydney’s Middle Cove was as famous for its architecture as it was for a ballet performed on the cantilevered terrace that hovers 12 metres above rock and bush. The balcony had no handrails. The cliff top home…...
Going to the Max: Sydney’s ultimate Dupain exhibition should make anyone swoon
1+ week, 2+ day ago (357+ words) His favourite image, though, was far from glam. It was Meat Queue, women lining up to buy meat during rationing after World War II, said State Library of NSW curator Avryl Whitnall. “That bloody Sunbaker. Don’t they think I took…...
Revealed: The five exhibitions to open the Parramatta Powerhouse
1+ week, 3+ day ago (593+ words) Click on our guide below to see more about the first shows. All five opening exhibitions at the billion-dollar Powerhouse Parramatta will be free to visitors aged 16 and under when the landmark museum opens on November 7 – a debut the state…...
Poignant portrait honouring ‘second mother’ collects prestigious photographic prize
1+ week, 4+ day ago (574+ words) August 21, 2026 — 7:00pm He grabbed the frame almost instinctively, slipping in and out of the bathroom with his camera as Mae, 84, weary and in pain, yet fiercely independent insisted on bathing herself. “I wasn’t intending to shoot her for a particular outcome…...
This art installation examines the best and worst of the internet. So what’s the yeti all about?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (837+ words) August 21, 2026 — 3:00pm Mark Haslam has what could be regarded as a controversial view of the modern world. “I genuinely think it’s an amazing time to be alive,” the experimental artist says. Even the technological male voice from this reporter’s phone announcing…...
Fifty shades of … what? The absurd quest to name colours
1+ week, 5+ day ago (203+ words) August 21, 2026 — 12:00pm Wander down the paint aisle of any hardware store, and you’ll drown in pastels, from Fair Bianca to Eggshell via Napkin. See the problem? Back in the day, white was white. But not now. Today one painter’s Vanilla is…...
The unlikely record-breaking Sydney art show nobody wants to leave
1+ week, 5+ day ago (634+ words) August 21, 2026 — 5:00am When Mike Hewson transformed the subterranean, repurposed oil tank at the Art Gallery of NSW into a wildly inventive art park, he anticipated a few thousand curious kids and a fair amount of critical pushback. His practice – merging conceptual…...