At Home: Frances and the island
This week’s At Home artist is rising star, Frances Belle Parker, a Yaegl woman who lives and works in Maclean. M&G…
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Remember the milk bar?
There’s a great exhibition touring nationally which explores the origins of the humble milk bar and it offers much more…
Big things at Bathurst!
In our minds, Bathurst is famed for two things: V8 Supercars and the gold that sparked Australia’s first gold rush….
In defence of little museums
Mostly there’s no blockbuster exhibitions, gift shops or touch screens, and no dinosaur skeletons or Egyptian mummies either. Yes, small…
More on in History Week
There’s still a bit of History Week left. We urge you to take a look at some of the events…
Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy
Currently at the National Gallery of Australia is an exhibition featuring one of Australia’s most acclaimed and inventive artists. Arthur…
CALL OUT: Fishers Ghost Art Award 2014
The annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is a highlight of Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. This year marks the…
What’s so real about ‘Keeping It Real’?
Many readers will be aware that since 2010 the AlburyCity Cultural Services Team has hosted a series of one-day industry…
Tweed Museum reopens!
Last weekend, the multi-million dollar, three-year upgrade of the Tweed Regional Museum came to fruition when the doors of the…
Love architecture? Love people?
The good folk at Sydney Living Museums are in the throes of organising one of the best out-and-about events in…
Seeking artists for ANZAC Centenary Exhibition
The exhibition will offer a diverse range of perspectives and reflections of the 100 years since the beginning of the…
Tourism champions!
This is the sort of story we love to tell. This week the Port Macquarie Museum won gold! They’ve…
ACHAA workshop and inaugural AGM
ACHAA (Aboriginal Culture, Heritage & Arts Association Inc.) is a new association established for NSW Aboriginal cultural centres, keeping…
The MCA’s Disability Action Plan in action
Have you ever heard of the Bella Program? It’s a brilliant idea from the MCA that provides children with disabilities…
A culturally ambitious nation: OzCo’s new Strategic Plan
Aptly titled ‘A culturally ambitious nation’, Australia Council’s new Strategic Plan was launched yesterday by Senator George Brandis, Federal Arts…
The Balnaves Gift
In 2011, long term Mosman resident and successful businessman Neil Balnaves AO donated a million dollars worth of paintings from his…
A day at Cockatoo Island
Arriving in a windswept mess after a very blowy ferry ride from Circular Quay, I front up at the Cockatoo…
At Home: It’s not all black and white
In this column we have been promoting NSW Aboriginal artists, both living and dead, to explore the contributions they make…
Remembering World War I
If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white…
Aztecs: Worth the sacrifice
In September, the touring exhibition Aztecs comes to the Australian Museum. M&G was lucky enough to see this at Museum…