Arts & Culture

Lost in a world of illusion

April 6th, 2023 - Rhonda Dredge

Visual illusions were waking up the CBD to the possibilities of art as Melbourne Now opened for its first weekend.

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At a recent poetry reading at Milk! Records HQ, Jen Cloher read out poems from her recent book of poems entitled IHU. This book of intimate poems regarding familial relationships is a fine companion work of art to Cloher’s brilliant fifth album Ko Au Te Awa Te Awa Ko Au, I Am The River The River Is Me.

New public art installation an “organic sensory oasis” where plants come alive

March 22nd, 2023 - CBD News

Buko Studio and Public Street invite Melburnians to reign in Autumn at BioRhythm – an immersive public art installation that showcases the powerful intersection between nature and technology through a multi-sensory vertical landscape.

Who wants to be an arts administrator?

March 22nd, 2023 - Rhonda Dredge

The author of a recent novel called Nightbitch spoke at the Wheeler Centre recently about her premise for the book

The new exhibition reimagining the remnants of our past travels

March 22nd, 2023 - Sean Car

Postcards: They’re something most of us have sent or received at some stage in our lives, but as time goes on and digital records evolve, so too does both the beauty and significance of these small, yet “fragile time capsule

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Experience a “flair of unpredictability” this Melbourne International Comedy Festival

March 22nd, 2023 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Melbourne International Comedy Festival is returning from March 29 to April 23, promising once again to have the city laughing more than the year before.

Is street art dead?

March 22nd, 2023 - Adrian Doyle

People always tell me that there isn’t anything new in art and that painting is dead.

A jewel of a theatre: the Bijou in Bourke St

March 22nd, 2023 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

The Victorian Academy of Music, feted by the press as a “jewel of the theatre”, was a much anticipated “palace raised to the Muses” and its foundation stone was laid with great fanfare by the Governor of Victoria on May 23, 1876.