Arts & Culture
The art to rolling up your sleeve
A Melbourne-based photographer says he’s honoured after his work featured in a public art display showing the vulnerable getting a COVID vaccine in the heart of the city.
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Museum of Chinese Australian History celebrates $15K grant for new podcast
Melbourne’s famous Museum of Chinese Australian History is celebrating after being awarded $15,000 to help launch a podcast about Chinese-Australian family stories.
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Island Wave moves to Kensington
One of Melbourne’s most well-recognised pieces of public art is moving from the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) precinct to Newmarket Reserve in Kensington.
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Melbourne Athenaeum to receive $200,000 upgrade
The iconic heritage-listed Melbourne Athenaeum theatre on Collins St has received $200,000 from the state government to conduct urgent conservation works.
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Curse ov Dialect
Word was filtering through earlier this year that one of Melbourne’s premier hip hop collective gives, the ultimate Curse ov Dialect were in Audrey Studios recording new material.
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Comforting little constructions
Abstract painter Andrée van Schaik has sold five out of the seven paintings shown in this year’s Spring 1883 Art Fair.
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Melbourne’s creative “do-over”
So, all these shops in the city have closed. And now there are whole sections of the CBD up for lease. As COVID does its best to slowly suck the creative soul out of Melbourne, I have been thinking what it could mean for Melbourne
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St Francis – a church among the gum trees
There isn’t a sheep (or two), nor is there a kangaroo in this image, but there are gum trees and plenty of other shrubs and trees!
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Historic mural celebrating the 1956 Olympics to be restored
A 64-year-old mural commemorating the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne will be restored to its former glory.
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Reverend creates history as first indigenous canon
Reverend Glenn Loughrey of St Paul’s Cathedral has made history after being appointed as the first indigenous canon in the cathedral’s history.
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Heritage highlights: Hoddle Grid review recommends swathe of new protections
“Remarkable, rambunctious, sloppy, weirdo-filled”: A tribute to the Fringe, 40 years on
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