Arts & Culture
Bourke St at the turn of the 20th century
This sweeping view up Bourke St was taken from the General Post Office (GPO) Tower around the turn of the 20th century and is one of the many images that capture the changing face of the CBD in the Royal Historical Society’s collection. The photographer, Henry Cooper, is looking out from one of Melbourne’s most iconic buildings towards the south-east corner of the city.
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Creative solution sought for Nicholas Building
Politics is playing a big part in the sale of the Nicholas Building in the CBD and potential buyers will have to run the gauntlet of scrutiny as they do inspections.
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Will Spring go ahead?
Galleries are getting ready for Spring 1883, usually a joy-filled, anarchic coming together of Melbourne’s art community at the much-loved Windsor Hotel.
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Visual junk ruining Melbourne’s laneway culture
It has always been a problem that young or emerging artists put their art near a far more famous artist’s work so that other people will see their work incidentally
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Jack Ladder live
The marquee lights were blazing away at the Forum Theatre on Flinders St on Thursday, May 6.
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Releasing the spirit of LEGO
CBD resident Jan van Schaik makes his own sculptural toys out of LEGO and exhibits them around the world.
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The reflection of an augmented city
There was a time when talking to yourself in public meant that you were crazy. Now when I’m at the lights or on a tram it seems normal.
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Jungle atmosphere in the heart of Melbourne
When I first saw this atmospheric image of the Old National Herbarium at Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens, I was taken back to a time in the 1970s when I was fortunate enough to visit the ancient city of Palenque on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula early one morning as the ruins emerged out of a heavy jungle mist. I was blown away by the magical atmosphere I happened upon among the thick tropical vegetation.
Read MoreBig screen music
Some of the best bands and musicians of many genres have worked over the years with animation artists to produce the most sublime pieces of art.
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The parade that almost didn’t happen
To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934, well-known philanthropist, businessman and he of Cherry Ripe fame, Sir Macpherson Robertson, sponsored a trail-blazing air race from Mildenhall RAF Base in East Anglia to Melbourne.
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The CBD is one enormous Chinatown
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