Arts & Culture
Soul A Go Go
The Melbourne-based Soul Messin Allstars, comprising some of the best producers and studio musicians who live and breathe soul, have a brand-new seven-inch single called Soul A Go Go with a film clip featuring choreographer Fortuna Kebebe.
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A different view from Eastern Hill
When you gather artists together you usually have controversy, even at the Victorian Artists’ Society (VAS) in its lovely Romanesque building just east of the Hoddle Grid.
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The women at Manning’s on the concourse at Flinders Street Station
March is Women’s History Month so as I look closely at this photograph, taken in 1948 at Manning’s Chemist on the concourse at Flinders Street Station, I’m thinking about these four young women and wondering what their lives were like in the years following the end of World War Two.
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The Future of creative Melbourne
One of my friends who was recently painting in a local laneway runs an important blog on street art. He’s an interesting artist.
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Museum quality work in Flinders Lane
When you are an artist, it’s not just a case of getting the job done. It’s the thought that goes into the work that counts because you want a viewer to retrace those steps.
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NGV Fridays
At the National Gallery Victoria (NGV) on St Kilda Rd, the live music of NGV Friday Nights has a reprise summer season to help celebrate the Keith Haring / Jean Michel Basquiat : Crossing Lines Exhibition.
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“A dizzying wave of colour”
It is difficult to imagine from the distance of almost 120 years, but for a short time in 1901 Melbourne became a city or arches built to commemorate the creation of Australia.
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Museum Music
Playing music from her album The Grand Tour, inspired in part by the sounds of the universe recorded by NASA, the audio/visual showed a journey through the universe had the terrific vibe.
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Building the city we deserve
When Jax Jacki Brown arrived at the town hall for Broadside, the unashamedly feminist festival last month, she wasn’t expecting to be marginalised. Afterall, she was on one of the panels.
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Christmas time in the city, 1930
The Myer Emporium expanded to Lonsdale St in the 1920s at a time when this section of Little Bourke St was known as Post Office Place.
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Miss Gunn’s: A hidden gem beneath Flinders Street Station
Philip Le Liu: A steady hand at Town Hall
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