What to See at Carriageworks During the 20th Biennale of Sydney
When the 20th Biennale of Sydney arrives on Friday, March 18, Carriageworks will become the Embassy of Disappearance. As you wander through the transformed space, you'll encounter works dealing with...
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Five Unexpected Things to Expect at Artbank's Renny Kodgers and Friends Party
Get ready for a night of raucous entertainment, as one of the biggest names in Sydney's underground cabaret scene returns to the Beresford in Surry Hills. Presented by Artbank and MC'd by the legendary...
View ArticleNext Wave Festival Announces Wildly Eclectic 2016 Program
Deaf dance works, feminist hip-hop, an ecosexual labyrinth and a 24-hour performance piece are among the most eye-opening works on the newly revealed lineup for this year's Next Wave Festival....
View ArticleThe Ladies Network Launches Online Sales Platform For Kickass Female Artists
The Ladies Network, a Sydney-based collective for female creatives, has been celebrating and promoting artists, musicians, designers and all-round girl bosses since 2015. Last week, the group launched...
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Take a Peek Into the Lives of Gyuto Monks with Sydney Photographer Tobi...
Sometimes words just won't cut it. For photographer Tobi Wilkinson, explaining the everyday lives of the Gyuto Monks was only viable through her camera lens. This fiercely devoted bunch of Buddhist...
View ArticleWin Your Own Personalised Mural by Sydney Street Artist Sid Tapia
What would you do if you were a little less freaked out by consequences? Would you talk to more new people, fear a bit less, dance a little more like FKA Twigs, quit your desk job and do that giant...
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Meet The Windsor Workshop, Melbourne's 'Craft Version of a Day Spa'
Want to learn something new without falling into another YouTube black hole of not-quite-right how-to videos? A crafty, IRL workshop could be the answer. And The Windsor Workshop is just the place to...
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This New York Artist Leaves Piles of His Books in the Busiest Spots Around...
We've heard of public bookshelves and we see piles of terrible self-help books left outside people's terrace houses all the time (just one time, we'd like to pick up a classic), but this New York...
View ArticleAustralian Street Artist Peter Drew's 'Real Aussie' Project Comes to Sydney
You may have already seen them around town: posters depicting a heroic, vintage-looking image of a man in a turban with the word "AUSSIE" printed across the bottom. Starting this week, Adelaide based...
View ArticleCarriageworks Announce a Second Björk Digital Party for Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney is really cranking it up this year. Last month they announced a truly epic program of lights, music, ideas and live events, which, in one heck of a slam dunk, included none other than...
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This Incredible Solar-Powered Installation Is Lighting Up Uluru
For the next twelve months, visitors to Uluru will get the chance to see the sacred rock in a whole new light, thanks to a massive installation transforming the surrounding desert into a spectacular...
View ArticleThe NGV Is Getting a Dreamy Pink Car Wash-Inspired Outdoor Playground
If dropping by your local car wash makes you want to unleash your inner kidult, then you'd better get yourself to the National Gallery of Victoria's Grollo Equiset Garden this spring. In October M@...
View ArticleSydney's Biggest Art Players Have Announced a Six-Year Citywide Exhibition
Hold the phone everybody, there's huge news a-brewin' in the Sydney art world. Three of Sydney's biggest cultural institutions – the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of...
View ArticleThe Arts Sector Are Approaching a Funding Crisis, Retaliate With Anti-Bingo...
Last month the CEO of arts funding organisation Creative New Zealand, Stephen Wainwright, announced that due to a decline in funding from New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, the organisation would have...
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Ten Artworks You Shouldn't Miss at the 20th Biennale of Sydney
Hitting Sydneysiders with an epic program of immersive, challenging, and mind-blowing art for another year, the Biennale of Sydney 2016 is an art lover's event like no other. Spanning multiple...
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Concrete Playground Meets Tim Lambourne
Many people know Tim Lambourne for his knowledge of music and uncanny ability to talk about it for hours on end. His journalism background has seen him go from hosting George FM, fronting television...
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Concrete Playground Meets Artist Josh Lancaster
Once a high flying ad-agency creative director clad in a suit, Josh Lancaster has since abandoned the office in favour of a studio, full time painting and whatever it is that artists wear (I'm thinking...
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Concrete Playground's Picks for the Auckland Writers Festival 2016
One for the wordsmiths, the readers, the thinkers and the jokers, the Auckland Writers Festival is just around the corner and promising a week of truly inspirational events. Get out of those track...
View ArticleCork & Chroma Is Sydney's New BYO Art Studio
Aspiring artists and functioning alcoholics will both feel right at home, in this brand new BYO art studio in Surry Hills. Located on Holt Street around the corner from Central Station, Cork &...
View ArticleYayoi Kusama Is Transforming One Lucky Londoner's Spare Room Into a Work of Art
If you've ever entered Yayoi Kusama's surreal 'Infinity Mirror Room', stuck polka dots on surfaces in her series Dots Obsession or taken a photo with her giant pumpkin when you visited Naoshima, you...
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