Art and Abart

Airport I had an hour longer than expected at Melbourne airport on my way home. Staff were hurriedly lining us up to board the plane b...

Kasper Holten Set his Meistersinger in a gentleman's club, and it works. The set for this production is a piece of genius, never intrudi...

After a few days in noisy city streets, how relaxing to be walking along woodland paths listening to the bees buzzing in the trees. Or w...

A book, all I wanted was a book. I set off down a Melbourne street to find a bookshop, followed some schoolkids into an alley and found my...

There are two ways to get to Melbourne airport from the city. You can take the speedy private Skybus for $18 or you can take public transpo...

Before the show Level 1 stairwell Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne is worth visiting even if you are not going  to a show. It...

Melbourne- you feel as if you are in concrete jungle, but cross the road and suddenly you are in an oasis winding along the Yarra river. ...

Melbourne is more relaxed than Sydney and it has a network of interesting inner city laneways  lined with shops who take the art of window ...

Watching Harry Kupfer's Ring Cycle: what could be a better way to spend the days between Christmas and New Year. I have a Wagner-loving ...

Melbourne shop display They are back, the gollies of yesteryear. So is it politically correct to have a golly again? I have a very lovab...

The singing and orchestration was exceptional … so why was the magic missing? Australian Wagnerian singers were gathered from across the g...

The Ring Cycle begins today in Melbourne (my thoughts on the Melbourne Ring coming soon) but I flew back to Sydney, having spent 10 music/...

Climate action rally in Melbourne Eighty thousand people demonstrated for climate action in Australia today.  People of all ages from ma...

Wrapped in wool Melbourne is cold. I brought woollen jumpers and jacket but still I froze when I arrived so I bought a wonderful bright ...

Inside Melbourne's State Theatre Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Sieglinde) and Stuart Skelton (Siegmund) opened last night's dress rehe...

Grane, dashing through the musical flames As I look at my previous posts I can't help but think my images for the Melbourne Ring Ex...

Brünnhilde's horse Grane. Collage of Intaglio etchings Wagner's Ring Cycle will be performed in Melbourne in November and all so...

Melbourne has been consumed by the horror of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne's Brunswick last week and Philip's rea...

This is Frankie. She lives in Melbourne. Purrs as she jumps uninvited onto your lap. Was rescued from the pet pound and has become her owner...

These houses are .... guess where... The first, third and last are in Dunedin's North East Valley. The second is in Melbourne's Brun...