Art and Abart

Small boy makes a daisy chain Summer idyll. A small boy sits splay-legged on a lawn among flowers, threading daisies into a chain. He is...

Huge sails soared to the ceiling of the Sydney Opera House concert hall on Saturday night. A sailing ship ... oh  yes ...  The Flying Dutchm...

Are you looking for a great place to live? A new survey has ranked Dunedin as the top place to live in New Zealand. Now why am I not surpri...

After two weeks work the kitchen is finally finished, all except the painting. Old kitchen The benchtop in the original kitchen was 45...

It's Saturday morning and the plumber is coming to put in the sink and tap. The cabinet maker is already at work adding filler to the ...

Bright shiny new oven The kitchen might not look very different to yesterday but the stove and oven are in, the power is on and the benc...

It is hard work this kitchen building process, even if you are not the one doing most of the work. But I have been lending a hand all day an...

He is a pro, the fellow who is dismantling (and rebuilding) my kitchen.... I knew as soon as he put the long yellow spirit level on t...

In the first week of April I bought an Ikea kitchen and prepaid installation. A first installer came in May and a second in early June. L...

A thoughtful and discriminating child talks about his country:

Vi Hart 's ingenious rhythmic Pi song: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419­7169399375105820974944592307816406286208­998628034825342...

A conductor with verve! The gangnam version: This is what he really conducted (Khachaurian--Spartacus):

Flowers are blooming all the way across the bush path over the hill . Most flowers in the Australian bush are small but the Banksia flowers...

The 101 Vagina Exhibition was different to any other I have attended. People stood and gazed at the photos and read the stories, moving slow...

I have been in Sydney helping install the 101 vagina exhibition that opens this Thursday (27 June) at the 107 project space in Redfern (107...

Today I heard the youth branch of the Australian Chamber Orchestra play, the young musicians who are being mentored by the ACO (particularl...

How would he respond if this was done to him? Boycott Saatchi! If you are an artist Or if you are a customer Such a sleaze Doesn...

Philip Werner's upcoming book exhibition opens next week in Sydney. Here is an exhibition poster promoting the event online .... :) ...

Here's something to bring joy to your heart. Four members of he Philadelphia Orchestra play for passengers grounded on a plane in China...