Art and Abart

Bronwyn Bishop (is not amused) The Australian Parliament dissolved into giggles last week when Australian parliamentary opposition membe...

La Renaissance courtyard The French Cafe Patisserie La Renaissance has good coffee, French pastries and a charming back courtyard. It ...

Living in Australia is becoming more and more surreal. One day the Attorney General says he is changing the racial vilification laws because...

The In-laws The in-laws were going to be in the family portrait , but they didn't fit on the gap left on the sofa so I made a small ...

The conversation about artists and politics has been re-ignited by the boycott of Sydney Art Biennale by artists who felt compromised by...

Now there is a choral version of former Prime Minister Gillard's famous misogyny speech. Gotta love it! Julia Gillard

Antipodean family portrait Constructed paintings take time and make you appreciate the talent of the masters. I have been working on thi...

The piano virtuoso Alexander Gavrylyuk gave a concert in Sydney last Saturday as part of the Sydney Symphony piano series which is held in ...

ALL. Try we life-long, we can never Straighten out life's tangled skein, Why should we, in vain endeav...

Singing loudly all the time is neither good for your voice, nor for the listener. So says vocal critic Fred Plotkin in his article The pleas...

This is a photo of the house where I grew up, taken in 1947. It is in outback New Zealand, the center of the north island. By 1947 the hil...

The Wagnerian website is giving out gongs for the "greatest  Ring Cycle of all time" and are looking for a suitable (virtual) awa...

Pink sang Somewhere over the rainbow at the Oscar presentations . Some liked her, others would have liked Judy Garland back. Well Pin...

The extraordinary Serena Wang ... just nine years old with parents who are not musicians.  Listen to her play then read more about her here....

Christine Goerke as Elektra Last night I a saw an electric concert performance of the opera Elektra with sopranos Christine Goerke, Li...

After cleaning out my mother's place I seem to have got the sort-and-throw bug (a common reaction I think). Today I found some lino-cuts...

Church sign in nearby Gosford. Not cowered by a belligerent government. What do you do when your government becomes inhumane, inhuman? ...

Helene Rathbone The Australian Chamber Orchestra lead by Helena Rathbone is wowing audiences with their concert featuring soprano Dawn ...

But what is in cake nowadays? I bought this muffin at a school function but it was so awful I eventually threw it away. It must have been pa...

ShirleyTemple Shirley Temple sings music from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor". She gave so many people so much joy then went...