Art and Abart

Hallelujah!  Just as well we have inspiring musicians to lift our spirits.

The Government report on the rollout (or lack of it) of the national broadband network (NBN) today  has provoked a stream of twitter comment...

Welcome respite from the world's woes ... watching chickens bask in the sunshine.

We think we are civilised, or have have become civilised but how far have humans really progressed? My twitter feed this morning is full of ...

For those Australians who saw Jonas Kaufmann last week and need another little fix, try the link below. The thing I found most fascinating...

Becoming an artist Teachers have such power, though they may not think so themselves. So many people have told me that they can't ...

My doodle for today.

You look at the fresco on the ceiling; and the statues in the courtyard;  you look at the architecture of this two storey building complex...

Jonas Kaufmann is billed as the world's hottest tenor and he seems to have been smoldering at me from all my Internet feeds recently - ...

Syria,Gaza, Irak, Ukraine Watercolour/ink on paper Syria, Gaza, Irak, Ukraine, Climate change denial, Australian detention centers to...

Speicherstadt Tango card by elizabethgw Speicherstadt Warehouse (image from Wikipedia) I will be in Hamburg in September and I...

Picnic in New Zealand, about 1940. My grandmother is bottom right and mother standing by the tree. Late last year I took lots of photos ...

The Tristan Chord, the beginning of modernist atonal music. Here the wonderful Stefan Mickisch explains the Tristan Chord to Stephen Fry. ...

Simon O'Neill as Otello  with Lianna Haroutounian as Desdemona. Photograph: Branco Gaica/Opera Australia On Wednesday I saw Otell...

Whale with baby (image from Wikipedia) I have just seen a live whale. It is swimming with a mate off my local beach in NSW as I write. ...

Last week I saw Piano Quintets performed by Paavali Jumppanen and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Here is a video to show you how good...

Maribor Festival website Wooo hooo ... the Maribor Music Festival is on again in September and I am going. I can't wait.  It is a...

Old seal from the Miele oven I had to replace a rubber seal on a Miele oven this week. I rang the company to order a new one but I di...

View from the bed A one night stay in the music room was what I planned when I arrived in Sydney last Thursday, but I hadn't recko...

Freshwater beach Watercolour on Arches paper On Saturday I was at Freshwater Beach on Sydney's north shore where the water was dott...