Art and Abart

Three canvases painted bright red with 'artists professional underground paint' are sitting out in the sun drying. Our autumn has ...

Matai  Walnut My father loved wood and eventually became a wood turner. At the bottom of each piece he wrote the species of wood he ...

A wave from tier 3. We have got so used to loud and virtuosic piano high-jinks that when a concert is quiet and meditative, it takes ti...

Ceramic artists in Australia and across the world have donated pieces for the Nepal relief effort. Many of the pieces by the more well known...

Woolly layers Thank heavens for wool. The first snows have fallen on the ranges to the south of Sydney and we can feel it in the air, ev...

A young woman visiting Sydney from Vancouver had a musical experience last Sunday I suspect she will never forget. The Australian Piano ...

Maya Plisetskaya, her husband composer Rodion Shchedrin and Daniel Smith. (Photo from a few weeks ago shared on Facebook by Daniel Smith)...

Microsoft has developed a tool that estimates how old you are by analysing your photo. The result is posted with an apology if they got you...

Three women in red Oil on canvas 60.9 x 76.2 cm (24" x 30") Time to leave politics behind (sometimes it overwhelms even ar...

This morning I received an email from my Belgian friend Monika, a woman who has a long history of opposing wars. She has given permission f...

Untitled (Gallipoli Art Exhibition, Sydney, 2006) This year at the remembrance ceremony at the war memorial in Canberra the didgeridoo ...

I wonder how this young man will fare, returning from a war with experiences his people at home wont be able to understand.  Is he traumat...

When a storm hits with cyclonic winds and heavy rain it is the wind that is frightening. It is so loud . I have read about wind noise but th...

Is this the new norm in our climate-changed world? Ferocious winds and driving rain, that's the NSW Central Coast right now. Trees bein...

Thomas Rann plays Cello Beethoven and Shostakovich string quartets played with such verve and aplomb that you really sit up in your seat...

Louis Lortie plays preludes If you had told me I would be listening to 57 preludes one after the other,  I would have thought you were j...

Last night a concert of new works by Australian, Turkish and New Zealand composers was presented in the Paddington Church by soprano AyşeG...

The rain just about washed away Easter on the Central Coast and I imagine many campers left early. The rose didn't seem to mind though....

Homecoming Oil on Canvas 51 x 76 cm There has been a lot of talk about the Gallipoli campaign this year which is not surprising I supp...

 Opera in the Arboretum It was a picture postcard perfect day for the 10th anniversary of the Pearl Beach Opera in the Arboretum, someth...