Art and Abart

It has been a tumultuous year and we are confronted with a new world.  Reading online comments sections that follow political posts wou...

Pears and Frangipani Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm Warmth, summer fruit and flowers, a general relaxed feeling - they all conspire to ma...

Ferry with sheep The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart is a Museum you don't easily forget. I was there two weeks ago but i...

Hobart seems to be full of small businesses run by very friendly people. I just had a beer at a nearby corner pub. It's called The Duk...

Who's looking at me then? Tempest , the show on at the Hobart Museum and Art Gallery seems to encapsulate Tasmania, sitting as it d...

The local paper on Friday It is not so often that an audience rises as one to cheer and applaud at the end of a concert, but in Hoba...

Sunrise 3 Once the sun is up, if I look north over the ocean I might just see the Ring of Stee l that our Government is promoting t...

Sunrise in a warming world We are going to have to get clever and coordinated to save our world, working together as never before to s...

Sunrise What do you do when the world goes crazy? My twitter feed is full of reports of nasty racst incidents in the USA and of articles...

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote! Al Gore won the popular vote but not the Presidency. Just think for a minute how different our world m...

"Artists are there when the world forgets what is important!" These were the words of soprano Soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal followi...

The pub opposite Angel Place Hall Angel Place Looking upwards Photos of New York often seem to me rather mag...

Nelson Freire plays You have to be pretty good to be touring internationally at 72 years old and pianist Nelson Freire is definitely pre...

Andrew Goodwin Andrew Goodwin has a voice I would like to tune into every evening. On Saturday, accompanied by the Australia Piano Quart...

Julia Lezhneva is a Bel Canto singer sublime. In an ABC  radio interview a couple of years ago I heard her say she had not liked Bel Canto s...

New potatoes I have hardly touched  my computer this last three weeks. Instead I took part in a local group art exhibition, spent time c...

A weekend listening to Australian Chamber Orchestra musicians is a weekend to appreciate. On Saturday last Aiko Goto gave a violin reci...

Battered sheet music waiting to be played. The Polina Leschenko (piano) and Richard Tognetti (violin) concert at the Angel Place hall la...

Azaleas What a difference 5 days make in Sydney. Last week it was still cold enough to need a heater and warm jumpers then over the we...

Elisabeth Leonskaja (photo by Julia Wesely) I saw Elisabeth Leonskaja play Mozart with the ACO last week and have been searching for wor...