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Nick Cave: Idiot Prayer (Alexandra Palace, London)
In pre-pandemic times, a concert such as Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer would have been called a solo show. Not so this one, filmed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robbie ...
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Lime Cordiale (Oxford Art Factory)
When Oxford Art Factory bills its return to live music as a “speakeasy” in “the most intimate of settings”, without mentioning that the 70-person limit is by decree ...
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Alaska Orchestra do Brian Eno (Opera House livestream)
Curating concerts to suit the zeitgeist is hard right now. A month ago, with our cities in stasis and our moods unusually malleable, Alaska Orchestra’s performance of Brian ...
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Caitlin Harnett (socially distanced, The Lansdowne )
Down the length of some of Sydney’s main drags, plenty of people look to be failing at having a nice night out. It’s just gone 6pm but queues ...
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Sydney Opera House’s livestreamed concert series could be a game-changer for local bands
Vivid festival was due to light up Sydney on Friday but instead the city is dark and silent bar a few night-joggers ploughing the streets. There’s a stir ...
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Client Liaison (KFC Australia Facebook page)
During intermission in this live-streamed gig on KFC Australia’s Facebook page, raising awareness for mental health service, ReachOut, Client Liaison’s keyboardist and producer Harvey Miller has changed from ...
Latest arts
Under the spell of Santa Fe, home and sanctuary of Georgia O’Keeffe
Some call painter Georgia O’Keeffe the mother of American modernism. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe – one of just a few in the world dedicated to a female artist – describes ...
Latest features
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features 0Tash Sultana: on solid ground
When the video stream begins, the footage is sideways. Oh no. The camera is flipped the right way a moment later and prayer hands emoji to that! It means hundreds or, more likely, hundreds of thousands of people around the world can stop tilting their heads sideways to drink in the sight of Tash Sultana in a beanie, a baggy tee and jeans ...
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ARTS 0Desert mob scenes
First held in 1990 at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, Desert Mob is the oldest of Australia’s thriving annual program of Aboriginal art fairs. With its 30th anniversary coming up in September 2020, Kate Hennessy looks back on Desert Mob 2019. The first thing to know about Desert Mob is that the artists wholly select the works exhibited. The second thing is those artists come from ...
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features 0Sampa the Great: ‘I went back to Zambia and people said, you’re different’
Sampa the Great was terrified before she stepped on stage to play her first ever show in Africa earlier this year. The show was in the Zambian capital of Lusaka – and the artist, MC and poet’s cousins were in the front row. “I’m based in Australia and all the monumental moments in my career have happened there,” says Sampa (born Sampa Tembo). ...
