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What do you get when you cross a musical diva with a hard-done-by 16th century queen?
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Four very different portraits by South Australian artists were among the finalists in this year’s Archibald Prize. And as Robert and Tsering Hannaford tell Jane Llewellyn, the famous competition offers benefits well beyond the major $100,000 award.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Colourful animated artworks light up Festival Theatre shells, Bakehouse auction offers the chance to own a piece of theatre history, Chamber Music Adelaide commission opportunity, FUSE Glass Prize finalists’ work on show at JamFactory, meet Music SA’s new CEO, plus more.
Our restaurant reviewer heads south to a seafood restaurant perched almost on the sands of Aldinga Beach.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why be born a slave!, which has recently gone back on display at the Art Gallery of SA after extensive conservation work, is a difficult work for contemporary viewers. Curator Tansy Curtin explains the story behind it.
A vibrant but sometimes at odds flower inspires this week’s Poet’s Corner contribution from Michele Slatter.
Earplugs were an optional extra at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s latest Symphony Series concert, a highlight of which was Australian composer Joe Chindamo’s thrilling new trombone concerto.
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Daniel Riley’s inaugural program as new artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre presents a collaborative and thoughtful triptych of works that mediates between the disparate world-views of Aboriginal and post-colonial Australia, reflecting the disruption and hope that comes at times of urgent transformation.
A new documentary about poet, publisher and bookseller Max Harris looks beyond the Ern Malley hoax to offer a glimpse of the lively cultural scene that hummed beneath the veneer of conservative 1940s Adelaide. And at its heart is a love story.
Learn the language of Chardonnay, and you’re well on the way to understanding more about many other wine varieties and styles.
At Thebarton’s Gray Street Workshop, Sue Lorraine creates intimate works that are made to measure.
SA arts and culture news in brief: An internship opportunity for First Nations screen creatives, teenage artists sought for centenarian portrait project, striking wildlife images on show in the Botanic Gardens, new performance added for popular Cabaret Festival show, and a chance to Catapult your career.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | Singing lessons that were supposed to help Alex De Porteous pursue a career as a sound engineer quickly became the foundation for a life on stage after the young artist was adopted into Adelaide’s cabaret community.
Light at the end of more than just a surfing tunnel inspires this week’s Poet’s Corner contribution from Cameron Tout in Melbourne.
British actor Dennis Waterman, who starred in TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks, has died at the age of 74.
The Bakehouse Theatre this month mounts its final show, A Streetcar Named Desire, featuring cameos by theatre stalwarts Pamela Munt and Peter Green. When the curtain falls it will sell its colourful collection of memorabilia – and an era will be over.
Each year the South Australian entries in the Australian Institute of Architects Awards showcase thought-provoking new architecture from across the state. Here we look at a selection of commercial, educational and public architecture vying for a prize.
From a gripping dystopian novel to a savage observational comedy in an art-world setting and a twisty tale of sexual and intellectual awakening, this month’s recommended reads all have mothers at their heart.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Flickerfest presents a showcase of top short films at the Mercury, First Nations artist callout for Our Mob exhibition, Biennial artist Shaun Gladwell curates AGSA’s First Fridays, a lost opera remounted, and a free work-in-progress showing in Port Adelaide.
Our reviewer returns to the latest in a long string of restaurants that have occupied the dining space at The Stag in Adelaide’s East End.
“This big-budget Viking epic offers a classic storyline with grit and wild drama.
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Books & Poetry
This week’s poem is contributor Junette Schoell’s response to the National Gallery of Australia’s Aboriginal Memorial – an installation of log coffins commemorating all First Nations people who, since 1788, have lost their lives defending their land.
Commentary
A new scheme in the Republic of Ireland provides a compelling model for supporting Australian artists in a way that would have a positive impact on individuals, the arts and the broader community.
Inspired by South Australia’s Limestone Coast and an experience from his own childhood, Caleb Lewis’s new play is a deep dive into a dark night of the soul.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Executive director to depart State Opera, pre-election forum tackles federal arts policy, Film Festival seeks hidden Adelaide stories, sponsored studio call-out at The Mill, and ASO adds new shows to its 2022 season.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | Thomas Fonua’s journey from full-time contemporary dancer to becoming one of Australia’s most celebrated drag queens, an independent artist and community leader is book-ended by seminal Adelaide Fringe experiences.
If any wine variety needs its own day of celebration, Viognier is it – even if it’s simply so people can learn to pronounce it. This Friday, you can thank Yalumba for staying the course with a grape that challenges many drinkers but is shining a light on a new era in the Barossa.
Sebastian Goldspink’s visceral and compelling curation of works by 25 contemporary Australian artists fulfils the tricky task of weaving together the manifold preoccupations of our unsettled times, opening up portals to transcendence, and offering hope through our interconnectedness and resilience.
Downton is a franchise built on country-manor snobbery, which means the quality and serving sizes above and below the stairs remain consistent. Time to check in with the toffs and their servants who, over seven seasons and two movies, have been variously to jail, hell, and now, France.
Of the career-defining show that was Nanette, Hannah Gadsby writes: “I took everything I knew about comedy, then I pulled it all apart and built a monster out of its corpse.” This is the blood-flow of that monster, the build-up to the bursting-forth.
One of Adelaide’s veteran companies ambitiously tackles Anton Chekhov’s Seagull, a play that revolutionised theatre.
Sabor a Cuba with Lazaro Numa are bringing music straight from the heart of Cuba to regional towns in South Australia.
Visual artists grapple with the emerging realities of pervasive internet algorithms, surveillance capitalism and 3D virtual spaces in an exploration of our increasingly inescapable relationship to technology.
Visual Art
Placards bearing hand-knitted pictures of political protest signs and installations bathed in purple light that turn a critical lens on New Age spirituality and self-help culture offer plenty to contemplate in two new exhibitions showing side by side.
Books & Poetry
A local author’s new book is a deeply satisfying tour of Japan’s seasonal cuisine, but it’s also so much more than that.
Our restaurant reviewer puts SkyCity’s Italian restaurant to the ultimate test.
An extraordinary slice of 19th-century Adelaide history involving a pioneering hot-air-balloon flight, a pair of daredevil ‘lady trapeze artists’ and a crowd of fascinated onlookers is re-created in miniature in a new ABC TV series co-hosted by local tiny craft artist JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick.
Loud music, skateboards and spontaneity are all key ingredients in Adelaide Hills winemaker Brendon Keys’ recipe for success.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Images of Adelaide Biennial art pop up around the CBD, registrations open for the 25th SALA Festival, FUSE Glass Prize finalists announced, Writers’ SA launches autumn line-up, and reviving the live music scene.
