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CANCELLED: QAGOMA 2020

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)’s 2020 program has a thematic exhibition on the centrality of water to human life globally. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said that the Gallery’s summer exhibition  ‘Water’ would feature leading international and Australian artists exploring the cultural, ecological and political dimensions of water. Following ‘Water’ will be solo exhibitions of the work of Chiharu Shiota, Mavis Ngallametta, Gordon Bennett and William Yang.  

Popsart

Bec Mac is an innovative, creative and enigmatic arts reporter. She started her broadcast media career with the live art show, LOVE TV, where she invited guests to talk about their love stories. Bec describes the show as the most private conversation in a public place. Bec now writes for the AU Review, presents 4ZZZ radio’s art show, Friday Neon, and has her own weekly web-series called POPSART. Before being introduced to broadcast media, Bec studied painting at the Queensland College of Art. “I’ve always…

Review: The Blokes Project

 

Lollipops and swoons

Head to QPAC for the new daytime concert series by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Be charmed by Nimrod, which you will know from films Dunkirk and Elizabeth. Barber’s Adagio is a piece that has been sampled, digitalised, and rearranged endlessly in movies and television such as Platoon, The Elephant Man, and even South Park. Rachmaninov’s Vocalise is one of the composer’s most cherished pieces with its wandering melody poised above pulsing chords. Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker is pure, sweet delight,…