Concrete Playground

Tuesday, 22nd June - Saturday, 17th July
@ Australian Centre for Photography

It's a nebulous Australian/German mix that places photos of leather jackets, panties and [i]great parties[/i] alongside photographer's art that's actually good.

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Sunday, 8th August - 3PM
@ Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House

There's a certain pleasure to events that might be great or that might bomb, badly. So-crazy-it-just-might-work shenanigans lend themselves to an excited trepidation. You know, as exemplified by the prospect of Regurgitator live-scoring a screening of Akira.If you like animation, it's pretty much a given that you're big on Akira....

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Monday, 5th July - Sunday, 25th July
@ State Library of NSW

There's an amazing stillness and beauty to every shot, often of scenes that should surrender neither: the aftermath of the Iranian elections, Israel's bombing of Palestine, the workings of an abattoir. It's also wrenching viewing.

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Tuesday, 10th August - 7PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

Book tours and gigs don't normally sit together. But Bret Easton Ellis doing a book signing at Oxford Art Factory, supported by Australian new wavers Models somehow works in a weird way, like chilli and chocolate.

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Saturday, 21st August - Sunday, 31st October
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

An artistic response to a diverse range of ecological concerns, much of this exhibition is quite spectacular, with a good deal of excellent photography covering both verdant and destroyed landscapes, alongside numerous plant installations which lend each room a beauty and liveliness.

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Wednesday, 18th August - Sunday, 29th August
@ Global Gallery

One of the artist statements for Global Gallery's current Russian Artists show proudly proclaims painter, Leeka Gruzdeff, as the "winner of over 100 first prizes in local and country exhibitions." That's a pretty good summation of this show, with most of the five artists' work displaying the sort of technical...

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Wednesday, 3rd November - Saturday, 13th November
@ The Paper Mill

I recently went to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Which, contextually, is neither here nor there except that it houses the world's largest collection of ancient Chinese art, stretches for floor upon floor of exhibits and is utterly mind blowing. There were so many incredible artifacts to see that...

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Tuesday, 9th November - Tuesday, 30th November
@ Sydney Opera House

Tony McNamara's new play The Grenade is well paced, competently acted and funny at times, but it's hard to get too excited about a show so keen to diffuse its own narrative tension.Ostensibly about the paranoia that ensues when political analyst and family man Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) finds a...

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Tuesday, 14th December - 7PM
@ Good God Small Club

Raising the bar for Christmas party caper, Spunk are turning it on with an impressive lineup to celebrate the end of a momentous year for the cult record label.

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Saturday, 26th March - Sunday, 17th April
@ Darlinghurst Theatre

Orange Flower Water is gorgeously scripted and wrenchingly incisive on topics like desire, guilt, obligation and, most of all, regret.

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Tuesday, 18th October - Sunday, 6th November
@ Bondi Pavilion

This revisionist take on the biblical story of Judith toys with the idea that seduction can play on the vulnerabilities of both parties.

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Thursday, 17th November - Friday, 2nd December
@ ATYP Studios, The Wharf

As effective art often does, this play examines a cultural sore spot, picking apart a real-life rape and its fallout.

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