Concrete Playground

Setting our minds alight for another year, Vivid Ideas is the integral third part of the Vivid Sydney ethos. Dedicated to connecting industry with emerging talent and global leaders in over 100 events, the 18-day program will see events focused on discussion and creative collaboration. This year sees exiting keynote...

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The Museum of Contemporary Art’s first ARTBAR - a night of drinks, DJs, performance art, karaoke and much more - kicks off at 7pm this Friday, May 25, and Concrete Playground has tickets to giveaway.Tickling your late night gallery fancy, Friday’s ARTBAR will include Sydney-based photographer and video artist Justene Williams,...

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In an attempt to bring back to our vocabulary some long-forgotten words, a blog called The Dead Words is using thematically appropriate typography to breathe new life into them.Curator of the project, Karen To, is attempting animate lost words which have slipped from our tongues, bringing them back into everyday...

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In Mexico, muralists are rewarded with prominence in government buildings and sinking institutes of the arts. Here, we give them furtive street corners, the trendier offices and pride of place in our cafes. Illustrator and artist, Brad Robson, has had a turn a lot of these locations and is looking...

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Going to the theatre used to be a ceremonious occasion. Gloves were worn, bow-ties were tied in bows, and monocles were skillfully balanced on noses. Now there are jeans, mixed demographics trying to pull off various fashions, and well, there are still glasses but some of them are filled with...

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The annual Sydney Film Festival carves a cinema-going strip out of the city and makes us excited about seeing more than just the latest blockbusters. Under new festival director Nashen Moodley, the event looks bigger than ever, with an exciting array of boundary-pushing competition contenders, illuminating documentaries, a strand focusing...

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Do you have the physical endurance of Cadel Evans and the creative genius of Picasso? Michael J. Wallace has found a neat way of combining both of these talents, all while getting the daily dose of fresh air and outdoor exercise that we so dearly need.Wallace creates bicycle routes in...

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It's a busy week in the playground as we gear up to host two events this Sunday. In the early hours of a day usually reserved for bacon, eggs and Bloody Marys, we will be joined by 200 of CP's finest film fans for a special screening of Wish You Were...

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Sydney has a surprisingly vibrant scene for art after dark. Even now, away from precint-linking festival evenings like Art Months' Art at Night and with Jurassic Lounge finished its summer season, a whole world of late night art remains to keep you warm with culture through the increasingly chilly autumn...

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So the blissful four-day weekend recently sparkling ahead of us has gone, and we sit at our desks with few keepsakes of the experience besides a dramatic sugar crash. My sympathies, friends. It's a particular downer of a week here at Concrete Playground, where we're saying goodbye to long-serving editor-in-chief...

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The 'art world' is a concept just as tricky to define as 'art' itself. Opinions on what distinguishes 'good' from 'poor', 'high-brow' from 'low-brow', 'contemporary' from plain bizarre are essentially endless. No one seems quite sure what qualifies an 'artist' to be labeled as such. And what is this 'world',...

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After two decades and thousands of fingerprints, Zhang Yu's 'Fingerprint Series' has expanded into a collection of paintings, installations, performances, and books. The series represents Zhang Yu's understanding of reality and of the world, and fingerprinting represents his attitude towards life.His method is simple: he dips his right thumb into...

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