The 18-piece band — Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra — is the musical accompaniment to the lyrical Slovakian documentary Lines 2021 on Sunday 26 March in our next ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series. While the City Symphony film movement began in the 1920s, this contemporary film, released a hundred years after the movement began,…
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When you next visit the Queensland Art Gallery, spend some time at the QAG Cafe and introduce yourself to the delicious food-inspired characters in Visaya Hoffie’s imaginative site-specific mural The mysterious menagerie — a cast of characters involved in their own food adventures. As you walk in, an adorable puppy finds itself amidst the spilled…
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Nearly three metres long and two across — and gilded entirely in gold leaf — the imposing frame for George Romney’s 1771 painting, Mrs Yates as the Tragic Muse, Melpomene (illustrated) is a time capsule of framing fashions, repairs and interventions. QAGOMA is presently the only gallery in Australia with a framing studio where experts both restore and make…
Long fascinated by the air, Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno has created a major new commission — a mesmerising suspended installation — Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms 2022 (illustrated). Saraceno’s Drift engages the poetic and imaginative potential of air. The spheres are part transparent and part reflective; some float above the viewer at…
Brisbane is known as the ‘River City’ and a great way to get around is to jump aboard one of the river cruises or CityCat and ferry services on offer, if you are travelling by land, you can rely on the many vehicle, cycle and pedestrian bridges, although that was not always the case. Both…
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Connected lengths of duct punctuated by vents crisscross a room. Up close, it becomes clear the network is channelling air as the turbine ventilators spin and comes to life as a breathing system, wondrous for its unexpected industrial intrusion into the gallery. Nancy Holt ‘Ventilation System’ at GOMA First conceived in 1985, Nancy Holt’s Ventilation…
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