Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers The Sydney Chamber Choir and City Recital Hall are staging Handel’s Messiah. The choir, under Artistic Director Sam Allchurch, is taking a fresh approach to this longstanding piece and presenting a concert with a sound that, in effect, will express Handel’s original intent for this sublime music, […]
Read More… from UPLIFTING – EXUBERANT – THOUGHT-PROVOKING: 5 March 2020
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers This week we introduce a new segment to the program – the Story of Sydney through our collections. Our state’s collecting institutions – the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, the State Library of NSW, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney Living Museums and […]
This Arts Thursday, 12 December 2019, with Maisy Stapleton, reveals art in context of place and culture. The first interview focusses on the exhibition Southern Swell at Hazelhurst Arts Centre at Gymea. Curator Carrie Kibbler speaks about the background to the exhibition, the history of surfing in the Sutherland Shire and the development of board […]
This Arts Thursday, with Maisy Stapleton, explores connections between Indigenous communities and their heritage and between the landscape, travel and art. The first guest is Art Travel Adventures principal Kerri Ainsworth who is inspired by a passion for art and travel to design creative adventures for people looking for authentic, immersive travel experiences. […]
This Arts Thursday, with Maisy Stapleton, two special guests give us an opportunity to understand the powerful impact of the arts – inviting us to consider diverse views and question the status quo through art works and, through specialist arts programs, showing us how museums support fulfilling access to art and exhibitions for visitors with […]
There are so many arts events around town, that Halloween takes a back stage during this Arts Thursday, with Maisy Stapleton. The only connection with Halloween is some ethereal and out-of-this-world music which accompanies the interviews. I Kicked A Stone In Metaphor The intriguing photos of Jens Lichtenberger are showcased in I Kicked A Stone In […]
This Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton explores two diverse art forms, each recording a response to place. Un bel dí vedremo Amanda Penrose Hart‘s new exhibition Un bel dí vedremo opened recently at the King Street Gallery on William. Penrose Hart is an en plein-air painter – depicting the landscape while ‘in-situ’, surrounded by its […]
NONE SO BLIND The abuse of power is a topical issue. Whether it’s ‘me too’ or paedophilia or domestic violence, we are – justifiably – outraged and horrified by its impact. In the first segment of Arts Thursday, this confronting issue is explored through a controversial play NONE SO BLIND. Martin Portus, arts journalist and […]
Read More… from ARCHITECTURE TO TOPICAL ISSUES 19th September 2019
Arts Thursday 5 September 2019. Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation with two guests. Firstly, Lisa Catt, Curator, Art Gallery of NSW speaks about Here We Are, an exhibition focussing on contemporary women artists whose work has mostly been acquired since 2015. While this is by no means the first exhibition solely devoted to women artists, […]
Read More… from PUSHING BOUNDARIES Thursday 5 September 2019.
Listen to Arts Thursday with me Maisy Stapleton to hear choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Sue Healey’s response to capturing the fleeting, temporal nature of dance. Her insightful views on the precarious nature of dance as an art form and its transitory presence as a performance, are reflected in her recently published Platform Paper Capturing the […]
Read More… from Capturing the Vanishing & Sydney Craft Week: 22 August 2019
This week on Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton, the program focusses on two fascinating arts stories. In the first segment, Dr Anne Watson speaks about her research and subsequent publication on the work of Peter Hall – of Hall, Todd and Littlemore – a successful young architect who was invited to step in to […]
Read More… from A Poisoned Chalice at the Opera House and a Living Treasure of Craft – 8 August 2019
Arts Thursday 25 July 2019 This week on Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton the focus is on contemporary art. David Hockney prints are on exhibition at Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, as a touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia until 8 September. The exhibition explores the artist’s experimentation with printmaking for over 60 years and […]
Read More… from CONTEMPORARY ART – David Hockney and Kaldor Public Art Projects