ZOFOMOMA is a spectacular blend of contemporary art and music – Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi are ZOFO, the ‘20-Finger Orchestra’ who’ve electrified audiences worldwide with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box programming for piano-four-hands. In their first Australian tour, the ZOFOMOMA concert will showcase 20thand 21stcentury repertoire and commissioned new works from top composers around the […]
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Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they’re unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they’re disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of a confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or they just want to give themselves the best possible chance […]
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 25 June, for a program that takes an in-depth look at the important touring exhibition, ‘Black Mist Burnt Country: Testing the Bomb, Maralinga and Australian Art.’ My interviews are with Dr Lee-Anne Hall, Director of the Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers bequest, and we’ll be canvassing Australia’s nuclear history […]
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It’s Archibald time again! Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 28 May, for a program that takes an in-depth look at the nexus between portraiture and identity in the work of two very different Australian artists: Jenny Sages and TextaQueen. Since 1989, Jenny Sages has been an Archibald finalist twenty times (People’s Choice in 2012), and […]
Published just a few weeks ago, Girls at the Piano, is , in part, a memoir of a young girl’s infatuation with the piano which over the years into her adolescence becomes a burden rather than a source of pleasure. It is also the story of her grandmother, a singer and pianist who emigrated to […]
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 2 April, for a program that looks at feminist art practice from the 1970s in an installation and exhibition at the AGNSW. The first of my guest interviews are with Natalie Wilson, Curator of Australian art, and Kerrie Head, Object Conservator, who’ll shed light on ‘Arcadia: Landscape and Bodies‘, a […]
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 5 March, for a program that delves into the lesser known Sydney. My guest interviews today are with Vanessa Berry, author of the book “Mirror Sydney”, a marvellous, entrancing and acutely alert reverie on our city and its ever-changing urban landscape. “Mirror Sydney” is rich in observations and history, and […]
The Short and Sweet festival – ‘the biggest little play festival in the world’ is back for its 17th year in Sydney. Short+Sweet 2018 features 130 plays across 8 weeks, with 2 new programmes every week. The different programs feature new writers, directors and a totally new cast. Among the plays showing nightly this week […]
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 5 February, for a program concerning ideas about Race, Place and Identity. My guest interviews today are with Dr Hayley Megan French, co-curator of the exhibition “Landing Points: Race, Place and Identity”, which is currently on show at Penrith Regional Gallery, along with Tracey Moffatt’s seminal 1997 photographic series “Up […]
ArtiFacts Eastside. Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 8 January, for a program about art, poetry and literature specifically focused on Sydney. Hear interviews with Damien Minton about an exhibition at his former eponymous gallery called Five Bells – a Visual Ode to Sydney. Taking cues from Kenneth Slessor’s poem – voted Australia’s best poem by ABC […]
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Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 27 November, for a program that revisits Sydney’s Forensic Photography Archive (FPA) – the world’s largest collection of police photographs, created by the NSW Police from 1910-1964. Sydney Living Museums is presenting a new exhibition of photographs drawn from the archive called “Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties”, opening at […]
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 16 October, for a program devoted to community and the streets of Sydney with Louise Hawson, the photographer behind the 52 Suburbs blog and book. Louise Hawson woke up one day and realised she was a stranger in her own city. And then she set herself a mission: to explore […]
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