HOME is the theme of Arts Thursday on 27th December 2018. The Ideal Home is a phrase that conjures up a long-running English exhibition that showcases the latest ideas, designs and products for the home. The Ideal Home exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery and the Powerhouse Museum showcases some of the innovations and products that […]
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SYDNEY IN SUMMERTIME is the theme of Arts Thursday on 13th December 2018. Destination Sydney has become a tourism catchcry, but the phrase was popularised two years ago, with a ground-breaking exhibition of that name, presented at three of Sydney’s finest public galleries, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and the S. H. […]
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Arts Thursday 4th October 2018 MODERN MASTERS IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage opened at The Art Gallery of NSW last week and this week Maisy Stapleton spoke to Peter Raisis, Senior Curator of Historical European Art about the exhibition. The exhibition is a stunning showcase of the modern movement, […]
Arts Thursday 4th October 2018 WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories in the arts. Sydney Craft Week is being staged for the second year by the Australian Design Centre. This year it’s a festival of creativity and making, with a theme of mindful making – exploring how working with your hands […]
WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories acrosss the arts . The third Arts Thursday segment on the Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Ethics in an Age of Excess. This will be a preview of a panel discussion querying if architecture has lost its social purpose, and its focus on the public good […]
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WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories in the arts. This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Architect Angelo Candalepas joins to talk about The Architecture Symposium, featuring 21 of Australia’s leading architects who will discuss their buildings and demonstrate the maturity and complexity of […]
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WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Can great places bring us together and why do we need ‘great?’ Tim Horton from the Architects’ Registration Board joins the program to give us the key to the Festival and its value for the community. A […]
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Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 9 August 2018. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for a program that takes you from the paintings of John Russell, Australia’s French Impressionist to an ingenious new interpretation of Keating! the Musical. John Russell, left Sydney in the 1880s to […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 26 July. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation about 60s Interior Decorator/Designer Marion Hall Best and the exhibition honouring her work at Hazlehurst Art Centre. Firstly Michael Lech, Curator of the exhibition, gives us an insight into this period in design, when modernism was gaining in […]
ARTS THURSDAY with Maisy Stapleton on 31 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation with two very different groups of artists to probe what ‘lies behind’ an artwork. Firstly we’ll meet two artists who are showing at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Paddington. In what will […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 17 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Ged Gillmore writes crime fiction. His hero is an ex-drug dealer and Ged’s third book in the Bill Murdoch series has just been published. English-born Ged has found a way to successfully incorporate experiences from his […]
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ARTS THURSDAY with Maisy Stapleton on 3 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: The theme of The Australian Heritage Festival 2018 is My Culture, My Story, which forms a guide for the program this fortnight. Join me to speak to the new CEO of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), Debbie Mills […]