Heads Up: Astra’s final concert for 2012, 5 pm Sunday 8 December
What: Lux Aeterna: ad Astra Who: Astra final concert for 2012 When: 5 pm Sunday 8 December Where: Sacred Heart Church, corner Rathdowne and Pelham Streets, Carlton. By Nicholas M Tolhurst Astra Chamber...
View ArticleHeads Up – Italian Masterpieces from Spain’s Royal Court, Museo del Prado
The finest collection of Italian Masterpieces ever to come to Australia will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 16 May. Featuring some of the most outstanding works from masters such as...
View ArticleHeads up: William Blake in Melbourne this April
One of the hidden treasures of the National Gallery of Victoria is its collection of William Blake watercolours, drawings and engravings. They have not been seen for 15 years, but this April 100 of...
View ArticleHeads Up: The Royal Academy comes to Bendigo, 2 March to 9 June 2014
Almost 100 works from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, including paintings by J.M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, John Singer Sargent, Henry Fuseli, John Everett Millais, John...
View ArticleHeads Up: Piranesi exhibition at the State Library of Victoria until 22 June
The State Library of Victoria is offering art lovers the opportunity to see the work of one of Italy’s greatest printmakers, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78). Like so many of the the best Italian...
View ArticleThe Great War: Helen Gifford’s Choral Scenes…for the fallen
By Nicholas M Tolhurst As Australia celebrates the mythos of Gallipoli, Astra Chamber Music presents a concert on 19 April at the Church of All Nations (CAN) in Carlton, featuring a major work by...
View ArticleHeads up: Masterpieces from the Hermitage, NGV 31 July-8 November, 2015
More than 500 works from the collection of Russian Empress Catherine the Great will travel to Australia in July. Collected during her reign (1762-1796) the exhibition includes works from artists such...
View ArticleHeads Up: A Symphonic Celebration of Nigel Butterley, 31 October 2015
From Sorrowing Earth: A Symphonic Celebration of Nigel Butterley’s 80th Birthday 7.30 pm, Saturday October 31, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Cnr Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Southbank, VIC...
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