If you’ve ever encountered an artwork and left feeling a little perplexed, you’re not alone. This is why we’ve created a ‘cheat sheet’ to prepare you for the world premiere …
Art & About
Here are 5 things you need to know about HEARD•SYD before you see it in person. 1. Before you ask… No, this artist is not the former frontman of the Bad Seeds. …
As provocative as its subject, Hidden Sydney is an immersive Art & About performance that takes you into an amusement park for adults: Kings Cross in the 50s, 60s and …
We’re looking for artists to create unlikely pauses in the underused spaces of the inner city. As part of our City Centre Public Art Plan, which will enhance the changing …
What is ‘tutting’ exactly? Buzzfeed calls it “like breakdancing but with more arm stuff going on” but in reality it’s a hypnotic dance form that draws inspiration from the the hieroglyphics …
What does water taste like? Does water have a language? What if it stopped? These are just some of the questions Sydney-born artist Janet Laurence addresses with H20 Water Bar, …
Sydney is a city full of art and art galleries. It’s also a city with many blank walls. Art & About Sydney and Elliott Routledge of Funstudio have collaborated to …
Art in unusual places is now also surprising us at unusual times. Artworks will soon begin to spring up in alleys, gardens and on buildings when you least expect them, …
Veteran street artist Numskull has just painted his biggest wall to date. His mural Here, Now created as part of Art & About Sydney, reminds the hurried crowds of Pitt …
This year’s BEAMS Arts Festival will be playing with the elusive notion of utopia. The memory of Chippendale’s industrial past is beginning to fade as the precinct materialises its potential …
If you ever imagined your living room as an ideal theatrical backdrop, you have an opportunity to make this happen during Art & About Sydney 2014. Sydneysiders with a sense …
You may have noticed we’re in the midst of a plague. The city’s being overrun (although ‘run’ is probably a bit ambitious!) by gigantic neon snails. But before you reach …
We are in the most important race of the century – a sprint to create a low-carbon city by 2030. Our target is pretty ambitious – a 70% reduction in …
The annual spring event takes art outside the white box confines of a traditional gallery and uses the city’s parks, laneways, squares and railways as canvas. Our hope is that …
Ever thought about what that little green man that blinks you to walk looks like in Dresden or Montreal? The universally rendered ‘man’ is both symbolically identical across the world …