Arts

New Artistic Director for MTC

Volume 7 Number 3 March 14 - April 10 2011

Brett Sheehy has been appointed as the new Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). By Christy Hopwood.

Experimental gentlemen

Volume 7 Number 3 March 14 - April 10 2011

The worlds of colonial art and rock music come together in a new exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. By Katrina Raymond.

Archaeology of the pavements

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

A whole new and unexplored world awaits us if only we bothered to look for it. For Claire Smith, that world is at our feet, on the footpaths and tracks, roads and bridges, that we walk every day, the focus of her PhD thesis “A Phenomenology of the Art of the Urban Walker.” Shane Cahill reports.

Model exhibition

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

Constructed models or tableaux have inspired a new exhibition of at the Potter. By Katrina Raymond.

George Paton’s student art

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

Student artists, curators and audiences can explore the Student Union’s George Paton Gallery. By Katherine Smith.

Up for grabs

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

Take a man searching for his missing hand, two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks, and an overly curious, slightly disturbed hotel clerk, and the rest is up for grabs. Christy Hopwood previews Martin McDonagh’s hilariously volatile, outrageous black comedy A Behanding in Spokane starring Colin Moody, Tyler Coppin, Nicole Da Silva and Bert Labonté.

No Place Like

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

Preparations are under way for the premiere in May of No Place Like, a new play in the MU Student Union Guild Theatre, written by Chris Summers. Katherine Smith reports.

A silent art form

Volume 7 Number 2 February 14 - March 13 2011

A music conductor’s prime goal is to communicate their vision to the players through physical gesture. Each performance is a quiet collaboration with musicians and a good conductor will enable them to express themselves and feel free while playing. Lieu Pham reports.

And the party goes on

Volume 7 Number 1 January 10 - February 13 2011

Christy Hopwood previews the Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) first production for 2011 where Don, of David Williamson’s Don’s Party fame, saddles up for the 2010 election, older but, it seems, no wiser than he was at his 1969 party.

Dream rooms

Volume 7 Number 1 January 10 - February 13 2011

Dream Rooms (below) by Matthew Dobson, a student in the Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medical Science course, was the winner of the John Masefield Prize in Poetry which was established in 1937 and is available in alternate years.

There’s no time

Volume 7 Number 1 January 10 - February 13 2011

Wood, canvas, glass, paint and stone converse with a large mural painting, a two-part ‘door’ sculpture and four luminous paintings. Katrina Raymond previews There’s no time: John Spiteri, Mira Gojak, Bradd Westmoreland, Karl Wiebke at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne.

Let the rhythm take you

Volume 7 Number 1 January 10 - February 13 2011

A passion for music and understanding how we connect with it has led to the development of new musical instruments. Rebecca Scott reports.