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Arts power couples Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, and Rachel Griffiths and Andrew Taylor have helped finance "a white box within a black box" that will be the nation’s arts face to the world.
More than $6 million has been raised from public and private sources to build Australia’s pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, clad in South Australian granite. But the pavilion got its biggest kick from the ultimate arts power couple: philanthropists Simon and Catriona Mordant doubled their contribution from $1 million to $2 million when they saw architects Denton Corker Marshall’s design.
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A parade of indigenous and non-indigenous children and their families along Macquarie Street will open Corroboree, a new indigenous cultural festival launched on Monday by NSW Governor Marie Bashir.
Hetti Perkins, the festival’s creative director and a member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal peoples, who was ‘‘grown up by the Sydney mob’’, said: ‘‘We wanted to begin the festival with young people.’' The festival program will also include visual arts, literature, music and performing arts, as well as ‘‘culture camps’’ bringing children into the city from regional NSW, and artists and art workers’ workshops.
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ABBA stars Agnetha Fältskog and Frida Lyngstad are "closer than ever" and have "fantasised" about singing together again. More than 30 years since the Swedish superstars split up, with their records continuing to sell millions, Fältskog, 63, has revealed she and Lyngstad got together in Majorca over the European summer and entertained the idea of blending their voices once more.
With Fältskog about to release her first album of new material in 25 years, A, on May 13, with a strong promotional push from Universal Records, speculation is again mounting that the four members might yet be tempted join creative forces in some configuration.
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All Sorts: a love letter to Sydney, books and social media; all they are, all they could be ...
On sale at Amazon and iTunes.
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