As you orchestrate your way through life, sometimes you come across bits of real magic. Flour and Stone bakery is that bit of magic. This small space dedicated to beautiful food is no magic at all – really, because instead a brilliant team of professional people who really know about baking and the art in delivering a hand made product. Flour and Stone changes daily and seasonally (although they keep on some of the favourites) – … →
Judy Millar`s second solo Australian exhibition I Give You The End of A Golden Thread opens at Sullivan and Strumpf in Alexandria on 7 May 2013. This exhibition reinforces the significant place that Judy Miller holds in global contemporary art. A hallmark in Millar’s work is the contemporary way she erases, wipes off and scrapes the paint off the surface of the work. The results are often very large sweeping lines, shapes with transparent yet intensities in one … →
The Australian premiere of Birds with Skymirrors is on at Carriageworks from 1 to 4 May – this contemporary dance work from internationally renowned New Zealand group MAU incorporates dance, ceremony, poetry and chant. For us at Sydneycool this is a signifcant large scale work of art that happens to be in the form of movement, sometimes abstract but with strong cultural tones as you would expect from MAU! Birds with Skymirrors comes from distinguished Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, a … →
Ormeggio at the Spit is in one of those Sydney locations where a restaurant in the wrong hands could easily have ended up ordinary, overpriced and trading on its perfect location. Ormeggio restaurant is neither – it’s a cool Sydney restaurant with contemporary Northern Italian food in an iconic location. Ormeggio reaffirms why we’re lucky to have top chefs with vision and who have brought their expertise to make Sydney one of the worlds top food destination. Alessandro Pavoni was … →
The 55th Venice Biennale opens on 1 June 2013 – and this year, 88 countries are taking part. The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most important global contemporary arts event with Australia being consistently represented for more than three decades. Each Biennale, a contemporary artist is selected to represent Australia – it’s exciting to have Simryn Gill, the Sydney-based artist, who works across multiple media, exhibit at the Australian Pavilion. Simryn Gill was born in Singapore and … →
Sydney’s place as a global contemporary art venue is demonstrated yet again with another global contemporary art gallery exhibiting here. Skalitzers Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery based in Berlin that’s presenting a solo exhibition by the Portugese born artist Vhils in the Rocks. Part of Art Month Sydney 2013, this pop up exhibition ‘Dissolve’ by Vhils, aka Alexandre Farto opens on 21st March. Vhils started developing his style as a graffiti artist when he was 13 and came … →
Art Month Sydney is on again and looks set to deliver another creative and innovative program in 2013. Art Month is a celebration of Sydney contemporary art with events like workshop, tours, talks and exhibitions and get-togethers. This year there are over over 300 exhibiting artists, 200 art events and 100 art spaces across Sydney – Art Month runs from 1– 24 March 2013. We like the look of these events but there’s lot more to choose from. … →
