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Berlin-Sydney contemporary art

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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 2013

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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. … →

Rage 25 years on ABC TV -Carriageworks

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This year marks 25 years of Australian and Sydney arts history with the  anniversary of ABC TV’s iconic music program – rage.  As part of Vivid 2012,  there’s a large scale installation broadcasting non-stop music videos and archival footage from rage at Carriageworks in Eveleigh. in the foyer at Carriageworks, there’ll be more than 100 television sets showing 750 of the best video clips from the rage archives translating to almost  50 hours of footage that will be broadcast simultaneously across the screens. … →

Art Gallery of NSW-past present future

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2012 is a big year for the Art Gallery of NSW and the Sydney arts scene. There’s been the Picasso exhibition, the appointment of Michael Brand as new director and in November the first major Australian Francis Bacon exhibition. Sydneycool was there on the opening morning to see the latest event – to see the rehang of the Australian collection. Not only do you get to see over 135 works not seen for a while – the 20th and 21st … →

Caffe Quattro- Bowral cafe

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Whenever we, at sydneycool, have the opportunity to share with our readers something that is good we can’t wait.  And seeing we were in the Southern Highlands for the weekend, thought we would visit a few places and try the coffee. This is a ongoing hunt for us – we visit the Southern Highlands often, especially in the winter where we stay at this farm, a real get away for us city lovers. I’m thinking if we had lots of … →

Vivid Live- global Sydney arts event

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If you’ve been thinking that Vivid Sydney is just illuminations on the Sydney Opera House and other Sydney CBD buildings – think again. Vivid Sydney is now another key happening on the global Sydney arts calendar. The 2012 lineup includes fantastic lighting, creative ideas and cool music and that’s just a taste of it. This year’s Vivid Live has an exciting lineup of music and performance. At the Opera House, Florence + the Machine is a standout – unfortunately sold … →

Chiswick – Matt Moran new Sydney restaurant

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We arrived at Chiswick Restaurant in Woollahra – the new Sydney restaurant owned by Matt Moran – 45 minutes early, as we were planning to sit at the bar and have a martini as our table was for 8pm. However, we were asked if we’d like to go straight to our table as it was ready – We thought why not! The place was really humming along, as there was not room to swing a cat (sorry all you cat … →

Thomas Demand- The Dailies- a must see

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Kaldor Public Art Projects has always been at the forefront of bringing some of the more important art of the time to Sydney and none more exciting at this moment than Thomas Demand from Berlin and his world premiere work – The Dailies. We, at sydneycool, were so excited to be at the media launch today of Thomas Demand new installation created for Sydney. “The Dailies” as it is called, involves a whole floor in the iconic Commercial Travellers Association … →

Stitch-Sydney CBD small bar

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Stitch Bar in York St, Sydney CBD is another of the small bars that, over the last year or so, have opened their doors in long forgotten buildings and spaces to create cool Sydney CBD bars. Well, Stitch is another one of these – behind what is meant to look like a small alteration business and down a set of stairs to cavernous space that looks like it was a storeroom with cages in the basement. We rocked up one … →

Dust in very cool Darlinghurst

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Dust in Darlinghurst is a local icon and over the years has become a regular for those who enjoy boho shopping.  It is a treasure trove for jewellery, whether you’re looking for pearls, strings and strings from any era or skull rings to adore your fingers, maybe a perfect plaited silver neck choker to go with the Lanvin dress you just bought –  There also wonderful prints and paintings, that lamp you can’t live without.  Or a coffee table from … →

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