<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arts - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Arts news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-au</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:43:43 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Fan reaction to night one of The Eras Tour in Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift fans packed out Accor stadium for the first Sydney show of Swift&rsquo;s Eras Tour on Friday night. Swifties took over Sydney for the highly anticipated sold-out concert, which takes fans on a journey through Swift&rsquo;s musical eras.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fan-reaction-to-night-one-of-the-eras-tour-in-sydney/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:43:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fan-reaction-to-night-one-of-the-eras-tour-in-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Taylor Swift write all her own songs?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift&rsquo;s Eras Tour has well and truly taken over Australia, as Sydney fans ready themselves for four nights of music, friendship bracelets and the hottest ticket in the world right now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/does-taylor-swift-write-all-her-own-songs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:32:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/does-taylor-swift-write-all-her-own-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real-life stories in Taylor Swift’s songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift&rsquo;s Eras Tour has well and truly taken over Australia, as Sydney fans ready themselves for four nights of music, friendship bracelets and the hottest ticket in the world right now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-real-life-stories-in-taylor-swifts-songs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:21:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-real-life-stories-in-taylor-swifts-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything to know ahead of Taylor Swift’s Sydney shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift fans heading to The Eras Tour in Sydney will have access to free public transport across the four massive sellout shows at Accor Stadium.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everything-to-know-ahead-of-taylor-swifts-sydney-shows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:45:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everything-to-know-ahead-of-taylor-swifts-sydney-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every question answered before Tay Tay’s Sydney shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift fans heading to The Eras Tour in Sydney will have access to free public transport across the four massive sellout shows at Accor Stadium.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/every-question-answered-before-tay-tays-sydney-shows/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:19:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/every-question-answered-before-tay-tays-sydney-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How abandoned train station is bringing ‘opera to the masses’]]></title><description><![CDATA[It might be hard to believe, but this train station was once used to transport the bodies of loved ones to be laid to rest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-abandoned-train-station-is-bringing-opera-to-the-masses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:54:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-abandoned-train-station-is-bringing-opera-to-the-masses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Jess Mauboy, Mitch Tambo sing the same tune]]></title><description><![CDATA[Belting out a favourite tune with your buddies can achieve much more than lifting the group mood, says multi-talented First Nations musician and dancer Mitch Tambo.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-jess-mauboy-mitch-tambo-sing-the-same-tune/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:21:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-jess-mauboy-mitch-tambo-sing-the-same-tune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the brink of stardom Ben Goss is centre stage and proud of his disability]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actor Ben Goss is proud of his disability, and says there&rsquo;s no greater feeling than standing on stage doing what he loves &ndash; because as a little boy growing up, a career in lights felt out of reach.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-the-brink-of-stardom-ben-goss-is-centre-stage-and-proud-of-his-disability/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 07:37:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-the-brink-of-stardom-ben-goss-is-centre-stage-and-proud-of-his-disability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$1200 a project: Aussies cashing in on AI art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech-savvy creatives are earning thousands of dollars producing AI art &ndash; no paint brush, chisel or camera required.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/1200-a-project-aussies-cashing-in-on-ai-art/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:49:28 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/1200-a-project-aussies-cashing-in-on-ai-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to cash in on the ’huge’ demand for AI art skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech-savvy creatives are earning thousands of dollars producing AI art &ndash; no paint brush, chisel or camera required.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-cash-in-on-the-huge-demand-for-ai-art-skills/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:00:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-cash-in-on-the-huge-demand-for-ai-art-skills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rolling Thunder Vietnam is a story that needs to be treasured]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proud Gumbaynggirr and Turkish woman Brittanie Shipway says creating theatre that makes you think, creates a space for First Nations stories that celebrate an incredible culture, and not just focus on trauma of the past.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rolling-thunder-vietnam-is-a-story-that-needs-to-be-treasured/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:02:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rolling-thunder-vietnam-is-a-story-that-needs-to-be-treasured/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to celebrate our own stories and culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proud Gumbaynggirr and Turkish woman Brittanie Shipway says creating theatre that makes you think, creates a space for First Nations stories that celebrate an incredible culture, and not just focus on trauma of the past.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-to-celebrate-our-own-stories-and-culture/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 08:29:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-to-celebrate-our-own-stories-and-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5-minute edible art recipes to entertain the kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making homemade finger paint and playdoh along with recycled crayons should be on every parent&rsquo;s to-do list with their kids if you&rsquo;re looking for cheap entertainment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/5-minute-edible-art-recipes-to-entertain-the-kids/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:00:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/5-minute-edible-art-recipes-to-entertain-the-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save money with DIY arts and crafts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making homemade finger paint and playdoh along with recycled crayons should be on every parent&rsquo;s to-do list with their kids if you&rsquo;re looking for cheap entertainment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/save-money-with-diy-arts-and-crafts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:56:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/save-money-with-diy-arts-and-crafts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to save on children’s arts and crafts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making homemade finger paint and playdoh along with recycled crayons should be on every parent&rsquo;s to-do list with their kids if you&rsquo;re looking for cheap entertainment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-save-on-childrens-arts-and-crafts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:45:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-save-on-childrens-arts-and-crafts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna reveals she’s pregnant at Super Bowl Halftime Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rihanna's representative confirmed she is expecting another child after the star delivered a stunning performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday. The crowd at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona erupted in excitement as Rihanna, dressed head-to-toe in bright red and sporting a baby bump performed a series of classic hits including B**ch Better Have My Money, Where Have You Been, Rude Boy, Umbrella, We Found Love and Only Girl (In The World). Throughout her show, she was accompanie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-reveals-shes-pregnant-at-super-bowl-halftime-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-reveals-shes-pregnant-at-super-bowl-halftime-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reese Witherspoon does not want her children texting her]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reese Witherspoon encourages her kids to call her rather than text because she wants to encourage "direct communication."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/reese-witherspoon-does-not-want-her-children-texting-her/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/reese-witherspoon-does-not-want-her-children-texting-her/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pink has been “looking into” becoming an Australian citizen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pink has loved Australia for years and said ahead of a series of shows next year in the country she has been considering getting citizenship Down Under, which would be the only place where she would consider moving with her family.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pink-has-been-looking-into-becoming-an-australian-citizen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pink-has-been-looking-into-becoming-an-australian-citizen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are buying a $34.5 million home after two years of house-hunting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez and her husband Ben Affleck are reportedly buying a house to settle down in after spending two years looking for a property to buy together]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-are-buying-a-345-million-home-after-two-years-of-house-hunting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-are-buying-a-345-million-home-after-two-years-of-house-hunting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idris Elba responds to backlash after refusing to call himself a ‘Black actor’]]></title><description><![CDATA[During an interview with Esquire UK, the British actor revealed he no longer identifies as a "Black actor" because it limited his opportunities and explained that the obsession with race can hinder people's aspirations and growth. "Racism is very real. But from my perspective, it's only as powerful as you allow it to be. I stopped describing myself as a Black actor when I realized it put me in a box. We've got to grow. We've got to. Our skin is no more than that: It's just skin. Rant over."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/idris-elba-responds-to-backlash-after-refusing-to-call-himself-a-black-actor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/idris-elba-responds-to-backlash-after-refusing-to-call-himself-a-black-actor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drake stopped a concert to reveal he’d got a “Let’s f***” proposition from a fan in the crowd]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drake was playing a set at h.wood group and Uncommon Entertainment&rsquo;s annual Homecoming Super Bowl party when he stopped his gig to reveal he&rsquo;d got a &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s f***&rdquo; proposition from one of his fans in the crowd. The rapper, 36,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/drake-stopped-a-concert-to-reveal-hed-got-a-lets-f-proposition-from-a-fan-in-the-crowd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/drake-stopped-a-concert-to-reveal-hed-got-a-lets-f-proposition-from-a-fan-in-the-crowd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claudia Winkleman’s fringe gets complaints from viewers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claudia Winkleman's fringe gets complaints from viewers who are concerned for her vision.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claudia-winklemans-fringe-gets-complaints-from-viewers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claudia-winklemans-fringe-gets-complaints-from-viewers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris Brown and Ellen DeGeneres react to Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chris Brown, Ellen DeGeneres were among the celebrities who reacted to Rihanna's Super Bowl performance on social media on Sunday. After Rihanna finished her set at the 2023 sporting extravaganza on Sunday, celebrities took to social media to react to her performance. Chris, the Diamonds singer's ex, wrote on his Instagram Stories following her show: "GO GIRL" with love heart and praying hands emojis. Meanwhile, Pretty Little Liars star Ashley wrote in a post that she "loves Rihanna" and in her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chris-brown-and-ellen-degeneres-react-to-rihannas-super-bowl-halftime-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chris-brown-and-ellen-degeneres-react-to-rihannas-super-bowl-halftime-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bryan Cranston wants to play Willie Nelson in a biopic]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a recent interview for NME, the Breaking Bad actor was asked if he would like to portray a musician onscreen one day. In response, Bryan named country music icon Willie as someone he would be interested in playing. "Willie Nelson comes to mind. The hair and the beard. I think there's some physical resemblance. He's very old and wrinkled, and I can relate to that. So, I wouldn't have to wear a lot of make-up.&rdquo; "Willie's had a fascinating career - as a writer and as a performer, and a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bryan-cranston-wants-to-play-willie-nelson-in-a-biopic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bryan-cranston-wants-to-play-willie-nelson-in-a-biopic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcome their fourth baby]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blake Lively appears to have welcomed her fourth baby with Ryan Reynolds.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-welcome-their-fourth-baby/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:28:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-welcome-their-fourth-baby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fawltlessly funny]]></title><description><![CDATA[I haven&rsquo;t studied the history of sitcoms. I couldn&rsquo;t tell you the cultural precedents that led to this particular &ndash; and in my view rather wonderful &ndash; art form. I wouldn&rsquo;t be able to give an intelligent view of why they have entertained &shy;millions. But one thing I do know: there has never been a show like Fawlty Towers, and neither will there be again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fawltlessly-funny/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:45:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fawltlessly-funny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charli XCX criticises BRIT Awards voters over lack of female nominees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prior to the awards show staged at The O2 Arena in London on Saturday night, the singer-songwriter was asked by a BBC reporter why she believes she garnered a nod in the Best Pop/R&amp;B category but missed out on a nomination for Artist of the Year. "Great question. Because I've heard a lot of chat about the fact there weren't enough females in album cycle and that's why no one was nominated.&rdquo; Charli XCX / BBC. &ldquo;But, I was in album cycle and I had a number one album (with Crash)."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charli-xcx-criticises-brit-awards-voters-over-lack-of-female-nominees/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:45:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charli-xcx-criticises-brit-awards-voters-over-lack-of-female-nominees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brando’s last tango with Paris dancer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever ended an affair knows there is a procedure to be followed, once described by George Costanza, a character in the Seinfeld sitcom, as the &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not you, it&rsquo;s me routine&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brandos-last-tango-with-paris-dancer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:45:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brandos-last-tango-with-paris-dancer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halle Berry recovers gracefully after ‘face planting’ at charity event]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Oscar-winning actress served as a guest speaker at Looking Beyond luncheon held to raise funds for organisations that serve children and young adults with special needs. Taking to Instagram over the weekend, Halle shared a video showing her tripping over as she walked up a set of stairs to the stage. "Sometimes you bust your a*s!" "What happened was....My dear friend @shillahekmatpiano invited me to speak at her charity event celebrating a wonderful organization called @lookingbeyondla that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/halle-berry-recovers-gracefully-after-face-planting-at-charity-event/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:44:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/halle-berry-recovers-gracefully-after-face-planting-at-charity-event/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna’s pregnancy CONFIRMED after she shows off bump during Super Bowl performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rihanna is expecting her second baby as she shows off her bump at her comeback performance at the Super Bowl.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihannas-pregnancy-confirmed-after-she-shows-off-bump-during-super-bowl-performance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:07:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihannas-pregnancy-confirmed-after-she-shows-off-bump-during-super-bowl-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Baldwin is sued by Halyna Hutchins’ family]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hutchins, a cinematographer on the set of 'Rust,' was killed on set last year when Baldwin's prop gun containing a live round went off. 'The Guardian' reports that Baldwin is now being sued by Hutchins' parents and sister. 'The Guardian' reports that the lawsuit accuses Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and others of "battery, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium". The lawsuit is separate from the criminal charges Baldwin is currently facing. "It's]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alec-baldwin-is-sued-by-halyna-hutchins-family/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:07:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alec-baldwin-is-sued-by-halyna-hutchins-family/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great expectations for Dickens game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens lives on in his 15&nbsp;novels and their many film adaptations, but the Victorian author is due to experience a different kind of revival in a new computer game.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/great-expectations-for-dickens-game/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:30:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/great-expectations-for-dickens-game/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pioneer rapper Trugoy dies at 54]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Jolicoeur, a member of the De La Soul trio who went by &ldquo;Trugoy the Dove,&rdquo; has died, US media reported. He was 54 years old.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pioneer-rapper-trugoy-dies-at-54/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:26:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pioneer-rapper-trugoy-dies-at-54/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Just not justifiable’: Beyoncé didn’t perform at the BRIT awards over a ‘£500k bill’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beyonc&eacute; picked up two awards at this year&rsquo;s BRIT Awards but reportedly did not perform at the ceremony as it would have cost bosses &pound;500,000 to host the singer and her entourage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/just-not-justifiable-beyonc-didnt-perform-at-the-brit-awards-over-a-500k-bill/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:26:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/just-not-justifiable-beyonc-didnt-perform-at-the-brit-awards-over-a-500k-bill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna’s pregnant pause at the Super Bowl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rihanna is renowned for her bravery. Performing mid air, while appearing to be heavily pregnant, after the US military shot down three unidentified flying objects in the last 72-hours, is a superhuman feat at the Super Bowl.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihannas-pregnant-pause-at-the-super-bowl/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 06:02:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihannas-pregnant-pause-at-the-super-bowl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna Confirms She’s Pregnant With Baby No. 2 With Super Bowl Halftime Show | Billboard News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rihanna is pregnant with her second baby, a representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter following her 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, after fans speculated about her appearance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-confirms-shes-pregnant-with-baby-no-2-with-super-bowl-halftime-show-billboard-news/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 06:02:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-confirms-shes-pregnant-with-baby-no-2-with-super-bowl-halftime-show-billboard-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most expensive Super Bowl ads of all time]]></title><description><![CDATA[These are the big-budget ads companies used to promote their products on Super Bowl Sunday, from Chrysler vehicles to Amazon&rsquo;s home assistant. #shorts #superbowl #commercial #expensive]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/most-expensive-super-bowl-ads-of-all-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/most-expensive-super-bowl-ads-of-all-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most controversial Super Bowl halftime performances]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether it be Beyonce or the Black Eyed Peas, these were the Super Bowl halftime shows that had people talking. #shorts #superbowl #halftime #performance]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/most-controversial-super-bowl-halftime-performances/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/most-controversial-super-bowl-halftime-performances/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Keaton returns as Batman in The Flash Super Bowl trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Keaton has returned to the role of Batman after more than 30 years, alongside Ben Affleck&rsquo;s Batman and Ezra Miller in DC&rsquo;s Super Bowl trailer for The Flash. #shorts #batman #theflash #michaelkeaton]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-keaton-returns-as-batman-in-the-flash-super-bowl-trailer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-keaton-returns-as-batman-in-the-flash-super-bowl-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer Coolidge squeals like a dolphin in Super Bowl commercial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jennifer Coolidge has found her porpoise in a new Super Bowl commercial for e.l.f. Cosmetics. #shorts #jennifercoolidge #dolphin #superbowl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jennifer-coolidge-squeals-like-a-dolphin-in-super-bowl-commercial/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jennifer-coolidge-squeals-like-a-dolphin-in-super-bowl-commercial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna Once Again Performs Her Iconic Song Umbrella]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rihanna has once again performed one of her most iconic songs at the Super Bowl 2023 halftime show after some time away from the stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-once-again-performs-her-iconic-song-umbrella/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:35:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-once-again-performs-her-iconic-song-umbrella/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Affleck surprises Dunkin’ Donuts customers in Super Bowl ad with Jennifer Lopez]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood star and Dunkin Donuts lover Ben Affleck has surprised customers in a drive-thru in Super Bowl ad, also featuring a cameo from wife Jennifer Lopez. #shorts #benaffleck #jenniferlopez #superbowl #commercial]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ben-affleck-surprises-dunkin-donuts-customers-in-super-bowl-ad-with-jennifer-lopez/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:35:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ben-affleck-surprises-dunkin-donuts-customers-in-super-bowl-ad-with-jennifer-lopez/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We need it’ – Paul Rudd on missing cinema comedy and loving Nicolas Cage film]]></title><description><![CDATA[While promoting Marvel&rsquo;s latest blockbuster, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, actor Paul Rudd laments the lack of big cinema comedies and sings praises for Nicolas Cage&rsquo;s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. #shorts #paulrudd #comedy #antman]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/we-need-it-paul-rudd-on-missing-cinema-comedy-and-loving-nicolas-cage-film/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/we-need-it-paul-rudd-on-missing-cinema-comedy-and-loving-nicolas-cage-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rihanna performs an epic Super Bowl halftime show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Megastar Rihanna performed an epic halftime show of her greatest hits at the 2023 Super Bowl. #shorts #rihanna #halftime #biggame]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-performs-an-epic-super-bowl-halftime-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rihanna-performs-an-epic-super-bowl-halftime-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ozzy Osbourne and other iconic rock stars appear in funny Super Bowl ad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Famous rock stars including Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley and Joan Jett have featured in a hilarious Super Bowl commercial. #shorts #rockstar #ozzyosbourne #superbowl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ozzy-osbourne-and-other-iconic-rock-stars-appear-in-funny-super-bowl-ad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ozzy-osbourne-and-other-iconic-rock-stars-appear-in-funny-super-bowl-ad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the Arizona pup taking part in the Puppy Bowl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meet the 8-month-old pup who's featured in this year's Puppy Bowl! She's one of dozens featured in the annual tradition. FOX 10's Irene Snyder has more.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meet-the-arizona-pup-taking-part-in-the-puppy-bowl/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meet-the-arizona-pup-taking-part-in-the-puppy-bowl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jon Hamm and Brie Larson are Pete Davidson’s ‘dinner’ in Super Bowl ad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jon Hamm, Brie Larson and Pete Davidson have featured in a weird and hilarious new Super Bowl commercial. #shorts #superbowl #petedavidson #jonhamm #brielarson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jon-hamm-and-brie-larson-are-pete-davidsons-dinner-in-super-bowl-ad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jon-hamm-and-brie-larson-are-pete-davidsons-dinner-in-super-bowl-ad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adele, Billie Eilish, LeBron James: Famous faces spotted in Super Bowl crowd]]></title><description><![CDATA[Famous faces from all walks of life, including Adele and LeBron James have been spotted in the crowd of the 2023 Super Bowl. #shorts #superbowl #adele #celebrity]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adele-billie-eilish-lebron-james-famous-faces-spotted-in-super-bowl-crowd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:34:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adele-billie-eilish-lebron-james-famous-faces-spotted-in-super-bowl-crowd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard E Grant ‘thrilled’ to be chosen as Bafta Film Awards host]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actor Richard E Grant said he is &ldquo;thrilled&rdquo; to have been chosen to host the 2023 Bafta Film Awards. The former Oscar nominee is part of a stellar line-up of hosts for the red carpet event and will present the ceremony itself.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/richard-e-grant-thrilled-to-be-chosen-as-bafta-film-awards-host/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:39:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/richard-e-grant-thrilled-to-be-chosen-as-bafta-film-awards-host/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I was born to do this’ – Alison Hammond on presenting at the Bafta Film Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Presenter Alison Hammond believes she was born to present at the 2023 Bafta Film Awards and described it as a "dream job come true". The former Big Brother contestant is hosting Bafta Studio, an immersive and access-all-areas experience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-born-to-do-this-alison-hammond-on-presenting-at-the-bafta-film-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:39:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-born-to-do-this-alison-hammond-on-presenting-at-the-bafta-film-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Love Islanders take on lie detector test for second time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The recreation of the Love Island detector test ties in with a unique dating experience launched by TGI Fridays. This Valentine&rsquo;s the original singles bar is trialling a new style of authentic dating by hooking its guests up to a &lsquo;True Love Detector&rsquo; of which they invited Alex and Olivia to take part. The detector uses sensors that analyse the brain activity and measure six key emotions including &lsquo;stressed&rsquo; and &lsquo;focused&rsquo;, allowing guests to see if their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ex-love-islanders-take-on-lie-detector-test-for-second-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:39:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ex-love-islanders-take-on-lie-detector-test-for-second-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Smith left fans wondering how they would use loo in BRITs outfit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Smith shocked fans by turning up for The BRIT Awards 2023 in a huge black inflatable bodysuit &ndash;&nbsp;leaving many of them pondering how he will use the toilet during the event.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sam-smith-left-fans-wondering-how-they-would-use-loo-in-brits-outfit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sam-smith-left-fans-wondering-how-they-would-use-loo-in-brits-outfit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pregnant Jessie J joked she was desperate for a snack as she arrived at the BRIT Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jessie J announced the sex of her baby hours before she arrived for The BRIT Awards 2023 in a cut-out dress designed to show off her growing baby bump, and joked she was already desperate for a snack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pregnant-jessie-j-joked-she-was-desperate-for-a-snack-as-she-arrived-at-the-brit-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pregnant-jessie-j-joked-she-was-desperate-for-a-snack-as-she-arrived-at-the-brit-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEWS OF THE WEEK: Katherine Schwarzenegger ‘sees what people say’ about husband Chris Pratt]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Internet meme naming the Guardians of the Galaxy actor as Hollywood's "Worst Chris" - compared to Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, and Chris Pine - regularly resurfaces on Twitter, while he has also received backlash for praising Katherine and been accused of attending an anti-LBTQ+ church. Discussing the negativity surrounding the star, Katherine simply told The New York Times: , "I see what people say. But I just know that it's so far from the reality." The author noted that she has always tr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-katherine-schwarzenegger-sees-what-people-say-about-husband-chris-pratt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-katherine-schwarzenegger-sees-what-people-say-about-husband-chris-pratt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEWS OF THE WEEK: Duke and Duchess of Sussex to face depositions in Samantha Markle defamation case]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March 2022, the 58-year-old sued the actress-turned-royal for allegedly making "false and malicious statements" about her and their father Thomas Markle during Meghan and Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. In the legal documents, Samantha accused Meghan of falsely claiming to be "an only child" and lying about when they last saw each other. She asked for $75,000 (&pound;62,000) in damages as well as court costs and legal fees. Meghan subsequently filed a motion to p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-to-face-depositions-in-samantha-markle-defamation-case/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-to-face-depositions-in-samantha-markle-defamation-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEWS OF THE WEEK: Ashton Kutcher feared ‘affair rumours’ if he hugged Reese Witherspoon at premiere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the Los Angeles screening of the new romantic comedy Your Place or Mine last week, fans pointed out the film stars didn't look particularly comfortable posing together on the red carpet. But during an interview for the Chicks in the Office podcast, Ashton insisted he and Reese are "really good friends" and he was simply trying to avoid making headlines. "Here's the thing: If I put my arm around her and was, like, all friendly with her, I'd be having an affair with her..."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-ashton-kutcher-feared-affair-rumours-if-he-hugged-reese-witherspoon-at-premiere/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/news-of-the-week-ashton-kutcher-feared-affair-rumours-if-he-hugged-reese-witherspoon-at-premiere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle Visage wore Union Jack outfit at BRIT Awards in tribute to Geri Halliwell’s iconic flag dress]]></title><description><![CDATA[American singer Michelle Visage says she wanted to make a &ldquo;statement&rdquo; by wearing a Union Jack gown at The BRIT Awards 2023 in tribute to Geri Halliwell&rsquo;s famous red, white and blue dress from the 1997 ceremony.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michelle-visage-wore-union-jack-outfit-at-brit-awards-in-tribute-to-geri-halliwells-iconic-flag-dress/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michelle-visage-wore-union-jack-outfit-at-brit-awards-in-tribute-to-geri-halliwells-iconic-flag-dress/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megan Fox sparks Machine Gun Kelly split rumors]]></title><description><![CDATA[It appears Hollywood&rsquo;s most loved-up couple has split, with actress Megan Fox taking drastic public action against Machine Gun Kelly.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/megan-fox-sparks-machine-gun-kelly-split-rumors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/megan-fox-sparks-machine-gun-kelly-split-rumors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maya Jama was among the first celebrities on The BRIT Awards 2023 red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maya Jama joked with fans in a clip showing her hair and make-up team she was a &ldquo;work in progress&rdquo;&nbsp;before being one of the first celebrity arrivals on The BRIT Awards 2023 red carpet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/maya-jama-was-among-the-first-celebrities-on-the-brit-awards-2023-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/maya-jama-was-among-the-first-celebrities-on-the-brit-awards-2023-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lily James and Michael Shuman split]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lily James has reportedly split from Michael Shuman after almost two years of dating.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lily-james-and-michael-shuman-split/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lily-james-and-michael-shuman-split/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FLO were left ‘speechless’ to get their BRIT Rising Star award from Jessie J]]></title><description><![CDATA[FLO &ndash;&nbsp;Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma and Renee Downer &ndash;&nbsp;received their trophy on the red carpet at London&rsquo;s O2 Arena on Saturday (11.02.23) ahead of the event kicking off at 8.30pm.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flo-were-left-speechless-to-get-their-brit-rising-star-award-from-jessie-j/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:26:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flo-were-left-speechless-to-get-their-brit-rising-star-award-from-jessie-j/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plot twist: ‘World doesn’t need another Paul Jennings short story’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Jennings is known as the master of the short story, whose clever twists and surprise endings have entertained children and parents for five decades &ndash; but his latest book is perhaps the biggest surprise of them all.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plot-twist-world-doesnt-need-another-paul-jennings-short-story/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:44:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plot-twist-world-doesnt-need-another-paul-jennings-short-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Something was very wrong’: artist’s miracle recovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cressida&nbsp;Campbell is a national treasure, her work hung proudly in the National Gallery of Australia and sold to passionate collectors for hundreds of&nbsp;thousands of dollars &ndash; but she has had two years of the highest of highs and the&nbsp;lowest of lows.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/something-was-very-wrong-artists-miracle-recovery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 06:43:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/something-was-very-wrong-artists-miracle-recovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: The rich-lister behind nation’s first kids’ art library]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Sydney&rsquo;s wealthiest women has been revealed as the money behind Australia&rsquo;s first-ever art library for kids, now open to the public for the final days of the school holidays.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/revealed-the-rich-lister-behind-nations-first-kids-art-library/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:57:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/revealed-the-rich-lister-behind-nations-first-kids-art-library/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling flat about potential rip off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getting a flat tyre this time of year is more annoying than a disaster, right? If, like me, you can&rsquo;t do it yourself, call the NRMA and they&rsquo;re here in a flash, like that dreaded nail never pierced the rubber at all. Perfect.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/feeling-flat-about-potential-rip-off/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:45:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/feeling-flat-about-potential-rip-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Bonkers’: Fire-ravaged town ready to rock ‘n’ roll after floods, Covid]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the south coast emerges from the shadow of the Black Summer bushfires and the Covid pandemic, Rock &rsquo;n&rsquo; roll enthusiast Leisa Tague is hoping third time&rsquo;s the charm.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bonkers-fire-ravaged-town-ready-to-rock-n-roll-after-floods-covid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:35:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bonkers-fire-ravaged-town-ready-to-rock-n-roll-after-floods-covid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CWA ‘legend’s’ legacy lives on through Christmas cake]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great, great grandmother who dedicated more than 40 years to the Country Women&rsquo;s Association is being remembered as an extraordinary baker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cwa-legends-legacy-lives-on-through-christmas-cake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:33:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cwa-legends-legacy-lives-on-through-christmas-cake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CWA ‘legend’s’ legacy lives on through Christmas pudding]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great, great grandmother who dedicated more than 40 years to the Country Women&rsquo;s Association is being remembered as an extraordinary baker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cwa-legends-legacy-lives-on-through-christmas-pudding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:55:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cwa-legends-legacy-lives-on-through-christmas-pudding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donovan slips into McLachlan’s suspenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jason Donovan will return to Australia to star in The Rocky Horror Show&rsquo;s 50th anniversary tour in February &ndash; the first time the Neighbours star has performed in Sydney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-slips-into-mclachlans-suspenders/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:49:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-slips-into-mclachlans-suspenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donovan slips into Neighbours alumni McLachlan’s suspenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jason Donovan will return to Australia to star in The Rocky Horror Show&rsquo;s 50th anniversary tour in February &ndash; the first time the Neighbours star has performed in Sydney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-slips-into-neighbours-alumni-mclachlans-suspenders/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:21:52 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-slips-into-neighbours-alumni-mclachlans-suspenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smashing the glass slipper]]></title><description><![CDATA[ANY fairy tale where the Prince Charming needs saving by the woman wearing the glass slippers is a good one in our books &ndash; and that&rsquo;s just the beginning when it comes to the modern evolution of Cinderella, which opens at Sydney&rsquo;s Lyic Theatre next week.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/smashing-the-glass-slipper/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:36:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/smashing-the-glass-slipper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donovan to do the Time Warp … again]]></title><description><![CDATA[JASON Donovan will return to Australia to star in The Rocky Horror Show&rsquo;s 50th anniversary tour in February &ndash; the first time the Neighbours star has performed in Sydney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-to-do-the-time-warp-again/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:36:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/donovan-to-do-the-time-warp-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Looking for Alibrandi is still relevant 30 years on]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a sad fact that Looking For Alibrandi&rsquo;s story about a migrant family trapped between two worlds and struggling with racism and cultural acceptance is just as relevant today as when it was written three decades ago.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-looking-for-alibrandi-is-still-relevant-30-years-on/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 01:47:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-looking-for-alibrandi-is-still-relevant-30-years-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Byron Bay’s Hollywood star factor takes off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Byron Bay&rsquo;s growing links with Hollywood have taken another huge step as a young man who went to the town to up his audio game is now slaying the silver screen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/byron-bays-hollywood-star-factor-takes-off/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:27:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/byron-bays-hollywood-star-factor-takes-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paulini’s amazing new role following family heartbreak]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can colour Paulini Curuenvauli and Euan Fistrovic Doidge happy &ndash; because they are starring in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/paulinis-amazing-new-role-following-family-heartbreak/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 04:11:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/paulinis-amazing-new-role-following-family-heartbreak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Out of touch’: Premier slams Art Gallery boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has slammed the Art Gallery of NSW Director Michael Brand as &ldquo;completely out of touch&rsquo;&rsquo; after he billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for meals at Sydney&rsquo;s finest restaurants.&ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/out-of-touch-premier-slams-art-gallery-boss/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 03:05:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/out-of-touch-premier-slams-art-gallery-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Gallery boss’ thousand dollar lunches on taxpayers’ dime]]></title><description><![CDATA[The boss of the state&rsquo;s premier cultural institution billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for meals at Sydney&rsquo;s finest restaurants including $1180 at Otto in Woolloomooloo, $1033 at Firedoor in Surry Hills and $779 at Franca Brasserie in Potts Point.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-gallery-boss-thousand-dollar-lunches-on-taxpayers-dime/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:18:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-gallery-boss-thousand-dollar-lunches-on-taxpayers-dime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provocative, confident and sexy Moulin Rouge a must see]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theenergy and thrill of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is contagious. And any theatrical production that sees confident women in lingerie, boldly and provocatively dancing with made up men just as confident in the same lingerie, is worthy of any stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/provocative-confident-and-sexy-moulin-rouge-a-must-see/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 08:41:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/provocative-confident-and-sexy-moulin-rouge-a-must-see/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review: Magical musical mash-up a toe-tapping gem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theenergy and thrill of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is contagious. And any theatrical production that sees confidentwomen in lingerie, boldly and provocatively dancing with made up men just as confident in the same lingerie, is worthy of any stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-magical-musical-mash-up-a-toe-tapping-gem/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:41:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-magical-musical-mash-up-a-toe-tapping-gem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant bubbles light up the harbour]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s something bubbling in the harbour this winter.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/giant-bubbles-light-up-the-harbour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 14:29:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/giant-bubbles-light-up-the-harbour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney Biennale being taken over by ‘self-indulgent woke art’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Questions are being raised about the direction of the latest Biennale of Sydney art festival and why millions of dollars of taxpayers&rsquo; money is being spent on a &ldquo;pagan Gai-worshipping festival of woke&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-biennale-being-taken-over-by-self-indulgent-woke-art/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 05:36:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-biennale-being-taken-over-by-self-indulgent-woke-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wulugul Walk a highlight of expanded Vivid festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a two-year Covid hiatus, Vivid is back with 11 new locations including Barangaroo&rsquo;s waterfront Wulugul Walk where the work of several First Nations students will be showcased.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wulugul-walk-a-highlight-of-expanded-vivid-festival/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 12:23:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wulugul-walk-a-highlight-of-expanded-vivid-festival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballerina’s powerful tribute to Ukraine homeland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whenever Australian Ballet star Valerie Tereshchenko dances the classic Russian masterpiece Anna Karenina, something stirs deep inside her.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ballerinas-powerful-tribute-to-ukraine-homeland/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:23:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ballerinas-powerful-tribute-to-ukraine-homeland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penn and Teller set to make magic at Opera House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Famed US magicians Penn and Teller have always dreamt of performing in Sydney, falling in love with Australia after trips over the years that saw one half of the duo learn to scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef &mdash; a skill that Teller says is not dissimilar to the art of magic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/penn-and-teller-set-to-make-magic-at-opera-house/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 02:29:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/penn-and-teller-set-to-make-magic-at-opera-house/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campbell channels idol Cary Grant in Hitchcock thriller]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Campbell grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock movies, so to star in the theatrical adaptation of his spy thriller North By Northwest is like a dream, even if it means 14-hour days, juggling the stage with his television and radio commitments and family time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/campbell-channels-idol-cary-grant-in-hitchcock-thriller/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:56:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/campbell-channels-idol-cary-grant-in-hitchcock-thriller/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campbell channels Cary Grant in Hitchcock thriller]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Campbell grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock movies, so to star in the theatrical adaptation of his spy thriller North By Northwest is like a dream, even if it means 14-hour days, juggling the stage with his television and radio commitments and family time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/campbell-channels-cary-grant-in-hitchcock-thriller/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2022 05:39:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/campbell-channels-cary-grant-in-hitchcock-thriller/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney Eisteddfod ‘levels the playing field’]]></title><description><![CDATA[After two years of cancellations and disappointed kids, Sydney&rsquo;s largest youth performing arts festival is bringing the music back to young performers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-eisteddfod-levels-the-playing-field/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:19:53 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-eisteddfod-levels-the-playing-field/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical couple hit the road again — together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actors Marina Prior and husband Grant Piro have had 40 years to master life on the road, and just like their day jobs, have it down to a fine art form.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musical-couple-hit-the-road-again-together/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:03:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musical-couple-hit-the-road-again-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolly Parton’s special message to musical star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actor Erin Clare says a special message from Dolly Parton has provided extra motivation ahead of 9 to 5 The Musical hitting the stage in Sydney and Brisbane.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolly-partons-special-message-to-musical-star/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:49:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolly-partons-special-message-to-musical-star/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We’ll have wicked fun with Cinderella’]]></title><description><![CDATA[It feels good to be bad &ndash; and Tina Bursill, Matilda Moran and Bianca Bruce can&rsquo;t wait to be really good at being bad in Cinderella.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/well-have-wicked-fun-with-cinderella/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 07:12:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/well-have-wicked-fun-with-cinderella/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter that turned starry-eyed kid into a theatre giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a lot Michael Cassel knows, and top billing is that the show will go on.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/letter-that-turned-starry-eyed-kid-into-a-theatre-giant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:28:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/letter-that-turned-starry-eyed-kid-into-a-theatre-giant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How theatre producer is helping the show go on]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a lot Michael Cassel knows, and top billing is that the show will go on.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-theatre-producer-is-helping-the-show-go-on/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:33:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-theatre-producer-is-helping-the-show-go-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your guide to what’s happening on Australia Day in NSW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydneysiders are encouraged to come together to respect, reflect and unite with renewed passion and optimism on Australia Day.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/your-guide-to-whats-happening-on-australia-day-in-nsw/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2022 20:43:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/your-guide-to-whats-happening-on-australia-day-in-nsw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial artists take to gravity-defying ice stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[After more than two years of planning, a 2.7 tonne, intricately sculpted block of ice has been suspended 20m above Sydney Harbour in an impressive performance art piece.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aerial-artists-take-to-gravity-defying-ice-stage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:56:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aerial-artists-take-to-gravity-defying-ice-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I wanted to make a spectacle’]]></title><description><![CDATA[After more than two years of planning, a 2.7 tonne, intricately sculpted block of ice has been suspended 20 metres above Sydney Harbour in an impressive performance art piece.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-wanted-to-make-a-spectacle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-wanted-to-make-a-spectacle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Gays wouldn’t be welcome in Palestine’: KISS frontman]]></title><description><![CDATA[KISS frontman Gene Simmons has told activists protesting against the Israeli Embassy&rsquo;s sponsorship of the Sydney Festival that women who like wearing makeup and gay men wouldn&rsquo;t be welcome in Palestine.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gays-wouldnt-be-welcome-in-palestine-kiss-frontman/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:58:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gays-wouldnt-be-welcome-in-palestine-kiss-frontman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archibald-winning artist dies of Covid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former Archibald winner Craig Ruddy has died of Covid aged 53, just weeks after the subject of his prize-winning piece David Gulpilil died.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/archibald-winning-artist-dies-of-covid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:56:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/archibald-winning-artist-dies-of-covid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Prince goes from Rooty Hill to Broadway]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a three-week stint at Rooty Hill&rsquo;s Coliseum Theatre this month, stage show The Little Prince is heading straight to Broadway.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/little-prince-goes-from-rooty-hill-to-broadway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:01:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/little-prince-goes-from-rooty-hill-to-broadway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 new Christmas movies including some so bad, they’re good]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deck the halls and crack open the mince pies, there&rsquo;s a feast of new Christmas movies out, as studios have gone on a commissioning frenzy to make sure after the year we&rsquo;ve had, this is the best festive viewing season, ever.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/10-new-christmas-movies-including-some-so-bad-theyre-good/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:22:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/10-new-christmas-movies-including-some-so-bad-theyre-good/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolly Parton’s hit musical celebrates Christmas]]></title><description><![CDATA[FIVE stars from the forthcoming Australian premiere of 9 to 5 The Musical started celebrating Christmas early, recording their own Dolly Parton-inspired take on the traditional Jingle Bells song.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolly-partons-hit-musical-celebrates-christmas/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 02:00:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolly-partons-hit-musical-celebrates-christmas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wiggles join free Sydney festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simon Pryce crosses the Cahill Expressway nearly every day on his way to The&nbsp;Wiggles HQ.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-wiggles-join-free-sydney-festival/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:19:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-wiggles-join-free-sydney-festival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to see your favourite sports stars this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beach Volleyball champion Kerri Pottharst once had the key to the city &ndash; well, sort of.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-see-your-favourite-sports-stars-this-summer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:19:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-see-your-favourite-sports-stars-this-summer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sneak peek at first musical set to entertain post-lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a Covid-forced industry break in the entertainment and performance sector, Wagga&rsquo;s Civic Centre will be alive once more with singing and dancing for Mamma Mia! the Musical.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sneak-peek-at-first-musical-set-to-entertain-post-lockdown/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 07:26:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sneak-peek-at-first-musical-set-to-entertain-post-lockdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[9 to 5: Girls show who’s the boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[If there&rsquo;s one thing musical powerhouses Marina Prior,Casey Donovan and Erin Clare love about their upcoming musical, 9 to 5, it&rsquo;s the fact that the three protagonists are all female &ndash; and working hard for their money.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/9-to-5-girls-show-whos-the-boss/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:18:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/9-to-5-girls-show-whos-the-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect return to Aussie stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Eddie Perfect walked away from Broadway&rsquo;s fame and fortune, he admits he was worried his career may never hit those heights again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/perfect-return-to-aussie-stage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:59:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/perfect-return-to-aussie-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indigenous art gallery opens in the Southern Highlands]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been five long years in the making but the team behind the Southern Highlands first regional gallery says it was worth the wait.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indigenous-art-gallery-opens-in-the-southern-highlands/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:45:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indigenous-art-gallery-opens-in-the-southern-highlands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Bond set to save south coast cinemas]]></title><description><![CDATA[With no more lockdowns on the horizon, south coast cinemas are hoping people will return to the age-old tradition of going to the movies after more than a year of trying to survive in a Covid-affected world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/james-bond-set-to-save-south-coast-cinemas/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:35:52 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/james-bond-set-to-save-south-coast-cinemas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rise up! Hamilton cast ready to return to the stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney is rising up for Freedom Day on Monday &ndash; and like all fans of the show, Hamilton stars Jason Arrow and Lyndon Watts have spent the past three months desperate to be back in the room where it happens.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rise-up-hamilton-cast-ready-to-return-to-the-stage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:57:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rise-up-hamilton-cast-ready-to-return-to-the-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiona’s secret weapon to surviving Sydney’s lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Staying motivated during a seemingly endless lockdown has never been a problem for Sydney-based Yaegl artist Fiona Vesper. And it&rsquo;s all thanks to a secret weapon living 200km away in the Clarence Valley region.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fionas-secret-weapon-to-surviving-sydneys-lockdown/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:05:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fionas-secret-weapon-to-surviving-sydneys-lockdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s farming future in good hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[When farmer and photographer Kim Storey took her camera into pig pens and cattle runs to see Australian bush life from where our smallest farmers stand, she was soon convinced our agricultural future is in safe hands.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-farming-future-in-good-hands/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:44:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-farming-future-in-good-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2021 Young Archie Competition winners revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A drawing of a little boy who eats whole bags of cucumbers in the hope of turning green like The Hulk is one of the winners in the Young Archie competition at the Art Gallery of NSW, announced this morning.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2021-young-archie-competition-winners-revealed/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 06:38:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2021-young-archie-competition-winners-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2021 Young Archie Competition winners]]></title><description><![CDATA[A drawing of a little boy who eats whole bags of cucumbers in the hope of turning green like The Hulk is one of the winners in the Young Archie competition at the Art Gallery of NSW, announced this morning.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2021-young-archie-competition-winners/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 05:55:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2021-young-archie-competition-winners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best space photos of 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are stargazers with a twinkle in their eye, and when it comes to astrophotography they&rsquo;re light years in front.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/best-space-photos-of-2021/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 16:39:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/best-space-photos-of-2021/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stunning underwater photo series]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a rarely seen side of a sport that is not usually covered by the media and only occasionally shown on our TV screens.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stunning-underwater-photo-series/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:08:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stunning-underwater-photo-series/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art names new director]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian will return from an overseas career to take up the Sydney post as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/museum-of-contemporary-art-names-new-director/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:09:49 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/museum-of-contemporary-art-names-new-director/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portrait prize focuses on shear genius]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian shearers command an effortless &ldquo;aesthetic&rdquo; that urban cowboys can only aspire to emulate, says a photographer whose portrait of three young shearers with mullets is a finalist in the $50,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portrait-prize-focuses-on-shear-genius/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:18:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portrait-prize-focuses-on-shear-genius/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Impressionists bring colour and beauty to Melbourne]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blockbuster exhibition of French Impressionist master works by Monet, Renoir and van Gogh has been greeted with bonhomie and berets.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-impressionists-bring-colour-and-beauty-to-melbourne/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:09:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-impressionists-bring-colour-and-beauty-to-melbourne/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phantom superhero PNG tribal shields on view in Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[When tribesmen of the Papua New Guinean Highlands grabbed their &shy;machetes and set off for battle, they needed a shield with the strongest, most protective imagery they could get. Enter the Phantom, aka &ldquo;the ghost who walks&rdquo;, aka &ldquo;the man who cannot die&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/phantom-superhero-png-tribal-shields-on-view-in-sydney/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:06:50 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/phantom-superhero-png-tribal-shields-on-view-in-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review: 9/11 musical is heartwarming and uplifting]]></title><description><![CDATA[If there was any doubt the musical Come From Away had captured the spirit of a tiny Newfoundland township on 9/11, the lady in row D at the Capitol Theatre on Thurday night dispelled it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-911-musical-is-heartwarming-and-uplifting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:19:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-911-musical-is-heartwarming-and-uplifting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical remembers human response to 9/11]]></title><description><![CDATA[Katrina Retallick&rsquo;s first public performance was in a year 2 talent show at her Wagga Wagga primary school.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musical-remembers-human-response-to-911/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:11:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musical-remembers-human-response-to-911/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussies stranded by 9/11 portrayed in moving musical]]></title><description><![CDATA[It can be hard to fathom how a musical theatre production could come to life born from the tragedy of 9/11. But incredibly, Come From Away does just that &ndash; and in a show sharing the way the world came together on September 12 that leaves you with a restored faith in humanity, buoyed by the overwhelming good still in the world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-stranded-by-911-portrayed-in-moving-musical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:22:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-stranded-by-911-portrayed-in-moving-musical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare chance to see Impressionist masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s an unforgettably romantic scene that Australians can only dream about in these days of Covid-19. A young couple twirls at an open-air cafe in suburban Paris, the swish of the woman&rsquo;s dress still almost audible 138 years after it was frozen in time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rare-chance-to-see-impressionist-masterpieces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 16:44:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rare-chance-to-see-impressionist-masterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kate Ceberano portrait wins Archibald Packing Room Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well-known Sydney painter Kathrin Longhurst won the 2021 Archibald Packing Room Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW on Thursday for her portrait of celebrated Australian singer and songwriter Kate Ceberano.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-ceberano-portrait-wins-archibald-packing-room-prize/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 07:21:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-ceberano-portrait-wins-archibald-packing-room-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney’s favourite nanny headed for Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two Disney ice princesses will soon be quitting Sydney as Frozen the Musical delivers its final shows here, but it won&rsquo;t be long before a magical Disney nanny will be taking their place.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/disneys-favourite-nanny-headed-for-sydney/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 05:37:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/disneys-favourite-nanny-headed-for-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year 12 students hoping musical leads to Fame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irene Cara&rsquo;s spine-tingling theme song from Fame is enough to get anyone jumping.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/year-12-students-hoping-musical-leads-to-fame/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 20:37:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/year-12-students-hoping-musical-leads-to-fame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s new ancient opera in the park]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient opera about nymphs and gods is bouncing into the 21st century, complete with Lycra, dumbbells, a dog walker and a young cast.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-new-ancient-opera-in-the-park/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 20:37:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-new-ancient-opera-in-the-park/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragic story behind actor Barry Otto Archibald portrait]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist and acting legend Barry Otto, 80, was devastated when wealthy art collector John Schaeffer, 79, died in a traffic accident in central Sydney last year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tragic-story-behind-actor-barry-otto-archibald-portrait/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:28:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tragic-story-behind-actor-barry-otto-archibald-portrait/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards ‘tick diversity boxes’ but leave ‘ordinary’ artists behind]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest round of artists chosen for $25,000 Australia Council for the Arts grants tick so many &ldquo;inclusion and diversity&rdquo; boxes the awards should have been renamed the &ldquo;Annual Woke Awards&rdquo;, says a think-tank devoted to free speech.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/awards-tick-diversity-boxes-but-leave-ordinary-artists-behind/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:56:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/awards-tick-diversity-boxes-but-leave-ordinary-artists-behind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet icon stunned by prestigious award]]></title><description><![CDATA[David McAllister was on Wednesday awarded the ballet world&rsquo;s Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, honouring his almost 40-year contribution as a dancer and as artistic director of The Australian Ballet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ballet-icon-stunned-by-prestigious-award/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:58:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ballet-icon-stunned-by-prestigious-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist’s hustle as Archibald Prize deadline looms]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman police officer from Wagga Wagga, a Parramatta barber and a Dubbo farmer were on Monday among artists who delivered their paintings to be judged in the Archibald Prize in its centenary year at the Art Gallery of NSW.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-hustle-as-archibald-prize-deadline-looms/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 06:45:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-hustle-as-archibald-prize-deadline-looms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McKenna’s coming out story different to musical]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2016, when Maggie McKenna was studying musical theatre in Los Angeles, she went to New York to catch some shows on Broadway with a bunch of friends. They saw Hamilton one lunchtime, drew breath, and plunged straight into Fun Home.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mckennas-coming-out-story-different-to-musical/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 03:15:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mckennas-coming-out-story-different-to-musical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Frozen reindeer comes to life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Endearingly loyal with big melting eyes, Sven the reindeer is a hairy highlight of Frozen, Disney&rsquo;s hit Broadway musical now playing at Sydney&rsquo;s Capitol Theatre.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-frozen-reindeer-comes-to-life/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:52:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-frozen-reindeer-comes-to-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars come out for Sydney Hamilton premiere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrities, politicians, business leaders and fans have walked the red carpet for the Sydney premiere of Hamilton &mdash; the world&rsquo;s only currently running production of the hit Broadway show.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-come-out-for-sydney-hamilton-premiere/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 08:10:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-come-out-for-sydney-hamilton-premiere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true stories behind hit musical Come From Away]]></title><description><![CDATA[September 11, 2001 began like any ordinary day for David Hein and Irene Sankoff.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-true-stories-behind-hit-musical-come-from-away/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:09:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-true-stories-behind-hit-musical-come-from-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sneak peek at Sydney’s Hamilton costumes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clothes don&rsquo;t maketh the man? Just ask Jason Arrow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sneak-peek-at-sydneys-hamilton-costumes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 14:42:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sneak-peek-at-sydneys-hamilton-costumes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney artist set to turn 100 with five exhibitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney artist Guy Warren says no one warned him turning 100 would be &ldquo;so much fun&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-artist-set-to-turn-100-with-five-exhibitions/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 08:10:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-artist-set-to-turn-100-with-five-exhibitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 must-see works at Botticelli to van Gogh exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Australia&rsquo;s latest blockbuster exhibition features more than 60 paintings by 56 European masters.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/10-must-see-works-at-botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:36:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/10-must-see-works-at-botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauded museum director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor steps down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will soon be looking for a new director to take over from the popular and successful Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, who announced today that she will end her tenure in October after 22 years at the helm.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lauded-museum-director-elizabeth-ann-macgregor-steps-down/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:35:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lauded-museum-director-elizabeth-ann-macgregor-steps-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Van Gogh masterpiece set for warm floral welcome]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, sunflowers were the blooming symbol of warmth, welcome and friendship.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/van-gogh-masterpiece-set-for-warm-floral-welcome/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:23:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/van-gogh-masterpiece-set-for-warm-floral-welcome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your guide to the Botticelli to van Gogh exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australians have a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with world-renowned art by some of Europe&rsquo;s most famous and influential painters.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/your-guide-to-the-botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:16:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/your-guide-to-the-botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Botticelli to Van Gogh: exhibition guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australians have a rare opportunity to experience world-renowned art by some of the most well-known painters in European history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition-guide/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:50:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/botticelli-to-van-gogh-exhibition-guide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First look at Hamilton musical costumes]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 250 years, if someone is creating a musical about the tumultuous term of US President Donald J. Trump, they&rsquo;ll be able to count on Kylie Clarke&rsquo;s equivalent to get the hair right.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/first-look-at-hamilton-musical-costumes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:10:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/first-look-at-hamilton-musical-costumes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top stage shows to watch in 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney will play host to a wide range of magical stage shows and captivating performances as COVID restrictions are slowly lifted these school holidays.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/top-stage-shows-to-watch-in-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:40:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/top-stage-shows-to-watch-in-2021/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quest to find stolen Archibald winning portrait]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rachel Griffiths is on the trail of a missing painting. And The Sunday Telegraph is right behind her quest to retrieve a piece of newspaper&rsquo; history &mdash; and to celebrate the centenary of the Archibald Prize for portraiture.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quest-to-find-stolen-archibald-winning-portrait/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 22:14:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quest-to-find-stolen-archibald-winning-portrait/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frozen the Musical gets warm reception in Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frozen the Musical opened at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday night, with the joy of theatre&rsquo;s return to Sydney enhancing the magic of the undeniably brilliant moment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/frozen-the-musical-gets-warm-reception-in-sydney/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:42:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/frozen-the-musical-gets-warm-reception-in-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why sunflowers are this year’s ‘flower of choice’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saskia Havekes calls it &ldquo;a storm of sunflowers&rdquo;, and the 1500 exuberant blooms do seem to burst like fireworks in the intimate confines of the florist&rsquo;s shop.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-sunflowers-are-this-years-flower-of-choice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:38:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-sunflowers-are-this-years-flower-of-choice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costumes for Frozen the Musical revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Broadway&rsquo;s Frozen the Musical opens at Sydney&rsquo;s Capitol Theatre next month, one of the most dazzling elements of the Disney hit will be its costumes &mdash; 440 of them, all made in Sydney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/costumes-for-frozen-the-musical-revealed/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:51:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/costumes-for-frozen-the-musical-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Tina Arena almost quit music]]></title><description><![CDATA[She owned the title QuaranTina Arena earlier this year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-tina-arena-almost-quit-music/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:22:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-tina-arena-almost-quit-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s first national rock tour coming in 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Red Hot Summer Tour is the first national music event to return for 2021, promising COVID-safe outdoor shows.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-first-national-rock-tour-coming-in-2021/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2020 22:12:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-first-national-rock-tour-coming-in-2021/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portrait of model sister in the running for top art prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beautiful young model India Stibilj has been photographed by the best in the biz. But it took her 18-year-old brother to get her portrait into the Art Gallery of NSW.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portrait-of-model-sister-in-the-running-for-top-art-prize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:11:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portrait-of-model-sister-in-the-running-for-top-art-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nannas and Poppas move in on The Wiggles’ territory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tony Williams has been pining for his only grandson Max since the pandemic forced the Sydney musician and performer to cancel his trip to Austria where the seven-year-old lives.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nannas-and-poppas-move-in-on-the-wiggles-territory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:11:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nannas-and-poppas-move-in-on-the-wiggles-territory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoges’ punch-up with a Packer that nearly ended it all]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of being asked, Australian icon Paul Hogan has finally written his extraordinary life story.In this first exclusive edited extract from The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower, the man who made the world laugh describes his first TV steps, the mate who made him a star and the physical dust-up with a Packer that almost ruined his career.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hoges-punch-up-with-a-packer-that-nearly-ended-it-all/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:06:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hoges-punch-up-with-a-packer-that-nearly-ended-it-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Hoges handed it to a Packer]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of being asked, Australian icon Paul Hogan has finally written his extraordinary life story.In this first exclusive edited extract from The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower, the man who made the world laugh describes his first TV steps, the mate who made him a star and the physical dust-up with a Packer that almost ruined his career.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-hoges-handed-it-to-a-packer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:34:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-hoges-handed-it-to-a-packer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four young stars get ready for return to the stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney&rsquo;s first major musical theatre production since the COVID-19 pandemic is welcome news for four young performers who&rsquo;ve just landed roles in the award-winning, circus-themed stage show Pippin.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/four-young-stars-get-ready-for-return-to-the-stage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:20:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/four-young-stars-get-ready-for-return-to-the-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Goodes portrait wins Archibald Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vincent Namatjira became the first Indigenous person to win the $100,000 Archibald Prize for portraiture at the Art Gallery of NSW on Friday, with an emotional self-portrait with AFL legends Adam Goodes and Michael Long.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adam-goodes-portrait-wins-archibald-prize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:16:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adam-goodes-portrait-wins-archibald-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major push to bring back live gigs]]></title><description><![CDATA[NSW Labor wants to breathe life into Sydney&rsquo;s music scene by easing restrictions on gigs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/major-push-to-bring-back-live-gigs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:58:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/major-push-to-bring-back-live-gigs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former PM’s daughter dating Kristen Stewart’s ex]]></title><description><![CDATA[The youngest daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating is dating controversial Hollywood director Rupert Sanders.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/former-pms-daughter-dating-kristen-stewarts-ex/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:37:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/former-pms-daughter-dating-kristen-stewarts-ex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring musical set to fly into Sydney next year]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the cast of the musical Come From Away, sitting out COVID-19 is like being in a plane that endlessly taxis and never takes off.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/inspiring-musical-set-to-fly-into-sydney-next-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:11:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/inspiring-musical-set-to-fly-into-sydney-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Pippin’ set to make its circus-themed return in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once, musicals preparing to open in Sydney just had to worry about casting the right stars and selecting costumes and lighting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pippin-set-to-make-its-circus-themed-return-in-november/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:21:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pippin-set-to-make-its-circus-themed-return-in-november/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist John Olsen launches new legal action against stepdaughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Famed artist John Olsen has launched another legal action in an attempt to force his &shy;estranged stepdaughter to hand over the money from the sale of a multimillion-dollar Southern Highlands estate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artist-john-olsen-launches-new-legal-action-against-stepdaughter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:33:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artist-john-olsen-launches-new-legal-action-against-stepdaughter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Why I decided to rewrite classic musical Les Miserables’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kester Grant has lost count of the number of times she has watched and read Les Miserables since first seeing it when she was 11.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-i-decided-to-rewrite-classic-musical-les-miserables/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:46:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-i-decided-to-rewrite-classic-musical-les-miserables/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Not a politician’: Guy Sebastian’s defence over arts backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guy Sebastian has defended his appearance at a press conference with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, saying his decision was not political but to defend the arts and entertainment industry.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-a-politician-guy-sebastians-defence-over-arts-backlash/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:22:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-a-politician-guy-sebastians-defence-over-arts-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guy Sebastian ‘cancelled’ over appearance with PM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pop star Guy Sebastian is facing backlash on social media after appearing with the Prime Minister for the announcement of the JobMaker package for the arts sector.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/guy-sebastian-cancelled-over-appearance-with-pm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 05:52:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/guy-sebastian-cancelled-over-appearance-with-pm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PM’s arts plan: $250m to restart concerts, festivals and theatre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cash to restart concerts, festivals and theatre shows will form the centre of a $250 million rescue package for the arts sector.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pms-arts-plan-250m-to-restart-concerts-festivals-and-theatre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:42:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pms-arts-plan-250m-to-restart-concerts-festivals-and-theatre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CULTURECLUB]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was the movie that almost never was &mdash; with a blown-out budget and an out-of-control drug-addicted star, there&rsquo;s nothing quite like The Blues Brothers and never will be again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultureclub/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:01:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultureclub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Australia’s comedians are suicidal’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Akmal Saleh still isn&rsquo;t sure why he was asked to voice Hamish, a wise Scottish terrier in the new children&rsquo;s animated movie 100% Wolf.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-comedians-are-suicidal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 04:04:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-comedians-are-suicidal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney Opera House goes digital for COVID-19]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sydney Opera House on Wednesday launches a free program of online events and performances that will turn people's homes into individual theatres.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-opera-house-goes-digital-for-covid-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:22:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-opera-house-goes-digital-for-covid-19/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WATCH: Tim Rogers enters Isolation Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-tim-rogers-enters-isolation-room/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:09:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-tim-rogers-enters-isolation-room/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WATCH: Tim Rogers performs unreleased track]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-tim-rogers-performs-unreleased-track/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:33:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-tim-rogers-performs-unreleased-track/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WATCH: Musicians in Review’s Isolation Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-musicians-in-reviews-isolation-room/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:04:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-musicians-in-reviews-isolation-room/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolation Room: Tim Rogers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolation-room-tim-rogers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:04:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolation-room-tim-rogers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great entertainers at home]]></title><description><![CDATA[As guidelines on the size of sensible social gatherings continue to shrink from stadiums to lounge rooms, plenty of musicians have begun using this unique moment in history to connect with their fans via social media. With tours sadly cancelled far into the distance and many planned album releases being shifted back in the schedule, a gaping hole has opened in many artistic lives. This naturally comes with plenty of uncertainty and anxiety for the future but, among the musicians I follow online,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/great-entertainers-at-home/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:57:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/great-entertainers-at-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survive working from home with kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s possible that if you&rsquo;re working from home with children in the house, you will have to answer to more than one boss. Expect to be performance-managed on your promise to take them outside for a scooter ride. My youngest &ndash; I have three daughters, aged nine, seven and four &ndash; was literally counting my phone calls back to me: &lsquo;Daddy, you said you were going to do two calls, and now that&rsquo;s three!&rsquo; Technology is great because it allows you to work from hom]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survive-working-from-home-with-kids/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:07:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survive-working-from-home-with-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Isolation Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/welcome-to-the-isolation-room/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:51:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/welcome-to-the-isolation-room/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarantine music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somebody went and did it. Not somebody, Alistair Ryan.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quarantine-music/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:34:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quarantine-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcasts in lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secu secu is what amateur radio operators would call into the crackly void, seeking to communicate with someone, anyone, over the airwaves of the unknown. Short for the French work s&eacute;curit&eacute;&ndash;meaning, you guessed it, security.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/podcasts-in-lockdown/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:01:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/podcasts-in-lockdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists inspire from hibernation]]></title><description><![CDATA[When singer-songwriter Deborah Conway and her family were considering a cover song to record from their suburban Melbourne home this week, the choice was clear: Hold On, a track entirely apt for a national mood where the only certainty is uncertainty.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-inspire-from-hibernation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:01:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-inspire-from-hibernation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review’s Isolation Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Review&rsquo;s Isolation Room. As a pandemic spreads around the world, and increasingly touches the lives of more Australians, some of the country&rsquo;s best musicians, authors, dancers and artists have hunkered down, given their time and recorded performances for The Australian&rsquo;s readers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/reviews-isolation-room/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:46:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/reviews-isolation-room/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a case for books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are libraries, but I wouldn&rsquo;t want to live in one. I thought of this last week when my daughter Ella visited and gracefully tried to off-load a fat hardcover novel she&rsquo;d read on a plane.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-a-case-for-books/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:10:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-a-case-for-books/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Stratton’s best of Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a rainy afternoon and I&rsquo;m confined to home. I&rsquo;m fortunate because, when DVDs came on the market, I started collecting them, so I have plenty of movies to revisit, enough to last me a year or two at least. But if I didn&rsquo;t have this library to hand I would almost certainly go to a streaming service, like Netflix, as my provider of quality &shy;entertainment. Three Netflix films, perhaps not widely known, but really worth seeing, come to mind.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/david-strattons-best-of-netflix/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:10:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/david-strattons-best-of-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (wheels up) life]]></title><description><![CDATA[My shuttle bus pulls into the stop in the concrete bus depot at Tulla, we alight, claim our luggage and turn in the direction of our terminal.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-wheels-up-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-wheels-up-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolate yourself and get bingeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[All right, you might be quarantined by order of the government or maybe isolating yourself because of that nasty cough, or maybe you&rsquo;re working from home and the office work is done for the day so it&rsquo;s time to be entertained. Time to drown out the grim drumbeats now so audible outside our homes. Thank goodness for the digital revolution in this time of the apocalypse because you would never have survived the boredom of being forced to watch broadcast TV.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolate-yourself-and-get-bingeing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolate-yourself-and-get-bingeing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interesting times]]></title><description><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven &hellip;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/interesting-times/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/interesting-times/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home entertainment with the stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[As guidelines on the size of sensible social gatherings continue to shrink from stadiums to lounge rooms, plenty of musicians have begun using this unique moment in history to connect with their fans via social media. With tours sadly cancelled far into the distance and many planned album releases being shifted back in the schedule, a gaping hole has opened in many artistic lives. This naturally comes with plenty of uncertainty and anxiety for the future but, among the musicians I follow online,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/home-entertainment-with-the-stars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/home-entertainment-with-the-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art galleries can be intimidating places. It&rsquo;s not deliberate, at least most of the time: curators and other gallery staff work hard to present inclusive, welcoming environments, hoping to appeal to as many visitors as possible. But for the uninitiated, a few hours inside the world&rsquo;s great cathedrals of culture, from the Uffizi to the Hermitage or the Met, can be a dizzying &shy;experience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/far-from-the-madding-crowd/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/far-from-the-madding-crowd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bondi can soothe the soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bondi-can-soothe-the-soul/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bondi-can-soothe-the-soul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beating the bug with Beethoven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Northey, 49, is Melbourne Symphony Orchestra&rsquo;s principal conductor in residence. When the orchestra&rsquo;s home, Hamer Hall, closed because of government measures to contain COVID-19, Northey conducted the ensemble in a live-stream of Beethoven&rsquo;s Seventh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beating-the-bug-with-beethoven/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beating-the-bug-with-beethoven/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal language]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most memorable pieces of wildlife footage aired in any David Attenborough documentary is of an Australian native songbird, the superb lyrebird, doing its thing in a patch of scrub.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/animal-language/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/animal-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts changed, for the better]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lockdown is here, and it&rsquo;s a surreal, frightening feeling for many Australians. We here on Review hope you are happy, healthy and keeping mentally well during the crisis. It has been a particularly difficult time for our friends in the arts sector, and indeed there have been reams of pages written about that in past weeks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-changed-for-the-better/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:34:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-changed-for-the-better/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian plays go online in free stay-at-home festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plays by Australian theatre companies are coming to your local wifi-enabled small screen in what&rsquo;s been dubbed the (Virus) Free Theatre Festival Online.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australian-plays-go-online-in-free-stay-at-home-festival/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:39:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australian-plays-go-online-in-free-stay-at-home-festival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finetuning the streaming experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[The big-screen cinema experience might be on hold, but there are all kinds of ways to to seek out movies on a smaller screen. Subscription streaming services are the obvious way to go, but there are other options that don&rsquo;t cost anything, including free-to-air TV, platforms such as Vimeo, YouTube channels and online archives of various kinds.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/finetuning-the-streaming-experience/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 02:52:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/finetuning-the-streaming-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia Council sends out $5m lifeline to the arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australia Council has scrapped grant programs and repurposed $5 million to support the arts sector that is suffering &ldquo;catastrophic&rdquo; damage from COVID-19.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australia-council-sends-out-5m-lifeline-to-the-arts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australia-council-sends-out-5m-lifeline-to-the-arts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New-look Melbourne Festival moves to 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rebooted Melbourne Festival that was due to launch in August has been postponed until next year due to the likely continued risk of infection from COVID-19.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-look-melbourne-festival-moves-to-2021/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:23:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-look-melbourne-festival-moves-to-2021/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turnbull tome already in bargain bin]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of Malcolm Turnbull&rsquo;s tell-all tome, A Bigger Picture, has already been slashed by more than 30 per cent by some booksellers, less than four weeks from its scheduled release date.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turnbull-tome-already-in-bargain-bin/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:43:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turnbull-tome-already-in-bargain-bin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera Australia stands down workers until late May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opera Australia is seeking government assistance to keep its &ldquo;extraordinarily skilled and highly talented workforce&rdquo; as the company stands down most of its staff until at least the end of May.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/opera-australia-stands-down-workers-until-late-may/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:43:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/opera-australia-stands-down-workers-until-late-may/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plastic fantastic fitness from Survivor AllStar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Survivor: All Stars 'beast' Brooke Jowlett shares plastic fantastic fitness video.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plastic-fantastic-fitness-from-survivor-allstar/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:18:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plastic-fantastic-fitness-from-survivor-allstar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turnbull book price takes a trim]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of Malcolm Turnbull&rsquo;s tell-all tome, A Bigger Picture, has already been slashed by more than 30 per cent by some booksellers, less than four weeks from its scheduled release date.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turnbull-book-price-takes-a-trim/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:47:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turnbull-book-price-takes-a-trim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Children Archive wins Folio prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli&rsquo;s novel Lost Children &shy;Archive won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday night at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus &shy;pandemic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lost-children-archive-wins-folio-prize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:31:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lost-children-archive-wins-folio-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WATCH: Celebs fighting coronavirus and doing weird things in lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[While many countries have gone into lockdown, celebrities are taking their boredom to the Internet much to the pleasure of their fans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-celebs-fighting-coronavirus-and-doing-weird-things-in-lockdown/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:18:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watch-celebs-fighting-coronavirus-and-doing-weird-things-in-lockdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indies share love for novelist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Novelist Favel Parrett was the big winner when the Indie Book Awards were announced on Monday. The Victoria-based writer&rsquo;s third novel, There Was Still Love, won the fiction prize and was named the overall indie book of the year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indies-share-love-for-novelist/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:50:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indies-share-love-for-novelist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plea to help the shows go on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Josh Chapman runs a small creative business called Subvrt that produces stage designs for music festivals and events for high-end luxury brands. The company, which he started with his wife and a friend, was banking on revenues of $2.5m this year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plea-to-help-the-shows-go-on/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:25:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plea-to-help-the-shows-go-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music has stopped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our theatres are closed for the foreseeable future. Our orchestras are silent and there is no singing. The music has stopped.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-music-has-stopped/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:23:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-music-has-stopped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cape home is where her art is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mavis Ngallametta&rsquo;s journey began in 1944, when she was born near the Kendall River in west Cape York Peninsula. She lived a traditional life in the bush until she was around five, when her family moved to the Presbyterian Mission at Aurukun. As in most indigenous missionary and government settlements in Australia, children were removed from their families and raised within the dormitory system. In Aurukun, the remote nature of the community together with the strength of local cultures and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cape-home-is-where-her-art-is/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:23:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cape-home-is-where-her-art-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambler folds ’em as Dolly mourns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kenny Rogers sold tens of millions of records, won three Grammys and was the star of TV movies based on The Gambler and other smash-hit songs, making him a superstar in the 1970s and 80s.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gambler-folds-em-as-dolly-mourns/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:14:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gambler-folds-em-as-dolly-mourns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaked audio reveals the truth behind Kanye West and Taylor Swift’s dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[The full leaked phone call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West revealed he never told her about the lyrics "I made that b**ch famous."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/leaked-audio-reveals-the-truth-behind-kanye-west-and-taylor-swifts-dispute/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:12:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/leaked-audio-reveals-the-truth-behind-kanye-west-and-taylor-swifts-dispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coroanvirus: Celebrity chef Michael Fassnidge’s touching gesture for those struggling]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Kitchen Rules' Michael Fassnidge has pledged to help locals in Banksia with meals if they are unable to feed their family during this crisis.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/coroanvirus-celebrity-chef-michael-fassnidges-touching-gesture-for-those-struggling/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:28:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/coroanvirus-celebrity-chef-michael-fassnidges-touching-gesture-for-those-struggling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music icon Kenny Rogers dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vocalist Kenny Rogers, who dominated the pop and country charts in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of sleekly tailored hits and won three Grammys, has died. He was 81.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/country-music-icon-kenny-rogers-dies/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:17:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/country-music-icon-kenny-rogers-dies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kylie Jenner encourages followers to self-isolate during pandemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kylie Jenner has left a message to her followers on Instagram, encouraging them to stay at home as she passes a week of social distancing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kylie-jenner-encourages-followers-to-self-isolate-during-pandemic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:00:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kylie-jenner-encourages-followers-to-self-isolate-during-pandemic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in sprints]]></title><description><![CDATA[In your essay, Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny, you laid bare the dilemmas of being female. Do you think this has changed in any way, especially in the context of the #MeToo movement?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/working-in-sprints/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/working-in-sprints/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen of the Rings]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early 1970s one of JRR Tolkien&rsquo;s biggest fans, Danish illustrator Ingahild Grathmer, sent the author her illustrations inspired by The Lord of the Rings &mdash; woodcut-style battles between the dark wizards, pint-sized hobbits, nightmarish Nazgul and ephemeral elves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-of-the-rings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-of-the-rings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law of the jungle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making Monos, director Alejandro Landes knew he was breaking every rule of film school. &ldquo;(There were) so many challenges,&rdquo; he says, and they all came at once. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re talking about non-actors, minors, Hollywood actors, animals, remote locations, special effects, digital effects, helicopters, underwater scenes.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/law-of-the-jungle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/law-of-the-jungle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolation a time for big ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, that escalated quickly. Australia now is firmly in the grip of coronavirus panic and fear. Many of our cultural institutions &ndash;&mdash; though not all &mdash; have closed their doors, but everyone from artists to large corporations have been affected. While the situation remains fluid, it&rsquo;s a time for sensible behaviour and for deep thought about the future &mdash; about how we got here and about where we are going. It&rsquo;s a time for philosophical rumination. For our cover st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolation-a-time-for-big-ideas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/isolation-a-time-for-big-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to turn trash into treasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[One person&rsquo;s trash is 100 per cent another person&rsquo;s treasure. If you look close enough, there is still value in everything that has been discarded. The biggest barrier to re-using things that have been tossed out is pride. If you take hard rubbish, for example, a couch might be perfectly good to use except for its frayed edges or worn cushions. Some fresh upholstery could freshen it up, no worries. The other obstacle is creative thinking. A lot of people will say &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-turn-trash-into-treasure/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-turn-trash-into-treasure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, daughter stun with near-perfect album]]></title><description><![CDATA[ALTERNATIVE POP]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dad-daughter-stun-with-near-perfect-album/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dad-daughter-stun-with-near-perfect-album/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infectious, timely viewing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There are tens of thousands of deaths every year from the flu,&rdquo; says paediatrician Eve Shapiro, who began a much-needed health program in Tucson, Arizona to provide shots to newly arrived migrants from across the Mexican border who have been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centres in the area. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure why that doesn&rsquo;t impress people.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/infectious-timely-viewing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/infectious-timely-viewing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I failed as a sister. I was a jerk’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every Sunday, Diane Keaton, 74, goes to visit her younger brother, Randy Hall, 71, in his &ldquo;senior &shy;living&rdquo; facility in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City. Randy, who has dementia and Parkinson&rsquo;s, has been living there for five years and Keaton is &ldquo;pretty certain he doesn&rsquo;t recognise me&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-failed-as-a-sister-i-was-a-jerk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-failed-as-a-sister-i-was-a-jerk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[’Good manners’ behind Welcome to Country]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home is in northern NSW, part of Bundjalung territories. Is living on country an imperative for you? It&rsquo;s pretty special living on land where you know there&rsquo;s an old Dreaming track where thousands of grandmothers have sat down and met and walked. But also I grew up there and I wanted my three children to have that appreciation of the bush.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/good-manners-behind-welcome-to-country/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/good-manners-behind-welcome-to-country/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Stradivarius violin explained]]></title><description><![CDATA[Satu Vanska is the principal violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She plays the 1726 'Belgiorno' Stradivarius and explains why the instruments made by the Italian luthier are so prized.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-stradivarius-violin-explained/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-stradivarius-violin-explained/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannes film festival delayed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cannes Film Festival, the world&rsquo;s largest, was forced to postpone its latest edition on May12-23 because of the spread of the coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cannes-film-festival-delayed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:40:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cannes-film-festival-delayed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staring down a gig-less horizon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here one week, gone the next &mdash; and for how long? That is the experience of many thousands of Australian concertgoers whose entertainment plans have been scuttled of late, and that is the unanswerable question on the minds of everyone associated with the live music industry at present, from artists and promoters to audio and lighting technicians, venue owners and road crew, all the way through to bartenders, security staff and mere writers like myself. Things have changed dramatically in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/staring-down-a-gig-less-horizon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:10:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/staring-down-a-gig-less-horizon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movie star Gao held at Sydney airport]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese movie star Yunxiang Gao, who had rape charges against him thrown out by a jury on Thursday, was detained by Australian Border Force officers at Sydney airport on Friday as he scrambled to fly out of the country.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/movie-star-gao-held-at-sydney-airport/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:29:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/movie-star-gao-held-at-sydney-airport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaccines keep disease on run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neanderthal men and women lived in caves and died from malnutrition, tooth abscesses and wounds inflicted by wild animals.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/vaccines-keep-disease-on-run/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/vaccines-keep-disease-on-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uplifting listening]]></title><description><![CDATA[One quick, tangential note to begin: last week&rsquo;s column mentioned a range of podcasts covering the coronavirus pandemic. It&rsquo;s now clear that the ABC&rsquo;s Coronacast is the best of the bunch, and is a valuable resource for anyone looking for clear communication on this story.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/uplifting-listening/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/uplifting-listening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough, caring doctors]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am reviewing two books by doctors; Karen Hitchcock&rsquo;s essay collection, The Medicine, and Rachel Clarke&rsquo;s memoir, Dear Life. I am doing so as a lay person and as a patient. I&rsquo;ll be up front: from my experience as a cancer patient, doctors are heroic on a daily basis and the epitome of kindliness.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tough-caring-doctors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tough-caring-doctors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strings attached]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Chamber Orchestra principal violin Satu Vanska, 40, was born in Japan to Finnish parents. She surfs, plays a &ldquo;priceless&rdquo; Stradivarius, and forgets to make Valentine&rsquo;s Day plans with husband Richard Tognetti, who is ACO artistic director and lead violinist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/strings-attached/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/strings-attached/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare portraits cut through dross]]></title><description><![CDATA[Painted portraits have a long history, which we can follow continuously for the past six centuries or so since their reappearance in the Renaissance. The ability to render a likeness seems to have been lost towards the end of the Roman Empire, as social decline and insecurity undermined the transmission of skills in the workshops of artists, and for a millennium or so virtually no one&rsquo;s features were accurately recorded. The Renaissance discovered with a shock that they knew almost exactly]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rare-portraits-cut-through-dross/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rare-portraits-cut-through-dross/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pass the … Find X2 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you heard the term &ldquo;vegan leather&rdquo;? It&rsquo;s one feature of the Find X2 Pro, a 5G flagship by popular brand Oppo that has gone decidedly up-market.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-find-x2-pro/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-find-x2-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking for Spider-Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Missing William Tyrrell, journalist and author Caroline Overington provides a series of compelling questions and answers regarding the most infamous recent case of a child who seems to have simply vanished. In doing so, she has produced her best book yet. The disappearance of three-year-old William, on the morning of September 12, 2014, from a quiet street in the mid-north-coast NSW village of Kendall is one of Australia&rsquo;s most baffling and harrowing mysteries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/looking-for-spider-man/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/looking-for-spider-man/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferguson faces monsters in our midst]]></title><description><![CDATA[Award-winning investigative reporter Sarah Ferguson presents Revelation, a compelling new three-part documentary series that looks at the crimes perpetuated by priests and brothers of the Catholic Church. It&rsquo;s centred on distressing interviews with two of Australia&rsquo;s worst serial pedophiles &mdash; an ordained priest and a religious brother. She was also able to obtain permission from various judicial authorities, along with the priests involved and their legal representatives, to ta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ferguson-faces-monsters-in-our-midst/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ferguson-faces-monsters-in-our-midst/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cromwell and Mantel; hand in hand]]></title><description><![CDATA[So here we are. It&rsquo;s May 1536 in London and here is Anne Boleyn, kneeling down to meet her end. The sword, wielded by an executioner from Calais, its blade inscribed with a prayer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cromwell-and-mantel-hand-in-hand/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cromwell-and-mantel-hand-in-hand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlin Sterritt’s ‘disgusting’ toilet paper joke]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bachelorette star Carlin Sterritt has received a torrent of disgusted messages after he posted a video of him running out of loo roll.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/carlin-sterritts-disgusting-toilet-paper-joke/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 01:43:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/carlin-sterritts-disgusting-toilet-paper-joke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gal Gadot and other stars sing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’]]></title><description><![CDATA["We are in this together, we will get through it together," Gadot wrote in the caption, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gal-gadot-and-other-stars-sing-john-lennons-imagine/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:36:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gal-gadot-and-other-stars-sing-john-lennons-imagine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power in slow lane]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid the bewildering array of so-called international celebrations carrying on weekly, you could be forgiven for not knowing Saturday, March 21, is World Poetry Day.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/power-in-slow-lane/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:21:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/power-in-slow-lane/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to read during self-isolation]]></title><description><![CDATA[So you are stuck at home and after 2000 episodes of Law &amp; Order decide&shy; you need to binge on a book instead. What&rsquo;s the right book to read in this new era of self-&shy;isolation? I decided to ask some writers and critics for their picks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-read-during-self-isolation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:02:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-read-during-self-isolation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to read during the self-isolation period]]></title><description><![CDATA[So you are stuck at home and after 2000 episodes of Law &amp; Order decide&shy; you need to binge on a book instead. What&rsquo;s the right book to read in this new era of self-&shy;isolation? I decided to ask some writers and critics for their picks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-read-during-the-self-isolation-period/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:31:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-read-during-the-self-isolation-period/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-isolating? Here’s what to watch]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's what to watch highlights include Devs, The Cry and Frozen 2.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/self-isolating-heres-what-to-watch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:17:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/self-isolating-heres-what-to-watch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tome sweet tome]]></title><description><![CDATA[So you are stuck at home and after 2000 episodes of Law &amp; Order decide&shy; you need to binge on a book instead. What&rsquo;s the right book to read in this new era of self-&shy;isolation? I decided to ask some writers and critics for their picks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tome-sweet-tome/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:47:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tome-sweet-tome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indigenous artists fear for lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aboriginal art centres are facing extreme financial hardship as key art markets are cancelled and community centres close their doors to visiting tourists to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indigenous-artists-fear-for-lives/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:57:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indigenous-artists-fear-for-lives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to watch on streaming in isolation]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's what to watch highlights include Devs, The Cry and Frozen 2.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-streaming-in-isolation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 04:44:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-streaming-in-isolation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montaigne in tears as Eurovision called off]]></title><description><![CDATA[The annual Eurovision Song Contest will not go ahead in May, after organisers announced its cancellation &ldquo;with deep regret&rdquo; on Thursday, two months ahead of the semi-finals set to begin in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/montaigne-in-tears-as-eurovision-called-off/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 03:43:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/montaigne-in-tears-as-eurovision-called-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts leaders in crisis talks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The arts and entertainment industry is seeking immediate emergency assistance from governments as federal, state and territory culture ministers meet on Thursday afternoon to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the sector.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-in-crisis-talks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 03:43:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-in-crisis-talks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael from MAFS hangs up on radio host]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael had a fiery on air confrontation with Hit FM's Krysti and Bodge.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-from-mafs-hangs-up-on-radio-host/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:21:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-from-mafs-hangs-up-on-radio-host/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Film festival lowers curtain]]></title><description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 crisis is casting its shadow further across the arts calenda&shy;r, with events in May and &shy;beyond being cancelled because of restrictions on public gatherings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/film-festival-lowers-curtain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:51:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/film-festival-lowers-curtain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to give back to creative workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last time Australia faced a crisis, our arts community helped bring the nation together in support of people doing it tough. As our country burned over the summer, our artists and entertainers used their talents and time to raise money for people who had lost loved ones, livelihoods and homes &mdash; and for the brave volunteers who fought the flames.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-to-give-back-to-creative-workers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:42:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-to-give-back-to-creative-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lights go down, but not out]]></title><description><![CDATA[A live performance isn&rsquo;t only about the actors or musicians on stage. The liveliness comes from having a living, breathing, responsive audience in attendance. Fourth walls notwithstanding, there&rsquo;s a subtle but dynamic interaction that happens when performing artists and spectators are in the room together. At its best, it&rsquo;s electrifying.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lights-go-down-but-not-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:42:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lights-go-down-but-not-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has come to give back to creative workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last time Australia faced a crisis, our arts community helped bring the nation together in support of people doing it tough. As our country burned over the summer, our artists and entertainers used their talents and time to raise money for people who had lost loved ones, livelihoods and homes &mdash; and for the brave volunteers who fought the flames.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-has-come-to-give-back-to-creative-workers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:55:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/time-has-come-to-give-back-to-creative-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made-in-Africa stories go global]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queen Sono, the main character of Netflix&rsquo;s new show, is a troubled hero for complicated times.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/made-in-africa-stories-go-global/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:55:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/made-in-africa-stories-go-global/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Current War trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon face off in the war to bring electricity to Americans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-current-war-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:23:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-current-war-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts leaders industry ‘on the brink’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arts and entertainment leaders are calling for government assistance of at least $850 million to save an industry &ldquo;on the brink of collapse&rdquo; as venues close, performances are cancelled, and thousands of artists and staff face losing their jobs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-industry-on-the-brink/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:13:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-industry-on-the-brink/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood moves to on-demand TV]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood movie studios will debut new films on popular on-&shy;demand services in a bid to reach consumers at home during the coronavirus pandemic, while other blockbusters will be delayed as the Australian cinema industry braces for the government&rsquo;s order to shut down.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-moves-to-on-demand-tv/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:06:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-moves-to-on-demand-tv/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Streaming small-screen essentials]]></title><description><![CDATA[So much television, so little time. This, though, is an unusual time, with greater numbers of Australians choosing to quarantine themselves at home every day. Hence the renewed focus on streaming services, with movies and series from around the world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/streaming-small-screen-essentials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:56:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/streaming-small-screen-essentials/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Screens fade to black]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the impact of what was then known as coronavirus first began to be felt, audiences turned to a 2011 movie, Contagion, to experien&shy;ce a mixture of anxiety and reassurance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/screens-fade-to-black/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:56:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/screens-fade-to-black/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts leaders warn of an industry ‘on the brink of collapse’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arts and entertainment leaders are calling for government assistance of at least $850 million to save an industry &ldquo;on the brink of collapse&rdquo; as venues close, performances are cancelled, and thousands of artists and staff face losing their jobs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-warn-of-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-collapse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:21:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/arts-leaders-warn-of-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-collapse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendour shifts to spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Australia&rsquo;s most popular winter music festivals has managed to avoid yet another coronavirus-related cancellation by shifting to spring, as Splendour in the Grass organisers announced on Tuesday that the 20th anniversary edition of the multi-day music festival held near Byron Bay will now take place in October.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/splendour-shifts-to-spring/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 04:15:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/splendour-shifts-to-spring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coronavirus: Arnold Schwarzenegger and his pets urge all over-65s to stay inside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger urged all over-65s to stay inside during the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemic in an update shared on March 15 from his home in Los Angeles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/coronavirus-arnold-schwarzenegger-and-his-pets-urge-all-over-65s-to-stay-inside/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:42:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/coronavirus-arnold-schwarzenegger-and-his-pets-urge-all-over-65s-to-stay-inside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Hanks discharged from hospital after testing negative for coronavirus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Hanks has been released from hospital after him and wife Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus on March 12.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-hanks-discharged-from-hospital-after-testing-negative-for-coronavirus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:06:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-hanks-discharged-from-hospital-after-testing-negative-for-coronavirus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plea for ticket holders to donate refunds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Audiences are being urged to donate the price of tickets back to performing arts companies as a wave of cancellations sweeps across the culture sector in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plea-for-ticket-holders-to-donate-refunds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:37:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plea-for-ticket-holders-to-donate-refunds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have cello, will travel in crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Chamber Orchestra&rsquo;s Timo-Veikko Valve is a good cellist to have around in times of emergency.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/have-cello-will-travel-in-crisis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:37:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/have-cello-will-travel-in-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another round of broken arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The small to medium arts sector has withstood some harsh headwinds in recent years. Budget cuts to the Australia Council, leading to the &ldquo;Black Friday&rdquo; grants round of May 2016, has left fewer companies with medium-term funding support and a residual sense of precariousness in the sector as a whole. That situation is not going to improve when the next round of grants for four-year funded &shy;organisations (FYFOs) is announced within the fortnight.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/another-round-of-broken-arts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:31:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/another-round-of-broken-arts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectacle tackles early polemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attila (1846) is an early work in Verdi&rsquo;s oeuvre. The nascent genius was still finding his creative bearings and the bel canto influences of Donizetti and Bellini are clearly apparent. The opera is no masterwork but it can be a dramatic and compelling experience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spectacle-tackles-early-polemic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:33:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spectacle-tackles-early-polemic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muso on indecent assault charge]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARIA Award-winning rock musician Dan Sultan, 36, has faced the Melbourne Magistrates Court in his first appearance on a charge of indecent assault.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/muso-on-indecent-assault-charge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:33:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/muso-on-indecent-assault-charge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bold statement wins Keir Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s often the case that alarm bells start ringing when an artist writes a highly detailed program note explaining precisely what their contemporary dance piece means. Frequently it&rsquo;s just not possible to see in the work what the choreographer claims. There&rsquo;s a big disconnect.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bold-statement-wins-keir-award/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:33:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bold-statement-wins-keir-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flanders lifts the lid on emotion]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the modern hero narrative &mdash; in popular cinema, literature and drama &mdash; the father-son relationship is so essential, so prevalent and so ubiquitous that it&rsquo;s barely visible. And it&rsquo;s rarely challenged. We tend to notice the exceptions, like Oedipus! Sons are always avenging their fathers or defying them, or are otherwise yoked by their masculine inheritance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flanders-lifts-the-lid-on-emotion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:57:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flanders-lifts-the-lid-on-emotion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confronting spectacle tackles early Verdi polemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attila (1846) is an early work in Verdi&rsquo;s oeuvre. The nascent genius was still finding his creative bearings and the bel canto influences of Donizetti and Bellini are clearly apparent. The opera is no masterwork but it can be a dramatic and compelling experience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/confronting-spectacle-tackles-early-verdi-polemic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:47:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/confronting-spectacle-tackles-early-verdi-polemic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bold statement from Angela Goh wins Keir Choreographic Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keir Choreographic Award, Carriageworks, Sydney, March 13.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bold-statement-from-angela-goh-wins-keir-choreographic-award/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:47:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bold-statement-from-angela-goh-wins-keir-choreographic-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flanders lifts the lid on emotion, and his mother]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the modern hero narrative &mdash; in popular cinema, literature and drama &mdash; the father-son relationship is so essential, so prevalent and so ubiquitous that it&rsquo;s barely visible. And it&rsquo;s rarely challenged. We tend to notice the exceptions, like Oedipus! Sons are always avenging their fathers or defying them, or are otherwise yoked by their masculine inheritance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flanders-lifts-the-lid-on-emotion-and-his-mother/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:20:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/flanders-lifts-the-lid-on-emotion-and-his-mother/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtain falls on Harry Potter show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Live performances, galleries and major cultural events are continuing to suspend operations as the nation closes its doors following the coronavirus outbreak.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-falls-on-harry-potter-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:11:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-falls-on-harry-potter-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Byron Bay’s Bluesfest cancelled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Byron Bay Bluesfest organisers announced on Monday that the five-day camping festival would not proceed next month, thereby scratching a longstanding Easter tradition from the national cultural calendar.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/byron-bays-bluesfest-cancelled/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:11:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/byron-bays-bluesfest-cancelled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study of masculine flaws revisited]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pub, eight blokes, alcohol, testosterone to burn and an all-too-shaky grip on how to be a strong, independent man, or even what that means. Buckle up, folks, it&rsquo;s going to be a bumpy night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/study-of-masculine-flaws-revisited/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:25:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/study-of-masculine-flaws-revisited/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferry still suavest of frontmen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly for a man who has built a career on stylish presentation, Bryan Ferry owns a studio in west London with proper wow factor. Millie, his chic young PA, leads me down a staircase lined with Marilyn Monroe prints by Andy Warhol, whom Ferry, once an aspiring painter and a lifelong art lover, met many times. Then through an office, where humming in pink on a wall is a neon sign reading &ldquo;Roxy Music&rdquo;. Everywhere there are references to the radical, romantic art-rock pioneers w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ferry-still-suavest-of-frontmen/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:25:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ferry-still-suavest-of-frontmen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Von Trier classic opera’s new wave]]></title><description><![CDATA[An utterly absorbing work, US composer Missy Mazzoli&rsquo;s Breaking the Waves may be a contemporary masterpiece. It loosely follows the story of the film on which it is based, Lars von Trier&rsquo;s art-house classic from 1996. However, it goes further than its predecessor in intensifying the psychological dimension of the central character, Bess.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/von-trier-classic-operas-new-wave/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:02:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/von-trier-classic-operas-new-wave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study of masculine flaws necessarily revisited]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pub, eight blokes, alcohol, testosterone to burn and an all-too-shaky grip on how to be a strong, independent man, or even what that means. Buckle up, folks, it&rsquo;s going to be a bumpy night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/study-of-masculine-flaws-necessarily-revisited/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:02:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/study-of-masculine-flaws-necessarily-revisited/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz legend leaves lasting legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Burrows was a formidable populariser of jazz in Australia, from his many recordings, TV shows, tours, club residencies and teaching. His accumulation of firsts as an Australian jazz musician made him a dominant figure in the genre for most of his career.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jazz-legend-leaves-lasting-legacy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:02:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jazz-legend-leaves-lasting-legacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He’s still catching that buzz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly for a man who has built a career on stylish presentation, Bryan Ferry owns a studio in west London with proper wow factor. Millie, his chic young PA, leads me down a staircase lined with Marilyn Monroe prints by Andy Warhol, whom Ferry, once an aspiring painter and a lifelong art lover, met many times. Then through an office, where humming in pink on a wall is a neon sign reading &ldquo;Roxy Music&rdquo;. Everywhere there are references to the radical, romantic art-rock pioneers w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hes-still-catching-that-buzz/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:02:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hes-still-catching-that-buzz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eurovision planning in disarray]]></title><description><![CDATA[Planning for the 2020 Eurovision song contest has been thrown into disarray with new restrictions on public movements imposed in the Netherlands due to coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eurovision-planning-in-disarray/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 03:35:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eurovision-planning-in-disarray/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebecca Black and Nikki Webster to headline Bingo Loco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rebecca Black headlines Bingo Loco alongside Nikki Webster and host Alex Dyson in May.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rebecca-black-and-nikki-webster-to-headline-bingo-loco/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:15:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rebecca-black-and-nikki-webster-to-headline-bingo-loco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday Book Club- Bourne again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sunday Book Club's Larissa Bricis checks out the latest novel in the thrilling Bourne franchise, The Treadstone Resurrection - written by a real-life action man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sunday-book-club-bourne-again/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:14:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sunday-book-club-bourne-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heidi Klum reveals feeling unwell, unable to get coronavirus test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heidi Klum has revealed she was feeling unwell but had been unable to obtain a COVID-19 test despite calling two doctors.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heidi-klum-reveals-feeling-unwell-unable-to-get-coronavirus-test/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:26:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heidi-klum-reveals-feeling-unwell-unable-to-get-coronavirus-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That end-of-life talk with parents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jean Kittson&rsquo;s dad, Roy, was back up on the roof of his house a week after his hip replacement at the age of 75, noisily demanding his daughter pass him up his glasses and the stick he needed to walk.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/that-end-of-life-talk-with-parents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:38:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/that-end-of-life-talk-with-parents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanks film crew are all shook up]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the days before he tested positive to coronavirus, Hollywood star Tom Hanks was in close physical contact with staff on set of the Elvis Presley biopic as he underwent make-up testing and costume fitting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-film-crew-are-all-shook-up/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:12:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-film-crew-are-all-shook-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtain closes on concert-goers]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the nation&rsquo;s biggest cultural events, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, has been cancelled in the wake of the federal government ban on large events, amid warnings that the public-health measure will have &ldquo;huge&rsquo;&rsquo; flow-on effects for the arts and entertainment industry.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-closes-on-concert-goers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:34:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-closes-on-concert-goers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don Burrows dead at 91]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sound of his flute was supple, sultry and sweet, and his clarinet was unmistakeable as he shaped a melody like a song.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/don-burrows-dead-at-91/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:29:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/don-burrows-dead-at-91/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, she, they … we? Pronoun war is inequality in any other language]]></title><description><![CDATA[The earliest grammarians writing in English were in no doubt that women were inferior to men. They then extended this principle to the grammatical concept of gender. In his Short Introduction of Grammar (1549), William Lily wrote: &ldquo;The masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine, and the feminine more worthy than the neuter.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/he-she-they-we-pronoun-war-is-inequality-in-any-other-language/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:30:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/he-she-they-we-pronoun-war-is-inequality-in-any-other-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Look gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of the images from The Look exhibition, from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, which begins its tour to regional centres next month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-look-gallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-look-gallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test your general knowlege]]></title><description><![CDATA[Test your general knowledge:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/test-your-general-knowlege/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/test-your-general-knowlege/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puzzle priority]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1916 a young woman named Madge bet her sister that she couldn&rsquo;t write a detective novel. Unfortunately, her sister was Agatha Christie so she lost.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/puzzle-priority/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/puzzle-priority/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political cake rose twice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samantha Maiden is the latest of four journalists &mdash; the other three being Niki Savva, David Crowe and Aaron Patrick &mdash; who have written books about the 2019 federal election.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/political-cake-rose-twice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/political-cake-rose-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside the circle]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;&lsquo;Hope is a kind of rigor. Despair is sugar.&rsquo;&rsquo; This cool sliver of wisdom is dispensed late in Aravind Adiga&rsquo;s new novel, Amnesty.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/outside-the-circle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/outside-the-circle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to: be a good citizen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even if you ride your bike to work to cut down your carbon footprint and then cancel that action out by flying across the world for holidays, you are still a good citizen. If everyone just made a little bit of an effort and stopped criticising each other for not being perfect then we&rsquo;d get a lot more done and have a better way of communicating.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-be-a-good-citizen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-be-a-good-citizen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existential Russian roulette]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human extinction is much more likely to happen this century than in any of the other 2000 or so centuries in which humans have been on Earth. To be precise: for most of that time there was only a one-in-10,000 chance of an existential catastrophe; now there is a one-in-six chance, precisely the same odds as a game of Russian roulette.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/existential-russian-roulette/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/existential-russian-roulette/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consequences of dispossession]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2004 the death in police custody of an Aboriginal man on Palm Island off the coast of far North Queensland led to a crisis in race relations including riots and more than 10 years of court hearings. Cameron Doomadgee, aged 36, had been arrested for swearing at a police officer. He was locked up, but not long after, he was found dead in his jail cell.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/consequences-of-dispossession/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/consequences-of-dispossession/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring back the Bloomosaurus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like Albert Einstein&rsquo;s Theory of Relativity, Harold Bloom&rsquo;s Anxiety of Influence tried to explain everything even though few people could explain it. The usual summary of Bloom&rsquo;s theoretical thinking is that authors create good works by trying to outdo their predecessors.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bring-back-the-bloomosaurus/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bring-back-the-bloomosaurus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague on all their houses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian theatre producers the Michael Cassel Group were always going to be on to a winner with their Melbourne production of the musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, given the built-in, ardent fan base for JK Rowling&rsquo;s novels.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-plague-on-all-their-houses/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-plague-on-all-their-houses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanks says thanks from hospital]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood star Tom Hanks has spoken out from behind the walls of the Gold Coast hospital where he is in quarantine to tell fans that he and his wife are okay.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-says-thanks-from-hospital/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:58:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-says-thanks-from-hospital/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanks says thanks from Gold Coast hospital]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood star Tom Hanks has spoken out from behind the walls of the Gold Coast hospital where he is in quarantine to tell fans that he and his wife are okay.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-says-thanks-from-gold-coast-hospital/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:21:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hanks-says-thanks-from-gold-coast-hospital/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orlando Bloom sent back to US to be quarantined]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orlando Bloom and the rest of the Carnival Row cast have been sent home to be quarantined ahead of travel bans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/orlando-bloom-sent-back-to-us-to-be-quarantined/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:33:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/orlando-bloom-sent-back-to-us-to-be-quarantined/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chesona H1 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple&rsquo;s iPads are changing. They are no longer just entertainment devices.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chesona-h1-pro/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:33:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chesona-h1-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelor in Paradise 2020 stars revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of our old favourites return for a drama-filled new series.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bachelor-in-paradise-2020-stars-revealed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:36:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bachelor-in-paradise-2020-stars-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood cast away on the Gold Coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[After rubbing shoulders just weeks ago with fellow A-listers including Renee Zellweger and Tom Ford, the movements of coronavirus-stricken actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson in Australia are the latest twist in the battle to &shy;contain the spread of the virus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-cast-away-on-the-gold-coast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:04:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-cast-away-on-the-gold-coast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood cast away on Goldie]]></title><description><![CDATA[After rubbing shoulders just weeks ago with fellow A-listers including Renee Zellweger and Tom Ford, the movements of coronavirus-stricken actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson in Australia are the latest twist in the battle to &shy;contain the spread of the virus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-cast-away-on-goldie/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:00:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-cast-away-on-goldie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festivals fear it may be curtains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Concert promoters, cinemas, festivals and organisers of other popular events are closely watching advice from health authorities as the entertainment world prepares for a potential lockdown due to coronavirus fears.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festivals-fear-it-may-be-curtains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:42:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festivals-fear-it-may-be-curtains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diverse new age for comic timing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoe Coombs Marr was just 18 when Hollywood beckoned. It wasn&rsquo;t the bright lights of Los Angeles calling; rather the dimly lit front room of the Hollywood Hotel in Sydney&rsquo;s Surry Hills, which had given the aspiring comic her debut stand-up gig.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/diverse-new-age-for-comic-timing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:57:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/diverse-new-age-for-comic-timing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A marriage of eternity and evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born in Shanghai in 1977, Xu Zhen is a leading figure among China&rsquo;s younger generation of artists. Ahead of a new show at the &shy;National Gallery of Australia, his first solo exhibition in Australia, he sat down in Shanghai with NGA curator Peter Johnson to talk via an interpreter about his work. Edited extracts follow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-marriage-of-eternity-and-evolution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:57:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-marriage-of-eternity-and-evolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hijabi hits the funny bone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sakdiyah Ma&rsquo;ruf started her career&shy; by sneaking behind her parents&rsquo; back. These days, the 38-year-old is making waves in the stand-up scene, smashing stereotypes with a unique brand of comedy&shy; derived from personal experienc&shy;es as a Muslim woman from a conservative Hadrami-Arabic&shy; descent community in Indones&shy;ia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hijabi-hits-the-funny-bone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:28:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hijabi-hits-the-funny-bone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussie Bachelor 2020: The survivor contestant who got nude on Australian TV]]></title><description><![CDATA[Survivor all-star Locky Gilbert is saying goodbye to the Fijian Jungle and hello to the Bachelor mansion.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussie-bachelor-2020-the-survivor-contestant-who-got-nude-on-australian-tv/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:45:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussie-bachelor-2020-the-survivor-contestant-who-got-nude-on-australian-tv/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Channel 9 hosts isolate after Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and his wife, singer and actress Rita Wilson, have been admitted to a Gold Coast hospital after testing positive with coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/channel-9-hosts-isolate-after-tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:29:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/channel-9-hosts-isolate-after-tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stellar: Phoebe Burgess 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[Behind the scenes footage of Phoebe Burgess during her Stellar fashion shoot in 2020.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stellar-phoebe-burgess-2020/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:13:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stellar-phoebe-burgess-2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Channel 9 hosts isolate after Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive to virus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and his wife, singer and actress Rita Wilson, have been admitted to a Gold Coast hospital after testing positive with coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/channel-9-hosts-isolate-after-tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive-to-virus/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:13:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/channel-9-hosts-isolate-after-tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive-to-virus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive to coronavirus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and his wife, singer and actress Rita Wilson, have been admitted to a Gold Coast hospital after testing positive with coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive-to-coronavirus/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:50:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive-to-coronavirus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art rises from the ashes of bushfire crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The charcoal from burnt branches on the east coast of Australia has been gathered and transformed into art to support the effort to rebuild the communities ravaged by bushfires.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-rises-from-the-ashes-of-bushfire-crisis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:41:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-rises-from-the-ashes-of-bushfire-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bauhaus is just fine in our house]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Tel Aviv, I fully expected to be blinded by the light reflected off the white minimalist buildings that make up much of the city. In 2003, UNESCO designated about half of Tel Aviv&rsquo;s so-called White City &mdash; a planned section where about 4000 Bauhaus buildings stand &mdash; a World Heritage site. Bauhaus was the German design school that architect Walter Gropius founded in 1919.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bauhaus-is-just-fine-in-our-house/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:09:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bauhaus-is-just-fine-in-our-house/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Axing festival an easy call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hobart&rsquo;s midwinter festival has been cancelled due to fears a coronavirus outbreak closer to the event could have &ldquo;wiped it out &hellip; forever&rdquo; and impacted the &shy;Museum of Old and New Art.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/axing-festival-an-easy-call/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:09:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/axing-festival-an-easy-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking a leaf from Dolly’s book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harriet Dallas has recently becom&shy;e even more excited than usual to see the postman, as she is starting to understand that he might be carrying something for her: the monthly gift of a new book, thanks to the passion of American country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taking-a-leaf-from-dollys-book/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:22:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taking-a-leaf-from-dollys-book/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nguyen brings home a 40-year diaspora]]></title><description><![CDATA[Caroline Guiela Nguyen&rsquo;s play Saigon takes place in a setting both specific and universal. It&rsquo;s a Vietnamese restaurant: the working kitchen is on the left, there&rsquo;s a karaoke section on the right, diners&shy; come and go in the centre. It&rsquo;s very specific, but it also exists across time and space. It&rsquo;s a place in which stories unfold.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nguyen-brings-home-a-40-year-diaspora/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:22:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nguyen-brings-home-a-40-year-diaspora/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood remakes lost in translation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foreign-language films and television series have made considerable headway in the US in recent years. Narcos, a Spanish-language drama about the drug trade, was released on Netflix in 2015 and is still thought to be one of the most popular shows on the streaming site. (Netflix does not release comprehens&shy;ive viewing figures.)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-remakes-lost-in-translation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:22:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-remakes-lost-in-translation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest revelations from Corey Feldman’s documentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corey Feldman has released his long-awaited documentary detailing shocking claims of sexual abuse of himself and Corey Haim when they were teens.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-biggest-revelations-from-corey-feldmans-documentary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:05:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-biggest-revelations-from-corey-feldmans-documentary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novel defends privileged white men]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siobhan McKenna made her name as a trailblazing businesswoman in what was very much a man&rsquo;s corporate world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/novel-defends-privileged-white-men/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:08:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/novel-defends-privileged-white-men/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melting pot of harmony and soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was Brett Dean, but not as we know him. The renowned composer appeare&shy;d before a packed house at the Adelaide Town Hall on Saturday night via video message&shy; from a hospital room across town. Just days earlier, the 58-year-old had been placed in isolation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19 following a trip from Taiwan, via Brisbane.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/melting-pot-of-harmony-and-soul/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:43:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/melting-pot-of-harmony-and-soul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women on song for night of delight]]></title><description><![CDATA[International Women&rsquo;s Day was fittingly celebrated by the Sydney Improvised Music Association on Sunday, presenting two ensembles led by women: Fetherstone, with vocalist Briana Cowlishaw, and the Shannon Barnett Trio.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/women-on-song-for-night-of-delight/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:20:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/women-on-song-for-night-of-delight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pixies return, still bending pop into shape]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story goes that Smells Like Teen Spirit was Kurt Cobain&rsquo;s attempt at ripping off The Pixies&rsquo; distinctive sound &mdash; a jarring blend of pop melody and abrasive sonic breaks, punctuated with lead singer Black Francis&rsquo;s&rsquo;s blood-curdling shrieks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-pixies-return-still-bending-pop-into-shape/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:20:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-pixies-return-still-bending-pop-into-shape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common fears, centuries apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[What composers have to say about the world around them, and the insights they are uniquely able to bring to social and political affairs, is the subject of an interesting six-part concert exploration being spearheaded by Marshall McGuire for the Adelaide Festival.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/common-fears-centuries-apart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:20:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/common-fears-centuries-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miley Cyrus pulls out of bushfire concert]]></title><description><![CDATA[American pop singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus has cancelled her appearance at an Australian bushfire relief concert planned for Friday in Melbourne, citing concerns around the spread of coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/miley-cyrus-pulls-out-of-bushfire-concert/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:42:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/miley-cyrus-pulls-out-of-bushfire-concert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did publisher drop Woody Allen’s memoir?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As far as memoirs go, it would be hard to find a more contentious chronicler than Woody Allen. The filmmaker has been radio&shy;active for years, especially in the #MeToo era, which has focused attention anew on sexual assault allegations against powerful men.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-did-publisher-drop-woody-allens-memoir/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 03:24:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/why-did-publisher-drop-woody-allens-memoir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corey Feldman speaks exclusively to Jonathon Moran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corey Feldman speaks exclusively to Jonathon Moran ahead of the release of "My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/corey-feldman-speaks-exclusively-to-jonathon-moran/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:57:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/corey-feldman-speaks-exclusively-to-jonathon-moran/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Exorcist’ actor Max von Sydow dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Max von Sydow, the self-described &ldquo;shy boy&rdquo; turned actor known to art house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and later to moviegoers everywhere when he played the priest in the horror classic The Exorcist, has died. He was 90.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exorcist-actor-max-von-sydow-dies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:21:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exorcist-actor-max-von-sydow-dies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend final royal outing at Commonwealth Day service]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have arrived at their last official engagement as senior members of the British royal family.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-attend-final-royal-outing-at-commonwealth-day-service/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:47:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-attend-final-royal-outing-at-commonwealth-day-service/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meghan and Kate’s awkward public reunion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meghan Markle was seen giving a little wave to her sister-in-law Kate as they met publicly for the first time since the 'Megxit' bombshell.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-kates-awkward-public-reunion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:24:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-kates-awkward-public-reunion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bailout plea if concerts cancelled]]></title><description><![CDATA[The $2bn live entertainment &shy;industry has warned of significant disruption to its business and &shy;employees if concerts or festivals are scrapped because of the corona&shy;virus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bailout-plea-if-concerts-cancelled/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 11:52:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bailout-plea-if-concerts-cancelled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picasso murals await demolition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Norwegian government has been accused of sacrilege for pressing on with the demolition of a modernist concrete office block adorned with two Picasso murals.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/picasso-murals-await-demolition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 08:53:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/picasso-murals-await-demolition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morbid pleasures within theatrical invention]]></title><description><![CDATA[Led by choreographer Michele Anne de Mey and filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael, the Belgian Kiss &amp; Cry Collective have turned ColdBlood into a &ldquo;nano-dance&rdquo; spectacle. It is forensic, funny, romantic and macabre &mdash; and presents aspects of death you usually can&rsquo;t put your finger on.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/morbid-pleasures-within-theatrical-invention/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:50:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/morbid-pleasures-within-theatrical-invention/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pianist ‘gave Coltrane wings’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even before his name was known as the pianist in John Coltrane&rsquo;s seminal quartet, McCoy Tyner had earned a special distinction in jazz history: he was probably the only jazz star who began his music career in a beauty parlour. His mother, who owned the business, had saved for a year to buy her son a piano, which she installed in the salon because it had more free space than the family&rsquo;s accommodation upstairs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pianist-gave-coltrane-wings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:00:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pianist-gave-coltrane-wings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning the page on Woody Allen’s version of history]]></title><description><![CDATA[As far as memoirs go, it would be hard to find a more contentious chronicler than Woody Allen. The filmmaker has been radio&shy;active for years, especially in the #MeToo era, which has focused attention anew on sexual assault allegations against powerful men.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turning-the-page-on-woody-allens-version-of-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 06:44:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/turning-the-page-on-woody-allens-version-of-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrossing tangle with Beethoven]]></title><description><![CDATA[The idea is transfixing: three of the greatest 20th century contemporary choreographers come to grips with Beethoven&rsquo;s Grosse Fugue, a monumentally knotty piece of music first performed in 1876, the year before the composer died. It&rsquo;s far from being an obvious choice for a dancemaker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/engrossing-tangle-with-beethoven/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 05:52:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/engrossing-tangle-with-beethoven/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s March arts calendar]]></title><description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-march-arts-calendar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 04:10:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-march-arts-calendar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer: The Undoing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Undoing, the highly anticipated six-part psychological thriller, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, will premiere in Australia on Monday, May 11.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-the-undoing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:26:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-the-undoing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survivor star’s shock departure]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shock departure rocks the All-Stars during Monday's episode of Survivor.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survivor-stars-shock-departure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survivor-stars-shock-departure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domingo out of Royal Opera]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, who is ensnared in &shy;allegations of sexual misconduct, has withdrawn from this year&rsquo;s production of Verdi&rsquo;s Don Carlo at London&rsquo;s Royal Opera House.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/domingo-out-of-royal-opera/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:46:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/domingo-out-of-royal-opera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Student’s hilarious one-liner during Meghan’s International Women’s day speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meghan Markle invited a male student on stage to comment on International Women's Day and he delivered a line leaving her laughing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/students-hilarious-one-liner-during-meghans-international-womens-day-speech/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:13:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/students-hilarious-one-liner-during-meghans-international-womens-day-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment Jared Leto’s rock climbing rope nearly snapped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jared Leto has revealed the moment he nearly fell from 600ft in the air after his rock climbing rope began to fray.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-moment-jared-letos-rock-climbing-rope-nearly-snapped/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:35:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-moment-jared-letos-rock-climbing-rope-nearly-snapped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harry and Meghan arrive for Mountbatten Festival of Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at the Royal Albert Hall in London to attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harry-and-meghan-arrive-for-mountbatten-festival-of-music/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:57:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harry-and-meghan-arrive-for-mountbatten-festival-of-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West End’s hottest new show coming to Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s anything but a drag. Get ready Australia, for one of the biggest feel-good hits of London&rsquo;s West End, as Everybody&rsquo;s Talking About Jamie arrives Down Under.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/west-ends-hottest-new-show-coming-to-sydney/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:23:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/west-ends-hottest-new-show-coming-to-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The puppeteers bringing War Horse to life]]></title><description><![CDATA[They&rsquo;re the unsung heroes of the stage play tear-jerker, War Horse.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-puppeteers-bringing-war-horse-to-life/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:08:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-puppeteers-bringing-war-horse-to-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday Book Club- Ordinary Folk-]]></title><description><![CDATA[Larissa Bricis gives us the low-down on Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sunday-book-club-ordinary-folk-/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 10:16:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sunday-book-club-ordinary-folk-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovering lost notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shots were as sudden as they were violent. The two motorcyclists discharged their deadly arsenal of bullets into the car and dissolved into the tangle of Karachi traffic. Amjad Sabri &mdash; one of Pakistan and south Asia&rsquo;s most prolific and revered performers &mdash; was dead, aged 45.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/discovering-lost-notes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 06:27:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/discovering-lost-notes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yael Stone’s moment of truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few years ago Jack Manning Bancroft sat down at the &shy;urging of his then girlfriend to watch Orange Is the New Black, a gritty Netflix series set in a New York women&rsquo;s prison. Jack had gone to primary school at Sydney&rsquo;s &shy;Balmain Public with Yael Stone, one of the stars of the show. His father, Ned Manning, an actor and a teacher, had been Yael&rsquo;s drama coach at high school and they later appeared on screen together in an ABC drama. Jack&rsquo;s mates played in bands wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yael-stones-moment-of-truth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:08:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yael-stones-moment-of-truth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussie Rose]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sunday is International Women&rsquo;s Day and this weekend Review is proud to focus on some of the country&rsquo;s most influential female figures in the arts. See our cover story with Rose Byrne, the Australian actress setting New York alight with her titular performance in Euripides&rsquo;s Medea &shy;opposite her husband, Bobby Cannavale, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Byrne talks about family and Australia, where she will return for performances with Sydney Theatre Company later this year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussie-rose/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:37:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussie-rose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcasts: Bundyville]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bundyville is a deeply fascinating and baffling story of homegrown terrorism and deep-rooted paranoia in what&rsquo;s left of America&rsquo;s west. It&rsquo;s framed around the &ldquo;Bundy standoff&rdquo; in 2014, a three-week dispute between dozens of armed ranchers in Oregon and federal authorities seeking to collect overdue farming fees.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/podcasts-bundyville/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:09:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/podcasts-bundyville/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sia and ‘Uncle’ Colin Hay]]></title><description><![CDATA[A little-known link between two giants of Australian music was revealed in Los Angeles last week, when Colin Hay was presented with a distinguished services award by his old friend Sia Furler at the inaugural Global APRA Music Awards. Hay is best known as the frontman of world-conquering Melbourne rock band Men at Work and a singer-songwriter whose solo career has continued since that band broke up in 1985; Furler is a multi-platinum pop artist from Adelaide with a towering voice and a preferenc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sia-and-uncle-colin-hay/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:47:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sia-and-uncle-colin-hay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragic crimes of self-sabotage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tragic-crimes-of-self-sabotage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:33:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tragic-crimes-of-self-sabotage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backstage at Elton John’s last hurrah]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a final Australian concert at Bankwest Stadium in Sydney on Saturday night, Sir Elton John will close the songbook on a near five-decade touring relationship with this country &hellip; probably. Asked if the Farewell Yellow Brick Road world tour will be the last for John, who has told audiences he is leaving life on the road to be with his family, his drum and percussion technician of 20 years, Chris Sobchack, issues a measured response.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/backstage-at-elton-johns-last-hurrah/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:33:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/backstage-at-elton-johns-last-hurrah/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yearning of a feminist wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Monday was washing day; Tuesday was ironing day; Sunday was love-making day.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yearning-of-a-feminist-wife/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yearning-of-a-feminist-wife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happened to feminism?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the expression, tradwife, flashed across screens recently I thought, oh no, here we go again, we&rsquo;re going to be inundated with gingham aprons, sponge cakes, homilies on how to please your man and lessons on how to homeschool children so they won&rsquo;t be exposed to unruly behaviour, socialist teachers or modern literature.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-happened-to-feminism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-happened-to-feminism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sonia Lizaron is waiting. She is neatly dressed in a pale blue skirt and matching jacket. Her face is powdered and her cheeks are rouged. She is 95 years old, in aged care. After the death two years ago of her partner, Pinche Wiener, she was transferred to the dementia ward, though she is far from demented. She is the Sonia I have known for more than three decades: unassuming, dignified and, for the most part, tranquil.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-road-to-hope/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-road-to-hope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality of dating at 50]]></title><description><![CDATA[She broke her first rule of dating: never get into a strange man&rsquo;s car. We&rsquo;d left the noisy venue and stopped to talk when I spotted her hand-hewn necklace; she removed it, with a kind of intimacy, so I could look at it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-reality-of-dating-at-50/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-reality-of-dating-at-50/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tale of hope takes flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Yellow Bird Sings, by American debut novelist Jennifer Rosner, is a finely crafted World War II Holocaust-refugee tale suffused in imagery of birds and music.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tale-of-hope-takes-flight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tale-of-hope-takes-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in their prime]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Keating once observed that to be the Australian prime minister, you had to want the job with &ldquo;every fibre in your body&rdquo;. However, there is a cost. All prime ministers pay a price for achieving the nation&rsquo;s highest office, and for some it is too great to bear.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/out-in-their-prime/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/out-in-their-prime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to perfect an accent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it tomAYto or tomAHTo? Or even still, tomAYta? The way we communicate with each other goes beyond the words we say.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-perfect-an-accent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-perfect-an-accent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elemental flow of ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 6th century BC, as Herodotus relates, &shy;Thales of Miletus successfully predicted a solar eclipse. Modern astronomy can date this event precisely to 585BC. This impressive and, as far as we know, unprecedented scientific feat undoubtedly predisposed his audience to listen when he ventured into a more speculative kind of thinking that we usually consider as representing the beginning of philosophical thinking in the West. He and his followers sought to explain the nature of the material]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/elemental-flow-of-ideas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/elemental-flow-of-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Downhill all way]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s always problematic to take a well-regarded foreign language film and transform it into an audience-friendly American version. Sometimes it works, but more often it doesn&rsquo;t. Downhill is a good example of this; directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, it&rsquo;s a self-described &ldquo;riff&rdquo; on Force Majeure (2014), a Swedish film made by Ruben Ostlund, and for much of its length it follows the original fairly closely.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/downhill-all-way/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/downhill-all-way/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction dominates Stella shortlist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fiction has come to the fore in the short-list for the $50,000 Stella Prize, with novels and short stories accounting for four of the six books in contention.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fiction-dominates-stella-shortlist/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:42:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fiction-dominates-stella-shortlist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind The Scenes on ‘Misbehaviour’]]></title><description><![CDATA[BTS featurette with Keira Knightly and Gugu Mbatha-Raw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/behind-the-scenes-on-misbehaviour/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:42:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/behind-the-scenes-on-misbehaviour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composer diagnosed with virus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renowned Australian composer Brett Dean has been diagnosed with coronavirus in South Australia and has been placed in isolation at The Royal Adelaide Hospital just days before he was due to lead the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in a Beethoven concert on Saturday night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/composer-diagnosed-with-virus/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:58:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/composer-diagnosed-with-virus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endeavour Fund Awards: Prince Harry gives emotional speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Harry has given a heartfelt speech at the Endeavour Fund Awards, where he said he was "proud" to "always" serve the Queen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/endeavour-fund-awards-prince-harry-gives-emotional-speech/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:20:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/endeavour-fund-awards-prince-harry-gives-emotional-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jackie O tells her mum she’s going on MAFS (KIIS FM)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jackie O's mum was devastated during a prank call in which the radio star said she had signed on to MAFS.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jackie-o-tells-her-mum-shes-going-on-mafs-kiis-fm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 23:47:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jackie-o-tells-her-mum-shes-going-on-mafs-kiis-fm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meghan and Harry arrive for one of their last official engagements]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at one of their last official engagements together before they quit royal life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-harry-arrive-for-one-of-their-last-official-engagements/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:58:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-harry-arrive-for-one-of-their-last-official-engagements/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kate shows up Wills with sporting skills, while Will juggles in Galway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate Middleton again showed off her serious sporting prowess while on tour in Ireland, as Prince William tried to compete with some unexpected artistry of his own.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-shows-up-wills-with-sporting-skills-while-will-juggles-in-galway/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:41:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-shows-up-wills-with-sporting-skills-while-will-juggles-in-galway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prized portrait of darling of dance]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Anthea da Silva, there&rsquo;s something magical about working directly from life. It&rsquo;s the immediacy of the experience, the elusive nature of the exchange, the way everything shifts from moment to moment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prized-portrait-of-darling-of-dance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:21:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prized-portrait-of-darling-of-dance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blooming Katy and Orlando expecting first child]]></title><description><![CDATA[Katy Perry says she is performing a free concert in Victoria to return the joy Australia has given her, but it is another personal milestone that has her beaming; she is expecting her first child.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/blooming-katy-and-orlando-expecting-first-child/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:46:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/blooming-katy-and-orlando-expecting-first-child/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Genesis tour in 13 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[British rock band Genesis, known for hits such as Land of Confusion and I Can&rsquo;t Dance, has announced plans for their first tour in 13 years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/first-genesis-tour-in-13-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:34:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/first-genesis-tour-in-13-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light in tunnel for Whiteley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brett Whiteley was in his mid-30s, a fixture on Sydney Harbour, as heavy thoughts started to weigh on his mind. Already he was a star in the tiny universe of Australian art. His exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne were wondrous, theatrical events. He had spent years overseas, experimenting from London to New York, and his fans, more and more of them each day, were excited to see how his talents had grown. There were some worrying signs, including a creeping opiate dependency that was proving har]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/light-in-tunnel-for-whiteley/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 07:33:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/light-in-tunnel-for-whiteley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breath of experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the key problems in performance art is transmission; that is, the extent to which a spectator may or may not receive what is presented, partly because it is often an experience, first for the artist and secondarily for the spectator.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/breath-of-experience/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:11:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/breath-of-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swinging Sixties Hamlet a triumph]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those who have seen many Hamlets, Bell Shakespeare&rsquo;s new production is a marvellous &shy;addition to the list. For newcomers, it&rsquo;s an exceptional introduction to one of the canon&rsquo;s essential works.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/swinging-sixties-hamlet-a-triumph/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 05:54:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/swinging-sixties-hamlet-a-triumph/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have these outrageous bikini trends gone too far?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take a look at all of the outrageous bikini trends that we hope to never see again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/have-these-outrageous-bikini-trends-gone-too-far/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:15:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/have-these-outrageous-bikini-trends-gone-too-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britney Spear’s son says grandpa Jamie Spears ‘can go die’ amid family feud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britney Spears&rsquo; son lashes out at his grandfather and tells fans his famous mum could &ldquo;quit&rdquo; music for good.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/britney-spears-son-says-grandpa-jamie-spears-can-go-die-amid-family-feud/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:52:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/britney-spears-son-says-grandpa-jamie-spears-can-go-die-amid-family-feud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Bond movie delayed by virus]]></title><description><![CDATA[The release of the James Bond film No Time To Die has been pushed back several months because of global concerns about coronavirus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/james-bond-movie-delayed-by-virus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:33:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/james-bond-movie-delayed-by-virus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic novel prize in the timing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.&rdquo; So said American writer EL Doctorow, who won awards for historical novels such as Ragtime.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/historic-novel-prize-in-the-timing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:10:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/historic-novel-prize-in-the-timing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tips for the unwary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having to look up &mdash; right up, head back and throat exposed, into the sky &mdash; does something to an audience, even on a damp and chilly evening in South Yorkshire. The grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, a Grade 1 listed stately home, echo with gasps as, dangling from a vertiginous crane, a giant platform skews backward, disgorging the six aerialists who have been hanging on by their fingertips.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tips-for-the-unwary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:30:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tips-for-the-unwary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farrow blasts Woody Allen memoir]]></title><description><![CDATA[High-profile American journalist Ronan Farrow has cut ties with Hachette after the publisher &shy;revealed plans to release an autobiography by his estranged father, director Woody Allen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/farrow-blasts-woody-allen-memoir/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:38:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/farrow-blasts-woody-allen-memoir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woody Allen’s son book fury]]></title><description><![CDATA[High-profile American journalist Ronan Farrow has cut ties with Hachette after the publisher &shy;revealed plans to release an autobiography by his estranged father, director Woody Allen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/woody-allens-son-book-fury/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:03:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/woody-allens-son-book-fury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global tipping point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having to look up &mdash; right up, head back and throat exposed, into the sky &mdash; does something to an audience, even on a damp and chilly evening in South Yorkshire. The grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, a Grade 1 listed stately home, echo with gasps as, dangling from a vertiginous crane, a giant platform skews backward, disgorging the six aerialists who have been hanging on by their fingertips.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/global-tipping-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:29:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/global-tipping-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of Charles Aznavour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edith Piaf famously gave Charles Aznavour a break when she took him on tour as a supporting act in 1946. His career as one of France&rsquo;s favourite singers, songwriters, actors and entertainers began in earnest at that moment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-world-of-charles-aznavour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:14:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-world-of-charles-aznavour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassandra Thorburn opens up on Karl Stefanovic divorce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cassandra Thorburn has opened up about her split with Karl Stefanovic in the first episode of her candid new divorce-themed podcast.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cassandra-thorburn-opens-up-on-karl-stefanovic-divorce/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:19:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cassandra-thorburn-opens-up-on-karl-stefanovic-divorce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear Grylls accidentally flashes his privates on Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bear Grylls ended up baring all as he accidentally live-streamed himself completely naked on Instagram.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bear-grylls-accidentally-flashes-his-privates-on-instagram/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:45:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bear-grylls-accidentally-flashes-his-privates-on-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North West makes rapping debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's six-year-old daughter North has made her rapping debut onstage at Paris Fashion Week.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/north-west-makes-rapping-debut/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 04:05:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/north-west-makes-rapping-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to prevent coronavirus: Scientists say wash your hands to these catchy tunes!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government bodies have suggested that you need to wash your hands for 20 seconds to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Here's how to pass the time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-prevent-coronavirus-scientists-say-wash-your-hands-to-these-catchy-tunes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:49:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-prevent-coronavirus-scientists-say-wash-your-hands-to-these-catchy-tunes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallberg to lead Australian Ballet]]></title><description><![CDATA[BALLET]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hallberg-to-lead-australian-ballet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:48:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hallberg-to-lead-australian-ballet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian Ballet enters ‘new era’]]></title><description><![CDATA[American ballet superstar David Hallberg has been appointed as the next artistic director of the Australian Ballet, taking over from David McAllister who retires later this year after two decades in the top job.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australian-ballet-enters-new-era/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:42:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australian-ballet-enters-new-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamish’s cheeky birthday present for wife Zoe (Hughesy, We Have A Problem)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hamish Blake got tattooed on Hughesy, We Have A Problem.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hamishs-cheeky-birthday-present-for-wife-zoe-hughesy-we-have-a-problem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:40:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hamishs-cheeky-birthday-present-for-wife-zoe-hughesy-we-have-a-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beatle’s gifted guitar gently reaps]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former session musician was &ldquo;taken aback&rdquo; when his guitar, once owned by John Lennon and George Harrison, was valued at &pound;400,000 ($786,325) on the BBC&rsquo;s Antiques Roadshow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beatles-gifted-guitar-gently-reaps/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:02:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beatles-gifted-guitar-gently-reaps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beatle’s guitar a $786k gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former session musician was &ldquo;taken aback&rdquo; when his guitar, once owned by John Lennon and George Harrison, was valued at &pound;400,000 ($786,325) on the BBC&rsquo;s Antiques Roadshow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beatles-guitar-a-786k-gift/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:05:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beatles-guitar-a-786k-gift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame Tussauds Sydney’s first ever Mini Studio Assistant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adelaide's Zoe Pallis, 11, is Madame Tussauds Sydney&rsquo;s first ever Mini Studio Assistant.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/madame-tussauds-sydneys-first-ever-mini-studio-assistant/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:00:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/madame-tussauds-sydneys-first-ever-mini-studio-assistant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer – The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (Netflix)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now on Netflix, The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez looks at the horrendous abuse that led to Gabriel&rsquo;s death &mdash; and whether it could have been prevented.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-the-trials-of-gabriel-fernandez-netflix/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:39:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-the-trials-of-gabriel-fernandez-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Adele’s remarkable 2020 transformation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Award-winning singer Adele has gone through some drastic changes in her life and career over the past year. Let&rsquo;s unpack her latest headlines.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/see-adeles-remarkable-2020-transformation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:39:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/see-adeles-remarkable-2020-transformation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival high bar just got higher]]></title><description><![CDATA[The beauty of the Adelaide Festival, at least for those visiting from out of town, is the feeling of arrival and of leaving the everyday behind. More than any other Australian festival of its kind, it offers a place for cultural and intellectual nourishment, a sense of gathering and of community, led by the inspired programming of directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-high-bar-just-got-higher/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:17:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-high-bar-just-got-higher/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impresario’s stunning show]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Perth Festival&rsquo;s artistic director Iain Grandage pedalled down the Highway to Hell on his electric bike, along all 10km of the AC/DC rock &rsquo;n&rsquo; road concert that closed his first festival on Sunday, he must have felt his biggest logistic gamble had paid off.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/impresarios-stunning-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:00:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/impresarios-stunning-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karl grills MAFS star Michael about his treatment of Stacey (The Today Show)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Stefanovic was quick to call Michael Goonan out when he referred to Stacey as a "controlling girl".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/karl-grills-mafs-star-michael-about-his-treatment-of-stacey-the-today-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:45:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/karl-grills-mafs-star-michael-about-his-treatment-of-stacey-the-today-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March guide to the arts in Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[MUSICAL THEATRE]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/march-guide-to-the-arts-in-sydney/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:52:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/march-guide-to-the-arts-in-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to watch on TV, streaming and at the movies: March 2nd – March 8th]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's what to watch highlights include Dark Waters, Downhill and The Way Back.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-tv-streaming-and-at-the-movies-march-2nd-march-8th/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:02:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-tv-streaming-and-at-the-movies-march-2nd-march-8th/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superb cast and intrepid direction is just what The Doctor ordered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Icke has energised current UK theatre with his versions of Aeschylus&rsquo;s Oresteia, Chekhov&rsquo;s Uncle Vanya and George Orwell&rsquo;s 1984. He describes adaptation as &ldquo;like using a foreign plug. You are in a country where your hair dryer won&rsquo;t work when you plug it straight in. You have to find the adaptor which will let the electricity of now into the old thing and make it function.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/superb-cast-and-intrepid-direction-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:23:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/superb-cast-and-intrepid-direction-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozart brought into the 21st century]]></title><description><![CDATA[Themed around the idea of extinction, Italian theatre director Rom&shy;eo Castellucci&rsquo;s Requiem is a won&shy;derfully provocative rendition of Mozart&rsquo;s final and exalted work of the same title, his Requiem in D minor. Moving beyond any notion of the requiem (or funeral mass) as existed in the composer&rsquo;s lifetime, it invites us to ponder an &ldquo;Atlas of Extinctions&rdquo; that spans eons of biological and human history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mozart-brought-into-the-21st-century/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:06:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mozart-brought-into-the-21st-century/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harpist’s lyrical heights of harmony]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was common in the baroque era for composers to arrange a single concerto for different solo instruments. As harp concertos are hardly a commonplace commodity, French harpist Xavier De Maistre has sensibly followed suit by adapting concertos to expand his own repertoire.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harpists-lyrical-heights-of-harmony/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 06:37:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harpists-lyrical-heights-of-harmony/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In tune with the big picture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pat Metheny, a youthful 65-year-old, began playing professional gigs as a teenage prodigy in the 1970s. Extraordinarily successful over 50 years, the American guitarist has won so many polls, released so many gold albums, and been awarded so many Grammys ( more than 20) that his fans have lost count, not to mention the honorary doctorates.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-tune-with-the-big-picture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:58:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-tune-with-the-big-picture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists go to great lengths to get their messages across]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are just days to go until the publication of The Mirror &amp; the Light, the final volume in Hilary Mantel&rsquo;s Wolf Hall trilogy. You should probably do some gentle eye exercises. At 912&nbsp;pages, it is &shy;almost twice the size of Bring Up the Bodies, the second in the series, and about 250 pages longer than Wolf Hall.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-go-to-great-lengths-to-get-their-messages-across/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:58:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-go-to-great-lengths-to-get-their-messages-across/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harpist lyrical heights of harmony]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was common in the baroque era for composers to arrange a single concerto for different solo instruments. As harp concertos are hardly a commonplace commodity, French harpist Xavier De Maistre has sensibly followed suit by adapting concertos to expand his own repertoire.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harpist-lyrical-heights-of-harmony/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:41:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harpist-lyrical-heights-of-harmony/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mama June: Family Crisis trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honey Boo Boo&rsquo;s mother June Shannon has appeared in a troubling new television promo on Foxtel.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mama-june-family-crisis-trailer/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:17:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mama-june-family-crisis-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mardi Gras 2020: State’s emergency services steal the show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 42nd Mardi Gras parade has dazzled crowds with sequined outfits and glittering displays.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mardi-gras-2020-states-emergency-services-steal-the-show/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:32:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mardi-gras-2020-states-emergency-services-steal-the-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funnyman Ross Noble defies bushfire pain for daughters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ross Noble is known as a comedian who has a delightfully wacky way of looking at the world &mdash; but it means he has to throw out most of the job offers that come his way.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/funnyman-ross-noble-defies-bushfire-pain-for-daughters/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:32:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/funnyman-ross-noble-defies-bushfire-pain-for-daughters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eddie Perfect joins the cast of 9-5 musical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Perfect has joined the Australian cast of 9-5 the musical. The performer will play Franklin Hart Jnr in the Dolly Parton musical.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eddie-perfect-joins-the-cast-of-9-5-musical/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:20:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eddie-perfect-joins-the-cast-of-9-5-musical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf Hall saga comes to an end]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sunday Book Club explores Hilary Mantel's Mirror And The Light - the finale to the saga of Wolf Hall.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-wolf-hall-saga-comes-to-an-end/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:05:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-wolf-hall-saga-comes-to-an-end/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mambo legend helps new art grow from bushfire ashes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Talk about making a positive out of a negative.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mambo-legend-helps-new-art-grow-from-bushfire-ashes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:25:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mambo-legend-helps-new-art-grow-from-bushfire-ashes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We’re talking about human beings’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your dad is Lebanese and your mum&rsquo;s from Syria. After working steadily in Australia for more than a decade, do you still find yourself being typecast? I refused a few terrorist roles just last year, actually. I never want to play someone who&rsquo;s set-dressing or someone who brings down the community, as if you&rsquo;re saying, &ldquo;These are the only kind of Arabs in the world&rdquo;. If a role came along that was delving into the humanity of that person, that&rsquo;s more interesting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/were-talking-about-human-beings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:08:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/were-talking-about-human-beings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (rebuilding) life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the recent catastrophic bushfires those who have lost their homes will face another kind of loss.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-rebuilding-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:08:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-rebuilding-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making visible the fears of a modern age]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Adelaide Festival has opened with a parade of monsters, devils, shapeshifters and grotesques in an art exhibition that aims to make visible the anxieties and fears of the modern age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-visible-the-fears-of-a-modern-age/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:24:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-visible-the-fears-of-a-modern-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bosch’s fire still burns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Detective Harry Bosch of the LAPD (retired) has inherited a murder. Rather, he has been bequeathed a &ldquo;murder book&rdquo; from a deceased one-time mentor, John Jack Thompson, whom Harry greatly respected. He taught Harry skills unknown at the Police Academy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/boschs-fire-still-burns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/boschs-fire-still-burns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A transcendent experience for the ages]]></title><description><![CDATA[One definition of the West Kerry word mam is yoke and another is obligation or duty but that&rsquo;s only the beginning of its possibilities. There are also implications of dealing with difficult physical terrain and having a handful of something.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-transcendent-experience-for-the-ages/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-transcendent-experience-for-the-ages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop checking your likes: The 5 types of people on social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re on any of the socials, you&rsquo;ll know there are some online personalities your friends and followers fall into. Which one are you?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stop-checking-your-likes-the-5-types-of-people-on-social-media/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 06:03:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stop-checking-your-likes-the-5-types-of-people-on-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tool’s tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[An early contender for my favourite concert of the year is a US progressive metal band whose six-date tour of Australia recently passed through four cities, including Brisbane. Tool is the first arena show I ever saw back in 2002, aged 14, and it&rsquo;s heartening to know the quartet has lost none of its power to move and thrill audiences in the 18 years between viewings. My highlight was the decision to air a song named 7empest, which the band had only performed live for the first time in Sydn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tools-tour/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tools-tour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surfers changed by the wave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/surfers-changed-by-the-wave/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/surfers-changed-by-the-wave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to die on stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[It might be tacky but fake blood makes for a far more convincing death. Even though it&rsquo;s sticky and will most probably stain your costume, it&rsquo;s essential, especially for the character I play in the production of La Traviata.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-die-on-stage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-die-on-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High voltage celebration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cause of Bon Scott&rsquo;s death, in a car in &shy;London, on February 19, 1980, remains in some quarters a point of dispute. He asphyxiated, died of alcohol poisoning or perished from hypothermia, depending on who is telling the story.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/high-voltage-celebration/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/high-voltage-celebration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethereally beautiful pop]]></title><description><![CDATA[ELECTRONIC/POP]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ethereally-beautiful-pop/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ethereally-beautiful-pop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delving into the dismissal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I bemoaned the ABC&rsquo;s dwindling supply of investigative podcasts. Well, moan no more, because Aunty has given Australia a tremendous, fresh series that demands bingeing: The Eleventh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/delving-into-the-dismissal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/delving-into-the-dismissal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[De Beauvoir: affairs of art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simone de Beauvoir wrote her first book at the age of seven. Inspired by a similarly precocious writer, Jo in Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s Little Women, she then read Virginia Woolf and the Bront&euml; sisters in English. By age 12 she had finished George Eliot&rsquo;s The Mill on the Floss.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/de-beauvoir-affairs-of-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/de-beauvoir-affairs-of-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connected to nature]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Janet Laurence was in her 30s she returned home to Australia from Europe and found work as a flying artist. She and a pilot would fly to &shy;remote stations and communities throughout far north Queensland to teach art to students studying by correspondence. While on those flights, she made countless aerial sketches and observed the beauty and fragility of the land and, she says, &ldquo;how badly we had dealt with it&rdquo; through land clearing, intensive farming, and the introduction of E]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/connected-to-nature/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/connected-to-nature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Built to last]]></title><description><![CDATA[Images from John Gollings: The History of the Built World, at the Museum of Sydney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/built-to-last/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:06:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/built-to-last/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hell of a tribute]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gravesite would be inconspicuous were it not for its freshly burnished brass plaque, casting off shards of light beneath a bleaching noonday sun. Bottle-tops, a purged bourbon bottle and crooked cigarette ends pockmark the earth beneath the modest cenotaph, its epitaph sober in its grief: &ldquo;Loved son of Isa and Chick. Brother of Derek, Graeme and Valarie. Close to our hearts he will always stay, loved and remembered every day.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/one-hell-of-a-tribute/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 03:21:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/one-hell-of-a-tribute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight to take down chemical giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[True stories about quietly heroic individuals &ndash; like Richard Jewell in Clint Eastwood&rsquo;s excellent film &ndash; are coming thick and fast to cinemas these days. Todd Haynes&rsquo;s Dark Waters is the story of Cincinatti-based junior lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who finds himself in conflict with one of the most powerful corporations in America.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-to-take-down-chemical-giant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:45:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-to-take-down-chemical-giant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruffalo’s performance alone worth ticket price]]></title><description><![CDATA[True stories about quietly heroic individuals &ndash; like Richard Jewell in Clint Eastwood&rsquo;s excellent film &ndash; are coming thick and fast to cinemas these days. Todd Haynes&rsquo;s Dark Waters is the story of Cincinatti-based junior lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who finds himself in conflict with one of the most powerful corporations in America.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalos-performance-alone-worth-ticket-price/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:39:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalos-performance-alone-worth-ticket-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynn pays $160m for Picassos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Embattled former casino resort magnate Steve Wynn has paid about $US105m ($160m) for a pair of Picasso paintings from the estate of Don Marron, according to two people close to the deal.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wynn-pays-160m-for-picassos/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:08:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wynn-pays-160m-for-picassos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art gallery gets its motor running]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, but is it art? Contemporary art spaces have been asking this question for years. Fashion and design now sit comfortably inside gallery walls, while performance, sound and video are no longer the poor cousins of the art world. New York&rsquo;s Museum of Modern Art even felt the music of Bjork justified a major retrospective.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-gallery-gets-its-motor-running/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:08:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-gallery-gets-its-motor-running/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruffalo’s performance alone worth the price of a ticket]]></title><description><![CDATA[True stories about quietly heroic individuals &ndash; like Richard Jewell in Clint Eastwood&rsquo;s excellent film &ndash; are coming thick and fast to cinemas these days. Todd Haynes&rsquo;s Dark Waters is the story of Cincinatti-based junior lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who finds himself in conflict with one of the most powerful corporations in America.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalos-performance-alone-worth-the-price-of-a-ticket/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:45:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalos-performance-alone-worth-the-price-of-a-ticket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruffalo alone worth the price of a ticket]]></title><description><![CDATA[True stories about quietly heroic individuals &ndash; like Richard Jewell in Clint Eastwood&rsquo;s excellent film &ndash; are coming thick and fast to cinemas these days. Todd Haynes&rsquo;s Dark Waters is the story of Cincinatti-based junior lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who finds himself in conflict with one of the most powerful corporations in America.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalo-alone-worth-the-price-of-a-ticket/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:08:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ruffalo-alone-worth-the-price-of-a-ticket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic honour for a man still at work]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Colin Hay learned he would become the first songwriter to receive the distinguished services award for outstanding contribution to Australian music at the Global APRA Music Awards, held in Los Angeles on Thursday, the honour was enough to give him pause.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/historic-honour-for-a-man-still-at-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 06:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/historic-honour-for-a-man-still-at-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marshall plans a cultural push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last October, South Australian Premier Steven Marshall accompanied the state&rsquo;s symphony orchestra on part of its tour to China and South Korea. At Shanghai Symphony Hall he heard the &shy;Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mozart&rsquo;s fifth &shy;violin concerto, with Pinchas Zukerman doing double duty as conductor and violin soloist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/marshall-plans-a-cultural-push/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:28:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/marshall-plans-a-cultural-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mournful ennui proves sometimes less is more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Circa is famed for its intellectually stimulating approach to circus. The magnificent performers embody arguments as well as actions and the work can be hard to label, which no doubt pleases Circa greatly.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mournful-ennui-proves-sometimes-less-is-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:12:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mournful-ennui-proves-sometimes-less-is-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Harry says ‘just call me Harry’ after Queen’s royal ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Duke of Sussex insisted people "just call me Harry" as he returned to the UK for one of his final engagements before he and his wife, Meghan Markle, officially step down as senior royals.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-harry-says-just-call-me-harry-after-queens-royal-ban/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:47:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-harry-says-just-call-me-harry-after-queens-royal-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artistry with bamboozling skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[From kitchen utensils to lightweight scaffolding on high-rise buildings, bamboo is a special kind of supergrass &mdash; yet rarely has it been used as material for a circus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artistry-with-bamboozling-skills/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:15:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artistry-with-bamboozling-skills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domingo ‘sorry for hurt’ to women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opera singer Placido Domingo has apologised to the women who accused him of sexual harassment, after an investigation found he behaved inappropriately with female musicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/domingo-sorry-for-hurt-to-women/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:04:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/domingo-sorry-for-hurt-to-women/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In tune with young patients]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as Superman dons his civvies to go incognito as Clark Kent, Jeremy Neale pulls on a navy blue T-shirt three days a week and goes to work at the Queensland Children&rsquo;s Hospital.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-tune-with-young-patients/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:12:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-tune-with-young-patients/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman, and one of the great actors of his generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ron Haddrick was one of Australia&rsquo;s gentlemen actors whose 60-plus year career spanned radio plays in Adelaide, Shakespeare in&nbsp;Britain alongside Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and John Gielgud, and theatre in Australia with John Bell and Ruth Cracknell.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-gentleman-and-one-of-the-great-actors-of-his-generation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:12:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-gentleman-and-one-of-the-great-actors-of-his-generation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energetic tango of youth, one step at a time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shortlisted for a Pulitzer prize for drama last year, Dance Nation is a funny, ferocious and closely observed study of a group of pre-teen girls (and one boy) in a dance troupe competing in a series of play-offs to reach national prominence.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-energetic-tango-of-youth-one-step-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 04:00:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-energetic-tango-of-youth-one-step-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling goes missing in a story stretched too far]]></title><description><![CDATA[Graeme Murphy&rsquo;s The Happy Prince was to have premiered last year but the choreographer&rsquo;s sudden illness made that impossible. The Australian Ballet quickly rescheduled it to open the 2020 season in Brisbane.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/feeling-goes-missing-in-a-story-stretched-too-far/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 04:00:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/feeling-goes-missing-in-a-story-stretched-too-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fists fly in Keeping Up With The Kardashians explosive fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new KUWTK preview shows Kim and Kourtney coming to blows during an argument.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fists-fly-in-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-explosive-fight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:15:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fists-fly-in-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-explosive-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Time To Die: Behind-The-Scenes with Director Cary Joji Fukunaga]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Director Cary Joji Fukunaga gives a behind-the scenes look at the latest James Bond: NO TIME TO DIE.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-time-to-die-behind-the-scenes-with-director-cary-joji-fukunaga/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:36:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-time-to-die-behind-the-scenes-with-director-cary-joji-fukunaga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Man: Director Leigh Whannell discusses inspirations and making it modern]]></title><description><![CDATA[Director Leigh Whannell unpacks updating the classic story of The Invisible Man to the modern age, as well as some of his inspirations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-invisible-man-director-leigh-whannell-discusses-inspirations-and-making-it-modern/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:40:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-invisible-man-director-leigh-whannell-discusses-inspirations-and-making-it-modern/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survivor All-Star Phoebe voted out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phoebe was lost for words after ally David double-crossed her.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survivor-all-star-phoebe-voted-out/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:57:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survivor-all-star-phoebe-voted-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Push for indigenous arts centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s peak infrastructure &shy;advisory body will lobby the Morrison government for new indigenous art and cultural facilities to capitalise on increasing interest in Aboriginal art, while improving economic outcomes for indigenous communities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/push-for-indigenous-arts-centres/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:33:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/push-for-indigenous-arts-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move over Indy, Phryne’s here]]></title><description><![CDATA[Murder may be Phryne Fisher&rsquo;s business, but what Essie Davis loves about the character is her &ldquo;lust for life&rdquo;. Davis has played the 1920s sleuth in three seasons of a television drama series, and now she&rsquo;s taking her to the big screen in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, a story that demonstrates another of the reasons Davis embraces this figure.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/move-over-indy-phrynes-here/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:33:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/move-over-indy-phrynes-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Downfall of a monster]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I feel like the forgotten man.&rdquo; For a case that always meant so much more than a single individual, Harvey Weinstein always found a way to bring it home.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/downfall-of-a-monster/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:33:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/downfall-of-a-monster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Man: Leigh Whannell discusses inspirations and making it modern]]></title><description><![CDATA[Director Leigh Whannell unpacks updating the classic story of The Invisible Man to the modern age, as well as some of his inspirations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-invisible-man-leigh-whannell-discusses-inspirations-and-making-it-modern/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:25:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-invisible-man-leigh-whannell-discusses-inspirations-and-making-it-modern/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood star’s story was born in therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honey Boy is the first fictional film by Alma Har&rsquo;el but there&rsquo;s an uncomfortable true story at its centre. It&rsquo;s based on the traumatic childhood of actor Shia LaBeouf and grew out of a screenplay he started to write during court-ordered therapy and sent to her to read.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-stars-story-was-born-in-therapy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:24:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-stars-story-was-born-in-therapy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Today Show: Karl is back! But the ratings are terrible]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Stefanovic&rsquo;s return to Today hasn&rsquo;t helped the flailing show&rsquo;s fortunes, with even more viewers deserting the seemingly sinking ship.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-today-show-karl-is-back-but-the-ratings-are-terrible/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:07:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-today-show-karl-is-back-but-the-ratings-are-terrible/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horns of plenty for ska band]]></title><description><![CDATA[There aren&rsquo;t too many functioning bands with a long waiting list of musicians ready and willing to join at a moment&rsquo;s notice, but for Melbourne Ska Orchestra it&rsquo;s a necessary side effect of cramming 25 players on stage whenever it performs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/horns-of-plenty-for-ska-band/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 06:44:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/horns-of-plenty-for-ska-band/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An actress of sublime skill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoe Caldwell was the greatest Australian actress of her generation, although she was not a household name because she hardly ever made films. That did not stop her from winning four Tony awards in the course of her long, dazzling career on the American stage, during which she was acclaimed as a Miss Jean Brodie who was unsurpassed by Maggie Smith, a Medea who came within coee of Judith &shy;Anderson&rsquo;s, and a riveting Maria Callas in Masterclass.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/an-actress-of-sublime-skill/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 06:44:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/an-actress-of-sublime-skill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilde tragedy hits right note]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opera provides a particularly potent forum for shock and scandal. A case in point is Victorian Opera&rsquo;s provocative new production of Richard Strauss&rsquo;s Salome, a work of crushing musical power that derives its libretto from &mdash; and amplifies the destructive psychosexual desires within &mdash; Oscar Wilde&rsquo;s play of the same name.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wilde-tragedy-hits-right-note/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:21:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wilde-tragedy-hits-right-note/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney island is picture perfect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Great cultural experiences almost always involve art but they can also be about the journey. Visitors to David Walsh&rsquo;s Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart have the option of arriving by ferry, sailing up the Derwent from Hobart&rsquo;s Brooke Street Pier and setting the&nbsp;tone for the day&rsquo;s adventure. The getting-to is a prelude to the diving-in.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-island-is-picture-perfect/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:09:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydney-island-is-picture-perfect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A story that began in therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honey Boy is the first fictional film by Alma Har&rsquo;el but there&rsquo;s an uncomfortable true story at its centre. It&rsquo;s based on the traumatic childhood of actor Shia LaBeouf and grew out of a screenplay he started to write during court-ordered therapy and sent to her to read.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-story-that-began-in-therapy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:09:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-story-that-began-in-therapy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gruesome and grand, Strauss’s Wilde tragedy hits right note]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opera provides a particularly potent forum for shock and scandal. A case in point is Victoria Opera&rsquo;s provocative new production of Richard Strauss&rsquo;s Salome, a work of crushing musical power that derives its libretto from &mdash; and amplifies the destructive psychosexual desires within &mdash; Oscar Wilde&rsquo;s play of the same name.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gruesome-and-grand-strausss-wilde-tragedy-hits-right-note/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 06:55:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gruesome-and-grand-strausss-wilde-tragedy-hits-right-note/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony Warlow speaks about The Secret Garden]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian musical theatre megastar Anthony Warlow will return to the role of Archibald Craven in the musical, The Secret Garden.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anthony-warlow-speaks-about-the-secret-garden/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:49:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anthony-warlow-speaks-about-the-secret-garden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Symphonic feast for eyes and ears]]></title><description><![CDATA[As with many classical ensembles around the world, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is opening its 2020 season with a program dedicated to Beethoven&rsquo;s 250th birthday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/symphonic-feast-for-eyes-and-ears/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:05:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/symphonic-feast-for-eyes-and-ears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacino heaves burden of fame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Al Pacino enters the room, hotly pursued by a Starbucks. He thanks its deliverer, one of many young people attending to the biggest star to be attracted to an Amazon Prime Video series.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pacino-heaves-burden-of-fame/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:05:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pacino-heaves-burden-of-fame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McDermott’s Glass full of idiosyncratic ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his idiosyncratic tribute to his idol Philip Glass, writer-performer Phelim McDermott poses the question the great 20th-century composer has often asked himself: where does music, and more broadly art, come from?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mcdermotts-glass-full-of-idiosyncratic-ideas/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:05:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mcdermotts-glass-full-of-idiosyncratic-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasseter’s Reef gets a good shine]]></title><description><![CDATA[We do love our bullshit artists in Australia, don&rsquo;t we? Lewis Lasseter was one of our greatest. Had he grown up in a less secular country, &ldquo;Possum&rdquo; Lasseter might have led a new religion rather than an expedition nor-west of nowhere. In the darkest days of the Depression, an unusually well-equipped posse set out from Alice Springs searching for the reef of gold Lasseter claimed to have found in 1897, or 1911 &mdash; depending on who he was chatting up.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lasseters-reef-gets-a-good-shine/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:05:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lasseters-reef-gets-a-good-shine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacino Nazi drama riles Jewish]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is the latest blockbuster series from Amazon and boasts of being &ldquo;inspired by true events&rdquo;, but Hunters has been accused of &ldquo;Jewsploitation&rdquo; in sensationalising the horrors of the Holocaust.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pacino-nazi-drama-riles-jewish/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:00:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pacino-nazi-drama-riles-jewish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musician Dan Sultan facing sex charge]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARIA Award-winning rock musician Dan Sultan has been charged with indecent assault and will face court next month, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musician-dan-sultan-facing-sex-charge/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 05:19:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/musician-dan-sultan-facing-sex-charge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hilary Duff blasts ‘creepy’ photographer for taking pictures of children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hilary Duff has put a 'practising' photographer on blasts on her Instagram page.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hilary-duff-blasts-creepy-photographer-for-taking-pictures-of-children/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 03:49:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hilary-duff-blasts-creepy-photographer-for-taking-pictures-of-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Buble sings to gorillas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Buble pays a visit to some of his biggest fans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-buble-sings-to-gorillas/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:19:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michael-buble-sings-to-gorillas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poppy Jennings reveals why she really left MAFS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Married at First Sight contestant Poppy Jennings has revealed the real reason why she left the popular reality TV program and her on-screen husband Luke Eglin.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/poppy-jennings-reveals-why-she-really-left-mafs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:17:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/poppy-jennings-reveals-why-she-really-left-mafs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Walking Dead still lives on]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Walking Dead might be a zombie show but it&rsquo;s never been more alive.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-the-walking-dead-still-lives-on/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 13:28:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-the-walking-dead-still-lives-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take the girl out of Adelaide…]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can take the girl out of Adelaide, wrench her from near-obscurity and plonk her down, head whirling, in the starry firmament of Hollywood&rsquo;s top tier. You can dress her in floor-sweeping, black-sequinned, d&eacute;colletage-&shy;baring finery and watch her sparkle and smile on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, where her hit show, Succession, is to be crowned Best TV Drama. You can watch her field hokey questions like a pro, eloquent and poised, before totally losing her cool upon rec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/you-can-take-the-girl-out-of-adelaide/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 12:16:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/you-can-take-the-girl-out-of-adelaide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s Queen of Crime]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sunday Book Club delves into Dervla McTiernan's gritty new novel The Good Turn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-queen-of-crime/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 12:16:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/australias-queen-of-crime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toothless times in call of the mild]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Call of the Wild, a live-action drama based on the classic 1903 novel by Jack London, is an outstanding example of the unspoken truth that CGI can suck. This is a hilariously embarrassing movie. My 14-year-old co-viewer and I laughed out loud for the final 30 minutes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/toothless-times-in-call-of-the-mild/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/toothless-times-in-call-of-the-mild/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The definition of disappointment]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story behind the production of the Oxford English Dictionary, as told by Simon Winchester in his 1998 book, is really rather remarkable, especially the revelation that a major contributor to the trailblazing book was an inmate of the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-definition-of-disappointment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-definition-of-disappointment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send in the clown]]></title><description><![CDATA[When did you first realise you were funny? My first conscious memory is when I was running the fourth part of a relay race in grade 2. I was going to lose and I thought, &ldquo;Well, I can try as hard as I can and lose with dignity &ndash; or I could just skip down the track playing the baton like a flute&hellip;&rdquo; I went for the flute option and got a bit of a laugh, and that sealed my life. I didn&rsquo;t win the race, but nobody was talking about the winner afterwards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/send-in-the-clown/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/send-in-the-clown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psalms in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world today is not dissimilar to the reality described in the Psalms, according to a new exhibition at the Adelaide Festival, sponsored by The Australian. The 150 Psalms Exhibition features images from this newspaper&rsquo;s archives paired with psalms whose lyrics they represent. Curated by Charissa Davies and Alan John.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/psalms-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/psalms-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know my name pop quiz]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Australia has a big exhibition coming up and a campaign called Know My Name, addressing how hard it is for a lot of Australians to name an Australian female visual artist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/know-my-name-pop-quiz/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/know-my-name-pop-quiz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Did I say that?’]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can take the girl out of Adelaide, wrench her from near-obscurity and plonk her down, head whirling, in the starry firmament of Hollywood&rsquo;s top tier. You can dress her in floor-sweeping, black-sequinned, d&eacute;colletage-&shy;baring finery and watch her sparkle and smile on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, where her hit show, Succession, is to be crowned Best TV Drama. You can watch her field hokey questions like a pro, eloquent and poised, before totally losing her cool upon rec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/did-i-say-that/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/did-i-say-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 Australian female artists you should know]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joy Hester]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/25-australian-female-artists-you-should-know/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/25-australian-female-artists-you-should-know/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Williamson bows out with passion]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Williamson knew he &shy;wanted a strong subject for his final play to mark the end of a &shy;remarkable 50-year career. He chose one that makes him particularly angry: voluntary assisted dying.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/williamson-bows-out-with-passion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:35:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/williamson-bows-out-with-passion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know their work, then their name]]></title><description><![CDATA[The work stands tall, impossible to miss, prominent far beyond the gallery walls. It&rsquo;s the same story across town, interstate, all over Australia. Artworks abound, each presented alongside three simple words and a challenge to look a little more closely.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/know-their-work-then-their-name/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:35:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/know-their-work-then-their-name/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump bags Oscar for Parasite]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has scorned the best picture Oscar for South Korean film Parasite, asking how a foreign movie could get the honour.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trump-bags-oscar-for-parasite/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:37:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trump-bags-oscar-for-parasite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[COSMOS SEASON 3 trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS is helmed by Carl Sagan&rsquo;s collaborator Ann Druyan, who boldly carries the torch forward with the 3rd season of the most beloved science show on the planet. Series premieres 3/9, at 8/7c, on Nat Geo; hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cosmos-season-3-trailer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:19:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cosmos-season-3-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the mercy of others]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new prestige ABC drama, Stateless, is from co-creator and executive producer, the actor Cate Blanchett. She conceived the project, a co-production with her family company, Dirty Films, and Matchbox Pictures, she says, over her kitchen table with her old high school friend writer Elise McCredie (Ride Like a Girl), who, after much research, wrote the series with Belinda Chayko (Safe Harbour).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/at-the-mercy-of-others/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:54:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/at-the-mercy-of-others/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bizarre life of Amanda Bynes]]></title><description><![CDATA[From child star to adult trainwreck, we unpack the bizarre life of actress Amanda Bynes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-bizarre-life-of-amanda-bynes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:09:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-bizarre-life-of-amanda-bynes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fujinon Techno Stabi]]></title><description><![CDATA[We were a stargazing family. When I was a kid and whenever there was a lunar eclipse, or the sky was particularly dark and the stars shining, my father and I would head outside with our trusty binoculars to lap up the celestial show.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fujinon-techno-stabi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:52:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fujinon-techno-stabi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the eyes of Olley]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is much to be said for leaving the primary purchasing of contemporary art to private collectors and corporations. The fundamental problem is that the field is dominated by fashion and subject to aggressive market manipulation, and public galleries, their curators and boards often make mistakes. The fact that they all huddle together for safety and buy from the same shopping list just means that they all make the same mistakes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/through-the-eyes-of-olley/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:07:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/through-the-eyes-of-olley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well worth the headache]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1857, Karl Marx found himself variously occupied: British Museum, Museum Tavern, family, journalism for the New York Tribune, anticipating economic crises, meetings. He was pushing around a few interesting ideas. One of them was automation. A robot or two may have come in handy, given everything else that was going on in his life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/well-worth-the-headache/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/well-worth-the-headache/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up to their Necks in it]]></title><description><![CDATA[JAZZ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/up-to-their-necks-in-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/up-to-their-necks-in-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (cherished) life]]></title><description><![CDATA[We first discovered the pirate cave when our son was six and our daughter was four. A little toy treasure chest had been put there by a passing yachtie and it contained a slightly worse-for-wear notebook and a pen. There weren&rsquo;t many entries in the notebook; most were by kids delighting in the fantasy world of pirates and treasure.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-cherished-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-cherished-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soccer Mommy kicking goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Melodic pop hooks don&rsquo;t come much darker or rawer than this: &ldquo;Loving you is not enough / You&rsquo;ll still be deep in the ground when it&rsquo;s done.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/soccer-mommy-kicking-goals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/soccer-mommy-kicking-goals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RN fictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Oz gothic&rdquo; is the theme of the first season of Radio National Fictions, a new ABC podcast showcasing creative audio fiction.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rn-fictions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rn-fictions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher powers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lord works in mysterious ways &hellip; and apparently so do the Vatican&rsquo;s finances.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/higher-powers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/higher-powers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying art of living]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mozart, Berlioz and Verdi composed three of the greatest musical settings of the Requiem mass for the dead &mdash; but who today can name the people memorialised by their intensely affecting music? Berlioz wrote his Grand Messe des Morts for the commander-in-chief of the French army in Algeria. Verdi&rsquo;s operatic Messa da Requiem &mdash; a high-stakes drama for soprano, mezzo, tenor and bass &mdash; was for the poet, novelist and Italian senator Alessandro &shy;Manzoni.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dying-art-of-living/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dying-art-of-living/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the sums on contagion]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many of us are going to contract coronavirus? The answer &mdash; or, at least, the best means we have of trying to calculate it &mdash; started taking shape as long ago as the 1950s, when a researcher at the London School of &shy;Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wrote a paper on the &shy;control of mosquitoes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/doing-the-sums-on-contagion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/doing-the-sums-on-contagion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contagion, and other dirty deeds]]></title><description><![CDATA[First, a housekeeping note. I try not to review books until they are available in bookstores. This week, however, I have included a review of Adam Kucharski&rsquo;s Contagion, which is not due for local release until April. It will be available sooner via online booksellers and as an e-book. The reason for the early review is simple: coronavirus. This virus is in the headlines now and our understanding of it and response to it is changing day-to-day. For that reason I think it&rsquo;s worth draw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/contagion-and-other-dirty-deeds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:02:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/contagion-and-other-dirty-deeds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV trailer: Better Call Saul – Season 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's all starting to come together. The highly anticipated fifth season of Better Call Saul premieres February 24, only on Stan.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tv-trailer-better-call-saul-season-5/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:17:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tv-trailer-better-call-saul-season-5/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s arts news for February]]></title><description><![CDATA[BIENNALE OF SYDNEY]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-arts-news-for-february/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:18:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sydneys-arts-news-for-february/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artful circus flying high]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Yaron Lifschitz, the sky&rsquo;s the limit. His company, Circa, has been busy in recent weeks preparing two different productions &mdash; one with a symphony orchestra, the other a sprawling production about human relation&shy;ships &mdash; on opposite sides of the continent.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artful-circus-flying-high/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:37:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artful-circus-flying-high/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Band banned, split over trans row]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rock musician says she was bullied, blacklisted and ultimately had her band broken up &shy;because she expressed concern at material normalising child abuse being provided to transgender children.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/band-banned-split-over-trans-row/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:20:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/band-banned-split-over-trans-row/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Niche work if you can get it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The biggest music act on YouTube last year wasn&rsquo;t Billie Eilish, Drake or Taylor Swift, but a 20-year-old southern rapper from the US who goes by the name YoungBoy Never Broke Again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/niche-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:07:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/niche-work-if-you-can-get-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race never ends for Nina’s girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than two decades on, Lisa Simone still finds herself tearing up when she looks back at one performance in Ireland featuring her famous mother. A critic from the Irish Times described Nina Sim&shy;one in flight as &ldquo;fiercely proud, defiantly independent, and perhaps the purist, staunchest embodiment of womanhood I&rsquo;ve ever &shy;witnessed on stage&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/race-never-ends-for-ninas-girl/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:02:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/race-never-ends-for-ninas-girl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyperlinks to cutting-edge film]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hyperlinks film festival, taking place in Sydney from Friday to Sunday, is an innovative collection of work. The films in the program use and explore digital technology in distinctive ways, ranging from video diaries and YouTube compilations to cutting-edge forays into video game- &shy;inspired art installations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hyperlinks-to-cutting-edge-film/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:02:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hyperlinks-to-cutting-edge-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist’s drawings tug heartstrings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Extinction Studies, Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, National Art School, corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, March 14-June 8, 10am-5pm daily, free, nas.edu.au]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-drawings-tug-heartstrings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:54:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-drawings-tug-heartstrings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MasterChef Australia 2020 is coming]]></title><description><![CDATA[MasterChef Australia serves up a cast of favourites for the 2020 season.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/masterchef-australia-2020-is-coming/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:35:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/masterchef-australia-2020-is-coming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pompeii: Dig that keeps giving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vivid frescoes and never-before-seen inscriptions are among the treasures unearthed in a massive restoration of the archeological site Pompeii that came to a close on Wednesday, allowing many areas to be reopened to the public.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pompeii-dig-that-keeps-giving/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:22:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pompeii-dig-that-keeps-giving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz Hounslow’s clarion call]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great jazz musician, Keith Hounslow never learnt to read music, and only had a primitive awareness of chords and related scales. Yet he was active in Australian jazz for more than 60 years, achieving a level of brilliance &shy;rivalled by only a handful of this country&rsquo;s most distinguished &shy;musicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jazz-hounslows-clarion-call/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:05:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jazz-hounslows-clarion-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hounslow answered the clarion call]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great jazz musician, Keith Hounslow never learnt to read music, and only had a primitive awareness of chords and related scales. Yet he was active in Australian jazz for more than 60 years, achieving a level of brilliance &shy;rivalled by only a handful of this country&rsquo;s most distinguished &shy;musicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hounslow-answered-the-clarion-call/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:49:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hounslow-answered-the-clarion-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From torture to maximum torque]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now in its 11th year, the fringe program from Holden Street Theatres director Martha Lott includes the best and most recent work from Edinburgh, including companies she sponsors to attend. The works of Henry Naylor are a prime example. Lott has already programmed four of his plays, all from the bleakly named Arabian Nightmares series. His newest, The Nights, is another triumph.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-torture-to-maximum-torque/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:49:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-torture-to-maximum-torque/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cash splash on Hockney, again]]></title><description><![CDATA[He may have tripled his money on a mansion but media mogul David Geffen could well be ruing the decision he once took to sell a David Hockney painting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cash-splash-on-hockney-again/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:16:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cash-splash-on-hockney-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fortunate Life goes on tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Much-loved West Australian author Albert Facey believed he lived a fortunate life, even though adversity seemed to dog him from birth. Raised by his grandmother, he was sent out to work from the age of eight. He was kept virtually as a slave on a drought-prone farm for a couple of years until he escaped and made the long walk back home.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-fortunate-life-goes-on-tour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:05:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-fortunate-life-goes-on-tour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over many decades, Keith Hounslow answered the clarion call of jazz music]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great jazz musician, Keith Hounslow never learnt to read music, and only had a primitive awareness of chords and related scales. Yet he was active in Australian jazz for more than 60 years, achieving a level of brilliance &shy;rivalled by only a handful of this country&rsquo;s most distinguished &shy;musicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/over-many-decades-keith-hounslow-answered-the-clarion-call-of-jazz-music/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:50:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/over-many-decades-keith-hounslow-answered-the-clarion-call-of-jazz-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From torture to religious hypocrisy, with Frankenstein thrown in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now in its 11th year, the fringe program from Holden Street Theatres director Martha Lott includes the best and most recent work from Edinburgh, including companies she sponsors to attend. The works of Henry Naylor are a prime example. Lott has already programmed four of his plays, all from the bleakly named Arabian Nightmares series. His newest, The Nights, is another triumph.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-torture-to-religious-hypocrisy-with-frankenstein-thrown-in/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:50:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-torture-to-religious-hypocrisy-with-frankenstein-thrown-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnest staging clever but crass]]></title><description><![CDATA[This British production of The Importance of Being Earnest first toured the eastern mainland capitals (Sydney Opera House, the Brisbane Powerhouse and Melbourne&rsquo;s Malthouse Theatre) in the autumn of 2006, with the &shy;Ridiculusmus duo &mdash; Jon Haynes and David Woods &mdash; performing all nine roles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/earnest-staging-clever-but-crass/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:50:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/earnest-staging-clever-but-crass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Housewives of Melbourne]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Real Housewives of Melbourne cast unveiled. An interview with cast member Anjali Rao and behind the scenes footage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/real-housewives-of-melbourne/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 03:09:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/real-housewives-of-melbourne/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 20 supervillains we love to hate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Joker might be the toast of Tinseltown after Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at the Oscars but he&rsquo;s not the only villain we love to hate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/top-20-supervillains-we-love-to-hate/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:58:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/top-20-supervillains-we-love-to-hate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarah Day targeted for raising money for bushfires on Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[Influencer Sarah Day was the target of hate following raising money through her instagram account for the bush fire appeal.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sarah-day-targeted-for-raising-money-for-bushfires-on-instagram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:03:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sarah-day-targeted-for-raising-money-for-bushfires-on-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poppy reacts to Luke during MAFS episode]]></title><description><![CDATA[Footage has emerged of MAFS star Poppy commenting on her partner Luke while watching an episode of the show.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/poppy-reacts-to-luke-during-mafs-episode/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:14:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/poppy-reacts-to-luke-during-mafs-episode/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[60,000 wait on Bluey’s stage run]]></title><description><![CDATA[After finding an audience of millions on Australian television screens, the hit cartoon Bluey will make the leap to the stage in May, when Bluey&rsquo;s Big Play premieres in Brisbane as part of the Out of the Box festival at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/60000-wait-on-blueys-stage-run/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:13:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/60000-wait-on-blueys-stage-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brit Awards 2020: Stars hit the red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[British-born superstars including Harry Styles, Stormzy and Mabel lead the nominations at this year&rsquo;s BRIT Awards, taking place in London today.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brit-awards-2020-stars-hit-the-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:16:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brit-awards-2020-stars-hit-the-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV imitates life on Homeland set]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first time I received an email asking if I would audition for a part in Homeland, I assumed it was a scam and ignored it. Then another one came. I did a Google search of the casting agency and found that it was the real deal and had cast Hollywood movies I had heard of. Intrigued, I replied.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tv-imitates-life-on-homeland-set/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:38:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tv-imitates-life-on-homeland-set/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playwrights get a louder voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new organisation will be formed from a merger of Playwriting Australia and Australian Plays, in what is being promoted as a revitalised body to support the development of local drama from the writer&rsquo;s desk to the stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playwrights-get-a-louder-voice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:38:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playwrights-get-a-louder-voice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television imitates life on Homeland set Television imitates life on Homeland set]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first time I received an email asking if I would audition for a part in Homeland, I assumed it was a scam and ignored it. Then another one came. I did a Google search of the casting agency and found that it was the real deal and had cast Hollywood movies I had heard of. Intrigued, I replied.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/television-imitates-life-on-homeland-set-television-imitates-life-on-homeland-set/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:14:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/television-imitates-life-on-homeland-set-television-imitates-life-on-homeland-set/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merged body to give playwrights a louder voice on national stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new organisation will be formed from a merger of Playwriting Australia and Australian Plays, in what is being promoted as a revitalised body to support the development of local drama from the writer&rsquo;s desk to the stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/merged-body-to-give-playwrights-a-louder-voice-on-national-stage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:14:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/merged-body-to-give-playwrights-a-louder-voice-on-national-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History, culture and two-way learning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maya Newell&rsquo;s documentary takes its title from the words of its young subject.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/history-culture-and-two-way-learning/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:14:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/history-culture-and-two-way-learning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle Bridges arrives at court]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges arrives at court.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michelle-bridges-arrives-at-court/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:32:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/michelle-bridges-arrives-at-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tommy Hilfiger unveils new collection with Lewis Hamilton at London Fashion Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Supermodel Naomi Campbell is back and on the catwalk in London for Tommy Hilfiger alongside Winnie Harlow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tommy-hilfiger-unveils-new-collection-with-lewis-hamilton-at-london-fashion-week/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:30:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tommy-hilfiger-unveils-new-collection-with-lewis-hamilton-at-london-fashion-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the scenes at TOMMYNOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tommy Hilfiger ruled London Fashion Week with a star-studded runway show at the Tate Modern. Here's what you need to know, from backstage to the outfits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/behind-the-scenes-at-tommynow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:17:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/behind-the-scenes-at-tommynow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tapestries a Sistine sight to behold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workmen in hard hats and overalls scaled scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday to hang a huge tapestry on the wall before pausing to observe their handiwork. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s too low, it needs to come up a bit. Can we adjust the Velcro?&rdquo; said Alessandra Rodolfo, a curator at the Vatican museum, watching from the floor.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tapestries-a-sistine-sight-to-behold/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:59:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tapestries-a-sistine-sight-to-behold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire Fight’s homage to hero fireys]]></title><description><![CDATA[Midway through a 25-minute performance to close a remarkable concert, John Farnham took a few moments to reiterate a sentiment expressed by the many artists who had taken to the stage before him.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fire-fights-homage-to-hero-fireys/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:36:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fire-fights-homage-to-hero-fireys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musical voyage of discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1982 Tim Finn recorded a song with his band Split Enz that evoked the jauntiness of old sea shanties and the psychic pressure endured by sailors on the long voyage to the far side of the world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-musical-voyage-of-discovery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:22:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-musical-voyage-of-discovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonic The Hedgehog – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revamped Sonic the Hedgehog is looking much less creepy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sonic-the-hedgehog-trailer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:04:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sonic-the-hedgehog-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Godfather of Soul’s friend says Brown was murdered]]></title><description><![CDATA[A prosecutor in Atlanta is reviewing a claim that singer James Brown was murdered, and could open a formal investigation into his death.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/godfather-of-souls-friend-says-brown-was-murdered/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:04:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/godfather-of-souls-friend-says-brown-was-murdered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snapshot of a time far removed from our own]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one who was there will ever forget it, that electrifying, vainglorious moment in 1987 when Sydney audiences attending the premiere of David Williamson&rsquo;s Emerald City confronted their own self-image onstage. There they were, the chardonnay socialists making Faustian pacts to secure harbour-front real&nbsp;estate, their boomer values, vaulting ambitions and moral compromises incarnated in characters whose artistic vision crumbles under the desire for material success.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/snapshot-of-a-time-far-removed-from-our-own/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:49:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/snapshot-of-a-time-far-removed-from-our-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxi Shield announces Drag SKYWALK at Sydney Tower Eye]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday 24th February, the highest point in Sydney will shine bright with an abundance of colours, glitter, feather and sequins, as Maxi Shield takes the transparent glass SKYWALK stage,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/maxi-shield-announces-drag-skywalk-at-sydney-tower-eye/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:51:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/maxi-shield-announces-drag-skywalk-at-sydney-tower-eye/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight Fire Australia: The best moments from bushfire relief concert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of people poured into Sydney&rsquo;s ANZ stadium for a star-studded relief concert.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-fire-australia-the-best-moments-from-bushfire-relief-concert/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:24:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-fire-australia-the-best-moments-from-bushfire-relief-concert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photos: Fire Fight Australia concert at ANZ Stadium, Sydney]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 70,000 people packed into Sydney&rsquo;s ANZ Stadium as a star-studded list of musicians turned it on to raise money for bushfire relief efforts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/photos-fire-fight-australia-concert-at-anz-stadium-sydney/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:22:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/photos-fire-fight-australia-concert-at-anz-stadium-sydney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen’s Live Aid tribute down under]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are the champions, my friends. And we&rsquo;ll keep on fighting &lsquo;til the end.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queens-live-aid-tribute-down-under/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:05:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queens-live-aid-tribute-down-under/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pneumonia flattens Elton John in NZ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rock icon Sir Elton John received medical attention before cutting short his show in Auckland last night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pneumonia-flattens-elton-john-in-nz/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pneumonia-flattens-elton-john-in-nz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/john-farnham-and-olivia-newton-john-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:12:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/john-farnham-and-olivia-newton-john-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[k.d. lang and more perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Buble, Hilltop Hoods, Montaigne, k.d. lang and Icehouse were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kd-lang-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:24:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kd-lang-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queen and Adam Lambert were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:08:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Banksy artwork vandalised]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new Valentine&rsquo;s Day work by UK street artist Banksy, showing a young girl firing a slingshot of flowers, has been defaced after appearing on a building in western England.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-banksy-artwork-vandalised/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:39:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-banksy-artwork-vandalised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alice Cooper and more perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tina Arena, Alice Cooper and Amy Shark were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alice-cooper-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:39:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alice-cooper-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$80m plan to restyle Sydney island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of philanthropists has submitted an $80m proposal to transform Sydney&rsquo;s Cockatoo Island into a &ldquo;world-class arts and culture destination&rdquo; to rival MONA and New York&rsquo;s High Line, amid uncertainty over the heritage-listed island&rsquo;s future.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/80m-plan-to-restyle-sydney-island/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:39:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/80m-plan-to-restyle-sydney-island/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$80m plan to restyle Sydney’s Cockatoo Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of philanthropists has submitted an $80m proposal to transform Sydney&rsquo;s Cockatoo Island into a &ldquo;world-class arts and culture destination&rdquo; to rival MONA and New York&rsquo;s High Line, amid uncertainty over the heritage-listed island&rsquo;s future.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/80m-plan-to-restyle-sydneys-cockatoo-island/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:22:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/80m-plan-to-restyle-sydneys-cockatoo-island/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delta Goodrem and more perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guy Sebastian, Peking Duck, Delta Goodrem and Ronan Keating were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/delta-goodrem-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:40:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/delta-goodrem-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jessica Mauboy and more perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grinspoon, Jessica Mauboy and Illy were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jessica-mauboy-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:48:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/jessica-mauboy-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skinny family comedy needs flesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[If author Benjamin Law had published just one thing in his life, his 2011 memoir The Family Law would have cemented his place in our literary history. His genius is mining the bathetic absurdities in family life. There&rsquo;s an innocent but gloriously bawdy vulgarity turning the turbines.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/skinny-family-comedy-needs-flesh/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/skinny-family-comedy-needs-flesh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern twist on some old-fashioned horseplay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Farce must be played ruthlessly, with the characters concentrating with great seriousness on what they need to do from moment to moment as chaos overwhelms them. In this sense it doesn&rsquo;t much matter what the farce is about, as long as they are deeply involved in it. That earnest commitment to absurd developments is what makes it so funny, as it is with this delicious production by Sarah Giles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/modern-twist-on-some-old-fashioned-horseplay/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/modern-twist-on-some-old-fashioned-horseplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emma’s perfect match]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early summer of last year, on the Wiltshire set of the new adaptation of Jane Austen&rsquo;s Emma, something strange happened.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emmas-perfect-match/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:09:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emmas-perfect-match/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daryl Braithwaite and more perform at Fire Fight Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conrad Sewell, Daryl Braithwaite and Pete Murray were among the acts who performed at Fire Fight Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/daryl-braithwaite-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 05:31:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/daryl-braithwaite-and-more-perform-at-fire-fight-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is child’s play for Mailman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deborah Mailman has heard of the old&nbsp;showbiz adage to &ldquo;never work with&nbsp;children or animals&rdquo; &mdash; but she doesn&rsquo;t believe in it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/happiness-is-childs-play-for-mailman/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:31:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/happiness-is-childs-play-for-mailman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Director: ‘Hollywood’s gone reboot mad’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood has just about run out of ideas and we are doomed to watch an endless series of reboots, remakes and adaptations of books and comics.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/director-hollywoods-gone-reboot-mad/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:31:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/director-hollywoods-gone-reboot-mad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villains we love to hate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Joker might be the toast of Tinseltown after Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at the Oscars but he&rsquo;s not the only villain we love to hate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/villains-we-love-to-hate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:16:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/villains-we-love-to-hate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood’s gone reboot mad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood has just about run out of ideas and we are doomed to watch an endless series of reboots, remakes and adaptations of books and comics.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywoods-gone-reboot-mad/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:16:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywoods-gone-reboot-mad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness child’s play for Mailman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deborah Mailman has heard of the old&nbsp;showbiz adage to &ldquo;never work with&nbsp;children or animals&rdquo; &mdash; but she doesn&rsquo;t believe in it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/happiness-childs-play-for-mailman/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:16:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/happiness-childs-play-for-mailman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The name’s Norton…]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Norton is in a pub in London, chatting away happily, wearing an unmissable yellow shirt. Long hair flops over his face and he is more rugged than he usually appears on screen: textbook dashing. &ldquo;I can sit in a pub and nobody bothers me,&rdquo; he says, beaming. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t imagine what it&rsquo;s like to be Tom Cruise. I think I would hate it.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-names-norton/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:21:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-names-norton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I was hiding in plain sight’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jennifer Byrne, your time starts now. What is your specialist subject? Horses Through the Ages... The Novels of Ian McEwan... no, I would say Skating on Thin Ice Without Falling Over. I can tell you about the origins of the hominids, or polar bear stats, but I have no profound knowledge of anything much. I love the reflected glow of the brainboxes who come on Mastermind.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:21:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partnership to put poetry on the pages]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.&rdquo; So quipped Robert Frost, the celebrated American bard of roads less travelled and yellow woods.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/partnership-to-put-poetry-on-the-pages/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:54:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/partnership-to-put-poetry-on-the-pages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit cartoon Bluey barks again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few Australian television programs are so hotly anticipated as the second season of Bluey, the hit cartoon centred on a family of four blue heelers that celebrates childhood curiosity and preschool-age imaginative play.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hit-cartoon-bluey-barks-again/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:14:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hit-cartoon-bluey-barks-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pass the: Rode NT-USB Mini]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getting a decent quality microphone to work with phones, tablets and laptops can be frustrating. You need the right cables and this can be complicated. Do I need a TRS or TRRS plug? Can I convert from XLR to USB?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-rode-nt-usb-mini/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:02:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-rode-nt-usb-mini/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polanski row forces out film board]]></title><description><![CDATA[The entire board of the Cesar Academy, which awards France&rsquo;s equivalent of the Oscars, has resigned two weeks before its gala ceremony after more than 200 actors, producers, directors and movie personalities demanded &ldquo;profound reform&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/polanski-row-forces-out-film-board/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:26:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/polanski-row-forces-out-film-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live again in Haiti]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Zombi Child, writer-director Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) explores a story of the seen and the unseen, a double narrative that&rsquo;s a compelling investigation of genre and tone, a story of voodoo and colonialism, female desire and identity, sharply constructed and haunting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/to-live-again-in-haiti/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/to-live-again-in-haiti/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sporting legend]]></title><description><![CDATA[It feels strange calling you Greig. What&rsquo;s the ratio of people who call you by your real name and by HG Nelson?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-sporting-legend/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-sporting-legend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth of country music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-truth-of-country-music/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-truth-of-country-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temples of the imagination]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week I chatted to the new Australian Children&rsquo;s Laureate, Sydney writer Ursula Dubosarsky, author of more than 60 children&rsquo;s books, at least one of which remains on the newly adulted teen bookshelf at home: Too Many Elephants in This House. Dubosarsky, pictured below with her dog Argus (more on him soon), has taken the baton from Morris Gleitzman. Her theme is Read for Your Life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/temples-of-the-imagination/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/temples-of-the-imagination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shaded by the genius of Rees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Brisbane, upstairs in the city&rsquo;s imposing Town Hall, has two quite different exhibitions, one of which runs for another month and the other through to May. The conjunction of the two shows is fortuitous, but it turns out to be more &shy;instructive than one might have anticipated, one illustrating absolute clarity of focus and the other a general confusion about both the means and the ends of art.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shaded-by-the-genius-of-rees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shaded-by-the-genius-of-rees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another shark arm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/review-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, true Bluey]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nation&rsquo;s favourite children&rsquo;s program stars a family of blue heelers and, other than the fact that they can walk on their hind legs and talk, they&rsquo;re not particularly remarkable. They&rsquo;re just four dogs getting on with their lives while living in the suburbs of a cartoon city that looks very much like Brisbane, Queensland, &shy;Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hey-true-bluey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hey-true-bluey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion Babylon]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the evening of December 16, 1988, a fashion and performance extravaganza including fire-breathing unicyclists, tap dancers, film, video, and music took place at the Metro nightclub in Bourke Street, Melbourne. The event was called Fashion Babylon and the flyer for the evening promised &ldquo;brazen hussies, glamour pusses, spivs and bright sparks &hellip; rising stars, mischief-makers and the phenomenal dreams of groovy fashion designers implode onto the catwalk&rdquo;. The occasion was held]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fashion-babylon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fashion-babylon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtain closes — for now]]></title><description><![CDATA[After playing to more than 210,000 fans across six states in the past six weeks, Cold Chisel ended its national tour last weekend with two very wet shows at Sirromet Wines near Brisbane. For the Adelaide-born rock act, that might have been its very last stand, with the instruments now packed away and neither recording nor performing plans on the horizon. I was at the Saturday concert, which was my first &ndash; and probably last &ndash; chance to see the band in action. As a relative newcomer to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-closes-for-now/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtain-closes-for-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cli-fi: a disturbing new climate trend]]></title><description><![CDATA[The worst term in literary circles at the moment must be cli-fi. Referring to climate change &shy;novels, the term is a clunky version of sci-fi, sounds more like an airconditioner and has yet to produce many good books. But it also overshadows a more interesting genre that&rsquo;s sprung up in these angsty times.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cli-fi-a-disturbing-new-climate-trend/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cli-fi-a-disturbing-new-climate-trend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kyle and Jackie O Show interview with MKR judge Colin Fassnidge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mefaddi&rsquo;s comments come as MKR judge Colin Fassnidge blamed the incident for the once-unbeatable cooking show&rsquo;s plummeting ratings. In an interview with The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Thursday, Fassnidge said: &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re getting crucified for a couple of years ago, where we had a little incident where Sonya and Hadil &ndash; remember when they had the walk out &ndash; got kicked off the show and the drama went through the roof. A lot of people got turned off since then]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-kyle-and-jackie-o-show-interview-with-mkr-judge-colin-fassnidge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:35:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-kyle-and-jackie-o-show-interview-with-mkr-judge-colin-fassnidge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Queen’s new singer fare in Brisbane?]]></title><description><![CDATA[REVIEW: Queen and Adam Lambert Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Thursday, February 13, 2020]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-did-queens-new-singer-fare-in-brisbane/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:05:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-did-queens-new-singer-fare-in-brisbane/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera singer born to bad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teddy Tahu Rhodes was born to be bad.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-opera-singer-born-to-bad/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:51:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-opera-singer-born-to-bad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance Monkey sets new record … this time, in US]]></title><description><![CDATA[After spending the latter half of last year watching her breakthrough song smash just about every record in the domestic pop history books, Australian singer-songwriter Toni Watson continues a slow ascent up the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-sets-new-record-this-time-in-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:53:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-sets-new-record-this-time-in-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’m just like you … I’m a Freddie fan’]]></title><description><![CDATA[REVIEW: Queen and Adam Lambert Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Thursday, February 13, 2020]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/im-just-like-you-im-a-freddie-fan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:52:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/im-just-like-you-im-a-freddie-fan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portman Oscar cape ‘a fraud’]]></title><description><![CDATA[US actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan has dismissed as a &ldquo;fraud&rdquo; Natalie Portman&rsquo;s Oscar dress embroidered with the names of female filmmakers overlooked for best director nominations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portman-oscar-cape-a-fraud/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:16:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portman-oscar-cape-a-fraud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mitchell Butel is about to roll out the first play of his first season as artistic director of State Theatre Company South Australia, and already the company is putting him to work. Dance Nation, a surreal comedy by Clare Barron, is the season opener and Butel has a role in it as dance teacher to a troupe of 13-year-old girls and one boy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-with-the-show/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:16:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-with-the-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance Monkey climbs Billboard Hot 100 chart]]></title><description><![CDATA[After spending the latter half of last year watching her breakthrough song smash just about every record in the domestic pop history books, Australian singer-songwriter Toni Watson continues a slow ascent up the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-climbs-billboard-hot-100-chart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:16:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-climbs-billboard-hot-100-chart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agent provocateur]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mitchell Butel is about to roll out the first play of his first season as artistic director of State Theatre Company South Australia, and already the company is putting him to work. Dance Nation, a surreal comedy by Clare Barron, is the season opener and Butel has a role in it as dance teacher to a troupe of 13-year-old girls and one boy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/agent-provocateur/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:43:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/agent-provocateur/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Good Place for philosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A thousand great comedies, from Much Ado About Nothing to Annie Hall, start with characters whose flaws are making them miserable. The genius of The Good Place, the philosophical sitcom whose final season is streaming on Netflix, is to make this self-inflicted torture an explicit part of its set-up &mdash; indeed, of the structure of its universe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-good-place-for-philosophy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:19:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-good-place-for-philosophy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance Monkey climbs to five on Billboard Hot 100 chart]]></title><description><![CDATA[After spending the latter half of last year watching her breakthrough song smash just about every record in the domestic pop history books, Australian singer-songwriter Toni Watson continues a slow ascent up the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-climbs-to-five-on-billboard-hot-100-chart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:03:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dance-monkey-climbs-to-five-on-billboard-hot-100-chart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible Man: Cult horror gets a modern update]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leigh Whannell uses a surpris&shy;ingly domestic image to describe his latest movie. The Invisible Man is a new take on the science &shy;fiction horror classic but Whannell talks about wanting the film to be &ldquo;like a boiling kettle, building and building until it starts to shriek&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/invisible-man-cult-horror-gets-a-modern-update/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:37:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/invisible-man-cult-horror-gets-a-modern-update/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When what you can’t see really can hurt you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leigh Whannell uses a surpris&shy;ingly domestic image to describe his latest movie. The Invisible Man is a new take on the science &shy;fiction horror classic but Whannell talks about wanting the film to be &ldquo;like a boiling kettle, building and building until it starts to shriek&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-what-you-cant-see-really-can-hurt-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:15:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-what-you-cant-see-really-can-hurt-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilde work enters Murphy’s lore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choreographer Graeme Murphy is wild about Wilde: &ldquo;Poetry of the way he writes is really a sister product of dance. There&rsquo;s something lyrical.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wilde-work-enters-murphys-lore/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:32:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wilde-work-enters-murphys-lore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Van Gogh painting not for peasants]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting once considered a dreary landscape that sold for &pound;4 is being offered for &pound;13m ($25m) after it was identified as a work by Vincent van Gogh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/van-gogh-painting-not-for-peasants/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:47:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/van-gogh-painting-not-for-peasants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissident artist boycotts protest show]]></title><description><![CDATA[A prominent Chinese artist is boycotting a Sydney exhibition devoted to the Hong Kong democracy movement after organisers sent mixed messages about the inflammatory nature of his work.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dissident-artist-boycotts-protest-show/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:47:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dissident-artist-boycotts-protest-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories that sing in the mother tongue]]></title><description><![CDATA[It only has taken 67 years, but at last the Perth Festival has, in Iain Grandage, a director who was reared in the city.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stories-that-sing-in-the-mother-tongue/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:33:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stories-that-sing-in-the-mother-tongue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aboriginal language meets classical music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perth artist Roma Yibiyung Winmar admits she is a bigger fan of country and western than she is of classical music, and has found that getting to grips with Beethoven is a bit like learning a foreign language.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aboriginal-language-meets-classical-music/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:33:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aboriginal-language-meets-classical-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultural tourism at the heart of regional recovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creativity connects us, especially in times of uncertainty and emergency. And as the impact of Australia&rsquo;s bushfire crisis continues, arts and creativity will be crucial to the recovery of our communities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultural-tourism-at-the-heart-of-regional-recovery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:04:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultural-tourism-at-the-heart-of-regional-recovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Is he there or not?’: a horror legend revived]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leigh Whannell uses a surpris&shy;ingly domestic image to describe his latest movie. The Invisible Man is a new take on the science &shy;fiction horror classic but Whannell talks about wanting the film to be &ldquo;like a boiling kettle, building and building until it starts to shriek&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/is-he-there-or-not-a-horror-legend-revived/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:56:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/is-he-there-or-not-a-horror-legend-revived/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quartet leaves an awed silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[This performance by four fine jazz musicians had so much going for it that a large audience, including this reviewer, was left speechless. The venue had excellent acoustics, the sound balance courtesy of the celebrated Ross A&rsquo;hern was faultless, and the musicians played beautifully.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quartet-leaves-an-awed-silence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:43:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quartet-leaves-an-awed-silence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pairing of twin musical milestones]]></title><description><![CDATA[If anything is going to put into perspective this year&rsquo;s Australian Chamber Orchestra commemoration of three decades under Richard Tognetti&rsquo;s command, a record of sorts in Australian orchestral history, it is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven: a towering figure in the Western art music pantheon whose name alone secures an enthusiastic audience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pairing-of-twin-musical-milestones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:43:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pairing-of-twin-musical-milestones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooding as Faust should be]]></title><description><![CDATA[This latest revival of David McVicar&rsquo;s 2004 production of Gounod&rsquo;s Faust reaffirmed its enduring appeal and recaptured its thoughtful insights. A dark brooding ambience was cast across all five acts, enhanced by the atmospheric spotlight and shadow-dominated lighting designs. Revival director Shane Placentino re-created McVicar&rsquo;s finely judged sense of pace while the subversive versions of the Act IV Soldiers Chorus and the Act V dance sequence still packed a powerful, ironic p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brooding-as-faust-should-be/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:43:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brooding-as-faust-should-be/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fleeing an unseen gaslighter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leigh Whannell uses a surpris&shy;ingly domestic image to describe his latest movie. The Invisible Man is a new take on the science &shy;fiction horror classic but Whannell talks about wanting the film to be &ldquo;like a boiling kettle, building and building until it starts to shriek&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fleeing-an-unseen-gaslighter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:43:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fleeing-an-unseen-gaslighter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finely balanced quartet leaves an awed silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[This performance by four fine jazz musicians had so much going for it that a large audience, including this reviewer, was left speechless. The venue had excellent acoustics, the sound balance courtesy of the celebrated Ross A&rsquo;hern was faultless, and the musicians played beautifully.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/finely-balanced-quartet-leaves-an-awed-silence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:43:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/finely-balanced-quartet-leaves-an-awed-silence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooding, shadowy, as Faust should be]]></title><description><![CDATA[This latest revival of David McVicar&rsquo;s 2004 production of Gounod&rsquo;s Faust reaffirmed its enduring appeal and recaptured its thoughtful insights. A dark brooding ambience was cast across all five acts, enhanced by the atmospheric spotlight and shadow-dominated lighting designs. Revival director Shane Placentino re-created McVicar&rsquo;s finely judged sense of pace while the subversive versions of the Act IV Soldiers Chorus and the Act V dance sequence still packed a powerful, ironic p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brooding-shadowy-as-faust-should-be/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:19:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/brooding-shadowy-as-faust-should-be/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACO schedule marks Tognetti, Beethoven milestones]]></title><description><![CDATA[If anything is going to put into perspective this year&rsquo;s Australian Chamber Orchestra commemoration of three decades under Richard Tognetti&rsquo;s command, a record of sorts in Australian orchestral history, it is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven: a towering figure in the Western art music pantheon whose name alone secures an enthusiastic audience.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aco-schedule-marks-tognetti-beethoven-milestones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:21:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aco-schedule-marks-tognetti-beethoven-milestones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children’s Laureate sings digital tune]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dog who answers the door at the Sydney home of the new Australian Children&rsquo;s Laureate will put fear into the hearts of young readers. Not for his temperament &mdash; he&rsquo;s a sweet, white 13-year-old Japanese Spitz &mdash; but for his name. He is called after Argos, the faithful hound of mythical Greek hero Odysseus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/childrens-laureate-sings-digital-tune/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:23:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/childrens-laureate-sings-digital-tune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Let’s hope this isn’t an anomaly’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, it finally happened. A film not in the English language won the Academy Award for best picture. It only took 92 years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lets-hope-this-isnt-an-anomaly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:56:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lets-hope-this-isnt-an-anomaly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portman stands up for gender equality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes subtle swipes are the best swipes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portman-stands-up-for-gender-equality/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:46:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portman-stands-up-for-gender-equality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subversive satire rewrites Oscar history]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Thank you. I&rsquo;m ready to drink tonight.&rdquo; Having just won the Oscar for best international feature, Bong Joon-ho could have been forgiven for thinking his night had peaked.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/subversive-satire-rewrites-oscar-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:26:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/subversive-satire-rewrites-oscar-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar’s brave new world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, it finally happened. A film not in the English language won the Academy Award for best picture. It only took 92 years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-brave-new-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:30:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-brave-new-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parasite makes Oscars history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to our coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles where Parasite has made Oscars history as the first non-English language film to win best picture. Dern it: Read here how Margot Robbie was beaten out of an Oscar by Laura Dern. Your full list of the Oscar winners is here. Joaquin Phoenix used his best actor victory speech to implore viewers to rail against injustice. And Natalie Portman mad a powerful red carpet gender sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/parasite-makes-oscars-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:06:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/parasite-makes-oscars-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No so MeToo on London stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the earliest ages of cinema, the &ldquo;prostitute with a heart of gold&rdquo; has been a stock character in comedies, romances and dramas alike. Legendary producer Samuel Goldwyn is reputed to have roared: &ldquo;Get me a P with an H of G!&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-so-metoo-on-london-stage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:30:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-so-metoo-on-london-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to watch on TV, streaming and at the movies – February 10th – February 16th]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's what to watch highlights include To All the Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You, Richard Jewell and Emma.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-tv-streaming-and-at-the-movies-february-10th-february-16th/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:24:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/what-to-watch-on-tv-streaming-and-at-the-movies-february-10th-february-16th/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Thank you. I will drink until next morning’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to our coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles where Parasite has made Oscars history as the first non-English language film to win best picture. Dern it: Read here how Margot Robbie was beaten out of an Oscar by Laura Dern. Your full list of the Oscar winners is here. Joaquin Phoenix used his best actor victory speech to implore viewers to rail against injustice. And Natalie Portman mad a powerful red carpet gender sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:24:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Australian’s 2020 Oscars wrap up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian's Literary Editor Stephen Romei and Fashion Editor Glynis Traill-Nash wrap up the 2020 Oscars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-australians-2020-oscars-wrap-up/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:29:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-australians-2020-oscars-wrap-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’ve been cruel’: actor’s stirring speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joaquin Phoenix has won the best actor Academy Award for his role as a wanna-be-comedian destined to become a supervillain in Joker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-cruel-actors-stirring-speech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:32:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-cruel-actors-stirring-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Parasite becomes first foreign-language film to win best picture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parasite and Director Bong Joon Ho continued their stunning winner&rsquo;s streak, becoming the first foreign language film to ever win best picture.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-parasite-becomes-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:11:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-parasite-becomes-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Highlights, hilarious moments and big wins]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best speeches, most hilarious moments and big winners of the 2020 Oscars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-highlights-hilarious-moments-and-big-wins/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:11:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-highlights-hilarious-moments-and-big-wins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’ve been cruel’: actor’s emotional speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joaquin Phoenix has won the best actor Academy Award for his role as a wanna-be-comedian destined to become a supervillain in Joker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-cruel-actors-emotional-speech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:11:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-cruel-actors-emotional-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Thank you. I will drink until next morning’: Parasite rules Oscars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Dern it, Margot Robbie has been beaten out of an Oscar by Laura Dern. Read about it here. Your full list of the Oscar winners is here. And read about Natalie Portman&rsquo;s powerful gender statement here.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning-parasite-rules-oscars/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:49:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning-parasite-rules-oscars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’ve been selfish, cruel’: actor’s emotional speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joaquin Phoenix has won the best actor Academy Award for his role as a wanna-be-comedian destined to become a supervillain in Joker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-selfish-cruel-actors-emotional-speech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:49:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-selfish-cruel-actors-emotional-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Joaquin Phoenix’s emotional acceptance monologue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joaquin Phoenix used his platform at the Academy Awards to talk about a cause close to his heart.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-joaquin-phoenixs-emotional-acceptance-monologue/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:32:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-joaquin-phoenixs-emotional-acceptance-monologue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been selfish. But so many of you given me a second chance’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Dern it, Margot Robbie has been beaten out of an Oscar by Laura Dern. Read about it here. Your full list of the Oscar winners is here. And read about Natalie Portman&rsquo;s powerful gender statement here.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-selfish-but-so-many-of-you-given-me-a-second-chance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:32:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ive-been-selfish-but-so-many-of-you-given-me-a-second-chance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you. I will drink until next morning: Oscars upset]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Dern it, Margot Robbie has been beaten out of an Oscar by Laura Dern. Read about it here. Your full list of the Oscar winners is here. And read about Natalie Portman&rsquo;s powerful gender statement here.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning-oscars-upset/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:16:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/thank-you-i-will-drink-until-next-morning-oscars-upset/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Here To Make Friends podcast: Horrific dates]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Weir is joined by Carla Bignasca and Jana Hocking to talk about Married At First Sight and terrible dates.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-here-to-make-friends-podcast-horrific-dates/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:43:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-here-to-make-friends-podcast-horrific-dates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dern it: Robbie misses out on Oscar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hot favourite Laura Dern has trumped Australia&rsquo;s Margot Robbie for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards in Hollywood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dern-it-robbie-misses-out-on-oscar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:43:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dern-it-robbie-misses-out-on-oscar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars in ‘subtle’ protest over gender disparity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar winner Natalie Portman made the first political statement of the night on the 2020 Oscars red carpet &hellip; and she did it in Dior, no less.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-in-subtle-protest-over-gender-disparity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:04:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-in-subtle-protest-over-gender-disparity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars winners list]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best supporting actress]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-winners-list/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:48:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-winners-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Stars confused by Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ act]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eminem is back, performing his award-winning hit Lose Yourself at the 2020 Academy Awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-confused-by-eminems-lose-yourself-act/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:48:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-confused-by-eminems-lose-yourself-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dern it. Margot misses out on Oscar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dern-it-margot-misses-out-on-oscar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:48:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dern-it-margot-misses-out-on-oscar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig crack up the crowd]]></title><description><![CDATA[\Maya&nbsp;Rudolph and Kristen Wiig crack up the Academy Awards crowd with 'acting' bit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-maya-rudolph-and-kristen-wiig-crack-up-the-crowd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:26:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-maya-rudolph-and-kristen-wiig-crack-up-the-crowd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: and the winner is…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who took home the coveted golden statues at the 92nd Academy Awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-and-the-winner-is/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:26:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-and-the-winner-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portman’s powerful gender statement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portmans-powerful-gender-statement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:47:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/portmans-powerful-gender-statement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photos: Glitz, glamour on Oscars red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the glitz and glamour from the Red Carpet as the stars arrive for the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/photos-glitz-glamour-on-oscars-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:47:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/photos-glitz-glamour-on-oscars-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Chris Rock and Steve Martin’s hilarious opening monologue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comedians Chris Rock and Steve Martin may not technically be hosting the Oscars &mdash; but they killed it in a hilarious joint monologue.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-chris-rock-and-steve-martins-hilarious-opening-monologue/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:47:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-chris-rock-and-steve-martins-hilarious-opening-monologue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the winner is.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who took home the coveted golden statues at the 92nd Academy Awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-winner-is/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:47:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-winner-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Portman’s powerful; red carpet statement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The big stars are expected to hit the red carpet from 9.30am AEDT, while the awards ceremony commences at noon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-portmans-powerful-red-carpet-statement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:24:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-portmans-powerful-red-carpet-statement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Janelle Monae’s awkward opening performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janelle Monae&rsquo;s Academy Awards opener failed when she tried to get the crowd to join in.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-janelle-monaes-awkward-opening-performance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:24:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-janelle-monaes-awkward-opening-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Stars that stunned and shocked on the red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[These Hollywood stars stunned on the red carpet, but some didn&rsquo;t quite hit the mark.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-that-stunned-and-shocked-on-the-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:59:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-that-stunned-and-shocked-on-the-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Stars hit the red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The big stars are expected to hit the red carpet from 9.30am AEDT, while the awards ceremony commences at noon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-hit-the-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:36:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-stars-hit-the-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Best and worst of the red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stars have brought out their best&hellip; and worst frocks on the Academy Awards red carpet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-best-and-worst-of-the-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:37:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-best-and-worst-of-the-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: Red Carpet soaked after rain leaks through]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Oscars red carpet has barely started and rain is already leaking through and causing havoc!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-red-carpet-soaked-after-rain-leaks-through/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:51:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-red-carpet-soaked-after-rain-leaks-through/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the glitz, glamour from Oscars red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the glitz and glamour from the Red Carpet as the stars arrive for the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-the-glitz-glamour-from-oscars-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:51:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-the-glitz-glamour-from-oscars-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020 Red Carpet Photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the glitz and glamour from the Red Carpet as the stars arrive for the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-red-carpet-photos/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:07:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-red-carpet-photos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars 2020: predictions for all the big awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to live coverage of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony and red carpet from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Red carpet arrivals begin at 9.30am AEDT, with the awards ceremony from noon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-predictions-for-all-the-big-awards/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:09:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-2020-predictions-for-all-the-big-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noongar tongue an asset in retelling of Macbeth]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a heroic quality to Hecate, the Noongar-language version of Macbeth that has opened Iain Grandage&rsquo;s all-indigenous first week of the Perth Festival.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/noongar-tongue-an-asset-in-retelling-of-macbeth/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 07:09:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/noongar-tongue-an-asset-in-retelling-of-macbeth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour of Noongar tongue an asset in retelling of Macbeth]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a heroic quality to Hecate, the Noongar-language version of Macbeth that has opened Iain Grandage&rsquo;s all-indigenous first week of the Perth Festival.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/valour-of-noongar-tongue-an-asset-in-retelling-of-macbeth/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:44:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/valour-of-noongar-tongue-an-asset-in-retelling-of-macbeth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotional punch of Murphy gem]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman climbs, higher and higher, on a path made by the bodies of other dancers. Later she will descend and fall, but her head will be caught by an enigmatic figure in black.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emotional-punch-of-murphy-gem/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:44:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emotional-punch-of-murphy-gem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep pockets fuel a big picture hunt]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a single block of Sunset Boulevard, three looming billboards promote Netflix&rsquo;s The Irishman in quick succession. Local TV stations have run 30-minute infomercials featuring Robert De Niro and Marriage Story star Scarlett Johansson just before prime time. A week-long pop-up museum at the Four Seasons hotel memorialised Netflix&rsquo;s top awards contenders with a display of props and costumes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/deep-pockets-fuel-a-big-picture-hunt/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:44:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/deep-pockets-fuel-a-big-picture-hunt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classic drama now anachronistic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marta Dusseldorp is a worthy successor to Peggy Ashcroft and Vivien Leigh in the central role in this old play, but even a performer of her prodigious talent, skill and sensitivity cannot make it work in the 21st century.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/classic-drama-now-anachronistic/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:44:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/classic-drama-now-anachronistic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montaigne chosen for Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Montaigne will represent Australia at the Eurovision song contest to be held in the Netherlands in May.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/montaigne-chosen-for-australia/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:50:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/montaigne-chosen-for-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who’s best? It’s academic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Oscars are the strangest awards in the world. We speculate about them with endless fascination, we catch up with these films that may be headed for an Academy award but then we often forget what got which. Going back decades people might remember that although everyone won an Oscar for My Fair Lady in 1965, Audrey Hepburn did not because the award for best actress went to the original stage Eliza Doolittle, Julie Andrews, for Mary Poppins. But the lists of might-have-beens and should-have-be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/whos-best-its-academic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:15:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/whos-best-its-academic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were there too in 1917]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Mendes&rsquo;s film 1917 is expected to do well at the Academy Awards on Monday (AEDT). Its outstanding depiction of the Western Front has been acclaimed. The filmmakers&rsquo; pursuit of authenticity, &ldquo;getting it right&rdquo;, was painstaking.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/we-were-there-too-in-1917/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:15:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/we-were-there-too-in-1917/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Art is my first love’]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;re a legend of Australian stage and screen, but you have a lesser-known side hustle&hellip; Acting is a very good career if you can exist in it for years, and I have. But even bigger than acting, finally, has been art. I&rsquo;ve always loved to draw and I studied art seriously and I got better and better. It&rsquo;s my first love and my big love, above everything.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-is-my-first-love/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:15:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-is-my-first-love/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deal close for Friends reunion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Warner Bros is finalising deals with the cast of Friends for a reunion special that will &shy;likely be used to launch the HBO Max streaming service, the Wall Street Journal reports.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/deal-close-for-friends-reunion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:40:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/deal-close-for-friends-reunion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Oscar goes to…]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nominations for this year&rsquo;s Oscars have been out for weeks, but the backlash came quick and has hung around. The Academy has a knack for avoidable controversy, and this year is no exception.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-oscar-goes-to/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:28:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-oscar-goes-to/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Background Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ABC&rsquo;s Background Briefing program turns out remarkable investigative audio documentaries each week but still seems to fly under the radar with podcast listeners.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/background-briefing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:12:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/background-briefing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worst of Weinstein: the trial so far]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weeks of emotional testimony in court has dominated the Hollywood mogul's sexual assault trial.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/worst-of-weinstein-the-trial-so-far/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:32:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/worst-of-weinstein-the-trial-so-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of Glass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the past 14 years, British director Phelim McDermott has directed three operas composed by America&rsquo;s master of minimalism, Philip Glass. In fact, McDermott&rsquo;s Olivier Award-winning &shy;interpretation of Akhnaten, Glass&rsquo;s opera about the pharaoh who introduced monotheism to &shy;ancient Egypt, has just wowed critics and audiences at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Opera.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-heart-of-glass/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:02:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-heart-of-glass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pass the … flip phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[2020 already is shaping up as the year of the morphing display. Screens on phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Fold, Royole Flexpai and Huawei Mate X are foldable, LG has a roll-up television, and now we are seeing flippable phones by Motorola and Samsung.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-flip-phone/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:02:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-flip-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beethoven’s big bash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xian Zhang learned to play the piano on an instrument built by her father. It was the mid-1970s in Beijing, the time of the Cultural Revolution when the Communist Party was stamping out the decadent influence of Western art. Classical music &mdash; the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven &mdash; was forbidden.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beethovens-big-bash/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:02:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beethovens-big-bash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul of the world around us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since 2011, NewSouth Publishing has compiled an annual anthology of the best Australian science writing. The publication coincides with the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing, which distributes $10,000 in prize money to the winning entries. Altogether it is an impressive level of support for a genre that is generally much neglected in a small market such as Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/soul-of-the-world-around-us/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:41:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/soul-of-the-world-around-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Hopper around America]]></title><description><![CDATA[The origins of this book are as curious as its content. A teenager in his penultimate year in a Washington, DC, high school, &ldquo;a perplexed soul&rdquo;, sees a newspaper reproduction of Edward Hopper&rsquo;s most famous painting, Night Hawks, and a light bulb goes on inside him.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-the-hopper-around-america/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:41:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-the-hopper-around-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of Spain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Buenos dias, everyone. I have returned from long service leave, the final two weeks of which were spent in Spain with my 14-year-old son. We spent most of the time in Barcelona, a wonderful, walkable city, with a side trip to Valencia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-joy-of-spain/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:26:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-joy-of-spain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to … Make a short film]]></title><description><![CDATA[In more than 23 years of directing Flickerfest I&rsquo;ve watched thousands of short films. What always stands out is an authentic voice and a story told with heart. Find a story that you care about, something that fires you up and inspires you to make the best film possible. A good place to start is your personal experience. You will need to engage with the characters instantly; you don&rsquo;t have the feature length to play with. It helps if you choose a moment in life to realise. Your charac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-make-a-short-film/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:26:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-make-a-short-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defying the horror of war]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have rarely seen a documentary film as powerful as For Sama. The viewer is transported into the Syrian city of Aleppo to experience the very nasty civil war at first hand and to meet the men, women and children who suffered the brutal siege of their neighbourhood by forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies. Structured, presumably in post-production, as a letter to filmmaker Waad al-Kateab&rsquo;s baby daughter, Sama, born in the middle of the siege, it is uncompromising in its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/defying-the-horror-of-war/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:26:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/defying-the-horror-of-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burned into memory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once the sky has lost its terracotta glow and our Twitter feeds have shifted their focus, the hardship faced by bushfire-affected communities often increases. We can&rsquo;t look away as tens of thousands of people across Australia step on to the long and often relentless road of bushfire recovery.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/burned-into-memory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:26:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/burned-into-memory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal magic absent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The critical consensus on Dolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr as the doctor who can converse with animals, is &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not as bad as Cats&rdquo;. That, however, is hardly purring with pride. It&rsquo;s more like noting that the Hunchback of Notre Dame is not as ugly as the Elephant Man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/animal-magic-absent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:26:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/animal-magic-absent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotlight: Felix Riebl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you still skateboard?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spotlight-felix-riebl/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spotlight-felix-riebl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Score to settle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gasping, staggering, his face a sweaty smear of clown cosmetics, Joaquin Phoenix stumbles into a public toilet. He has just shot three men dead on the subway, chasing the last and emptying his gun into the victim&rsquo;s back.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/score-to-settle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/score-to-settle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reader’s letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Green light]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/readers-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/readers-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much more than a Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was a minor miracle that the Olympic flame even reached Constantine Verevis, the 22-year-old Greek migrant who ran the first leg of the torch relay to Melbourne in 1956. Preparations for its 3900km journey from north Queensland to the Victorian capital had begun in earnest only five months before, the chief organiser was a full-time geology academic whose sports administration experience consisted of volunteering at his cricket and footy clubs, the support cars nearly didn&rsquo;t make it to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/much-more-than-a-games/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/much-more-than-a-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of custard]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s called custard and it&rsquo;s the goop that made Britain great. Eaten at Eton and the poor places besides, it has existed in one form or another since Roman times, but it was a brilliant Brummie who commercialised the product in 1837. Necessity was the mother of Alfred Bird&rsquo;s invention. His wife loved her custard but her delicate tummy couldn&rsquo;t cop yeast or eggs, so Bird switched them for corn flour and made a mint. He also invented baking powder, the clever clogs. Gaze lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/for-the-love-of-custard/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/for-the-love-of-custard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants an Oscar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everyone-wants-an-oscar/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everyone-wants-an-oscar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destinations of the mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the nameless protagonist of Eimear McBride&rsquo;s new novel, each hotel, strange or otherwise, feels the same. Checking in, she almost immediately begins burrowing inward: memories, desires, abstractions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/destinations-of-the-mind/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/destinations-of-the-mind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleak, enigmatic but always waving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stevie Smith (1902-71) occupies a curious position in literary culture. On the one hand, she is part of the popular consciousness. It is almost impossible to complete a secondary education in England, for instance, without studying her poem Not Waving but Drowning at least once. She is one of a few poets who have inspired a film, Stevie (1978), which stars Glenda Jackson as Smith and is based on the popular play by Hugh Whitemore. And &shy;critical appraisal of Smith is dauntingly wide- &shy;ran]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bleak-enigmatic-but-always-waving/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bleak-enigmatic-but-always-waving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the flames, this devastated life]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are driving to the northeast of Victoria to visit a friend and family devastated by the recent bushfires ravaging the landscape, transforming the land and people who inhabit it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/after-the-flames-this-devastated-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:02:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/after-the-flames-this-devastated-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: an art gallery like no other]]></title><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere is thick with humidity, like a midsummer Sydney night. Water sloshes around the ankles of gumbooted feet. Sounds echo around the bare concrete walls. A shaft of bright sunlight, from an open manhole 7m above, penetrates the gloom.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/revealed-an-art-gallery-like-no-other/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:19:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/revealed-an-art-gallery-like-no-other/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kirk Douglas: legend of a golden age]]></title><description><![CDATA[With marble-bust features and an intense on-screen delivery, Kirk Douglas was among the most commanding &mdash; and last surviving &mdash; stars of the golden age of Hollywood when big-screen epics were the dominant form of entertainment. He played boxers, reporters, detectives, soldiers, Vincent van Gogh, Doc Holliday and, in one of the most famous portrayals in Hollywood history, the gladiator and slave leader Spartacus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-legend-of-a-golden-age/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:13:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-legend-of-a-golden-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crusader for the highest standards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kirk Douglas, who died on &shy;Wednesday at the age of 103, was much more than a dynamic, intensel&shy;y physical actor with a wide range. Among the films for which he will be best remembered are Mark Robson&rsquo;s Champion (1949), in which he played an ambitious, unscrupulous boxer, and Billy Wilder&rsquo;s Ace in the Hole (1951), as an amoral journalist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/crusader-for-the-highest-standards/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:55:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/crusader-for-the-highest-standards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stella longlist ‘forces you to think’]]></title><description><![CDATA[If the world&rsquo;s a mess, writers &mdash; and their readers &mdash; are the winners. That&rsquo;s the theme that em&shy;erges from the longlist for the $50,000 Stella Prize for women&rsquo;s writing, announced in Melbourne on Thursday night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stella-longlist-forces-you-to-think/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:03:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stella-longlist-forces-you-to-think/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SSO kicks off with conga line of Latin rhythms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Latin music is nothing if not about rhythm, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra&rsquo;s percussion section turned it on for the orchestra&rsquo;s season opener at the Town Hall on Wednesday night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sso-kicks-off-with-conga-line-of-latin-rhythms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:16:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sso-kicks-off-with-conga-line-of-latin-rhythms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chiselled survivor from Hollywood’s golden age]]></title><description><![CDATA[KIRK DOUGLAS (ISSUR DANIELOVITCH DEMSKY)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chiselled-survivor-from-hollywoods-golden-age/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 02:38:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chiselled-survivor-from-hollywoods-golden-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dies age 103]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, who was one of the world&rsquo;s biggest movie stars in the 1950s, has died aged 103.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-legend-kirk-douglas-dies-age-103/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:19:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-legend-kirk-douglas-dies-age-103/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kirk Douglas dead, aged 103]]></title><description><![CDATA[US silver screen legend Kirk Douglas, the son of Jewish Russian immigrants who became one of Hollywood&rsquo;s biggest-ever stars, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 103.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-dead-aged-103/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:55:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-dead-aged-103/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kirk Douglas: A life on the screen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The actor was one of the last stars of the film industry&rsquo;s Golden Age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-a-life-on-the-screen/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:55:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kirk-douglas-a-life-on-the-screen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touring is no goldmine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The performing arts market has come to occupy a central place in the cycle of transactions in live theatre, music and dance around the world. Once, the idea of the arts participating in trade fairs would have been anathema. Gradually, they have become the norm for almost any company or even individual wanting to secure a place on the international scene.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/touring-is-no-goldmine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:06:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/touring-is-no-goldmine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the winner is … who?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For fans of quirky sci-fi flicks, monster movies and art-house classics alike, it was the highlight of the BAFTA awards ceremony. Midway through, it was announced that in the auditorium was &ldquo;one of the greatest actors of our generation&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-winner-is-who/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:24:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/and-the-winner-is-who/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodation with living history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney is one of the city&rsquo;s most handsome colonial buildings, an example of early Georgian architecture designed by convict architect Francis Greenway. Its classical proportions and arches mirror those of St James&rsquo; Church opposite, another of Greenway&rsquo;s contributions to the historic precinct of Macquarie Street.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/accommodation-with-living-history/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:24:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/accommodation-with-living-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[parasite04 And the winner is … who?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For fans of quirky sci-fi flicks, monster movies and art-house classics alike, it was the highlight of the BAFTA awards ceremony. Midway through, it was announced that in the auditorium was &ldquo;one of the greatest actors of our generation&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/parasite04-and-the-winner-is-who/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:48:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/parasite04-and-the-winner-is-who/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An accommodation with living history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney is one of the city&rsquo;s most handsome colonial buildings, an example of early Georgian architecture designed by convict architect Francis Greenway. Its classical proportions and arches mirror those of St James&rsquo; Church opposite, another of Greenway&rsquo;s contributions to the historic precinct of Macquarie Street.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/an-accommodation-with-living-history/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:24:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/an-accommodation-with-living-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[January 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, please check dates closer to opening. A key to abbreviations is at the end of the listings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/january-2020/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:40:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/january-2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim and Missy carry a soulful tune]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no small thing for an &shy;acclaimed singer-songwriter to ask another acclaimed singer-songwriter to record a song that&rsquo;s &shy;already been written, performed and captured on film as an emotional moment midway through a television miniseries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tim-and-missy-carry-a-soulful-tune/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:23:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tim-and-missy-carry-a-soulful-tune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appeal in $2m Olsen brawl]]></title><description><![CDATA[The step daughter of Australian artist John Olsen has launched an appeal against a scathing Supreme Court judgment that found she had preyed upon her dying mother to &ldquo;gift&rdquo; her with more than $2.2 million just weeks before she died.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/appeal-in-2m-olsen-brawl/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:23:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/appeal-in-2m-olsen-brawl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtains for Shanghai Ballet’s tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shanghai Ballet has postponed a tour to Brisbane in March following global fears about corona&shy;virus and restrictions on travel to Australia from China.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtains-for-shanghai-ballets-tour/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:43:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/curtains-for-shanghai-ballets-tour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missy gives voice to Tim’s journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the closing credits of Upright, songwriter and actor Tim Minchin was struck by the idea of &shy;repeating a song that he had sung earlier in the eight-part television series, which is centred on two misfits thrown together by chance in the middle of the &shy;Australian desert on a quest to transport a piano from one side of the country to the other.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/missy-gives-voice-to-tims-journey/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:35:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/missy-gives-voice-to-tims-journey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dresser to the stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sandy Powell is not blase. The 59-year-old film industry powerhouse and pre-eminent costume designer (Gangs of New York, The Departed and The Favourite are all hers) is heading into the climax of this year&rsquo;s awards season with a BAFTA nod (she missed out to &shy;Little Women) and an Oscar nomination for The Irishman.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dresser-to-the-stars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:35:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dresser-to-the-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow pair plumb the depths]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discussing the plot of Nick Coyle&rsquo;s play The Feather in the Web is as pointless as trying to nut out the motivations of the comet that took out the dinosaurs. There&rsquo;s plenty happening &mdash; action and pinballing interaction &mdash; but it&rsquo;s the flash and the bang you&rsquo;re gonna remember, if you survive the blast. Coyle&rsquo;s characters are clueless, shallow, venal. They don&rsquo;t know themselves and they don&rsquo;t care to know themselves. We recognise them, vaguely,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shallow-pair-plumb-the-depths/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:19:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shallow-pair-plumb-the-depths/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How burial plotters put Dickens in his place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens devotees will gather at Westminster Abbey in June to mark the 150th anniver&shy;sary of the author&rsquo;s death by laying a wreath by the simple stone that marks his final resting place.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-burial-plotters-put-dickens-in-his-place/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:19:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-burial-plotters-put-dickens-in-his-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadway blockbuster heading to silver screen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hamilton, the blockbuster Broadway musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda about American founding father Alexander Hamilton, will be brought to the big screen next year by Disney.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/broadway-blockbuster-heading-to-silver-screen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:19:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/broadway-blockbuster-heading-to-silver-screen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the most difficult actors?]]></title><description><![CDATA[They have made a career of entertaining us, but they have also made life for those working with them hell.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/who-are-the-most-difficult-actors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:37:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/who-are-the-most-difficult-actors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencer’s hilarious pool fail]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Melbourne influencer has shared the hilarious moment she dropped her phone while trying to shoot content.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/influencers-hilarious-pool-fail/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 23:06:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/influencers-hilarious-pool-fail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakira and Lopez raise the roof]]></title><description><![CDATA[Their presence alone lit up the &shy;stadium. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, the first Latin duo to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, took the stage in Miami with an exuberant, seductive display of cultural empowerment that echoed across the globe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shakira-and-lopez-raise-the-roof/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:32:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shakira-and-lopez-raise-the-roof/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grants must be seen to be above reproach]]></title><description><![CDATA[Much of Australia&rsquo;s cultural life depends on a redistribution of public funds. State museums and galleries, and groups such as theatre companies and string quartets, all rely to varying degrees on funding from government in the form of grants. It&rsquo;s a kind of secular cultural patronage that in earlier times was the privilege of princes and archbishops.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grants-must-be-seen-to-be-above-reproach/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:13:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grants-must-be-seen-to-be-above-reproach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phoenix rises to Oscar favouritism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Movie awards ceremonies perform many functions, and one of them is the scrutiny they bring to bear on the film industry as a whole: what kinds of movies are made, and what films and filmmakers are valued.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/phoenix-rises-to-oscar-favouritism/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:56:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/phoenix-rises-to-oscar-favouritism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music makes up for loss of authenticity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since its genesis as a Melbourne block party 15 years ago, St &shy;Jerome&rsquo;s Laneway Festival has cultivated a reputation for authenticity, founded on the ethos of &shy;intimate gigs set in unique, interesting spaces.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/music-makes-up-for-loss-of-authenticity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:56:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/music-makes-up-for-loss-of-authenticity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Bowl LIV: Chiefs win in thriller victory over 49ers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Chiefs secured a miraculous comeback after a touchdown that was impossible to rule on because of bad camera work, but it was the half time performances that stole the show!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/super-bowl-liv-chiefs-win-in-thriller-victory-over-49ers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:17:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/super-bowl-liv-chiefs-win-in-thriller-victory-over-49ers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis final serves up ratings win for Nine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Open mens final secured a national ratings win for Nine on Sunday as more Australians tuned in to watch the blockbuster men&rsquo;s tennis final than any other program on Sunday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tennis-final-serves-up-ratings-win-for-nine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 04:22:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tennis-final-serves-up-ratings-win-for-nine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kate got the green memo, but many missed it]]></title><description><![CDATA[How green is my red carpet? Not quite as verdant as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts would have hoped, apparently.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-got-the-green-memo-but-many-missed-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 04:22:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-got-the-green-memo-but-many-missed-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2020 BAFTA Awards red carpet photographs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stars were on the red carpet for the 2020 BAFTAs ... but it was the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who stole the show.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2020-bafta-awards-red-carpet-photographs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:49:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2020-bafta-awards-red-carpet-photographs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kate got the BAFTAs green carpet memo, many missed it]]></title><description><![CDATA[How green is my red carpet? Not quite as verdant as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts would have hoped, apparently.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-got-the-baftas-green-carpet-memo-many-missed-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:34:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kate-got-the-baftas-green-carpet-memo-many-missed-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Bowl LIV: J-Lo’s insane pole dancing performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez has brought the stadium down during her insane half time show performance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/super-bowl-liv-j-los-insane-pole-dancing-performance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:27:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/super-bowl-liv-j-los-insane-pole-dancing-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LISTEN: Amber Heard admits to ‘hitting’ ex-husband Johnny Depp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amber Heard admits to 'hitting' Johnny Depp in an explosive audio confession from 2015.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/listen-amber-heard-admits-to-hitting-ex-husband-johnny-depp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:10:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/listen-amber-heard-admits-to-hitting-ex-husband-johnny-depp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m ashamed to say I’m part of the problem: Phoenix]]></title><description><![CDATA[The immersive World War I drama 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, was the big winner at this year&rsquo;s BAFTAs, with seven awards, including best picture and best director.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/im-ashamed-to-say-im-part-of-the-problem-phoenix/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:10:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/im-ashamed-to-say-im-part-of-the-problem-phoenix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer: Netflix documentary series Cheer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cheer shines a light on the tough world of cheerleading by following one of America&rsquo;s top performing college teams.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-netflix-documentary-series-cheer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:22:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-netflix-documentary-series-cheer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chefs, lovers, dancers: new test for ratings recipe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s free-to-air television networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, are betting wannabe chefs, reality stars looking for love and dancing B-grade celebrities will be a big hit with viewers in the critical first quarter of the new ratings year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chefs-lovers-dancers-new-test-for-ratings-recipe/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:31:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chefs-lovers-dancers-new-test-for-ratings-recipe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posthumous desire for immortality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the contents of a crate of love letters written by the most famous poet of the 20th century and sealed for the past half century were finally made available to researchers by Princeton University.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/posthumous-desire-for-immortality/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:05:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/posthumous-desire-for-immortality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laneway’s detour to the Domain]]></title><description><![CDATA[The past decade was a tumultuous period for Australian festivals, as established multi-city events such as the Big Day Out, Soundwave and Future Music all fell silent and left gaping holes in the summer schedules of young music fans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/laneways-detour-to-the-domain/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 11:19:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/laneways-detour-to-the-domain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A right royal mess]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s see if we can get our heads around this. The Royal Ballet felt it imperative to suspend British choreographer Liam Scarlett, its artist in residence, in August after allegations were made of sexual misconduct with students of the Royal Ballet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-right-royal-mess/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 08:06:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-right-royal-mess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macbeth, under native title]]></title><description><![CDATA[To hear Kylie Bracknell speak in Noongar would lead you to think she&rsquo;s known the language all her life. But the actress, director and now translator of Shakespeare&rsquo;s Macbeth into Noongar learned the language of her forebears with all the care and affection of a young adult.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/macbeth-under-native-title/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 06:51:53 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/macbeth-under-native-title/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pet Shop Boys hit new Hotspot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pet-shop-boys-hit-new-hotspot/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:42:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pet-shop-boys-hit-new-hotspot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alanis Morissette performs ‘Ironic’ with James Cordon for the new generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alanis Morissette performs a ver yspecial version of 'Ironic' with James Cordon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alanis-morissette-performs-ironic-with-james-cordon-for-the-new-generation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:57:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alanis-morissette-performs-ironic-with-james-cordon-for-the-new-generation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pass the … folding laptop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Devices with foldable screens are the flavour of the month. Huawei, Samsung and Royole already have phones that fold out into tablets. This week Motorola showcased its new Razr smartphone, which is a flip phone with a folding screen. Samsung has a foldable phone in the wings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-folding-laptop/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:17:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-folding-laptop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten doors down – and the discovery of a lifetime]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s go back, not only in time. Let&rsquo;s go back to a different Australia. It is Wednesday, January 20, 1993, and Robert Tickner &mdash; husband, father, federal minister in the Keating government &mdash; is standing on the Sydney Opera House steps, feeling &ldquo;strong enough to tow a boat&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ten-doors-down-and-the-discovery-of-a-lifetime/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:13:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ten-doors-down-and-the-discovery-of-a-lifetime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds of strings and the sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Tognetti is the artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and considered one of the world&rsquo;s best violinists. He grew up in Wollongong, and the draw of the ocean remains a huge part of his life, and his work.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sounds-of-strings-and-the-sea/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:13:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sounds-of-strings-and-the-sea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s so easy to overshare’]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;ve been doing Sydney breakfast radio with Brendan Jones for 15 years &ndash; that&rsquo;s a lot of off-the-cuff talk. What are the pitfalls? It would be so easy to overshare. A decision is made every second: &ldquo;Do I say it, don&rsquo;t I?&rdquo; There&rsquo;s an angel and a devil on each shoulder, that&rsquo;s for sure. Now that my boys [Liam and Jack] are older, I&rsquo;m well aware of the boundaries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/its-so-easy-to-overshare/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:13:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/its-so-easy-to-overshare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Del Gesu violin explained]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Tognetti plays the 1743 Guarneri del Gesu, one of the best violin's in the world, he explains what makes it extraordinary.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-del-gesu-violin-explained/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:13:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-del-gesu-violin-explained/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collision of legacy and grand redesigns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The daughter of celebrated Brisbane architect Robin Gibson has denounced a $150m plan to re&shy;develop one of her late father&rsquo;s signature buildings, saying it has been plagued by conflicts of interest and disrespect for his work.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/collision-of-legacy-and-grand-redesigns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:50:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/collision-of-legacy-and-grand-redesigns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing up funny side of science]]></title><description><![CDATA[A comic play about two scientists who discover an uncomfortable truth about human intelligence &mdash; that one part of society is brighter than the rest &mdash; has won a drama contest in which the audience votes for the winner.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playing-up-funny-side-of-science/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:18:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playing-up-funny-side-of-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survival: old friends and foes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survival-old-friends-and-foes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:06:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/survival-old-friends-and-foes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (rain seeking) life]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father didn&rsquo;t measure any rain the day I was born in December 1937. He may have not been there to measure it. I was being born 80km away in Adelaide. However, records show that no rain had fallen by 9am on that day at the other &shy;recording stations on the Fleurieu Peninsula.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-rain-seeking-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-rain-seeking-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last word: tennis]]></title><description><![CDATA[When two players hit a tennis ball at Melbourne&rsquo;s Rod Laver Arena, a small army is mobilised for their convenience. The chair umpire takes advice from eight or nine linesfolk who monitor the baselines, sidelines, service lines and centre service line. Their official job is to ensure shots are called correctly and points awarded accordingly; unofficially, they may be required to help the players absorb the pressure of the occasion, typically by acting as unflinching recipients of verbal abu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-last-word-tennis/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-last-word-tennis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full of surprises]]></title><description><![CDATA[The View from Somewhere: A Podcast About Journalism With A Purpose is certainly full of surprises. The project, hosted and written by US reporter Lewis Raven Wallace is a crowd-funded attempt to challenge long-held views on the nature of American media historyand fundamentally build a case that journalistic objectivity is inherently racist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/full-of-surprises/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/full-of-surprises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight ‘game’ called to account]]></title><description><![CDATA[Filipino boxer Carlo Magali beat to death Campbelltown contender Davey Browne in the 12th and final round of their fight at Ingleburn RSL in September 2015.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-game-called-to-account/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fight-game-called-to-account/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colour in the clandestine]]></title><description><![CDATA[SBS On Demand has some fine dramas dropping into its schedule over the next few weeks and it has managed to pick up The Little Drummer Girl, which, while it screened on Foxtel&rsquo;s BBC First a couple of years ago, will find a greater audience on what&rsquo;s still known as &ldquo;the free Netflix&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/colour-in-the-clandestine/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/colour-in-the-clandestine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billie Eilish wins everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last seven days of Billie Eilish&rsquo;s young life have been nothing short of extraordinary. On Monday, the 18-year-old US pop singer-songwriter took home five Grammy Awards from six nominations, including a clean sweep of the four major categories: album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist. She became only the second artist to manage that feat, following singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, who won the same four Grammys in 1981; her debut &mdash; When We A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billie-eilish-wins-everything/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billie-eilish-wins-everything/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adapting a novel for the stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[You start from a place of not knowing, of asking questions, asking the all-important &ldquo;why?&rdquo; and it helps you begin. You reimagine and visualise the novel from the page to the stage, without knowing how you&rsquo;re going to achieve it. In my family there are those of us who love to cook following a recipe, and those of us who hanker to make it up. Improvising can end in disaster, but being overly rigid can also ruin a great night in the kitchen. Adapting a novel for the stage require]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adapting-a-novel-for-the-stage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adapting-a-novel-for-the-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perilous path]]></title><description><![CDATA[I first saw Jean Seberg on screen in the (northern) summer of 1957 when I went to the cinema to see her first film, Otto Preminger&rsquo;s adaptation of Bernard Shaw&rsquo;s Saint Joan. The movie had been panned by the critics but I found the 17-year-old actor mesmerising in a difficult role.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-perilous-path/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-perilous-path/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best commercials of Super Bowl 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Super Bowl comes around, not only is there a big game of football, but big game ads full of celebs, many making fun of themselves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-best-commercials-of-super-bowl-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 04:46:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-best-commercials-of-super-bowl-2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuning up the surf]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, Bridget Cormack drops in on Richard Tognetti; if you&rsquo;re a surfer, you&rsquo;ll understand that&rsquo;s not considered a good thing. But&nbsp;Review&rsquo;s intrepid deputy editor, herself a surfer of some talent, recovers from accidentally pilfering the violinist&rsquo;s wave &mdash; the ocean&rsquo;s cardinal sin &mdash; with an illuminating interview with the Australian Chamber Orchestra leader.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tuning-up-the-surf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:22:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tuning-up-the-surf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designer builds a ‘factory of culture’]]></title><description><![CDATA[French designer Agnes&nbsp;b. dislikes the fashion world, of which she is one of the great survivors.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/designer-builds-a-factory-of-culture/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:22:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/designer-builds-a-factory-of-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big in India]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a chart published last year, a week in May 2019 was assessed for the maximum number of YouTube views, city by city, for any single music artist. Pune, in India, was third in the global list, registering almost 2.2 million daily views. The country had seven more placings in the top 10; the two remaining cities were Jakarta and Bangkok. No New York, Chicago, Sydney, Los Angeles or London. No Toronto, Berlin, Paris or Madrid. A chart measuring total YouTube views in the same week was dominated b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/big-in-india/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:22:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/big-in-india/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statues salute Year of the Rat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retro tin robots from the 1950s, Busby Berkeley&rsquo;s famous undulating geometric formations from the 1930s and Charlie Chaplin&rsquo;s 1930s Modern Times skit are a far cry from the tower of nine golden rats standing triumphantly on Circular Quay&rsquo;s foreshore, but for artist Claudia Chan Shaw, they provide the basis of her design.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/statues-salute-year-of-the-rat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:57:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/statues-salute-year-of-the-rat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queensland Ballet cuts ties over scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queensland Ballet has cut ties with renowned British choreographer Liam Scarlett and cancelled a Melbourne tour of his work after he was accused of sexual misconduct with students in England.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queensland-ballet-cuts-ties-over-scandal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:39:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queensland-ballet-cuts-ties-over-scandal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playwright scoops literary riches]]></title><description><![CDATA[A saga about civil unrest in Sri Lanka and a family&rsquo;s migration to Australia has scooped the nat&shy;ion&rsquo;s richest literary award, with Sydney playwright S. Shakthidharan taking home $125,000 from the Victorian Premier&rsquo;s Literary Awards for his play.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playwright-scoops-literary-riches/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:21:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/playwright-scoops-literary-riches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queensland Ballet cuts ties over sex scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queensland Ballet has cut ties with renowned British choreographer Liam Scarlett and cancelled a Melbourne tour of his work after he was accused of sexual misconduct with students in England.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queensland-ballet-cuts-ties-over-sex-scandal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:33:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queensland-ballet-cuts-ties-over-sex-scandal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New stage for autism’s challenges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Books began Adam Kelly&rsquo;s odyssey of discovery about his autism, but it was his desire to explore his life as a 23-year-old that has now taken him on to the stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-stage-for-autisms-challenges/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:33:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-stage-for-autisms-challenges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master curator, every waking hour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two things can be known in advance about Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Swiss curator, author and director of London&rsquo;s Serpentine Gallery. First, that he is an inveterate traveller and seems to be everywhere: London one day, Singapore the next, then New York. Second, he sleeps very little, and in the past has subjected himself to Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s regimen of getting more working hours out of the day by having 15-minute naps every three hours and not sleeping all night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/master-curator-every-waking-hour/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:33:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/master-curator-every-waking-hour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce and death bring rare release]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of the greatest private art collections in the US are heading to market in a potential $US1bn ($1.48bn) windfall of rare works by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century giants.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/divorce-and-death-bring-rare-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:35:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/divorce-and-death-bring-rare-release/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Film trailer: Like A Boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish star in comedy Like A Boss.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/film-trailer-like-a-boss/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:37:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/film-trailer-like-a-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellini the Italian auteur who created magical poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Via Veneto to ancient Rome, from circuses to fascist rallies, no one has captured the bel paese on screen in quite the same fashion as Federico Fellini. He was fascinated by the tumult of everyday life, as well as by the sound and the fury of a postwar Italy undergoing radical change.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fellini-the-italian-auteur-who-created-magical-poetry/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:43:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fellini-the-italian-auteur-who-created-magical-poetry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and lies and Seberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Benedict Andrews, Kristen Stewart has some distinctive qualities as an actress: &ldquo;As a performer, she works from somewhere quite raw. She will kind of throw herself at takes and she&rsquo;ll often pull herself up if she feels she&rsquo;s out of tune. She&rsquo;ll break a take, swearing and cussing like a sailor. She has an incredible truth barometer.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/truth-and-lies-and-seberg/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:26:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/truth-and-lies-and-seberg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubts over Witcher viewer numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it the biggest new television series or a niche hit buoyed by questionable statistics? Is the show a confusing jumble only a predisposed fan can love or a bold serving of fantasy that conjures a realm on par with Westeros?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/doubts-over-witcher-viewer-numbers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:11:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/doubts-over-witcher-viewer-numbers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bones about it, Otto’s claimed centre stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Otto the blue whale has been hanging about since his discovery in 1897 but now he&rsquo;s finally taken prime position in the reborn Western Australian Museum.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-bones-about-it-ottos-claimed-centre-stage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 04:38:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/no-bones-about-it-ottos-claimed-centre-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schitt’s Creek – Season Six – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trailer for the final season of the hilarious sitcom Schitt's Creek.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/schitts-creek-season-six-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:13:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/schitts-creek-season-six-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Museum coyly bares almost everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British Museum finds itself in an uncomfortable position: mounting an exhibition about Tantra, the ancient Indian philosophy, while arguing that it is not all about sex.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-museum-coyly-bares-almost-everything/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:35:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-museum-coyly-bares-almost-everything/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars schmooze at Oscars lunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[There were no red carpets, &shy;tuxedos or ball gowns, but Hollywood royalty stepped out on &shy;Monday, Los Angeles time, for a preview run of next month&rsquo;s Academy Awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-schmooze-at-oscars-lunch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:23:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stars-schmooze-at-oscars-lunch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost in dance, not missing a step]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joyful tribalism pervades the dance style of Hofesh Shechter. A wildly flailing mass of dancers is powered along by pulsating electronic music &mdash; as much Shechter&rsquo;s creation as the dance steps &mdash; that almost turns some of his shows into dubstep rock concerts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lost-in-dance-not-missing-a-step/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:34:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lost-in-dance-not-missing-a-step/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scores shed light on Bach revival]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story of how JS Bach&rsquo;s choral works all but sank into oblivion, only to be revived by another composer 80 years after his death, is one of the best-known &ldquo;rediscoveries&rdquo; in classical music.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/scores-shed-light-on-bach-revival/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:21:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/scores-shed-light-on-bach-revival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Museum coyly bares almost all, spreads its naughty bits for all to see]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British Museum finds itself in an uncomfortable position: mounting an exhibition about Tantra, the ancient Indian philosophy, while arguing that it is not all about sex.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-museum-coyly-bares-almost-all-spreads-its-naughty-bits-for-all-to-see/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:06:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-museum-coyly-bares-almost-all-spreads-its-naughty-bits-for-all-to-see/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billie Eilish on a Grammys roll]]></title><description><![CDATA[The anointing of Billie Eilish as one of the brightest lights in global pop music is complete after the 18-year-old American singer-songwriter swept the 62nd annual Grammy Awards to take home five awards from six nominations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billie-eilish-on-a-grammys-roll/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:07:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billie-eilish-on-a-grammys-roll/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plaudits flow for Ashkenazy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vladimir Ashkenazy&rsquo;s retirement from concert performance at the age of 82, announced earlier this month and effective immediately, has surprised and disappointed music lovers around the world &mdash; but it has also prompted memories of a superb musician and thoroughly decent man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plaudits-flow-for-ashkenazy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:22:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plaudits-flow-for-ashkenazy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tributes in ‘house that Kobe built’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two explosions occurred in the lead-up to the 62nd Grammy Awards, the US music industry&rsquo;s annual celebration of its brightest stars, loudest voices and highest achievers held in Los Angeles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tributes-in-house-that-kobe-built/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:44:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tributes-in-house-that-kobe-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plaudits flow in wake of Ashkenazy retirement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vladimir Ashkenazy&rsquo;s retirement from concert performance at the age of 82, announced earlier this month and effective immediately, has surprised and disappointed music lovers around the world &mdash; but it has also prompted memories of a superb musician and thoroughly decent man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plaudits-flow-in-wake-of-ashkenazy-retirement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:03:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/plaudits-flow-in-wake-of-ashkenazy-retirement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammys tribute in ‘house that Kobe built’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2020 Grammy Awards kicked off in tribute to basketball icon Kobe Bryant, who died hours before the show, with a touching, emotional performance led by host Alicia Keys.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grammys-tribute-in-house-that-kobe-built/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:02:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grammys-tribute-in-house-that-kobe-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammys begins under Kobe cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Lady Gaga and Beyonce have taken home early Grammys as the highest honours in the music industry kicked off under a cloud after the death basketball star Kobe Bryant.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grammys-begins-under-kobe-cloud/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:03:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/grammys-begins-under-kobe-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queens of country feel the love]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pair of beloved country women showed their strength and resilience at the Tamworth Country Music Festival on Saturday night, when singer-songwriter Felicity Urquhart won six Golden Guitar awards and 90-year-old Joy McKean received her due honours as a solo artist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queens-of-country-feel-the-love/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:15:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queens-of-country-feel-the-love/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knight to remember for two legends of Rock]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Crocodile Rock to Hanging Rock &mdash; Sir Elton John&rsquo;s farewell to his Australian fans took him to one of the nation&rsquo;s most spectacular and exclusive concert venues.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/knight-to-remember-for-two-legends-of-rock/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:15:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/knight-to-remember-for-two-legends-of-rock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singers enliven menacing vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[David McVicar&rsquo;s 2014 production of Don Giovanni refuses the seductions of the lecherous nobleman of the title. Instead it shows him as a callous criminal, rapist and murderer, who abuses his power and privilege.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/singers-enliven-menacing-vision/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:56:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/singers-enliven-menacing-vision/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharp insight into middle classes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freud reckoned love and work were the two cornerstones of identity, of &ldquo;humanness&rdquo;. I dare say his wife, Martha Bernays &mdash; who famously elevated cleanliness beyond godliness &mdash; could have added another corner to the floor plan: to be valued for one&rsquo;s love and work. Laura Wade&rsquo;s thorny new comedy Home, I&rsquo;m Darling conjures a fourth: to value yourself for loving toil.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sharp-insight-into-middle-classes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:40:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sharp-insight-into-middle-classes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Williamson back to his best]]></title><description><![CDATA[The title is ironic because this is one of the most toxic families David Williamson has ever created. Like Hannie Rayson&rsquo;s Two Brothers it addresses Australia&rsquo;s brutal treatment of refugees from the point of view of people who make decisions, on both sides.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/williamson-back-to-his-best/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:27:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/williamson-back-to-his-best/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To boldly go … again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The older Patrick Stewart gets, the more he wonders what he&rsquo;s doing. &ldquo;I used to do quite a lot of teaching at one time. I do less now because people want me to talk about acting and I&rsquo;m not sure I know any more how I do it,&rdquo; he says.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/to-boldly-go-again/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:12:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/to-boldly-go-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood star ‘never been prouder’]]></title><description><![CDATA[She&rsquo;s a Golden-Globe winning and Emmy and Oscar-nominated actor, but Rachel Griffiths has &ldquo;never been prouder&rdquo; than to be appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-star-never-been-prouder/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:56:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hollywood-star-never-been-prouder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felicity Urquhart gets a Golden glow]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian country music community was in full-throated support of Felicity Urquhart on Saturday night, when the singer-songwriter took home five Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/felicity-urquhart-gets-a-golden-glow/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:09:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/felicity-urquhart-gets-a-golden-glow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tame Impala’s wild ride]]></title><description><![CDATA[When more than 100,000 music fans gathered in the Californian desert last April for the biggest event on the American popular music calendar, an Australian act was one of three headliners alongside megastars Ariana Grande and Childish Gambino. For Saturday night&rsquo;s final performance at the 20th anniversary of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, out strode Kevin Parker, the &shy;Fremantle-based singer, songwriter, multi-&shy;instrumentalist, producer and recording engineer who embo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tame-impalas-wild-ride/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:12:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tame-impalas-wild-ride/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tame Impala on wild ride to success]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since he began recording and &shy;releasing music from a bedroom in a Perth share house more than a decade ago, Kevin Parker has slowly but surely become one of&nbsp;the country&rsquo;s most popular &shy;musicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tame-impala-on-wild-ride-to-success/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:04:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tame-impala-on-wild-ride-to-success/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden opportunity for fresh faces]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a considerable break with tradition, the biggest night on the Australian country music calendar will be co-hosted by three fresh faces when the Golden Guitar awards are held on Saturday night to conclude the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/golden-opportunity-for-fresh-faces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:04:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/golden-opportunity-for-fresh-faces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AFP did not probe Pascoe’s heritage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Federal Police did not take steps to establish whether acclaimed author Bruce Pascoe was indigenous when it assessed an allegation he had committed &ldquo;dishonesty offences&rdquo; by gaining a financial benefit from wrongly claiming to be Aboriginal.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/afp-did-not-probe-pascoes-heritage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:16:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/afp-did-not-probe-pascoes-heritage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Dark a bright new star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-the-dark-a-bright-new-star/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 06:39:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/in-the-dark-a-bright-new-star/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrapped around her finger]]></title><description><![CDATA[MY SPY (M)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wrapped-around-her-finger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 06:24:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wrapped-around-her-finger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Mingay’s Shrek make-up transformation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Timelapse shows how make-up artists transform actor Ben Mingay into character Shrek for Shrek The Musical.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ben-mingays-shrek-make-up-transformation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:52:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ben-mingays-shrek-make-up-transformation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last word: deplatforming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine you know this bloke, you&rsquo;ve known him this way or that for most of your life, and you really don&rsquo;t rate him. Imagine that, having observed this chap&rsquo;s capers over many years, you have formed an honest belief that he is sneaky, insincere, self-seeking and quite bereft of principle, scruple or ethic &mdash; that is, imagine he&rsquo;s a dick. Worse still, imagine you can hear in his unctuous earworms all the things that bug you about him. You don&rsquo;t like this fellow,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-last-word-deplatforming/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-last-word-deplatforming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interview: Siobhan Stagg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siobhan Stagg, 32, is an Australian soprano living in Berlin. She will perform soon at the Adelaide Festival. Her dream job growing up was to be a voiceover artist for Disney movies. She is still waiting for the call.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-interview-siobhan-stagg/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-interview-siobhan-stagg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a utopian tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[When William Gibson published his 2014 novel, The Peripheral, there were many &mdash; myself included &mdash; who were delighted to see him return to straight-up, unabashed science fiction. Gibson, the man usually credited with coining the term &ldquo;cyberspace&rdquo; and&nbsp;author of the seminal 1984 novel Neuromancer, hadn&rsquo;t ever really abandoned that space, of course. But in the three novels preceding The Peripheral &mdash; Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History &mdash;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-a-utopian-tale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/not-a-utopian-tale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicely done, Mister]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nicely-done-mister/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nicely-done-mister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little things …]]></title><description><![CDATA[How swiftly a reputation can change. Before Lydia Davis&rsquo;s short fiction was gathered in a single volume by America&rsquo;s Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint in 2009, she was admired in a cultish, writers&rsquo; writer sort of way. Her austere tales, stylistically inventive and often confessional in tone, could be up to seven, eight or nine pages long. Most of them were far shorter. One consists of a single sentence, including the title: &ldquo;Samuel Johnson is Indignant: that Scotland has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-little-things-/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-little-things-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chasing Cosby]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chasing Cosby is an odd mix of competence, clich&eacute; and unsuccessful experimentation. The podcast, an LA Times production hosted by journalist and author Nicole Weisensee Egan, steps through the abusive history of American comedian Bill Cosby. Egan released a book of the same title, on the same subject, last year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chasing-cosby/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chasing-cosby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A show of faith in the godless]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the opening scene of Ingmar Bergman&rsquo;s Winter Light (1963) a pastor performs the noon service in a local church before a handful of parishioners. Most of them do not look particularly enthusiastic, but the clergymanis confidence embodied: his sense of mission on full display on his face, his faith a sure thing. Over the next few hours, however, a religious crisis he must have been nursing for some time boils over, and by the afternoon service, there will be no trace left of the strong fa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-show-of-faith-in-the-godless/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-show-of-faith-in-the-godless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyler Gwozdz appearing on the 2019 season of the US Bachelorette (ABC)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyler Gwozdz received the first one-on-one date with Hannah Brown.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tyler-gwozdz-appearing-on-the-2019-season-of-the-us-bachelorette-abc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:10:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tyler-gwozdz-appearing-on-the-2019-season-of-the-us-bachelorette-abc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claim against Bruce Pascoe dismissed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Federal Police has dismissed an allegation against acclaimed author and historian Bruce Pascoe that he&nbsp;had benefited financially from wrongly claiming to be &shy;indigenous.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claim-against-bruce-pascoe-dismissed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:04:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claim-against-bruce-pascoe-dismissed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Town pays silent tribute to Stradivari]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are not known for being quiet, either at home or on the streets, but for one entire month the residents of the Italian city of Cremona took a vow of silence. Roads were closed and everyone promised not to shout.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/town-pays-silent-tribute-to-stradivari/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:06:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/town-pays-silent-tribute-to-stradivari/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claim against Pascoe dismissed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Federal Police has dismissed an allegation against acclaimed author and historian Bruce Pascoe that he&nbsp;had benefited financially from wrongly claiming to be &shy;indigenous.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claim-against-pascoe-dismissed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:32:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/claim-against-pascoe-dismissed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stellar: Miranda Tapsell fashion 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[Behind the scenes with Miranda Tapsell for Stellar's January 26 2020 fashion feature.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stellar-miranda-tapsell-fashion-2020/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:32:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stellar-miranda-tapsell-fashion-2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By George! Prince as cartoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new cartoon series featuring the royal family as seen through the eyes of Prince &shy;George is to be launched on HBO Max.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/by-george-prince-as-cartoon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:30:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/by-george-prince-as-cartoon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Gentle Python’ Jones a giant of comedy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The members of Monty Python&rsquo;s Flying Circus were known as &ldquo;the Beatles of comedy&rdquo; and just like the Fab Four they could never really leave the group, even when it was disbanded.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gentle-python-jones-a-giant-of-comedy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:14:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gentle-python-jones-a-giant-of-comedy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Hanks shines as Mr Rogers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighbourhood-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:25:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighbourhood-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Reid rips into Karl Stefanovic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The feud between Richard Reid and Karl Stefanovic was revealed on KIIS FM.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/richard-reid-rips-into-karl-stefanovic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:20:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/richard-reid-rips-into-karl-stefanovic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift: Miss Americana trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift's Netflix Original Documentary 'Miss Americana' will be out on January 31, and gives a rare insight into the pop star's life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taylor-swift-miss-americana-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:48:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taylor-swift-miss-americana-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monty Python star Terry Jones dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terry Jones, a founding member of the anarchic Monty Python troupe who was hailed by colleagues as &ldquo;the complete Renaissance comedian&rdquo; and &ldquo;a man of endless enthusiasms,&rdquo; has died at 77 after suffering from dementia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/monty-python-star-terry-jones-dies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:32:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/monty-python-star-terry-jones-dies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novel way to champion love of books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg says businesses should &ldquo;move fast and break things&rdquo;. Thousands of irritating young men and women in hoodies have heeded his advice.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/novel-way-to-champion-love-of-books/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:09:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/novel-way-to-champion-love-of-books/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[’Stop claiming indigenous ancestry’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania has intervened in the debate over author Bruce Pascoe, saying it does not believe he has indigenous ancestry and should stop claiming he does.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stop-claiming-indigenous-ancestry/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:00:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stop-claiming-indigenous-ancestry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abdel-Magied gets $20k and a Paris stint]]></title><description><![CDATA[Outspoken Australian author Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been awarded a $20,000 grant and a six month residency at a Paris artists&rsquo; studio from the Australia Council.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/abdel-magied-gets-20k-and-a-paris-stint/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:59:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/abdel-magied-gets-20k-and-a-paris-stint/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ozzy rocked by Parkinson’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Sabbath frontman and reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson&rsquo;s disease.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ozzy-rocked-by-parkinsons/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:14:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ozzy-rocked-by-parkinsons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simultaneous subplots keep audience on toes]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the mid 1990s, there was a flood of indie movies written and directed by women &mdash; sexy rom-coms and romantic dramas &mdash; in which the lesbian leads weren&rsquo;t psycho killers or the victims of psycho killers, unprecedented in Basic Instinct-era Hollywood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/simultaneous-subplots-keep-audience-on-toes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:07:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/simultaneous-subplots-keep-audience-on-toes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House prepped for renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rollcall of artists and attractions appearing at the Sydney Opera House this month is nothing if not eclectic. Playing in the Concert Hall are the circus show Cirque Stratosphere, a family tribute to Gurrumul Yunupingu called Bunggul, and a concert with Italian ambient composer Ludovico Einaudi.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/house-prepped-for-renovation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:56:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/house-prepped-for-renovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden age of sacred choral hits]]></title><description><![CDATA[MUSIC]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/golden-age-of-sacred-choral-hits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:56:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/golden-age-of-sacred-choral-hits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuckwell seized fame by the horn]]></title><description><![CDATA[As an orchestral horn player Barry Tuckwell enjoyed a dizzying rise, moving rapidly from Melbourne and Sydney to Manchester, Bournemouth and London.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tuckwell-seized-fame-by-the-horn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:53:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tuckwell-seized-fame-by-the-horn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafka’s Ape: who is the beast?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bar has been set high in the first week of Perth&rsquo;s Fringe World with a solo show from South Africa that leaves you transfixed and a tad traumatised.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kafkas-ape-who-is-the-beast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:53:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kafkas-ape-who-is-the-beast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On board Air Mona’s wild ride]]></title><description><![CDATA[A purple-sequined vulva in stilettos is sashaying down the aisle of a passenger jet as it reaches its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. An air hostess &mdash; arms and legs wrapped around the pilot, who has briefly left the cockpit &mdash; starts belting out the epic Carmen aria Habanera over the in-flight PA while a drag queen wearing an oxygen mask saunters seductively up the aisle and stops at my seat. She produces a small bottle and sprays mist in my face: &ldquo;Close those Bette Davis eyes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-board-air-monas-wild-ride/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:10:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/on-board-air-monas-wild-ride/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild ride at Mona Foma’s flight of fancy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A purple-sequined vulva in stilettos is sashaying down the aisle of a passenger jet as it reaches its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. An air hostess &mdash; arms and legs wrapped around the pilot, who has briefly left the cockpit &mdash; starts belting out the epic Carmen aria Habanera over the in-flight PA while a drag queen wearing an oxygen mask saunters seductively up the aisle and stops at my seat. She produces a small bottle and sprays mist in my face: &ldquo;Close those Bette Davis eyes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wild-ride-at-mona-fomas-flight-of-fancy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:42:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wild-ride-at-mona-fomas-flight-of-fancy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fund their new life?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever since the Sussexes announced their departure from the royal family, speculation about their future has been rife.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-will-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-fund-their-new-life/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:10:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-will-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-fund-their-new-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Mitzevich puts art in a wider frame]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past 30 years, National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich has been committed to prioritising art edu&shy;cation and learning new ways to share a national collection that tran&shy;scends traditional boundaries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nick-mitzevich-puts-art-in-a-wider-frame/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nick-mitzevich-puts-art-in-a-wider-frame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life’s work brings Joy to country]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first Golden Guitar award winner in Australian country music history will be honoured with a concert in recognition of her life&rsquo;s work as a singer-&shy;songwriter on Wednesday, a week after celebrating her 90th birthday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lifes-work-brings-joy-to-country/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:35:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lifes-work-brings-joy-to-country/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Director puts art in a wider frame]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past 30 years, National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich has been committed to prioritising art edu&shy;cation and learning new ways to share a national collection that tran&shy;scends traditional boundaries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/director-puts-art-in-a-wider-frame/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:35:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/director-puts-art-in-a-wider-frame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mona Foma’s flight of fancy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A purple-sequined vulva in stilettos is sashaying down the aisle of a passenger jet as it reaches its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. An air hostess &mdash; arms and legs wrapped around the pilot, who has briefly left the cockpit &mdash; starts belting out the epic Carmen aria Habanera over the in-flight PA while a drag queen wearing an oxygen mask saunters seductively up the aisle and stops at my seat. She produces a small bottle and sprays mist in my face: &ldquo;Close those Bette Davis eyes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mona-fomas-flight-of-fancy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:30:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mona-fomas-flight-of-fancy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long road for headbanging headliners]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the final month of last year, Parkway Drive did something it had never managed to do before: the Byron Bay band headlined an Australian music festival.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/long-road-for-headbanging-headliners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:16:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/long-road-for-headbanging-headliners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meghan and Harry: What will be their next moves?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever since the Sussexes announced their departure from the royal family, speculation about their future has been rife.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-harry-what-will-be-their-next-moves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 05:44:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/meghan-and-harry-what-will-be-their-next-moves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer – Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez]]></title><description><![CDATA[A three part Netflix documentary about the life of ex-NFL player Aaron Hernandez.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-killer-inside-the-mind-of-aaron-hernandez/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:27:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-killer-inside-the-mind-of-aaron-hernandez/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitzy knew Tom Williams was heading into the jungle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fitzy plays a voicemail Tom Williams left him before entering the I'm A Celeb jungle.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fitzy-knew-tom-williams-was-heading-into-the-jungle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:13:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fitzy-knew-tom-williams-was-heading-into-the-jungle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer: Avenue 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[HBO releases new trailer for Avenue 5.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-avenue-5/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 01:44:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-avenue-5/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adelaide Fringe Festival is back in 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adelaide Fringe is an annual open-access arts festival run over four weeks in Adelaide, South Australia during February and March.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adelaide-fringe-festival-is-back-in-2020/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:59:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/adelaide-fringe-festival-is-back-in-2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on the money on red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[While men have held the power in film and television, they have played second fiddle to women on the awards red carpet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/men-on-the-money-on-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:32:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/men-on-the-money-on-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guild win for a South Korean Parasite]]></title><description><![CDATA[The critically adored South Korean drama Parasite won top honours at the Screen Actors Guild Awards as Margot Robbie and other Australian nominees went home empty-handed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/guild-win-for-a-south-korean-parasite/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:32:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/guild-win-for-a-south-korean-parasite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indie musicals on song at awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big international shows including West Side Story, School of Rock and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have failed to impress Sydney&rsquo;s theatre critics, who have handed out their awards for musical theatre almost exclusively to independent productions at the tiny Hayes Theatre.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indie-musicals-on-song-at-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:15:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/indie-musicals-on-song-at-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing our charred communities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our nation is still reeling from widespread bushfire attacks on our communities and natural environment. The devastation of life, property, livelihood and cultural heritage already has been monumental, yet we are only halfway through summer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/healing-our-charred-communities/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:55:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/healing-our-charred-communities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discerning eye of nation’s curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Mollison developed a passion for art at a young age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/discerning-eye-of-nations-curator/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:55:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/discerning-eye-of-nations-curator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discerning eye of a nation’s curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Mollison developed a passion for art at a young age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-discerning-eye-of-a-nations-curator/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:40:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-discerning-eye-of-a-nations-curator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector who worked tirelessly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when James Mollison was director of the National Gallery of Victoria, he rang unexpectedly to tell me that he thought my review of the Rupert Bunny retrospective had been too harsh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/collector-who-worked-tirelessly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:38:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/collector-who-worked-tirelessly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultural workers can roll up sleeves to heal our charred communities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our nation is still reeling from widespread bushfire attacks on our communities and natural environment. The devastation of life, property, livelihood and cultural heritage already has been monumental, yet we are only halfway through summer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultural-workers-can-roll-up-sleeves-to-heal-our-charred-communities/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:07:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cultural-workers-can-roll-up-sleeves-to-heal-our-charred-communities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[End of the tux as actors take awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Screen Actor&rsquo;s Guild Awards are underway, with high fashion on display on the red carpet and award winners indicating contendors for the Oscars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/end-of-the-tux-as-actors-take-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:53:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/end-of-the-tux-as-actors-take-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MAFS contestant Dave Cannon uses TV wife’s toothbrush to clean toilet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Married at First Sight contestant Dave Cannon uses the toothbrush of TV wife Hayley Vernon to clean skid marks from the toilet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mafs-contestant-dave-cannon-uses-tv-wifes-toothbrush-to-clean-toilet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 02:52:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mafs-contestant-dave-cannon-uses-tv-wifes-toothbrush-to-clean-toilet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAG 2020 Awards red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood&rsquo;s best dressed at the Screen Actor&rsquo;s Guild Awards 2020 on the red carpet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sag-2020-awards-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 02:05:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sag-2020-awards-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Screen Actors Guild hands out awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Kidman will have two chances to win Sunday night at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards, but the award show&rsquo;s ability to forecast the Oscars looks cloudy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/screen-actors-guild-hands-out-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:06:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/screen-actors-guild-hands-out-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAG: Ahead of Oscars, Screen Actors Guild to hand out awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Kidman will have two chances to win Sunday night at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards, but the award show&rsquo;s ability to forecast the Oscars looks cloudy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sag-ahead-of-oscars-screen-actors-guild-to-hand-out-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:37:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sag-ahead-of-oscars-screen-actors-guild-to-hand-out-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champion of Blue Poles dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian art world has lost one of its pioneering figures, &shy;National Gallery of Australia founding director James Molli&shy;son, who has died, aged 88.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/champion-of-blue-poles-dies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:03:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/champion-of-blue-poles-dies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow Wiggle Page on the mend]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Greg Page in hospital recovering from a heart attack, it was left to fellow Wiggles original Paul Paddick to don the fam&shy;ous yellow skivvy as the group performed its second bushfire &shy;relief concert at the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yellow-wiggle-page-on-the-mend/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:21:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yellow-wiggle-page-on-the-mend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sunny Bran Nue Dae]]></title><description><![CDATA[You would have to be remarkably hard of heart not to respond to the warmth and generosity of Bran Nue Dae, which floats blissfully &mdash; although it must be said not entirely coherently &mdash; on a sea of gorgeous melodies and large-spirited characters.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-sunny-bran-nue-dae/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:25:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-sunny-bran-nue-dae/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlotte defends the talent of influencers (I’m A Celeb)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm a Celeb contestant Charlotte defence the talents needed to be a successful influencer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlotte-defends-the-talent-of-influencers-im-a-celeb/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:28:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlotte-defends-the-talent-of-influencers-im-a-celeb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making the clap worthy of applause]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sex Education, the globally popular high school comedy, is back and, like the clap, it is even more eye-watering the second time around. Among the list of fresh carnal humiliations are a pupil whose semen tastes like kimchi, a wave of chlamydia hysteria (&ldquo;I read that I should rub bleach on my vagina,&rdquo; one victim wails) and a moment in a carpark that out-grosses anything in American Pie and the combined works of the Farrelly brothers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-the-clap-worthy-of-applause/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:00:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/making-the-clap-worthy-of-applause/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashkenazy’s surprise stage exit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vladimir Ashkenazy, a beloved figure in the music world as both pianist and conductor, has retired from giving performances with immediate effect but has not explained his sudden withdrawal from the concert stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ashkenazys-surprise-stage-exit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:00:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ashkenazys-surprise-stage-exit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harry and Meghan to give up royal titles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harry and Meghan will give up their royal titles and no longer receive public money as they split from the royal family.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harry-and-meghan-to-give-up-royal-titles/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:00:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/harry-and-meghan-to-give-up-royal-titles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony Field visits Yellow Wiggle Greg Page]]></title><description><![CDATA[An emotional Anthony Field outside Westmead Hospital today where ex Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page is being treated after collapsing on stage and going into cardiac arrest during a Bushfire Relief concert at Castle Hill RSL last night.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anthony-field-visits-yellow-wiggle-greg-page/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 04:58:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anthony-field-visits-yellow-wiggle-greg-page/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wiggles Paul Field visits Yellow Wiggle Greg Page]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wiggles Paul Field visits Yellow Wiggle Greg Page at Westmead hospital today after his cardiac arrest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wiggles-paul-field-visits-yellow-wiggle-greg-page/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 02:30:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/wiggles-paul-field-visits-yellow-wiggle-greg-page/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Aussie surfing got its big break]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Christmas Eve 1914, Hawaiian swimmer Duke Kahanamoku paddled out on a timber longboard at Sydney&rsquo;s Freshwater beach and changed the course of Australian culture. The Hawaiian&rsquo;s advertised public surfing displays, witnessed by thousands at the time, are widely regarded as having started the surfing revolution in Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-aussie-surfing-got-its-big-break/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:37:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-aussie-surfing-got-its-big-break/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow Wiggle Greg Page suffers cadiac arrest on stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a reunion at the bushfire relief concert, Greg Page suffered a cardiac arrest before collapsing side stage.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yellow-wiggle-greg-page-suffers-cadiac-arrest-on-stage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:48:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/yellow-wiggle-greg-page-suffers-cadiac-arrest-on-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ‘positive’ in discrimination]]></title><description><![CDATA[I see the Bruce Pascoe-Dark Emu story is turning into my story. He is alleged to be telling a story not his own, and to have profited &mdash; in the form of jobs, research grants and literary awards reserved for Aborigines &mdash; by claiming racial origins he does not have.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nothing-positive-in-discrimination/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:15:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/nothing-positive-in-discrimination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I was taken at three weeks’]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;ve composed a musical acknowledgment of country. Why sing it? Spoken acknowledgment of country is very important, but it has become a bit formulaic: everybody says the same thing. I have written sung versions for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and for the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. It makes sense, because song was the language of diplomacy for indigenous people.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-taken-at-three-weeks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:15:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/i-was-taken-at-three-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next-gen musos strike golden chord]]></title><description><![CDATA[For aspiring country musicians, there are few greater thrills than hearing intimate insights into the realities of life as a performing &shy;artist directly from the likes of Kasey Chambers, Travis Collins and Shane Nicholson.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/next-gen-musos-strike-golden-chord/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:58:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/next-gen-musos-strike-golden-chord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next-gen country musos strike a golden chord]]></title><description><![CDATA[For aspiring country musicians, there are few greater thrills than hearing intimate insights into the realities of life as a performing &shy;artist directly from the likes of Kasey Chambers, Travis Collins and Shane Nicholson.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/next-gen-country-musos-strike-a-golden-chord/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:44:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/next-gen-country-musos-strike-a-golden-chord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Kath’ takes a perfect turn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home, I&rsquo;m Darling is about being the perfect housewife. Do you see any parallels between the play and the type of housewife your character Kath Day Knight tried to be in Kath &amp; Kim?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kath-takes-a-perfect-turn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:29:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kath-takes-a-perfect-turn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[The popular new podcast, Blood Ties, tells the story of siblings Eleonore and Michael Richland, who are left to pick up the pieces after their parents&rsquo; private plane vanishes en route to a family Christmas vacation in the Caribbean.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/better-than-fiction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 09:28:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/better-than-fiction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New world of 2020 (tele)vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last year saw the remaining boundaries between television and film largely vanishing; 2019 was a defining time for the disruptive forces of streaming and at times we seemed swamped by clever and compelling stories that reflected who we were in so many different forms. Many were visually stunning. Genre conventions were inventively challenged, there were refreshingly cynical takes on the way we live and there were characters of wonderfully diverse racial, sexual and gender identities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-world-of-2020-television/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 07:23:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-world-of-2020-television/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watching paint dry helps spirit soar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watching-paint-dry-helps-spirit-soar/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:39:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/watching-paint-dry-helps-spirit-soar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (thieving) life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Confession: I nicked a mate&rsquo;s socks out of his top drawer. The crime occurred while house-sitting his place in Freo a couple of winters back. A nice warm pair of red Explorers that helped me through the cold months, but the pilfering played on my mind ever since.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-thieving-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-thieving-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women who put Fox on run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bombshell (M)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-women-who-put-fox-on-run/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-women-who-put-fox-on-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stunning second album]]></title><description><![CDATA[CLASSICAL]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stunning-second-album/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/stunning-second-album/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit of artistic rivalry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rivalries in art are as old as the history of art itself. Pliny recalls stories about Zeuxis and Parrhasius &mdash; of painted grapes that deceived birds or painted curtains that deceived even an artist &mdash; that later became staples of renaissance art theoretical and biographical writing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spirit-of-artistic-rivalry/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/spirit-of-artistic-rivalry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short and sweet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote about the popularity of very long podcasts, but what about the other end of the spectrum?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/short-and-sweet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/short-and-sweet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salute to the driven diplomat]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is one of the great American political biographies of recent years, an extraordinary work that captures the mercurial American diplomat at his inspiring best and appalling worst. Internationally, only Andrew Roberts&rsquo;s magnificent Churchill eclipses Packer&rsquo;s study of a remarkable figure in an extraordinary life. Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, whom Richard Holbrooke served well, perhaps put it best: &ldquo;I picture him like Gulliver tied down by Lilliputians.&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/salute-to-the-driven-diplomat/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/salute-to-the-driven-diplomat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Wave]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Christmas Eve 1914, Hawaiian swimmer Duke Kahanamoku paddled out on a timber longboard at Sydney&rsquo;s Freshwater beach and changed the course of Australian culture. The Hawaiian&rsquo;s advertised public surfing displays, witnessed by thousands at the time, are widely regarded as having started the surfing revolution in Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-wave/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/new-wave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud speaker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate Tempest blows in through the doors of her local pub in &shy;Lewisham, southeast London, her hair a tangle of sandy red curls, her right hand clutching the leash of a large hairy dog with eyes almost as piercingly blue as her own. She looks around, taking in the day-bright room with its long oak bar, grubby patterned carpet and up the back, on the way to the beer garden, a life-size cardboard cutout of Jimi Hendrix. She looks determined, and vulnerable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/loud-speaker/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/loud-speaker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fold my calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[We look at our phones up to 80 times a day, or every 12 minutes, according to a 2018 survey by Asurion, a tech support and insurance company. Often we stare with purpose &mdash; to check emails or scroll the news &mdash; but not always. We fill moments of silence by tapping through Twitter and Instagram stories or checking gossipy texts under the dinner table.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fold-my-calls/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fold-my-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bushfire relief]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the wake of the horrific bushfires experienced across the country in recent months, the Australian music community has responded in spectacular fashion by promptly booking a series of concerts geared at fundraising for those in need. The biggest show to date is Fire Fight Australia, to be held on Sunday, February 16, at ANZ Stadium in Sydney. This one was announced on Monday morning by promoter TEG Dainty and, by midday Tuesday, more than 70,000 people had jumped at the chance to see a line-u]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bushfire-relief/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:08:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bushfire-relief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History hangs in the rebalance]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 1857 watercolour by Conrad Martens hangs beside a 2008 bark by Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. A few steps away Tom Roberts shares space with Anatjari Tjampitjinpa and other Papunya artists from the early 1970s. Arthur Streeton is paired up with Micky of Ulladulla, an Aboriginal artist whose work also dates back to the late 19th century.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/history-hangs-in-the-rebalance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:10:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/history-hangs-in-the-rebalance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chief’s rethink on art placement]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Australia is breaking down the walls that separate art as it embarks on the first step towards a comprehensive rehang of its collection.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chiefs-rethink-on-art-placement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:27:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/chiefs-rethink-on-art-placement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridge to a new view of history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost 240 years ago, seven men wearing suits and ties gathered on the shores of Sydney Harbour as the hulking vessels of the First Fleet sailed by. Tasked with choosing how to respond to this event, Australia&rsquo;s first law men began to debate how to respond.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bridge-to-a-new-view-of-history/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:41:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bridge-to-a-new-view-of-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hilarious cure for the curse of piety]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Testament re-enacted in three short, sharp sections lasting a brisk 60 minutes? What&rsquo;s not to like in this fast-paced, time-poor world?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hilarious-cure-for-the-curse-of-piety/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 05:59:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hilarious-cure-for-the-curse-of-piety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fringe World boss vows to fill seats]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s hard to conjure a link between British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, Perth&rsquo;s Fringe World festival and its incoming chief executive Sharon Burgess. But Burgess made the link recently when she rallied her festival troops ahead of Fringe World&rsquo;s opening this weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fringe-world-boss-vows-to-fill-seats/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:05:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/fringe-world-boss-vows-to-fill-seats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This surfing life]]></title><description><![CDATA[These images are from Southern Swell, an exhibition that runs until February 2 at Hazelhurst Art Gallery at Gymea in Sydney&rsquo;s south.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-surfing-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:25:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-surfing-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Royal Family: Moments caught on camera reveal royal rift]]></title><description><![CDATA[The royals usually keep arguments behind closed doors, but there have been some telling moments caught on camera.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-royal-family-moments-caught-on-camera-reveal-royal-rift/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:25:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-royal-family-moments-caught-on-camera-reveal-royal-rift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Rabbit 2 – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Official trailer for Peter Rabbit 2, starring Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson - in cinemas March 19]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/peter-rabbit-2-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:39:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/peter-rabbit-2-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emma – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Official trailer for Emma, starring Anya Taylor Joy and Johnny Flynn.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emma-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:10:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emma-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Spy – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dave Bautista finds himself in his first action-comedy movie for children with My Spy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/my-spy-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:39:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/my-spy-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GO! – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A teen-focused story set in the world of go kart racing, the movie stars Richard Roxburgh, Dan Wyllie, Frances O&rsquo;Connor and William Lodder.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/go-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:39:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/go-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolittle – Trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr stars in Dolittle.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolittle-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:39:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dolittle-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlize Theron steps into Megyn Kelly’s shoes]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s strange to see Charlize Theron ill. This is the hard-as-nails South African who left behind a tragic childhood to win an Oscar for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlize-theron-steps-into-megyn-kellys-shoes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:19:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlize-theron-steps-into-megyn-kellys-shoes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song from the confessional]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even for an artist with a history of improvisation who thrives on tight deadlines, Amanda Palmer&rsquo;s newest project will demand that the US singer-songwriter exercises all of her creative muscles to come up with something fresh, compelling and true.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/song-from-the-confessional/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:38:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/song-from-the-confessional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eilish to sing new Bond theme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teen pop star Billie Eilish says she&rsquo;s honoured to have been chosen to write and record the theme song for the next James Bond film.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eilish-to-sing-new-bond-theme/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:23:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/eilish-to-sing-new-bond-theme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C-art and K-pop get their groove on]]></title><description><![CDATA[One is a music phenomenon adored by millions of young people. The other is frequently baffling, occasionally provocative &mdash; and in need of luring that fan base. Step forward one of the most unusual collaborations so far this century: Korean pop music and contemporary art. K-pop meets C-art, for short.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/c-art-and-k-pop-get-their-groove-on/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:26:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/c-art-and-k-pop-get-their-groove-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staring back at an abuse of power]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s strange to see Charlize Theron ill. This is the hard-as-nails South African who left behind a tragic childhood to win an Oscar for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/staring-back-at-an-abuse-of-power/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:12:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/staring-back-at-an-abuse-of-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six is summer’s smash hit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Olivia Ansell, Sydney Opera House&rsquo;s Head of Contemporary Performance, had already heard the smash single Don&rsquo;t Lose Your Head on Spotify when she was approached about the UK musical, Six.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/six-is-summers-smash-hit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:57:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/six-is-summers-smash-hit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war horse walks into a theatre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Assuming there were no technical hitches at Tuesday&rsquo;s premiere, this National Theatre production of War Horse is a much sparer version of the Australian cast production that toured the eastern state capitals in 2013. Despite its cast of 30, the British production has fewer moving parts and props, fewer stage and visual effects, and it dumps pencil animations and projections.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-war-horse-walks-into-a-theatre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:57:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-war-horse-walks-into-a-theatre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trailer: Sex Education Season 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trailer for the second season of Netflix series Sex Education]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-sex-education-season-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:14:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/trailer-sex-education-season-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince William shows off sign language skills to honour TV translator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Duke of Cambridge demonstrated his sign skills to praise TV interpreter Alex Duguid at Buckingham Palace.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-william-shows-off-sign-language-skills-to-honour-tv-translator/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:46:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-william-shows-off-sign-language-skills-to-honour-tv-translator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robbie Williams to perform at 2020 Melbourne F1 Grand Prix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Super star Robbie Williams will perform his greatest hits in an exclusive show at the Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix in March 2020.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/robbie-williams-to-perform-at-2020-melbourne-f1-grand-prix/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:04:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/robbie-williams-to-perform-at-2020-melbourne-f1-grand-prix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing With The Stars Cast announced]]></title><description><![CDATA[Channel 10 has revealed who will be competing for the crown on Dancing With The Stars in February.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-announced/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:41:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-announced/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscars drama as snubs split Tinseltown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was forced on to the defensive over the distinct lack of diversity among acting nominees. In response, its membership was opened to new entrants in a move its own leadership described as a &ldquo;historic action to increase diversity&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-drama-as-snubs-split-tinseltown/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:26:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/oscars-drama-as-snubs-split-tinseltown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarantino could be a winner, but Renee’s a shoo-in]]></title><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can safely predict with the Oscars is that there will be controversy. And this year, perhaps, there&rsquo;s one more safe bet for awards night:&nbsp;that Renee Zellweger will win best actress for her performance as Judy Garland in Judy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tarantino-could-be-a-winner-but-renees-a-shoo-in/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:12:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tarantino-could-be-a-winner-but-renees-a-shoo-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All systems Go! for drama stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the first plays William Lodder saw was a Chekhov adaptation that he attended with his dad. It was The Present, starring Richard Roxburgh and Cate Blanchett.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-systems-go-for-drama-stars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:56:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-systems-go-for-drama-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ryan lays into ex "wife" Davina Rankin (I&rsquo;m a Celeb)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryan Gallagher reflects on his MAFS experience - and it sounds like he still isn't over his "wife" Davina Rankin for "cheating" with Dean Wells. CREDIT: Network Ten]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ryan-lays-into-ex-wife-davina-rankin-irsquom-a-celeb/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:26:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ryan-lays-into-ex-wife-davina-rankin-irsquom-a-celeb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Gender, racial diversity disappoints’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Margot Robbie received her second Oscars nomination but the Academy Awards has come in for fresh criticism over a lack of diversity in nominations dominated by the comic villain film Joker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gender-racial-diversity-disappoints/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:23:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gender-racial-diversity-disappoints/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Gender, racial diversity disappointing’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Margot Robbie received her second Oscars nomination but the Academy Awards has come in for fresh criticism over a lack of diversity in nominations dominated by the comic villain film Joker.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gender-racial-diversity-disappointing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:19:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gender-racial-diversity-disappointing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2020 Oscar Nominations are here!]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Tom Hanks to Australia's own Margot Robbie, the Oscar nominations for 2020 dealt out some big Hollywood names.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2020-oscar-nominations-are-here/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:17:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2020-oscar-nominations-are-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people react to Meghan and Harry bombshell after royal crisis meeting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents of Windsor are divided over the best outcome of the Royal family talks to negotiate Prince Harry and Meghan&rsquo;s step down from &lsquo;senior royal&rsquo; duties.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-people-react-to-meghan-and-harry-bombshell-after-royal-crisis-meeting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:58:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/british-people-react-to-meghan-and-harry-bombshell-after-royal-crisis-meeting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robbie nabs an Oscar nomination]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Margot Robbie has received a best supporting actress nomination for her role in Bombshell at the 2020 Academy Awards to be handed out next month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/robbie-nabs-an-oscar-nomination/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:26:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/robbie-nabs-an-oscar-nomination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vinyl stack looks for NY transfer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every so often Bob George gets a call from a man of a certain age whose record collection has &shy;become out of hand.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/vinyl-stack-looks-for-ny-transfer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:05:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/vinyl-stack-looks-for-ny-transfer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Sydney’s summer of arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[STAGE]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-is-sydneys-summer-of-arts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:53:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-is-sydneys-summer-of-arts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Williams confronts his fear of snakes (Ten)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Williams confronts his fear of snakes in an I'm A Celebrity trial. CREDIT: Channel 10]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-williams-confronts-his-fear-of-snakes-ten/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:38:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tom-williams-confronts-his-fear-of-snakes-ten/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My community accepts me: Pascoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bruce Pascoe is hurt and mystified by those questioning his Aboriginality and referral of the claims to police, saying he has demonstrated his indigenous heritage to his community.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/my-community-accepts-me-pascoe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:08:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/my-community-accepts-me-pascoe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival scoring indigenous runs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wesley Enoch, whose fourth edition of the Sydney Festival started last week, is putting significant runs on the board with his program of indigenous stories, performers and ceremonies. More than in previous years, this festival has a critical mass of shows by indigenous artists in main-stage &shy;theatres and with high production values, and seems the fullest realisation to date of Enoch&rsquo;s programming ethos.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-scoring-indigenous-runs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:51:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-scoring-indigenous-runs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wedding’s contest of cultures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Ties is a collaboration between an Australian First Nations company and a Maori company, one that is so gleefully outrageous in tone and staging that sometimes it feels more like a contest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/weddings-contest-of-cultures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:23:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/weddings-contest-of-cultures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conductors in for the long haul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of Carlos Miguel Prieto&rsquo;s classmates from Princeton and Harvard Business School have built typical business careers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/conductors-in-for-the-long-haul/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:09:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/conductors-in-for-the-long-haul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Carmen gets it, and how]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Bell&rsquo;s 2016 Cuban-inspired take on Bizet&rsquo;s 1875 classic, Carmen, remains an entertaining and compelling spectacle. But where it really delivers is in mining the dramatic potential and emotional intensity of the opera&rsquo;s tragic love story.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-carmen-gets-it-and-how/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:54:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/this-carmen-gets-it-and-how/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics’ Choice Awards 2020: Stars shine on the red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another week, another awards ceremony in Hollywood and this time stars are gathering for the Critics Choice Awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/critics-choice-awards-2020-stars-shine-on-the-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:54:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/critics-choice-awards-2020-stars-shine-on-the-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billy Brownless, Dale Thomas talk on splits (Ten)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billy Brownless and Dale Thomas open up on painful relationship breakdowns. CREDIT: Channel 10]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billy-brownless-dale-thomas-talk-on-splits-ten/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:54:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/billy-brownless-dale-thomas-talk-on-splits-ten/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise at the movies]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is welcome news if you are looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle but cannot face the gym: settling down in front of a film could be just as beneficial.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exercise-at-the-movies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:57:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exercise-at-the-movies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betty’s back to tease and terrorise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pressure! Reg Livermore has allowed his fabled 1975 cabaret show Betty Blokk-Buster&rsquo;s Follies to be &ldquo;reimagined&rdquo;. Some of his original material is used virtually unchanged; a couple of songs are still in place. And the legend himself is there on opening night to see how Josh Quong Tart fares in updating the work that made Livermore a big, big star.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bettys-back-to-tease-and-terrorise/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:14:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/bettys-back-to-tease-and-terrorise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and discovery in drama of sporting limits]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1868 an all-Aboriginal cricket team from western Victoria travelled to England, the first overseas team to go there. The most talented player was Unaarrimin, Johnny Mullagh. Many people know this vaguely but not many know any details and that is what Geoffrey Atherden&rsquo;s carefully written, if sometimes overexplained, play addresses.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/truth-and-discovery-in-drama-of-sporting-limits/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:00:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/truth-and-discovery-in-drama-of-sporting-limits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart reassessment of past lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a hit. A palpable hit. SIX &mdash; which, by the way, earns every bit of its capital-letter swagger &mdash; is a tornado, a glitter bomb, a fabulous pop concert and an exhilarating her-story lesson of astonishing confidence, given the youth of its creators.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/smart-reassessment-of-past-lives/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:00:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/smart-reassessment-of-past-lives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TAKING A LINE FOR A WALK]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s about that time. You are probably starting to wish you hadn&rsquo;t decided to give up your more enjoyable vices on January 1. Well, let me help you. Why not give up giving things up? Instead of ditching delightful bad habits, take up an even more delightful one instead. Go right back to the drawing board and begin again this new(ish) year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taking-a-line-for-a-walk/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:44:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/taking-a-line-for-a-walk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emma Wiggle shows deaf kids how to dance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seven years after pulling on a colourful jersey and hopping into the Big Red Car, Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins will step out of character for the first time to trumpet a message as loudly as she can.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emma-wiggle-shows-deaf-kids-how-to-dance/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:02:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/emma-wiggle-shows-deaf-kids-how-to-dance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘He was 27 and had the world at his feet’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian actor and rising star Harry Hains has died in Los Angeles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/he-was-27-and-had-the-world-at-his-feet/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:22:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/he-was-27-and-had-the-world-at-his-feet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlotte and Ryan kiss on I’m a Celeb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Things are heating up between the two reality TV stars]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlotte-and-ryan-kiss-on-im-a-celeb/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:22:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/charlotte-and-ryan-kiss-on-im-a-celeb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big problem with ‘True’ Kelly tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Depictions of Australia&rsquo;s most notorious outlaw go back to the dawn of cinema. The Tait Brothers&rsquo; The Story of the Kelly Gang, filmed in 1906, was not only the first feature (generally considered to denote a film with a running time in excess of an hour) made in Australia but is believed to be the first feature made anywhere in the world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/big-problem-with-true-kelly-tale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:08:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/big-problem-with-true-kelly-tale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AFP eyes case of author’s identity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Federal Police is assessing an allegation that celeb&shy;rated author and historian Bruce Pascoe has benefited &shy;financially from wrongly claiming to be indigenous.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/afp-eyes-case-of-authors-identity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:33:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/afp-eyes-case-of-authors-identity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancer rises above taunts]]></title><description><![CDATA[When David McAllister went to his first ballet lesson as a seven-year-old, he had no idea it would launch an obsession that would span half a century and place him centre stage of the dance he loved.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dancer-rises-above-taunts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:07:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dancer-rises-above-taunts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage scientist in his element]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/teenage-scientist-in-his-element/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:11:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/teenage-scientist-in-his-element/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen of the hill]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a Wednesday night in October, the second annual Australian Women in Music Awards were held at the Brisbane Powerhouse, where a series of mostly early-career women got up and gratefully accepted their awards, and in the process gave some of the most touching and inspiring speeches heard at any music &shy;industry event anywhere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-of-the-hill/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:11:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/queen-of-the-hill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sobering effect of a dry argument]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2012, San Francisco health tech startup director Holly Whitaker, a &ldquo;cutthroat workaholic with a habit of f..king men in charge&rdquo;, was living out her generation&rsquo;s prescription for success. Her wardrobe was perfect and her &ldquo;arse was yoga tight&rdquo;. She had friends, lovers, a frantic social calendar. In her milieu, her addiction &mdash; to cigarettes, &shy;alcohol and marijuana &mdash; was so common as to be considered friendly. The bulimia, too. Each week, she spent up]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-sobering-effect-of-a-dry-argument/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 06:27:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-sobering-effect-of-a-dry-argument/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World’s most-streamed classical artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[On warm days in the arty Brera district of central Milan, in a cobbled alley set back from shops and whizzing traffic, the ethereal notes of a Steinway sometimes drift from the open shutters of a fourth-floor apartment whose buzzer has no nameplate, no clue as to the identity of its occupant. But the locals that gather outside to listen know that this floor, and the floor above it, is the home of Ludovico Einaudi. And if the piano is playing, the maestro is in.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/worlds-most-streamed-classical-artist/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:59:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/worlds-most-streamed-classical-artist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mentalist on dating and whisky]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;ve said that reading body language, establishing a connection and empathy are essential to your illusions. Are these skills hard to turn off in social situations?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-mentalist-on-dating-and-whisky/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:59:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-mentalist-on-dating-and-whisky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rotten time for Big Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s 80 years since the National Gallery of Victoria rejected a choice selection of Picassos, &shy;Matisses, Cezannes and sundry other bigwigs. Surveying the works and branding them &ldquo;putrid meat&rdquo;, NGV director JS MacDonald vowed to defend the citadel: &ldquo;If we take a part in refusing to populate our gallery with this filth, we shall render a service to Art.&rdquo; Maybe it was Modigliani&rsquo;s fetching full-frontal nude that outraged stuffy old MacDonald&rsquo;s sense of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rotten-time-for-big-apple/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/rotten-time-for-big-apple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pass the …]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung has unveiled a television that rotates between horizontal and vertical orientations that is basically a cultural statement for younger generations. In landscape mode the Samsung Sero is like any regular TV. You can watch free-to-air content and streamed media, and access TV apps such as Netflix and YouTube. However, with a single button press, the TV rotates 90 degrees into portrait mode. This vertical orientation isn&rsquo;t great for watching movies, as you&rsquo;ll get black bars at t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/pass-the-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never too old to play games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jumanji: The Next Level, the third instalment in the hit franchise based on Chris Van Allsburg&rsquo;s 1981 children&rsquo;s book, starts slowly.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/never-too-old-to-play-games/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/never-too-old-to-play-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to: Perform to children]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent a career performing to adults who are invariably off their faces.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-perform-to-children/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-perform-to-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing the mountains]]></title><description><![CDATA[On warm days in the arty Brera district of central Milan, in a cobbled alley set back from shops and whizzing traffic, the ethereal notes of a Steinway sometimes drift from the open shutters of a fourth-floor apartment whose buzzer has no nameplate, no clue as to the identity of its occupant. But the locals that gather outside to listen know that this floor, and the floor above it, is the home of Ludovico Einaudi. And if the piano is playing, the maestro is in.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hearing-the-mountains/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hearing-the-mountains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Exhilarating, nerve-wracking and inspirational’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1948 Alfred Hitchcock made a film called Rope in which he experimented by filming his story of two young killers in what appeared to be one continuous, uninterrupted shot. He was fooling the audience, because no camera could hold more than 10 minutes of film in those days, so he resorted to deception to disguise the editing process, but the result was effective nonetheless.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exhilarating-nerve-wracking-and-inspirational/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/exhilarating-nerve-wracking-and-inspirational/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast in a whole new light]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you look at the early work of a significant artist in past centuries, it may be formulaic and comparatively stiff, without the freedom that comes later with greater experience and understanding of the medium. Above all, it is likely to be closely modelled on the style of the master, repeating his painterly manner and habits as well as types and compositional solutions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cast-in-a-whole-new-light/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cast-in-a-whole-new-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black bird, white bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first Australian cricket team visited England in 1868. The great irony? &shy;England wasn&rsquo;t the &ldquo;motherland&rdquo; of any of the players.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/black-bird-white-bird/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/black-bird-white-bird/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful]]></title><description><![CDATA[You could easily assume that A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood would be a sentimental film. After all, it&rsquo;s about a life-changing &shy;encounter between a sceptical journalist and one of America&rsquo;s most popular children&rsquo;s TV personalities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-things-bright-and-beautiful/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:10:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/all-things-bright-and-beautiful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little American trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Little America is an anthology of immigrant stories from Apple TV+.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/little-american-trailer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:43:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/little-american-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound of a new cultural cringe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last June, more than 1000 students and staff from Melbourne University&rsquo;s Conservatorium of Music moved into their impressive new home, the $109m Ian &shy;Potter Southbank Centre.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-sound-of-a-new-cultural-cringe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:02:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-sound-of-a-new-cultural-cringe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Someone not so squeaky-clean’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Toni Watson took a big punt: she quit her Melbourne retail job and became a full-time busker. Living out of her van, &shy;writing music and performing on the main street of Byron Bay in NSW &mdash; to a mixture of applause and abuse &mdash; Watson resolved to keep busking until she was 50.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/someone-not-so-squeaky-clean/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:41:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/someone-not-so-squeaky-clean/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music history ‘our new cultural cringe’]]></title><description><![CDATA[University teaching of Australia&rsquo;s music history has become so &shy;tokenistic that many graduates lack a &ldquo;basic outline&rsquo;&rsquo; of our musical heritage, academics claim, with one former music school chief bemoaning the academy&rsquo;s ideological objections to music studies of &ldquo;dead white men&rsquo;&rsquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/music-history-our-new-cultural-cringe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:25:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/music-history-our-new-cultural-cringe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotye set tone for decade: ARIA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former busker known as Tones and I might be dominating music charts worldwide, but the decade belonged to another Australian artist with a song that was as catchy as it was successful.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gotye-set-tone-for-decade-aria/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:25:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/gotye-set-tone-for-decade-aria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Star Trek: Picard trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patrick Stewart steps back into Jean-Luc Picard's shoes in new Amazon Prime series.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/star-trek-picard-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:57:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/star-trek-picard-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franchise shaken, not stirred]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next James Bond film has already lost one director and is now on its second composer as producers of No Time to Die insist they have the final say.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/franchise-shaken-not-stirred/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:57:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/franchise-shaken-not-stirred/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The True History of the Kelly Gang trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Carey's book gets the big screen treatment from director Justin Kurzel.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:29:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything’s Gonna Be Okay trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Josh Thomas returns with a new TV series on Stan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everythings-gonna-be-okay-trailer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:14:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/everythings-gonna-be-okay-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling stories to live]]></title><description><![CDATA[THEATRE]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/telling-stories-to-live/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:59:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/telling-stories-to-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Kate Fischer to Tziporah Malkah: Former model’s colourful outbursts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former model Tziporah Malkah has come a long way since being engaged to billionaire James Packer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-kate-fischer-to-tziporah-malkah-former-models-colourful-outbursts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:45:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/from-kate-fischer-to-tziporah-malkah-former-models-colourful-outbursts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell announcement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released an extraordinary statement, effectively quitting as senior members of the Royal Family.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-bombshell-announcement/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:43:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-bombshell-announcement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatre-going soars in Victoria]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theatre attendance in Victoria has soared by 37 per cent in the past five years, the state&rsquo;s latest arts attendance&shy; survey reports, supportin&shy;g its position as &ldquo;the creative state&rdquo;.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/theatre-going-soars-in-victoria/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:16:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/theatre-going-soars-in-victoria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival lauds those stepping up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Organisers of Sydney&rsquo;s annual arts festival have determined to go ahead with a celebration of community and to &ldquo;lift the spirits&shy;&rdquo; when much of the country is suffering the danger and after&shy;math of the bushfire crisis.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-lauds-those-stepping-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:16:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-lauds-those-stepping-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket’s Black Cockatoos reborn]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1868, James &ldquo;Jimmy Mosquito&rdquo; Couzens escaped Victoria to NSW at first light and risked his life and freedom to tour England as part of the world&rsquo;s first Aboriginal cricket team. More than 150 years later, his extraordinary achievements still hold a special place in the life of his family.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/crickets-black-cockatoos-reborn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:00:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/crickets-black-cockatoos-reborn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War epic puts viewers on frontline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Mendes&rsquo;s epic First World War film, 1917, is based on the stories of his grandfather, Alfred Mendes, who fought on the Western Front from 1916-18. Born in Trinidad, Alfie Mendes signed up at the age of 19, trained as a signaller, fought at Passchendaele and was awarded the Military Medal for helping to rescue comrades left stranded in no man&rsquo;s land.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/war-epic-puts-viewers-on-frontline/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:58:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/war-epic-puts-viewers-on-frontline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prozac Nation author dies at 52]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Wurtzel, a memoirist who helped launch a cottage industry of personal storytelling with her 1994 bestseller, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, died on Tuesday in New York City. She was 52 and had advanced breast cancer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prozac-nation-author-dies-at-52/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:58:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prozac-nation-author-dies-at-52/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War epic 1917 puts viewers on frontline in compelling portrayal of trench horrors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Mendes&rsquo;s epic First World War film, 1917, is based on the stories of his grandfather, Alfred Mendes, who fought on the Western Front from 1916-18. Born in Trinidad, Alfie Mendes signed up at the age of 19, trained as a signaller, fought at Passchendaele and was awarded the Military Medal for helping to rescue comrades left stranded in no man&rsquo;s land.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/war-epic-1917-puts-viewers-on-frontline-in-compelling-portrayal-of-trench-horrors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:27:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/war-epic-1917-puts-viewers-on-frontline-in-compelling-portrayal-of-trench-horrors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Mercy trailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan in a story about a man wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/just-mercy-trailer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:27:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/just-mercy-trailer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French, frank and funny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lou Doillon hopes Byron is still waiting for her. They met three years ago when Doillon last visited Australia, and she keeps a framed photo of him in her room in Paris. &ldquo;Sadly I don&rsquo;t think Byron will remember me, because he has had many girls in his arms.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-frank-and-funny/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:11:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-frank-and-funny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists perform at the Sydney Festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists from Strut &amp; Fret Productions show their stuff in excerpts from Life - The Show at the Sydney Festival]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-perform-at-the-sydney-festival/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:43:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/artists-perform-at-the-sydney-festival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angelina Jordan’s epic Bohemian Rhapsody cover (America’s Got Talent)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young star Angelina Jordan has left America's Got Talent judges in awe over her incredible cover of Queen's smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/angelina-jordans-epic-bohemian-rhapsody-cover-americas-got-talent/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:34:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/angelina-jordans-epic-bohemian-rhapsody-cover-americas-got-talent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge donations as celebrities get behind bushfire relief funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrities have been pouring in donations to help fight the bushfires burning in Australia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/huge-donations-as-celebrities-get-behind-bushfire-relief-funding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:19:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/huge-donations-as-celebrities-get-behind-bushfire-relief-funding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Tindall enjoys a sing-a-long with Ronan Keating at Magic Millions Launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mike Tindall enjoys a sing-a-long with Ronan Keating at the Magic Millions Launch Night Party]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mike-tindall-enjoys-a-sing-a-long-with-ronan-keating-at-magic-millions-launch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:31:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mike-tindall-enjoys-a-sing-a-long-with-ronan-keating-at-magic-millions-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When legend becomes fact]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ned Kelly doesn&rsquo;t have his famous beard &mdash; not in Justin Kurzel&rsquo;s True History of the Kelly Gang, a film that feels as if it is set in its own&nbsp;world, a half-familiar, half-&shy;nightmarish dreamspace. In this unstable place, there are other kinds of details that matter about the Kelly Gang: who they are, where they came from and what they stand for.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-legend-becomes-fact/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:14:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-legend-becomes-fact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When legend becomes fact …]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ned Kelly doesn&rsquo;t have his famous beard &mdash; not in Justin Kurzel&rsquo;s True History of the Kelly Gang, a film that feels as if it is set in its own&nbsp;world, a half-familiar, half-&shy;nightmarish dreamspace. In this unstable place, there are other kinds of details that matter about the Kelly Gang: who they are, where they came from and what they stand for.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-legend-becomes-fact-/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:40:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/when-legend-becomes-fact-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heartening story with fairytale ending]]></title><description><![CDATA[As with the film that spawned it, Shrek the Musical has its heart firmly and earnestly in the right place, no doubt about that.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heartening-story-with-fairytale-ending/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:58:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heartening-story-with-fairytale-ending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty and the booty]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;This is a celebration of booty and body!&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beauty-and-the-booty/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 05:42:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/beauty-and-the-booty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrek’s a cracking show: review]]></title><description><![CDATA[SHREK THE MUSICAL: review by Elizabeth Fortescue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shreks-a-cracking-show-review/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 04:11:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/shreks-a-cracking-show-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opening Night pulls the plug]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sydney Festival has been rocked two days before the start of its program with the cancellation of a French performance because of concerns over air quality.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/opening-night-pulls-the-plug/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:41:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/opening-night-pulls-the-plug/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power sleeves rule Globes red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The names at this year&rsquo;s Golden Globes were big, but their sleeves were even bigger.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/power-sleeves-rule-globes-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:16:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/power-sleeves-rule-globes-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French superstar snubs Sydney Festival over ’air quality’]]></title><description><![CDATA[French superstar Isabelle Adjani has pulled out of a Sydney Festival theatre production two weeks before its Opera House debut out of fear of the city&rsquo;s air quality as a result of the NSW bushfires.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-superstar-snubs-sydney-festival-over-air-quality/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:37:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-superstar-snubs-sydney-festival-over-air-quality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French superstar cancels Sydney Festival over ’air quality’]]></title><description><![CDATA[French superstar Isabelle Adjani has pulled out of a Sydney Festival theatre production two weeks before its Opera House debut out of fear of the city&rsquo;s air quality as a result of the NSW bushfires.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-superstar-cancels-sydney-festival-over-air-quality/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:21:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/french-superstar-cancels-sydney-festival-over-air-quality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleeves rule Globes red carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The names at this year&rsquo;s Golden Globes were big, but their sleeves were even bigger.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sleeves-rule-globes-red-carpet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:26:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/sleeves-rule-globes-red-carpet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hooray for Hollywood, not Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Netflix rules the world, then the Golden Globes exist on another planet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hooray-for-hollywood-not-netflix/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:26:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/hooray-for-hollywood-not-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant who railed against the dull]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the more memorable moments at the Sydney Festival occurred in 2011 as thousands of names were illuminated on the side of the Australian Museum. Each name stayed up in lights for 15 seconds at a time, a nod to Andy Warhol&rsquo;s thoughts on the nature of fame, and by the time the festival came to an end, three weeks later, some 99,000 people had taken part.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/giant-who-railed-against-the-dull/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:38:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/giant-who-railed-against-the-dull/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globes’ sober award season opener]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Golden Globes are an early salvo in the war of attrition that is the entertainment awards season. This is the first of the major televised ceremonies, complete with a major red carpet fashion component. It is a more freewheeling affair than the Academy Awards: the ceremony takes place over dinner and drinks, and there is generally no orchestra to play people off stage if their speech is running over time, at least not until close to the end of the night. And the host has a relaxed, uninhibit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/globes-sober-award-season-opener/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:05:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/globes-sober-award-season-opener/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best of Australian in ARIA music playlist]]></title><description><![CDATA[1. Choir: Guy Sebastian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/best-of-australian-in-aria-music-playlist/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:33:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/best-of-australian-in-aria-music-playlist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art world pays tribute to John Baldessari, the giant who railed against the dull]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the more memorable moments at the Sydney Festival occurred in 2011 as thousands of names were illuminated on the side of the Australian Museum. Each name stayed up in lights for 15 seconds at a time, a nod to Andy Warhol&rsquo;s thoughts on the nature of fame, and by the time the festival came to an end, three weeks later, some 99,000 people had taken part.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-world-pays-tribute-to-john-baldessari-the-giant-who-railed-against-the-dull/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:23:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/art-world-pays-tribute-to-john-baldessari-the-giant-who-railed-against-the-dull/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate fury, bushfires steal show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Golden Globes 2020. The first major ceremony of the awards season has been held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by Ricky Gervais.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/climate-fury-bushfires-steal-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:07:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/climate-fury-bushfires-steal-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate fury, bushfires steal the show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Golden Globes 2020. The first major ceremony of the awards season has been held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by Ricky Gervais.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/climate-fury-bushfires-steal-the-show/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:52:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/climate-fury-bushfires-steal-the-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greta skewered, bushfire tributes flow]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Golden Globes 2020 live. The first major ceremony of the awards season is being held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by Ricky Gervais.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/greta-skewered-bushfire-tributes-flow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 04:42:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/greta-skewered-bushfire-tributes-flow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greta skewered as Crowe gets a win]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Golden Globes 2020 live. The first major ceremony of the awards season is being held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by Ricky Gervais.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/greta-skewered-as-crowe-gets-a-win/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 02:52:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/greta-skewered-as-crowe-gets-a-win/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussies compete for Golden Globe glory]]></title><description><![CDATA[A galaxy of A-List Australian stars, headed by Margot Robbie and Nicole Kidman, are set to walk the red carpet and compete for Golden Globes, AAP reports.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-compete-for-golden-globe-glory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:20:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-compete-for-golden-globe-glory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival wrangler set to evolve]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Wesley Enoch prepares to present his first major work for the stage since his acclaimed 2014 play Black Diggers, he can see a day in the not-too-distant future when he is no longer working as an artist in the conventional arena of theatres and festivals.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-wrangler-set-to-evolve/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:00:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/festival-wrangler-set-to-evolve/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priceless art in the bushfire line]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arthur Boyd&rsquo;s beloved Bundanon on the NSW south coast has narrowly escaped the devastating Currowan blaze, after the property was &ldquo;surrounded&rdquo; by fire at the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/priceless-art-in-the-bushfire-line/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:47:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/priceless-art-in-the-bushfire-line/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anti-bullying message strikes the right chord]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five teenagers step on to the stage, but one of them is different. For one thing, he&rsquo;s wearing a red cap. The others are dressed in white shirts and ties, so this boy stands out.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anti-bullying-message-strikes-the-right-chord/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:19:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/anti-bullying-message-strikes-the-right-chord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myf Warhurst will enter the jungle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Myf Warhurst has been revealed as one of the first celebs to join the 2020 cast of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/myf-warhurst-will-enter-the-jungle/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:18:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/myf-warhurst-will-enter-the-jungle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actor Tom Long dies after cancer battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actor Tom Long, known for playing surfer Angus in the ABC series SeaChange, has died from cancer less than a year after he undertook experimental treatment in the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/actor-tom-long-dies-after-cancer-battle/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:03:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/actor-tom-long-dies-after-cancer-battle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lizzo’s heartfelt message about the Australian bushfire crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rapper and singer Lizzo has encouraged her followers to donate to and spread the word about the Australian bushfire crisis.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lizzos-heartfelt-message-about-the-australian-bushfire-crisis/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 01:48:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/lizzos-heartfelt-message-about-the-australian-bushfire-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince George takes charge of baking Christmas puddings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Her Majesty and Their Royal Highnesses take part in the pudding stir.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-george-takes-charge-of-baking-christmas-puddings/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:05:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/prince-george-takes-charge-of-baking-christmas-puddings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2019: Year of the MacGuffin]]></title><description><![CDATA[You probably didn&rsquo;t notice but 2019 was the cinematic year of the MacGuffin.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2019-year-of-the-macguffin/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:00:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/2019-year-of-the-macguffin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim, Trump inspiration for McKenny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump come to Todd McKenney&rsquo;s mind when he brings Lord Farquaad to life in the musical comedy Shrek The Musical.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kim-trump-inspiration-for-mckenny/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 07:56:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/kim-trump-inspiration-for-mckenny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Outlander Season 5 trailer just dropped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Outlander Season 5 is coming.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-outlander-season-5-trailer-just-dropped/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 04:24:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/the-outlander-season-5-trailer-just-dropped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zelda Williams’ ironic Instagram filter result]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robin Williams' daughter Zelda result of an Instagram filter has been labelled as "divine intervention."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/zelda-williams-ironic-instagram-filter-result/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 02:08:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/zelda-williams-ironic-instagram-filter-result/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussies in Globes spotlight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five Australians are going for gold in the opening event of the entertainment awards season: Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Russell Crowe are all contenders at this year&rsquo;s Golden Globe Awards, announced on Monday, Aus&shy;tralian time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-in-globes-spotlight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 11:28:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/aussies-in-globes-spotlight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TS Eliot lays waste to ‘muse’ love letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[TS Eliot&rsquo;s closely guarded private life has been unexpectedly blown open in a letter by the poet that has been unsealed 54 years after his death.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ts-eliot-lays-waste-to-muse-love-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 07:35:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/ts-eliot-lays-waste-to-muse-love-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potter fan weaves her own magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before the release of The Witcher there was little information online about the actor Anya Chalotra, which was unsurprising considering she has only three screen credits to her name. Because the latest is a lead role in Netflix&rsquo;s latest mega-budget fantasy spectacular, though, someone on the internet had obviously tried to fill the gap. Yet even point seven, in 10 Things You Didn&rsquo;t Know About Anya Chalotra, is a rather sheepish &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not a lot of personal information o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/potter-fan-weaves-her-own-magic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:51:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/potter-fan-weaves-her-own-magic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarantino’s Feature Presentation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino's feature presentation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tarantinos-feature-presentation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:38:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/tarantinos-feature-presentation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schemes in Silicon Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eddie Cockrell gives his top recommendations for this week&rsquo;s viewing on the box.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/schemes-in-silicon-valley/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:38:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/schemes-in-silicon-valley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino’s Feature Presentation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino&rsquo;s Feature Presentation is a podcast premise that is suitably convoluted given the subject matter. It&rsquo;s a series of interviews with the famous Hollywood director about the films he chose to show at a Los Angeles cinema, with the aim of uncovering a pattern of thinking behind the selections.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quentin-tarantinos-feature-presentation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:22:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/quentin-tarantinos-feature-presentation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A star is justly reborn]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a long time there Dame Judith Anderson was the most famous Australian actress in the world. She wasn&rsquo;t a huge film star like Errol Flynn (with whom she shared a quite discernible Australian accent) but in my childhood she was prominently featured in the supporting cast of Cecil B. DeMille&rsquo;s The Ten Commandments, she was Big Mama to Burl Ives&rsquo;s Big Daddy in the Elizabeth Taylor/Paul Newman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and to cap everything off she gave what actor Peter Eyre describ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-star-is-justly-reborn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:06:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/a-star-is-justly-reborn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of distinction]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York in the 1980s, as late modernism turned into postmodernism &mdash; or as the art market grew more and more cynical and hysterical &mdash; was in the last phase of its post-war hegemony. American art had first come to international prominence with the new abstraction of the 1940s to the 1960s, which had made New York the capital of contemporary art. Then followed pop and a long twilight under the presiding genius of Andy Warhol, who died in 1987.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/words-of-distinction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:51:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/words-of-distinction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearing way for new giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[When J.P. Pomare published Call Me Evie in 2018, the book was hailed as an astonishingly assured debut. In his native New &shy;Zealand, he won the Ngaio Marsh award for best first crime novel.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/clearing-way-for-new-giant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:51:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/clearing-way-for-new-giant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amanda bets on herself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amanda Betts,44, is a West Australian author, teacher and cycling tragic whose novel, Zac &amp; Mia, has been turned into an Emmy award-winning drama]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/amanda-bets-on-herself/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:18:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/amanda-bets-on-herself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships roiling on infinite tides]]></title><description><![CDATA[The idea of the ocean as an expression of the infinite is deeply embedded in our culture. At a practical level it influences our tendency to think of marine resources as limitless, a process that has resulted in the loss of more than half the world&rsquo;s population of marine vertebrates (fish, whales, birds, etc) between 1970 and 2010, and pushed 90 per cent of the world&rsquo;s fisheries to their limits or &shy;beyond.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/relationships-roiling-on-infinite-tides/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/relationships-roiling-on-infinite-tides/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potter fan weaves her own magic first watch LOUIS WISE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before the release of The Witcher there was little information online about the actor Anya Chalotra, which was unsurprising considering she has only three screen credits to her name. Because the latest is a lead role in Netflix&rsquo;s latest mega-budget fantasy spectacular, though, someone on the internet had obviously tried to fill the gap. Yet even point seven, in 10 Things You Didn&rsquo;t Know About Anya Chalotra, is a rather sheepish &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not a lot of personal information o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/potter-fan-weaves-her-own-magic-first-watch-louis-wise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/potter-fan-weaves-her-own-magic-first-watch-louis-wise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porcelain in ideal home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dating from about 2000 years ago in China, fine white porcelain has been described as the queen of clays, and pottery&rsquo;s glamourpuss. It is associated with luxury and admired for its delicacy, whiteness and translucency, and used for both decoration and ritual.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/porcelain-in-ideal-home/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/porcelain-in-ideal-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Mystery’ of Hilton bomber]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a case that was cleared up, legally speaking, more than 30 years ago, the 1978 Hilton bombing remains stubbornly mysterious: solved but not resolved. Exactly what the mystery is, however, is itself a mystery, as Imre Salusinszky admits at the start of his absorbing book. &ldquo;I wondered,&rdquo; he writes, &ldquo;in what sense is a crime a &lsquo;mystery&rsquo; when a man has confessed to it, been charged with it, been convicted of it, and gone to jail for it.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mystery-of-hilton-bomber/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/mystery-of-hilton-bomber/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March sisters make new memories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s semi-autobiographical novel, Little Women, was published in two parts in 1868-69 and has never been out of print.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/march-sisters-make-new-memories/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/march-sisters-make-new-memories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to … find perspective]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best advice I was given was when things started getting a bit negative in the media.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-find-perspective/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/how-to-find-perspective/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavy legacy for a featherweight]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York in the 1980s, as late modernism turned into postmodernism &mdash; or as the art market grew more and more cynical and hysterical &mdash; was in the last phase of its post-war hegemony. American art had first come to international prominence with the new abstraction of the 1940s to the 1960s, which had made New York the capital of contemporary art. Then followed pop and a long twilight under the presiding genius of Andy Warhol, who died in 1987.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heavy-legacy-for-a-featherweight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/heavy-legacy-for-a-featherweight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t shoot the messenger]]></title><description><![CDATA[For 1917, Sam Mendes says, the idea was devastatingly simple: &ldquo;One message, two hours of real time, one shot.&rdquo; It is a story from World War I, told in a way that combines the intimacy of a first-person narrative with the scale of a battlefield saga. And it&rsquo;s filmed as if in a single take without an apparent cut.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dont-shoot-the-messenger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/dont-shoot-the-messenger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat’s whiskers to escapists]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can&rsquo;t think of a film I have more looked forward to seeing than Cats, Tom Hooper&rsquo;s live-action screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber&rsquo;s 1981 stage musical, which in turn was based on TS Eliot&rsquo;s lighthearted book of poems from 1939, Old Possum&rsquo;s Book of Practical Cats.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cats-whiskers-to-escapists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/cats-whiskers-to-escapists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alluring account of ‘Docteur Dieu’]]></title><description><![CDATA[At various stages in his career Julian Barnes has written at length about famous figures &mdash; only not in biographies but in novels. These books have been uniformly impressive. Flaubert&rsquo;s Parrot (1984) took the reader on a comic, encyclopaedic trawl through the life of Barnes&rsquo;s literary idol. Arthur &amp; George (2005) saw Arthur Conan Doyle grappling with a baffling real-life case. And more recently The Noise of Time (2016) dramatised Dmitri Shostakovich&rsquo;s efforts to compos]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alluring-account-of-docteur-dieu/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:03:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/alluring-account-of-docteur-dieu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising the standards]]></title><description><![CDATA[1. Home Tonight: Paul McCartney]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/raising-the-standards/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:02:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/arts/raising-the-standards/</guid></item></channel></rss>