Now she has long passed beyond the need for imitation or the need to prove anything. Just three of the 20 artists in the Australian Icons exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales are still alive. Peter Gotting met one of them. Power play with only one winner The University of Sydney may end the battle for the MCA early next week. The result could mean everyone is the poorer, writes Patricia Anderson .
Great art starts with the framework Never mind the pictures - admire the frames.
At least two local producers have been attempting to snare the Australasian rights to the musical Gypsy - The Production Company, in Melbourne, and the Sydney Theatre Company, which had hoped to include it in next season's fare at the Drama Theatre, starring Geraldine Turner. Either Edo de Waart was too full of emphatic energy at the start of directing his latest round of SSO concerts or something was lost in translating the title of Julian Yu's Filigree Clouds from its original Chinese. An inside look at Afghanistan, the country in the eye of a global storm. Escaping the Taliban A Herald series tracking the asylum seekers' journey from Afghanistan. The race to clone a human.