Joe and I visited this exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW in November 2024. It's on until the 9th of February 2025 and I strongly recommend a visit. Marketed as an in-depth retrospective featuring more than 100 works, most of which have never before been seen in Australia it's a great opportunity. I've always liked his paintings which are … [Read more...] about Magritte
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Queensland Art Gallery
So, before I leave January 2024, a final blog about 2023 activities. While in Brisbane to see Opera Australia's Ring Cycle (described here) we visited the Queensland Art Gallery. These are some of the paintings that took my fancy. There were quite a few works by Indigenous artists including some very early ones from the 1940's I think, and some … [Read more...] about Queensland Art Gallery
Fairy Tales
While in Brisbane in December we visited this exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art. It's on until 28 April 2024. If you're in the vicinity I recommend you call in. We were there on the fifth of December 2023, before attending Siegfried in the evening. QPAC, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre is a terrific complex, making visiting these places … [Read more...] about Fairy Tales
Three Rings: Brisbane
I always had my doubts about the Brisbane Ring Cycle; being prejudiced as I am against Opera Australia (they're so anti Victorian). My doubts exacerbated by how they were advertising this production - all high tech and whizz bang, thousands of screens, computers and so forth. If any opera company was going to overdo presentation hijinks it would … [Read more...] about Three Rings: Brisbane
Three Rings: Bendigo
After the disappointment of Berlin, see my views here, we travelled to Bendigo to see Melbourne Opera's version in March 2023. I was in the middle of chemotherapy, so have not felt up to writing about it until now - the day before the year ends! It started with Das Rheingold on the 24th March 2023. I have only this very poor photo of me about to … [Read more...] about Three Rings: Bendigo
Three Rings: Berlin
Between October 2022 and December 2023 we have seen three Der Ring des Nibelungen cycles. All in cities starting with the letter B. This is the first of my blogs regarding each one. We started in Berlin in October 2022. I've blogged about every other bit of our visit there, including describing a tour of the opera house here (search Berlin on this … [Read more...] about Three Rings: Berlin