Category: Culture

There is a distinct psychological shift that occurs when viewing art at night. Divorced from the context of daytime obligations — the traffic outside, the meetings pending — the gallery space becomes hermetic and theatrical. The lighting, designed to illuminat

The lobby is the first argument a hotel makes about itself. It announces, in spatial terms, what the house values, what it thinks its guests deserve to encounter on arrival, what kind of experience it intends to provide before a key is handed over. The hotels

Sydney’s great advantage for outdoor sculpture is the landscape itself. A work placed on a harbour headland is framed by sky and water of extraordinary scale; a work in the Royal Botanic Garden operates in a setting that changes with every hour of light. The o

Sydney does not do enough with its architectural inheritance. The Opera House — Utzon’s extraordinary, contentious masterwork — absorbs so much of the city’s architectural attention that the buildings surrounding it, and the buildings scattered across ninety k

The commercial gallery is one of the few remaining institutions where knowledge is freely shared without expectation. The staff in the rooms listed below are, in almost all cases, genuinely expert — in the artists they represent, in the market conditions that

The land beneath Sydney has been known, sung, walked, and understood for at least sixty-five thousand years. The Gadigal people of the Eora Nation — whose Country this was and remains — developed a relationship with this particular harbour, this specific sands