REVIEW I Grounding Ambition at Newcastle
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the opening performances (many did not). Creation, 2020, is a beautiful work and was perfectly chosen for this event, celebrating the spirit in art that doesn’t look at what is but […]
REVIEW: Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 + Migrating Modernism: The Architecture of Harry Seidler
Visiting Venice in late June, once the champagne flutes have emptied and the holders of “professional” badges have flown home, offers a different kind of clarity. The pavilions are left to their truest audience—and the blistering heat. As a punishing wave of high temperatures settles over the lagoon, climate change shifts from conceptual backdrop to […]
Her Light Materials: Penelope Seidler
Penelope Seidler has a powerful public presence. Hers is what millennials would define as a “big life.” Involved and curious, she makes her way from undergrad openings in Sydney to the bold face events in Europe and the Museum of Modern Art in New York where she has been a member of the International Council […]

