A cavalcade of colour, movement and sound, EONARIUM Enlightenment is a sensory sensation with huge emotional resonance. Upstairs at the Immigration Museum is the perfect venue to immerse yourself in this spirited showcase that dazzles and delights. Antonio Vivaldi’s Baroque era masterpiece The Four Seasons provides the ultimate sound bed for an extraordinary half hour…
Lightscape, the highly creative, after dark, lighting cavalcade at Royal Botanic Gardens, complete with a most appealing soundtrack, is a sensory sensation. It started in 2022 and the “exhibits” this year are the best yet. Following a curved two-kilometre trail, the installations have been created by leading artists from Australia and around the world. For…
If you want to see something extra special before it leaves Australian shores, I suggest you head straight to the Art Gallery of NSW. That is where, until only next Sunday (12th April, 2026), you can view the remarkable work of renowned Melbourne-born sculptor Ron Mueck. His is an art form known as hyperrealism, which…
So joyful. So creative. So colourful. Simply astounding. I felt like a little kid, full of awe and wonder. Yes, these are my words. This is unquestionably one of the must-see exhibitions of your life, for there is nothing else like it. Forget balloons stretched, twisted and folded into a sausage dog. That is so…
An unquestionable highlight of winter in Melbourne is Lightscape at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Now in its fourth year, it is bigger and better than ever, with many new and captivating light installations up above, in the trees and on the ground. It is a true A-lister, suitable for the whole family and how many…
This is an exhibition that starts from a place of wholesome and enduring love. After all, who doesn’t have a special place in their heart for either a cat or a dog. Some that walk amongst us are painted as cat people and others as dog aficionados and, of course, this showcase caters to both….
It is not hard to see why Banksy’s street art has captured global imagination and attention. With his satirical stencil work, he has been a fixture since the 1990s when he was first associated with a gang of underground graffiti artists in Bristol. By 2010 he was named by Time magazine in its list of…
The unmissable nighttime visual spectacle Lightscape has returned to the Royal Botanic Gardens for a third winter with a reimagined trail and new installations. It is a glorious exhibition of creativity, featuring a stunning array of large-scale illuminated sculptures, many colour-changing. More than that, trees are lit up, there is fire, fog and projections along the two-kilometre…
Has there ever been a creative intellect greater than Leonardo da Vinci? I dare say that question could spark animated discussion. Where would Albert Einstein fare in that debate? Or Isaac Newton? Regardless, I put it to you that it is impossible not to be awestruck by just what da Vinci tackled and achieved in 67 years (15th…
Art meets technology as famous paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and many more, are projected on an enormous scale in the new 360-immersive experience, Monet in Paris. Monet in Paris is a multi-sensory experience celebrating Claude Monet and the world’s most renowned artists of…
