Latest Arts & Culture

• The British Museum celebrates Australia

  One of the most significant exhibitions of Australian art and culture in over a decade has begun at London’s British Museum.

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• Bhoy oh Bhoy!

  Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy is currently in the midst of travelling around Australia delighting crowds, before embarking on a UK tour this summer. Lesley Slade spoke to him about London, Mother Nature and becoming an Australian resident.

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• Dame Joan Sutherland remembered in London

  Dame Joan Sutherland’s superlative voice has mesmerised a London audience one last time at a thanksgiving service in her honour at Westminster Abbey.

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• These Ashes will really make you laugh

  We have been a laughing stock on the cricket field, so surely we’ll give the Comedy of Ashes a good crack?

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• Australian TV “shoddy and appalling”

  Shoddy and appalling is how acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong describes the level of local TV production in Australia.

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• Review: Jimeoin is still a Craic-up

  As an Irish-born comedian who lives in Australia, Jimeoin’s entrance couldn’t have been more fitting.

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• Carving the Chopper legacy

  Terminally sick with Hepatitis, Australian Mark ‘Chopper’ Read is attempting to gain eternal life with UK audiences through different means given heavens’ gates are well and truly closed to the celebrity career criminal.

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• 2010 Logie Awards nominees list

  The full – is there anyone they didn’t nominate? – list of nominees for Australian Television’s glittering night of nights, plus Australian Times’s predictions for who’ll get the gongs.

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• Circus in extremus

  A jaw-dropping mixture of circus and contemporary dance, Brisbane-based Circa creates movement at its most adventurous and dangerous.

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• Aussies involved with charity fashion show

  Aussie fashion making a hit on the London fashion scene and will take the catwalk for charity.

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• Hip Queenslander’s designs on show at London Fashion Week

  London Fashion Week offers opportunities for up and coming Australian designer, Geoffrey Finch.

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• Discover what your nose knows

  Have you ever wondered what secrets lurk in your family’s past? Ahead of the upcoming ‘Who Do You Think You Are LIVE’ expo, Australian family history enthusiast Natalie Hausler shares how you can discover your family’s history.

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• Who Do You Think You Are LIVE

  Expo to discover your past

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• A model chance for Aboriginal ambassador

  Taking the catwalk at London Fashion Week, Samantha Harris is set to become Australia’s first Aboriginal supermodel. Next up for Harris is a photo shoot with Australian Vogue. Harris speaks with Australian Times about what it’s like backstage before a show and her role as an Aboriginal youth ambassador.

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• Romantic London on a budget

  Roses are red, violets are blue…and sending the right flowers is a Valentines Day must-do. Here’s a collection of fail-safe tips that will help you to say ‘I love you’.

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• Fashionable future for Aussies

  Look out Stella McCartney and Christoper Kane because Australian designers are putting a fashionable foot forward to make a mark in the UK fashion scene and are set to feature on London runways this year.

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• Sharing secrets about how to get arty

  London is a big place. Compared to our home towns – whether Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne or anywhere in between – coming to London can be pretty overwhelming in terms of the arts.

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• Arts Review: Naughty Nick pushes all the right artistic buttons

  Australian Times arts editor Petra Kamula takes a nostalgic look back at what the arts scene was like for Aussies in the UK over 2009.

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• A (very) intimate evening with Nick Cave

  Petra Kamula reviews an evening with Australia’s hot heeled, word-turning, lust-inspiring shaman, Nick Cave.

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• Aboriginals demand that British Museum return art

  More than 130 years after her death, a bust of Tasmania’s most famous Aboriginal woman, Truganini, is at the centre of controversy, with demands it be returned to her homeland by the British Museum which owns it.

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