Latest Arts News from around the World

The Thorn Birds on West End
The Age
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Australia)
Australian author Colleen McCullough's epic novel The Thorn Birds will be staged as a musical to tour Britain this year.

Launch of Poetry Idol Anthology
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Australia)
The first heat of Poetry Idol 2009 will be held as part of the launch of the Paradise Anthology.

Get back to your (glass) roots
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Australia)
Two separate groups of students and graduates from the South Australian School of Art (SASA) will be travelling to Tasmania next week to participate in the biennial Australian Association of Glass Artists’ (Ausglass) conference in Hobart.

The search for poetry of the highways
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Australia)
A national hunt has been launched for truck drivers who write poetry to participate in a new project that aims to portray their experiences spanning urban build-up to wide open spaces.

Six new Steinway at MRC
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Australia)
Melbourne’s soon-to-be-opened new home of music-making took delivery of its first instruments.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without ever having met?

The Arts Council Ireland announces major grants 2009
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Ireland)
The Arts Council, the Government agency for funding and developing the arts, has made its major grant allocations for 2009, distributing almost €60 million.

FORMAT09, International Photography Festival
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
FORMAT09 Festival comes to Derby in March 2009 with the theme of PHOTOCINEMA. Featuring over a hundred different international photographers and filmmakers, the festival will be on show at QUAD and at 20 venues throughout Derby.

Beauty Spot: Tony Heywood
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Beauty Spot, Tony Heywood's latest horticultural-based art installation, suggests that our experience of nature is becoming distant as is it increasingly mediated through television, film and magazines.

Picasso, Matisse prints stolen from Berlin gallery
Yahoo! News
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Germany)
Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday.

Mastermind of modern ballet
FT.com
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Russia)
May 18 marks the centenary of that first evening of ballets presented by Diaghilev in Paris, and with it the first shoots of balletic rebirth in western Europe.

Secret of the White Rose
The Guardian
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Germany)
Carl Orff's famous Carmina Burana has an ugly history: it was a Nazi favourite. But a new film reveals that the composer's own story was even uglier.

Screen Australia Survey
Arts Hub
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Australia)
Screen Australia released the report of its 2007/08 Drama Production Survey, revealing an above-average result with increases in foreign production and co-production activity, particularly TV drama.

Pit blast inspires 'docu-ballet'
BBC News
Monday, January 05, 2009 (United Kingdom)
A 19th Century colliery explosion which killed nine men has inspired a ballet.

Design Loves a Depression
The New York Times
Monday, January 05, 2009 (USA)
Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design. After all, when the wealth is flowing, people don’t covet the concerts you see or the books you read. They covet the couch you bought, and then they buy a cooler one.