Helen Musa

Arts Editor at CityNews.com.au

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Governor-general reflects on 50 years of honours

4 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Memories were to the fore when Governor-General Sam Mostyn took to the podium at Canberra Museum and Gallery on Tuesday to launch a petite but significant exhibition, Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Honours system.
Helping kids escape from the world of Plastika

4 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Another big week of upcoming arts as HELEN MUSA’s latest Artweek column will confirm… Australian Dance Party is staging Escape from Plastika, a free show aimed at primary aged kids and families, Glebe Park, City Centre, June 7. The ANU Film Group has Will Howarth and Talia Zucker at its screening of their Australian thriller, In Vitro, Shot locally in Goulburn and Cooma. They’ll be participating in a conversation with film critic Cris Kennedy after the screening, Kambri, June 6.
Celebrating the work of Canberra's global architect

4 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that 99 years after the birth of Italian-Australian architect Enrico Taglietti comes an exhibition unique to the nation’s capital. Taglietti: Life in Design will follow the life and career of Enrico Taglietti and the collaborations with his wife Franca, aiming to identify him as a true “global” architect, one who called Canberra “the invisible city”.
A film festival from wherever Spanish is spoken

5 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

The Spanish Film Festival really means not just Spain but the Hispanophone world, where Spanish is spoken, and in all there’ll be a selection of 30 films from Spain and Latin America, writes HELEN MUSA. The CEO of Palace Cinemas and curator of the coming Spanish Film Festival, Benjamin Zeccola, has just emerged from an intense 14 days viewing (8am to midnight) and buying films at the Cannes Film Festival.
West in the centre of absurdity

6 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Arts editor HELEN MUSA rounds up the latest arts news tidbits for her latest Arts in the City column. Hot upon the heels of Canberra Rep’s Blithe Spirit comes Karen Vickery’s production of Noël Coward’s semi-autobiographical comedy Present Laughter. Jarrad West plays the self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he navigates a whirlwind of admirers, secret trysts, and absurdity.
Tram sends Dream Lens to Tuggeranong foreshore

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Japanese artist Keizo Ushio’s granite sculpture, Oushi Zokei, Dream Lens for the Future, has been relocated to the Lake Tuggeranong foreshore. Carved from a single piece of stone, the four-tonne granite ring was from 2012 located in the median of Northbourne Avenue, but was removed in February to make way for the construction of Light Rail Stage 2A.
Gallery's winter season kicks off in style

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Even as an exhibition of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work prepared to take off from the National Gallery of Australia to Tate Modern in London, the gallery’s winter season kicked off in fine style on Thursday morning with the media launch of Cézanne to Giacometti: highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie.
Sculpture in memory of multi-mayor Freebody

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

A crowd of family and supporters gathered at the Queanbeyan Bicentennial Centre’s LinkQ gallery on Wednesday for the unveiling of a bronze and marble sculpture of the late William Byrne Freebody. On hand for the unveiling by Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council Mayor Kenrick Winchester and grandson Glenn Freebody, were members of the family who had entirely funded the project, the sculptor Neil Dickinson, federal member for Eden-Monaro Kirsty McBain and former mayor Tim Overall.
Surprising science that powers the planet

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Here’s HELEN MUSA’s latest Artsweek column, a weekly guide to what happening and where around the Canberra arts scene. Questacon’s newest exhibition ZAP! CLANK! POW! kicks off this week with shocking and surprising science that powers the planet and makes things move. Through 17 interactive exhibits, visitors will be able to explore the worlds of electricity, machines, and motion. Questacon, Parliamentary Triangle, May 31-February 1, 2026.
Koebi's song with a theme

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Singer-writer and music producer Koebi Faumui has a new single, Your Theme Song. It’s a catchy number that he wrote out of frustration on behalf of a friend who’d been demeaned and manipulated by a particular person. “I was like, well, why don’t we just write a song about it?” Koebi says.