Karen Leong

1 month ago | taustralia.com.au | Karen Leong |Victoria Pearson

The next house to make its mark in beauty might be the most pivotal one yet. Louis Vuitton has debuted the launch of their beauty line La Beauté Louis Vuitton. The new cosmetics range will be helmed by creative director Dame Pat McGrath DBE, who is famed for her illustrious career in the beauty industry. From its inception, the house’s legacy integrates beauty into its perspective. Every handbag is engineered for women and their need to carry daily essentials.

Jan 20, 2025 | artshub.com.au | Karen Leong

Right from the start of Those Opulent Days is a threat of destruction. The book is the first novel from Jacquie Pham, a new voice in Australian crime. While it is marketed as a murder mystery, the breadth of what is covered may spill over the margins. The story is told out of sequence. It catalogues the six days in the lead-up to a murder and the prophecies of death, judgement, secrecy and love that span the timelines of childhood friends, Duy, Phong, Minh and Edmond.

Dec 4, 2024 | artshub.com.au | Karen Leong

Street dance in Western Sydney has a lifeblood of its own. Dimensions of culture, class and movement styles come to a head with the performances arising from such perimeters often challenging conventions in both dance and culture. Intersections Street Dance X Theatre was a worthy adaptation of this movement, coming onto the scene at a time when hip hop, popping, ballroom and waacking are becoming widely recognised in Australia.

Dec 3, 2024 | artshub.com.au | Karen Leong

Bangarra Dance Company’s Dance Clan is an ongoing lineage of dance work that twines storytellers, choreographers, dancers and designers together. In the last 25 years, it has ushered in a new vanguard of dance talent from Deborah Brown to Sani Townson and Yolande Brown, as well as Bangarra’s own Artistic Director Frances Rings. The purpose of the showcase is to establish the emergent generation of physical storytellers who are poised to make their debuts.

Sep 24, 2024 | artshub.com.au | Karen Leong

Presented for the first time at The Lock-Up in Newcastle, this is the most significant survey exhibition to date for Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi. It features a fleet of works from video installation to enamel paint and canvas produced over a 12-year period, including never-before-seen works by the artist. Sabsabi’s work presented here represents a diorama of the artist’s identity. Belief, devotion and transcendence come together in fractals, layered over the artworks in a sequence.