Karen Leong
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![Nakahira. image is black and white shot of two young people embracing on a yacht which is moored.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/61r39u0t7gL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg?w=310)
Film reviews: Flora on the Sand (1964) and Juvenile Jungle (1956), Japanese Film Festival
The feature of a retrospective at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival, Kō Nakahira was a filmmaker who interrogated themes of…
![Angela Goh. Image is of a black clad dancer with arms upstretched at the back of a wide empty stage girt by colums.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/20230814AngelaGoh_078.jpg?w=310)
Dance review: Angela Goh Axe Arch Echo, AGNSW
Goh's meta-narrative of obstruction and negative space projected intrigue in fearful symmetry.
![Deloitte x Art Pharmacy collection. A painting of bold coloured blocks is on the wall with chairs and tables in the foreground.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Sugar-Glider_Deloitte_June2023_credit_JacquieManning-67-e1695796119781.png?w=310)
Regeneration: empowering artists with a landmark art collection
Deloitte worked with Art Pharmacy to curate a new art collection in the award-winning Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney. ArtsHub takes…
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Film review: Little Blue, Taiwan Film Festival in Australia
Lee Yi Fang's 'Little Blue' is a mediation on female desire through the dreamy lens of adolescence.
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Theatre review: Miss Peony, Belvoir Theatre
A generational and intercultural clash is played out in the competitive flurry of a beauty pageant.
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Peers and portals
A triptych of vignettes about three of Sydney’s emerging oil painters and their voyages of identity.
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Performance review: City of Angels, Hayes Theatre
An irreverent pastiche of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the writers who created it.