Highlights

Art & culture events

Browse a selection below or see all art and culture events.

Softbelly Bar and Lounge

Softbelly Comedy

28 Apr 2011 - 25 Oct 2012

Melbourne's newest top quality night of comedy is here! Every Thursday and Sunday night in the city, Softbelly Comedy has some of the biggest names...

Read more | Show on map

Charlie Pickering at Spleen

Comedy@Spleen

6 Jun 2011 - 2 Jul 2012

Every Monday, Comedy@Spleen is the city's free weekly comedy hotspot, with a packed room every week.With drop-in guests like Jimeoin, Adam Hills, Wil...

Read more | Show on map

Carriage D on The Blues Train

The Blues Train

6 Aug 2011 - 26 May 2012

Victoria's historic coastal town of Queenscliff is home to the world's one and only Blues Train. It is a unique experience that combines four of...

Read more | Show on map

Michael Johnson (Harpist)

Harp in the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

6 Sep 2011 - 28 May 2012

An inspiring and uplifting concert by resident harpist Michael Johnson, presenting music composed in the Gardens. This small and personal concert...

Read more | Show on map

Bill Henson, Untitled 1980/82 1980–82, © Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Looking at Looking: The Photographic Gaze

30 Sep 2011 - 4 Mar 2012

Looking at Looking: The Photographic Gaze, is a unique exhibition exploring how photography can construct particular ways of looking. Drawn entirely...

Read more | Show on map

VVThumbnail__9113660_AG25_Ad100936_RGB.jpg

Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art,

30 Sep 2011 - 12 Feb 2012

The National Gallery of Victoria and Museum Victoria present Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, a superb exhibition which features over 200...

Read more | Show on map

Harp in the Gardens

Harp in the Gardens

4 Oct 2011 - 29 May 2012

An inspiring and uplifting concert by our resident harpist Michael Johnson, presenting music composed in the Gardens. This small and personal concert...

Read more | Show on map

VVThumbnail__9113833_AG25_Ff104450.jpg

British Watercolours 1760–1900: The Age of Splendour

14 Oct 2011 - 19 Feb 2012

British Watercolours 1760-1900: The Age of is an outstanding exhibition showcasing works by Britain's most celebrated eighteenth century artists...

Read more | Show on map

VVThumbnail__9113762_AG25_EXHI015037_RGB.jpg

Ranjani Shettar: Dewdrops and Sunshine

4 Nov 2011 - 26 Feb 2012

The National Gallery of Victoria has launched its newest contemporary art space with a spectacular exhibition of work by internationally renowned...

Read more | Show on map

Wrecks, Reefs and the Mermaid Exhibition

Wrecks, Reefs and the Mermaid Exhibition

11 Nov 2011 - 12 Feb 2012

Wrecks, Reefs and the Mermaid is an exhibition of photographs by renowned underwater photographer Xanthe Rivett illustrating two archaeological...

Read more | Show on map

Yoda - The Art of Star Wars

Star Wars: The Exhibition

18 Nov 2011 - 26 Feb 2012

This exhibition will literally be a tour through the world of Star Wars right from the initial concept drawings to the modern movies. Bringing...

Read more | Show on map

Heinrich Hoerle, Three invalids c.1930

The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910–37

25 Nov 2011 - 4 Mar 2012

In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity - experimental, provocative and utterly compelling. Germany in the early twentieth century was a...

Read more | Show on map

Exhibitions

Nicholas Chevalier - Australian odyssey

26 Nov 2011 - 12 Feb 2012

The first comprehensive survey of work by the Russian-born Swiss artist Nicholas Chevalier produced during his fourteen years in Australia from 1855...

Read more | Show on map

Ernest Bachrach (1899-1973) Marilyn Monroe, RKO, 1952/2007 Platinum print from the original negative Image courtesy of John Kobal Foundation, London

Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation

3 Dec 2011 - 12 Feb 2012

Bendigo Art Gallery hosts an Australian exclusive, organised by the Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, California.Drawn from the archive of the John Kobal...

Read more | Show on map

Sunset tunes pre-film!

Ben & Jerrys St Kilda Openair Cinema

11 Dec 2011 - 9 Feb 2012

Ben & Jerry's Openair Cinema nights are a quintessential outdoor event with live music and feature films playing on a huge movie screen from dusk.On...

Read more | Show on map

Pipilotti Rist Gravity Be My Friend, 2007, audio video installation (video still) Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine, New York

Pipilotti Rist: I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase

21 Dec 2011 - 4 Mar 2012

Lush and Edenic, sexy but sinless, the hedonistic pleasure worlds created by Pipilotti will delight, refresh and chillax you. Pipilotti's vivid video...

Read more | Show on map

Toybox of sand

Sand Sculpting Australia - Frankston Waterfront

26 Dec 2011 - 25 Apr 2012

In December 2011, sculptors from Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Singapore, Ireland, the UK, Canada and the USA will once again join with their...

Read more | Show on map

Checkpoint Charlie Comedy at Eurotrash

Checkpoint Charlie Comedy

11 Jan - 19 Dec 2012

Checkpoint is the city's premier above ground underground comedy room. For just $5 come fill yourself with $6 drinks and put your continence to the...

Read more | Show on map

Steve Le Marquand & Helen Thomson in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Photography by Marcel Aucar

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

12 Jan - 18 Feb 2012

For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have spent their long lay-off from the cane-cutting season down in Melbourne having a high old time with two...

Read more | Show on map

Film festivals

Gay & lesbian

Top