Mona
‘Hour 27 was quite tough’: why one woman is drumming for 100 hours over 10 days
Jazz drummer Chloe Kim has been playing since 17 February and is set to reach 100 hours by Sunday. But the idea is as much about art as learning more about herself, she says
Sian Cain
24, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
When an old Tafe campus is bought for a $50m makeover, what do you do? Fill it with art
Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival has taken over a car museum, a hardware store and now Launceston’s daggy former Tafe building, which is packed with art, music and performances
Sian Cain
18, Feb, 2023 @3:05 AM
The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution
Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’
Kate Hennessy
19, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM
‘I had to be taken out of the museum’: the artistic challenge that almost broke Dean Stevenson
The composer has been working underground at Mona since July, writing a new piece each day to be performed that afternoon. The experiment has been ‘traumatic’, he says – and it has changed him for good
Sian Cain
22, Jun, 2022 @5:30 PM
Dark Mofo 2022: one year on from major controversy, has the festival learned from its mistakes?
Leigh Carmichael says his festival has changed for good, after last year was dominated by outrage and a boycott. But there’s still work to be done
Steph Harmon
16, Jun, 2022 @5:30 PM
Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors
At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckage
Steph Harmon
12, Jun, 2022 @5:30 PM
The 10 strangest artefacts in Australian museums – sorted
From a hangman’s journal to ‘The Poo Machine’, here are some weird, unnerving and oddly touching objects in museums around the country
Charmaine Manuel
27, Mar, 2022 @4:30 PM
‘We are tearing open that wound’: the First Nations artists reclaiming Tasmania
For the island’s Mona Foma festival, public spaces ‘dripping in colonialism’ have been disrupted with screams, violence and truth
Walter Marsh
26, Jan, 2022 @4:34 PM
‘So pissed off’: Midnight Oil kick off final tour with a searing, urgent set in Launceston
Headlining the first weekend of Mona Foma festival, the band offered a rebuke of baby boomer nostalgia in a bittersweet live farewell
Walter Marsh
24, Jan, 2022 @12:02 AM
No jab, no job: David Walsh mandates Covid vaccination for all Mona staff
The owner of the Hobart gallery penned a colourful memo defending his decision, which has renewed discussion on the legality of compulsory vaccination
Kelly Burke
02, Sep, 2021 @7:18 AM
Artist Sally Rees unveils her inner crone: ‘We need to embrace being cranky and terrifying’
The Tasmanian artist’s new exhibition at Mona responds to archetypes of older women with courage, benevolence and transgression
Elissa Blake
18, Jun, 2021 @8:00 PM
Dark Mofo: Tony Albert and Reko Rennie among artists demanding change at Mona
Brook Andrew and Kira Puru are also among the 2,000 signatories who say they will boycott the Tasmanian museum and its festivals unless their demands are met
Stephanie Convery
24, Mar, 2021 @5:59 AM
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