Museum of Old and New Art Archives

Live Review + Gallery: MONA FOMA festival – Mogwai, Kutcha Edwards & The Australian Art Orchestra and The Shruti Sessions MONA Lawns, 23.02.2024

An eclectic mix of artists played the Friday edition of The MONA Sessions, with headline act Mogwai being joined by indigenous star, Kutcha Edwards (accompanied by the Australian Art Orchestra)…

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News: lutruwita/Tasmania’s MONA FOMA Summer Festival 2024 is back better than ever and the phenomenal line up announced.

Mona Foma, run by the iconic Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, is a summer festival of music and art, and is returning for its sixteenth edition…

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Album Review: Ben Salter’s ‘twenty-one words for loss’ is a stark and elegant paean to transience and loss: as beautiful and raw as the land it was created in.

Hobart/nippaluna resident Ben Salter today releases his epic treatise on the topic of grief, loss and the vicissitudes of aging, ‘twenty-one words for loss’. The entire album was conceived, written…

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Track: nipaluna/Hobart based Ben Salter releases a magnificent, evocative single ‘bereavement’ in advance of new album announced for September.

Book-ended with the rolling ocean waves on a beach, and recorded in nipaluna/Hobart’s magnificent Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the single ‘bereavement’ by musical polymath Ben Salter encapsulates…

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