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Controversy shadows countdown to Powerhouse opening

A digital clock at Powerhouse Parramatta is counting down the days until opening. Its first weekend is sold out, but what will the crowds make of it?

AAP · Oct 24

“The Lego prototype went through many, many phases of moving buttons around... It was playful and not permanent”: Ableton’s Jesse Terry reveals the Lego brick origins of the company's Push hardware instrument as he revisits a rare early prototype

"I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted,” he says

MusicRadar · May 26

Powerhouse Museum acquires David Jones’ archive, brimming with forgotten stories of Australia’s past

David Jones is donating its archive to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, it has been announced today. It is a timely reminder of the significance of “DJs”, Australia’s oldest department store, to the development of modern Australia.

The Conversation · Jul 30, 2024

Carla Zampatti retrospective at the Powerhouse Museum reveres the late fashion designer as a champion for working women

In the first major retrospective of the late Italian-Australian designer, the Powerhouse is taking a look back at the designs that defined an era of women’s fashion.

ABC News · Nov 24, 2022

Clothes women wanted to wear: a new exhibition explores how Carla Zampatti saw her designs as a tracker of feminism

The late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum. Planned well before the fashion designer’s untimely death last year, the unveiling of her legacy will be bittersweet to her many fans.

The Conversation · Nov 24, 2022

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

The Guardian - AU · Oct 26, 2022

Powerhouse Parramatta: entertainment centre ‘masquerading’ as a museum has high flood risk, inquiry finds

NSW parliamentary committee releases scathing appraisal of decision to build $1.34bn project on site with ‘very real flood risks’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 30, 2022

Eddie Mabo changed Australia. Thirty years on, what's his legacy?

As Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo sketched out his plans to shake the foundations of Australian law, he told his teenage daughter his prophecy: "One day, all of Australia will know my name." He was right.

ABC News · Jun 2, 2022

Three things with Paul Bui: ‘I lost it promptly that night at a rave, flinging my body around’

In our weekly interview about objects, the creative director tells us about his useful five-euro find, and the graphic novel he’d save from a burning house

The Guardian - AU · May 31, 2022

Dress for excess: designers embrace post-lockdown hedonism

At this year’s Australian fashion week, three queer designers represent a move towards rave wear and ‘main character’ energy

The Guardian - AU · May 6, 2022