Michael Bailey
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 32
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Australian Financial Review
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 20, 2026
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Isata Kanneh-Mason on being in classical music’s coolest family (opens the original)
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As the eldest of classical music’s most celebrated group of living siblings, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s upcoming recitals in Australia are sure to generate many reviews and social media comments. She won’t be looking at them. “People are always sceptical of anyone as soon as they know them, that’s just a universal thing, and the way we deal with that is we just don’t read anything,” says Isata, 30. In Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, she will play a program she describes as “darkness into light
Tiers before showtime: Why concerts now have so many price points (opens the original)
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Fans of The Strokes intending to buy a $204 general admission ticket to the band’s Sydney outdoor concert in February will be offered five tiers of premium experience that could more than double their outlay – a trend experts say is replacing the unpopular dynamic pricing of tickets. The Sydney Summertime show on February 20, a six-hour affair at which the New York rockers will be supported by Beck and locals Courtney Barnett and Promiseland, will see a temporary arena in Centennial Park divided
Dissident artist lays 500-helmet message in MCA’s front yard (opens the original)
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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has placed 500 cast-iron combat helmets on the front lawn of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art in a “call for peace” paid for by the foundation of late TV producer Neil Balnaves. Called Mushrooms, the 40-metre-long walk-through piece was unveiled in Circular Quay on Friday as the second of three annual sculpture commissions the Balnaves Foundation has pledged to the MCA, each with a budget of $1 million. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when yo
NGV in damage control after alleged $8m theft (opens the original)
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A senior executive at the National Gallery of Victoria has been charged with allegedly stealing $8 million from the institution over six years. Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission on Thursday afternoon alleged that between September 2019 and September last year, the executive bought mobile phones under an NGV account and sold them for personal benefit. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Why Reg Livermore’s star turn at 87 might not be his last (opens the original)
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Reg Livermore’s first show-stopper playing Alfred Doolittle when My Fair Lady opens on Tuesday night will be With A Little Bit Of Luck, and the actor acknowledges he’s enjoyed more than a bit to be headlining a big-budget musical aged 87. “I’ve never really taken care of myself,” says Livermore, whose Australian origination of the gender-bending Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show led to a series of wild one-man cabarets that made him a household name in the 1970s. Gift 5 articles
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