Due to overwhelming demand, and the fantastic success of his 2007 tour, those who previously missed out are treated to a special encore Australian season of Burt Bacharach and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. After 5 sell-out shows in July, Bacharach together with his band and singers are returning for two special encore performances at the Sydney Opera House in 2008.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra celebrates Australia’s most distinguished musical family when Sir Charles Mackerras returns for two concert programs & Alex Briger conducts ‘Don John of Austria’ Sir Charles Mackerras returns to Sydney for a much anticipated visit to the Orchestra he once called his own, to share in the Sydney Symphony’s 75th birthday season.

"I dream of a green belt around Broken Hill" Albert Morris, 1938. Greening the Silver City: seeds of bush regeneration is a new travelling exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum. The exhibition highlights a collaboration between community and industry in creating one of the first bush regeneration sites in Australia.

Embroidering... the future One of the world's oldest embroiderers hosts international conference, prize giving and exhibition At the Powerhouse Museum on November 5.

It was announced that Nathan Hawkes from Edgecliff in Sydney is the winner of the ninth Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship for his work Icebergs 2007, oil on canvas.

Art Gallery of New South Wales announced the purchase of David Hockney's A closer winter tunnel, 2006. The painting, consisting of six canvas panels, is now on public display at the Gallery.

Declared by Messiaen himself to be a master interpreter of his works, renowned pianist Roger Muraro will perform in three concerts for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in late September which will showcase the music for which he has become critically acclaimed.

A Right Royal Rumpus, 2 - 14 October 2007

Every small prince and princess, their stately families and royal friends are summoned to attend this holiday program in conjunction with Diana: a celebration exhibition.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor designate, Vladimir Ashkenazy, returns to Sydney after last year's sell-out concerts to conduct the Sydney Symphony's third composer festival of 2007, the Rachmaninov Festival.

At least nine people were arrested and several injured at a protest rally Saturday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum being held in Australia's largest city.

The Museum of Contemporary Art today announced the donation of $10 million by Sydney business leaders and philanthropists David Coe and Simon Mordant and their families, to kick start the campaign to expand the MCA.

Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that one of the leading arts families in Australia, the Belgiorno-Nettis family, have agreed to donate $4 million to the Gallery over four years in support of its contemporary art galleries.