The Australian expressionist painter Sidney Robert Nolan (1917-1992) emerged in the 1940s as a leading figure among the artists then beginning to articulate Australians' newfound awareness of their environment. Born in Melbourne on April 22, 1917,...

Sir Sidney Nolan, 75, one of Australia's most famous painters, died Nov. 27 in London after an apparent heart attack. He had pneumonia. Sir Sidney had lived in Britain for 40 years, but returned to Australia often to paint and sketch. He...

Sydney has a short attention span--and an even shorter memory. When this Sidney Nolan retrospective opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, no mention was made of Nolan's landmark 1967 show under the same roof, which so dazzled the novelist Patrick...

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. In recent years we've watched American Ballet Theatre rising, New York City Ballet falling, the Kirov and the Bolshoi struggling to regain their former glory. But no major company has had a...