On Saturday at ANCA Gallery will be the floor talk (2pm) and opening reception (3pm) for Painting amongst other things. Curated by Oscar Capezio, it features works by Vivienne Binns, Ian Burn, Lucina Lane, Patrick Lundberg, Elizabeth Newman, and Jelena Telecki.  It figures "painting" as an unresolved category, merely acting as the locus for a continuous negotiation with different ways of making and knowing the wider world.  The exhibition is on until August 26.

Craft ACT is holding a Science Week talk with this glassmaker and artist on August 17 at 12.30pm where she will unpack the complex process of creating her latest work, a collaboration with an engineer and an astrophysicist from the Australian National University. MACROCOSMIA consists of three large-scale sculptures weighing more than 100 kilograms each, and this is their first public showing.

At Megalo Gallery, Connections: Part One features works by UK Frederick, Ingeborg Hansen, Nicci Haynes,
Anna Madeleine and Erica Seccombe. All of them are at the beginning of new relationships and collaborations with scientific researchers. The work created for this exhibition is the experimental result of new conversations and observations, as artists and scientists consider how each searches for new understandings of the world around us. Connections: Part Two will take place in 2019 to coincide with Science Week and will feature an exhibition, a series of collaborative talks and demonstrations across the fields of art and science. Opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 5pm.

“If at first you don’t succeed, pretend,” says British science theatre writer/performer John Hinton. Two of his three Tangram Theatre Company Scientrilogy shows are coming to the Japan Theatre, Questacon. Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking (August 17-19) tells the story of the eccentric theoretical physicist accompanied by his two wives and mum on the piano, and by guest rapper MC Squared. The Element in the Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy about the Death and Life of Marie Curie  (August 16-18) tells the story of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, More information and tickets: eventbrite.com.au/e/albert-einstein-relativitively-speaking-tickets-47005137632?aff=ebdssbdestsearch and eventbrite.com.au/e/the-element-in-the-room-a-radioactive-musical-comedy-about-the-death-and-life-of-marie-curie-tickets-47003861816?aff=ebdssbdestsearch.

Canberra curator, academic and musicologist Robyn Holmes will receive the Distinguished Services to Australian Music award at the 2018 Art Music Awards on Tuesday,  August 21 at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom.  With a career spanning more than 40 years, Holmes’ driving purpose has been to preserve, collect and communicate Australia's  artistic legacy. Her passion for Australia’s music in particular has been behind her many significant achievements, particularly during her 17 years at the National Library of Australia. These achievements include the online service Music Australia (later incorporated into NLA’s Trove online platform) and the acquisition of the papers of many significant Australian composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale, Ross Edwards, Nigel Butterley and Don Burrows.  Before the National Library, Holmes held several academic positions, notably at the ANU School of Music, where she was responsible for significant curriculum reviews and the development of multiple programs and roles at many other national music and educational organisations.

The Australian Haydn Ensemble presents Schubert Songs featuring Australian baritone David Greco who will sing lieder in newly commissioned chamber arrangements by Vi King Lim for string quintet and baritone. First subscription season in 2012.  It's on August 15 at  The Great Hall, University House, ANU at 7pm. More information and bookings: australianhaydn.com.au/events/schubert-songs.