{"id":295518,"date":"2025-11-19T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295518\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:05:08","slug":"the-virtual-nick-cave-exhibition-opens-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295518\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Nick Cave Exhibition’ opens online"},"content":{"rendered":"

A virtual version of Nick Cave<\/a>\u2018s \u2018Stranger Than Kindness\u2019 exhibition has launched online. Find all the details below.<\/p>\n

The critically acclaimed \u2018Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition\u2019 first opened at Copenhagen\u2019s The Black Diamond in 2020<\/a>, presented by the Royal Danish Library. Two years later, the collection received its North American debut in Montreal, Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It offered fans \u201can unprecedented look into the creative world\u201d of the soloist, Bad Seeds<\/a> member, storyteller and cultural icon.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeaturing full-colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts, it presents Cave\u2019s life, work and inspiration and explores his many real and imagined universes,\u201d a listing reads<\/p>\n

From today (Wednesday November 19), fans worldwide can delve into the musician\u2019s work digitally via \u2018Stranger Than Kindness: The Virtual Nick Cave Exhibition\u2019. The new site is described as \u201ca dynamic, interactive online experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

It boasts an exclusive new audio guide recorded by Cave, accompanying more than 300 objects collected or created by the artist through six decades of his creative and private life.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Virtual Nick Cave Exhibition\u2019 allows users to access the unique experience via an ultra-high-resolution 3D version of its physical counterpart. This gives fans \u201ca deeper engagement with the original content, which includes extensive archive and newly created material including photographs, letters, artworks, objects, installations, audio and video\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cave\u2019s new audio guide was recorded this year as a conversation between the songwriter and co-curator Christina Back. Audiences can navigate the exhibition freely, accompanied by Cave\u2019s own reflections on the exhibition and its contents.<\/p>\n

Visitors can also experience the original soundscapes composed for the spaces by Cave and his longtime collaborator and Bad Seeds bandmate, Warren Ellis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can access \u2018Stranger Than Kindness: The Virtual Nick Cave Exhibition\u2019 for free now here<\/a>. Check out the preview video in the post above.<\/p>\n

Cave served as a co-curator and co-designer of the physical exhibition, which was named as one of the world\u2019s must-see cultural events by Time Out in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind each work is an equally fascinating artistic process not originally intended for public view; the exhibition opens up the innermost parts of Cave\u2019s creative universe and offers a story of its own,\u201d a previous description read.<\/p>\n

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are set to release their new concert album, \u2018Live God\u2019<\/a>, on December 5. The record captures the band\u2019s acclaimed tour in support of their 2024 LP \u2018Wild God\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME about the forthcoming project recently<\/a>, drummer\u00a0Jim Sclavunos<\/a> explained: \u201cTranscendental\u2019 is too pretentious a word, but it\u2019s something like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a really buoyant, joyous spirit to the whole thing. We\u2019ve trodden down the path of being doom and gloom for a long time \u2013 surly men in black and all that jazz \u2013 but we\u2019ve obviously moved on some time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sclavunos kept tight-lipped about the progress on any new Bad Seeds material. However, he said he \u201cabsolutely\u201d hoped and believed that the positive and larger-than-life energy of \u2018Wild God\u2019 and the tour would bleed into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to impart any top secret information, even if it doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d he laughed. \u201cI hate to be coy. When there\u2019s something to talk about, you can be sure we\u2019ll talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have confirmed a UK and European headline tour for next year<\/a>, including a huge homecoming gig at Brighton\u2019s Preston Park<\/a>. They\u2019ve announced appearances at various festivals too, such as Mad Cool<\/a>, NOS Alive<\/a>, Open\u2019er<\/a> and \u00d8ya<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, the official trailer for the TV adaptation of Cave\u2019s 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro arrived earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A virtual version of Nick Cave\u2018s \u2018Stranger Than Kindness\u2019 exhibition has launched online. Find all the details below.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1769,64,63,134,1770,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-295518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alternative","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-indie","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}