The arts world in general —and with it theatre in particular— is opening up. Not only is the Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery in London on at the National Gallery in Canberra, but Bill Henson, as great a photographer as the world has known, has a show at Roslyn Oxley’s gallery in Sydney which brings to fulfilment various pictures that were first meditated and indeed ‘first’ drafted in the 1990s so that the viewer may be startled to recognise the faces of models or thematic configurations from 20 or more years ago.