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Drag is an ever-evolving art form, which has emerged from underground clubs to the spotlight.
Disgraced Australian entertainer and artist Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93.
The martini cocktail has existed in a number of guises throughout its ice cold, crisp life – including many questionable modern variations.
Catherine II, holds a significant place in Russian history. The Great doesn’t pretend to adhere closely to the historical record.
There are a lot of similarities in Jewish and Indigenous experiences and values, but there are just as many differences.
There is something truly ineffable about art in its metaphysical otherness.
Whalebone is the colloquial English term for a material known as baleen. Baleen is not bone.
Perth synth-metal band Voyager was voted ninth in the world at the 2023 Eurovisions. Was the keytar the secret to their success?
There is also a long history of using paedophilia and ideas about child grooming in homophobic and transphobic ways to oppose the recognition of the civil rights of LGBTIQA people.
The backlash against Netflix’s documentary asks the question of how brands should take more responsibility when representing other cultures.
Sweden’s Loreen is now the second person to win Eurovision twice, the first woman to win twice, and the first LGBTQIA+ artist to win twice.
This Australian/UK coproduction tells a story which has received too little attention – but it overlooks some of the more difficult parts of Australia’s migrant history.
I’m a game design researcher focused on creating systems that allow games to be played by anyone. There cannot be a better example of that than The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Anderson’s film style is being rolled out across cultural and geographic borders. This syncs with the filmmaker’s affinity for global cinema.
Safe Home attests to the ways violence is insidious and ingrained in systemic structures of power.
The original Minecraft is generally regarded as one of the most successful computer games ever made – but its spinoffs never come close to achieving the same success.
Research shows that policing music and musicians often criminalises or marginalises young people, particularly young people of colour.
Beef gives permission to its feuding central characters and minority audience members to feel complex and nuanced emotions.
Grand mosques mark the urban space of major historical cities such as Mecca, Medina, Cordoba and Tunis. Now, Melbourne has its very own.
This year’s Archibald and Wynne Prize winners show that a new generation of artists have now entered the mainstream.
A US court has ruled Ed Sheeran isn’t guilty of plagiarism. The ruling supports the rights of musical artists to build from the artists who came before them.
Queen Charlotte captured viewers’ attention in the Netflix series Bridgerton as the snuff-sniffing, gossip-garnering, biracial wife of the “mad king” George III.
Inspired by art history and collections in museums, So has drawn on the visual language of figurative vessels and objects from Assyria, Egypt, Iran, Latin America and China.
The Australian Ballet’s new double-bill Identity stages the work of Daniel Riley and Alice Topp in a reflection of the identity of Australian dance – and Australia.