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Rumours are out of control following the Kate Middleton photo controversy. It seems the royal family’s PR train is running off its rails.
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Cancellations of Australian music festivals, such as the abrupt end to Pitch Music Festival due to extreme heat, have become all too familiar.
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On the surface, All of Us Strangers is a dark and twisty love story. Underneath, there is the often-present storyline seen in queer cinema: that of trauma and tragedy.
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Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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From Dance Academy to Wentworth, Australian TV experienced a boom of queer representation over the 2000s and 2010s.
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Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
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From the red carpet to the winners and the speeches, our experts dissect the 2024 Oscars.
Installation view, Mangala Bai Maravi. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Courtesy the Baiga Tribe. Artist Assistant: Amit Arjel-Sharma. Installation view, Citra Sasmita. Commissioned by UOB for Children Art Space MACAN Museum Jakarta, Indonesia 2020. Courtesy the artist and Yeo Workshop, Singapore. Photo by David James.
The 24th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, titled Ten Thousand Suns, is an explosion of joy and creative energy across seven venues.
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I took my young son Heathcliff to the show, and his perspective helped me see it through a kid’s eyes.
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Our summer rituals and attempts to stay cool are not unique. Such traditions can be traced back thousands of years to the ancient Romans.
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These private online communities represent a long-held feminist maxim: to solve sexism requires women to solve it themselves.
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Across the program, I was struck by how it was often more in the act of putting on and performing the work, rather than their spoken content, that expressed political responses to our times.
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I recently visited four historic houses in Victoria that are open to the public to get a better understanding of women who worked from home.
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This year’s picks reflect what most cinephiles already know: streaming is the last nail in the coffin in the shift away from cinema to television.
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Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
Jumaadi, ayang-ayang, installation view. Tales of Land & Sea , Bundanon, 2024. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
The three separate exhibitions that come together in Tales of Land & Sea, speak to ancient myths that still speak to humanity.
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Although not a true sign language, the use of sign in Dune can still teach us a lesson about the value of sign language.
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While there is much to praise in The Lehman Trilogy, now playing in Sydney, the impression I was left with was one of a missed opportunity.
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This year, all the Oscar nominees for best documentary feature come from outside of the United States.
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Through a nuanced exploration of place, time, and memory, this new video work invites audiences to reflect on landscape and its relationship to the echoes of conflict.
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Love is in the air with three of this month’s picks. But if you’re looking for something colder and darker, we’ve got that covered too.
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Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.
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Director Justine Triet channels a forensic evisceration of the patriarchy against the backdrop of the French legal system.
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Louis Nowra is one of the most significant Australian playwrights of the past 40 years. Griffith Theatre Company is staging a trilogy of his work.
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The ancient evidence suggests Alexander was particularly close with one of his male companions. But how close exactly?