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The Sydney Film Festival’s 2018 program was outstanding. Movies to watch out for include a WWII-contemporary mash-up set in Paris, a doco about mammoth hunters, and Spike Lee’s racially charged cop movie, BlacKkKlansman.
MONA could encourage more low-income visitors by making entry free for all concession card owners.
The powerful ideological connection between Australia and agriculture is being increasingly scrutinised. A spate of recent books have recast basic assumptions about our relationship to the land.
In an ambitious new work of theatre and dance, performers read out mathematical theories then build scenes around them.
Thousands of Australian women took flight to the US in the early 20th century, escaping sexism at home for success overseas. They included architects, artists, dentists and an economist who advised JFK.
All of the big names are present in this show – from Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo to Roy Lichtenstein and Cindy Sherman – and represented by some of their best-known work.
In a Journey to Freedom, 13 artists give expression to the experience of imprisonment. In Zero, artists are seeking to escape the past.
Women make up the majority of arts consumers and employees, but men dominate at every level of arts leadership.
Upgrade, the latest film from Saw creator Leigh Whannell, is one of the best Australian films of the 21st century.
Notions of heaven have changed through the ages, from an eternity centred on God to a more secular place where loved ones will reunite.
Tony Albert reassembles items of ‘Aboriginalia’, featuring kitsch caricatures of Indigenous people, with wit, playfulness and serious intent.
Around 14% of Australians identify as spiritual. It is time they were given the same rights as those belonging to organised religions.
Kate Spade has been found dead in New York, age 55. Her handbags, first released in the early-1990s, introduced young professional women to affordable luxury.
Ken dolls with a ‘man bun’. Female superhero action figures. At long last, the gendered distinctions of the pink and blue toy aisles are starting to break down.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s shocking civil war play is successfully transferred to the Australian desert by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
The 1970s transformed Australian drama. It was a time of imaginative brilliance as the Empire wrote back.
In this episode of Close-up, Bruce Isaacs contrasts the unsettling musical score from Hitchcock’s Psycho with Howard Shore’s score for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
In many legal jurisdictions of the world, including Australia, an offender’s remorse is a mitigating factor at sentencing. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear.
Since 2017, only 13% of full-length works by Australia’s major dance companies have been choreographed by women.
In this age of the pseudo-factual, its more important than ever to acquaint ourselves with the foundations of the scientific tradition, such as Darwin’s Origin of Species.
The decision to cancel the series – and remove it from air in Australia – demonstrates there is a clear line that even money can’t cross.
Sixty two countries are represented at this year’s International Architecture Exhibition. In the Australian Pavilion, 65 species of grassland plants fill a black cube.
The short answer is that the accent you have depends on the people you grew up with and the history of the place that you live in.
In Terrestrial, teenager Libby wants aliens to whisk her across the galaxy to escape her abusive father.