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.
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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.
White people hugely influence the Aboriginal art world – but that can be a good thing, according to the artists.
Like many Australian museums, collectors for the Queensland Museum played a role in the violent dispossession of First Nations people.
A mossy sanctuary in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges houses 92 sculptures, mostly of Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara men, women and children. They are steeped in primitivism, yet the park is a popular tourist attraction.
Journalist Stan Grant has argued that we need to stop talking about Meghan Markle’s ‘mixed race’ identity. But our society still categorises people according to race - and we need to discuss this.
A new room will open at the NSW State LIbrary today, furnished with objects from Donald and Myfanwy Horne’s study. Their daughter, Julia, reflects here on a writing partnership and the room that fostered it.
A 17-minute video artwork reflects on time and changing urban communities.
In our ongoing Guide to the Classics series, we look at Heart of Darkness: the product of dark historical energies that continue to shape our contemporary world.
Nakiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown is an explosive collision of genres that executes Indigenous justice with extreme prejudice.
In the face of mounting political isolationism, translated fiction might just be the thing to save us.
In the 1850s, the women’s dress reform movement advocated for a return to medieval design. The practice continues today.
In Cargo, zombies roam Australia and Aboriginal people living off the land are best equipped to repel them. The first half hour is brilliant but the film becomes far less satisfying.
Why not turn the moat of parkland enclosing Parliament House into a new inner-city?
Basket weaving and knitting are used pejoratively to make a point but not ‘manly’ pursuits such as metalcrafts or woodwork.
When Queen Victoria donned white for her wedding in 1840 she started a trend that continues today. Other royal weddings have proved to be just as influential.