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In Alone Australia accepting fear as something useful and necessary is essential for survival.
Memes are simultaneously a fascinating historical record of digital culture as well as the detritus of the cyber age.
I met Father Bob Maguire as a young filmmaker in 1990. The words he spoke to me then still reverberate today.
Suzume stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
The Australian comedian has died at 89, after a career spanning seven decades.
Vivian can’t believe her luck when she inherits a clifftop house – but the house comes with unexpected responsibilities.
Archiving the Ephemeral, brings five works by performance artist Leisa Shelton together in a beautifully curated installation.
Stars we ordinarily think of as goddesses are showcased, but the show also asks audiences to rethink what a ‘goddess’ might be.
Loud Sky, at Newcastle’s The Lock-Up, brings together new commissions and community artworks to explore institutional abuse by the Catholic Church.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a great example of why the storytelling world of Dungeons & Dragons has persisted and thrived for so many years.
Diagnosis is more than the medical process of identifying an illness. It’s a social agreement about what counts as disease and a storytelling tool to make sense of dysfunction.
This exciting newly excavated complex illustrates how elite Romans fused utilitarian function with luxurious decoration and theatre to fashion their social and political status.
Some of the media response to the death of John Olsen has been to proclaim the late artist as a ‘genius’. He was more complex than that.
Binding Ties is the first Australian survey exhibition of Catherine Opie, one of the world’s leading photographic artists, at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.
As television has become more nuanced, death depicted in fictional programs has begun to replicate the complexity of ‘real’ loss in our lives.
Revenge narratives share well-recognised tropes: a murder, a ghost, madness, a stronger enemy and a vengeful hero. Each John Wick film honours these elements.
We no longer share our musical interests with just our family, friends or colleagues. We now share it with people we barely know from the internet.
The cross was not always the dominant symbol of Christianity, and would certainly not have been worn as a fashion accessory by early Christians.
Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny speech’ forms the inciting incident and climatic ending of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play Julia, produced by the Sydney Theatre Company.
Supernatural horror film The Pope’s Exorcist fictionalises Amorth’s exorcism ministry, adding in a centuries-old Vatican cover up for good measure.
The government also promises that beyond the four years, the institutions will get indexed funding
Some offerings were political and academic, some were celebratory. Some told us personal or cultural stories, some had 100 dancers, some had one.
Centuries before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the expulsion of individuals or even entire nations was used as a targeted instrument of war.
Marcia Langton remembers Yunupiŋu: a magnificent person and a magnificent leader.