Maryam Dari Pagi Ke Malam (Maryam From Day to Night) made its debut at Rotterdam Film Festival.
Anomalous Films/Rhu Graha
Last year saw attendance records smashed at screenings of homegrown movies in Indonesia and Malaysia.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Jason Galea
A sustained dialogue about abuse in the Australian music industry is necessary for change.
Netflix
Physical: 100 has taken the global number one spot on Netflix, just like its South Korean brethren Squid Game – and the similarities between the shows don’t end there.
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The community aspect of music fandom, as exemplified by the vast numbers of Harry Styles’ fans, encourages creative expression.
Reuben Lewis, Morning Meditations, Mona Foma 2023 Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford.
Image courtesy of the artist and Mona Foma
Boundary pushing contemporary art and performance inspires connection at Mona Foma 2023.
Large painting of a crocodile attributed to Majumbu along with two child hand stencils.
Photograph courtesy of the Melbourne Museum, object 019930, object size 2.94m by 1.03m
Majumbu’s work sits in the Melbourne Museum, but until now he has not been named as the artist.
Botchway blacklivesmatter (Divine Protesting) (2020)
©Kwesi Botchway
A new show at the Gold Coast’s HOTA attests to the ongoing influence of pop art today.
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The contemporary Aussie shoey is really about defiance - claiming victory against the odds.
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The recently discovered 2,000 year old Roman dildo barely makes a dint in the long-standing history of sex-toys and aids.
Robin Capper/flickr
Aotearoa’s arts and cultural sector remains on an emergency footing following the last three years of pandemic disruption.
Mick Haupt
Listening to unfamiliar music can expand your horizons, create new memory bonds and offer fresh pleasures.
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If the directors of superhero movies are considered auteurs, why aren’t the writers and artists who created the comics they’re based on?
Men at Ken’s Karate Klub, Kensington in 1977.
William Yang
Sydneyphiles remounts Yang’s 1977 exhibition, documenting mainstream Sydney and the illegal gay party scene.
Jane Zhang/Stan
Stan’s new series adapted Rebecca Starford’s memoir gives brutal and honest insight into the consequences of bullying.
Belvoir/Brett Boardman
Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
A depiction of an earthquake in a 14th-century Apocalypse.
British Library
We might expect that accounts of earthquakes from the medieval period have been lost to history, but some have survived.
Warner Bros. Games
The new Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, has generated a lot of controversy, which is reflected within the gameplay itself.
© Cross family trust
These disappearances demonstrate deep flaws in the way Australia maintains our rich cartoon heritage.
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In the past, roses on Saint Valentine’s Day were something unexpected, and very expensive.
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Love languages – the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago – has taken the relationships world by storm.
CMC Pictures
Amid global a crisis, China rises to save the world – while Western countries descend into chaos.
Mirror case, ivory, a Lady Crowning her Lover, Paris, France, ca. 1300.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Today you are probably more likely to gift chocolates than fish.
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What is the ongoing appeal of a film dubbed ‘the Citizen Kane of bad films’ 20 years on?
AR/BNPS
The Chinese ‘spy balloon’ shot down over the US has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines.
Run for Cover
Australian feminist indie-rock outfit Camp Cope have been leaders at a critical juncture for gender equality in the music industry.