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In AMC’s new series Interview with the Vampire, the traditionally homoerotic subtext becomes the text – does this change the nature of the vampire narrative?
The first Chinese object was acquired by the year-old gallery in 1862. A new exhibition looks at this history – and towards the future.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart will give us new meaning to the expression.
The announcement that Amazon would rescue the beloved Aussie soap overturns many expectations about television in the age of streaming.
Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum is one of the best-looking fashion exhibition designs Australia has seen.
80 years after its release, we return to Casablanca and remember its potent mix of romance, thrills and cynicism
The government has backed away from broad hate speech legislation. But the law can be a blunt instrument, and comedians are still better off regulating themselves.
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor reproduces something familiar with a dash of local flavour.
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
The senior artist works across genres, much of her art reading like a stream of consciousness thoughts about contemporary life.
After the roaring success of Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack have produced another play that will captivate audiences.
For a long time, arts organisations retained staff attracted to the ‘romance of being creative’. That’s no longer enough.
Based on the 2019 book, She Said follows journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey as they report on Harvey Weinstein.
Young Ukrainian activists are organising ‘repair raves’ to combine activism and dance in helping rebuild.
Our research into tourism tropes shows how advertising campaigns in Pacific nations recycle some troubling stereotypes.
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.
Each night there is a series of fights. Each winner chicken will continuously fight to the next round until the last winner is announced.
Music has the potential to change our experience of intrusive thoughts and how we deal with pain.
In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed a painting London’s National Gallery to attract publicity to Emmeline Pankhurst’s imprisonment.
The new playground in Melbourne’s Southbank is the work of artist Mike Hewson – and it’s exactly the ‘risk’ it proposes that makes it so valuable.
This year’s program balanced big films like My Policeman, TÁR and Banshees of Inisherin with smaller, edgier films. Here’s the best of the best.
In this play, RBG discusses her most famous cases and her conversations with three of the presidents who served during her 27-year term on the US Supreme Court.
The first Black Panther film was a milestone in Black representation on-screen – now it is hoped Wakanda Forever will be both a mirror and a spotlight for millions of Latin Americans.