Festival guests viewing Dwoort Baal Kaat rock formation at East Mount Barren, Western Australia. Photo by Gaylene Galardi (2022)
A 20-year cultural revitalisation effort has led to a songline being sung again on Country, to an audience of 140 people.
New Line Cinema
In the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, the dark realm of Mordor is created by diverting a river into a dormant volcano, setting off a huge eruption – but is this scientifically viable?
Pitta Pitta (Google’s Earth) 2022 from series (Dis)connected to Country.
Jahkarli Romanis
Under COVID travel restrictions, I couldn’t travel to Pitta Pitta Country. Instead, I travelled to Country through Google Maps.
Jessie Boylan
The air that arrives at Kennaook is said to be some of the cleanest in the world. I set up my camera and tripod, and started filming.
Austin Distel/Unsplash
This isn’t the first dating app to intersect tech, dating, intimacy and politics.
Cup and saucer commemorating the opening of Federal Parliament 1927.
National Museum of Australia
Following the crucifixion of Jesus, it was common for pilgrims to collect dirt and pebbles from Holy Land sites.
AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File
The British crown is the only surviving European monarchy that retains a coronation.
Sue O'Connor
This artwork tells the incredible story of the Indigenous Traditional Owners who have long called the Tanami home.
Netflix
Criticism has been levelled at Netflix’s drama series about the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, including from his victim’s families, who say they were never approached about the show’s release.
MidJourney text prompt:
‘HAL the computer approaching through the foggy morning mist’.
My first image requests were whimsical queries, nocturnal flights of fancy, gentle tentative casts into the virtual spirit world.
Netflix
Undercover cop narratives are usually full of anxiety, but The Stranger goes a step further, focusing on the trauma and darkness of the job.
Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH, installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Photograph: Andrew Curtis
WORD MADE FLESH at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is a comprehensive survey of this singular artist’s work.
Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022 (still).
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
View from inside the Great Southern Land gallery at the National Museum of Australia.
Supplied NMA.
The National Museum of Australia has just opened the most significant redevelopment in its history.
Amazon Prime
Fears around the masculinisation of women is central to A League Of Their Own, and reflect how women’s appearances are policed in the pursuit of an ‘ideal’ femininity.
Unsplash
Pianos can seem like members of a family; but new homes for them can be hard to find.
Moratorium for Black rights Sydney from the film NINGLA ANA.
Ningla-A’Na has now been restored and is being re-released in Australian cinemas.
Cherished Pet Foundation
Even though the typical mobile gamer is a middle-aged woman, ageist stereotypes about gamers continue to circulate.
When the World Turns by Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart.
Photographer: Theresa Harrison
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
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Today she is most recognised for roles in Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music, but Julie Andrews made her professional West End debut at the age of 12.
Dora Maar, as painted by Pablo Picasso.
FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EPA
These women were intelligent, charismatic and unconventional – far more than just muses.
Aerial photograph of the Sydney Modern Project construction site, taken on September 7 2022.
Photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Craig Willoughby
The ‘Sydney Modern expansion’ seems a fitting description of a building that effectively doubles the size of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Stan
In my research into the Bali bombings and their aftermath, I have spoken to many people who were there or lost someone in the attack.
Channel 5
Australian children’s television is a leader in onscreen queer representations, due in part to its primarily cultural role.
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
Appeals to social organisation are about knowing one’s place, a particularly English preoccupation.