The trope of traumatic and violent childbirth is not new to House of the Dragon, and is often used to reflect on pregnant representation and reproductive politics on screen.
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Jacques-Louis David’s picture of death and despair has a strange and compelling beauty.
Russian artists are finding an artistic home in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town 15 kilometres from the Russian border.
After 45 years together the B-52’s have announced they are unplugging and de-wigging for their final US tour - a look back on an iconic and influential band.
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope.
Just like in Westeros, the fates of royal dynasties from history have been shaped by illness and affliction.
Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art is a celebration of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists.
With the rise of streaming platforms, Australian television can reach a global audience – but what will that audience be seeing?
The spread of a virtual disease in the online game World of Warcraft appeared to have relevance to understanding real world epidemics like COVID.
Every year, tens of thousands travel to art events throughout Tasmania. These unique festival landscapes change the way we experience the world – and ourselves.
How To Build A Sex Room is a classic home renovation reality show, with a sexy, and wholesome, twist.
Indigenous oral history is more than a methodology. It is living history, practised for thousands of millennia, intrinsically woven into Aboriginal people’s way of life and culture.
BeReal gives users two-minutes to take simultaneous photos with the front and back cameras on their phone and share it with friends - an experience seen as more ‘authentic’ than other social media.
Breathing new life into a decade-old national cultural policy is a useful beginning. What is required now is an in-depth gestation period to position culture as a public good for the nation.
There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Jordan Peele has only made three films, but in that time he has emerged as a master of high-concept black horror-thrillers, with a social edge and bitingly satirical takes on race, class and gender.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda is a smart re-framing of Alice Pung’s classic coming-of-age novel.
Better Call Saul is one of the last examples of prestige television still airing - with its finale, we say goodbye to the golden era of TV.
In this new reality TV series, Nathan Fielder goes to great lengths to help people rehearse future events.
Game of Thrones made a name for itself with frequent and egregious depictions of sexual assault on screen. The upcoming prequel is moving in a new direction.
Gaslight, fog, and mysterious doorways abound in STC’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a play which is a complex portrait of morals being realigned in a new world of discovery.
On Renaissance, Beyoncé pays tribute to the queer history of house and disco music.
Issey Miyake’s clothing is both theatrical and practical. The Japanese designer has died aged 84.
After shooting and editing mostly completed on the US$90 million film, Batgirl joins a not-so-exclusive list of never-seen movies.