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For mature-age students of the Study Centre in the 1970s, education offered them a new life.
From J.M.W. Turner to Yayoi Kusama, this exhibition explores 200 years of art about light.
Australia is seen as a country that does not value musicians the way they are valued elsewhere in the world.
Pure Form at the Art Gallery of South Australia brings together some of Japan’s most interesting post-war art.
New York’s tiny Fire Island, featured in the new rom-com film of the same name, has a long history as a haven for gay people.
With former Chunky Move founder and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek as co-director, dance had a heavy presence at this year’s Rising festival.
Elvis is full of Luhrmann’s signature self-indulgence, inflated budget and artistic grandiosity – I loved it.
Our expert saw around 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and presents their top picks.
Land Abounds, created for Ngununggula in the heart of NSW’s Southern Highlands questions the comfort of the Australian landscape tradition
A good celebrity apology is rare. Lizzo recently apologised for the use of an ableist slur in her new single, which is considered one of the rare examples of a sincere apology.
Kate Bush has been ‘discovered’ by a younger generation of fans, proving that her music has a timeless appeal.
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
Pompeii is remembered as a place of surprising liberality – but the ‘masturbating man’ is probably a far less lurid tale than assumed.
He’s been awarded Father of the Year – but there is a darker side to this character we need to talk about.
The Picasso Century at the National Gallery of Victoria is a remarkable exhibition that may change the way you will view Picasso.
The nine shows include two 2022 Tony Award nominees – and three more Broadway productions are set to open in coming months.
E.T. is a movie with a heart. The special effects are minimal. What counts is the story, and the boy and his friend at its centre.
In this new work at Melbourne’s Rising Festival, Anything & Everything lets kids tell us how they see themselves and the world around them.
Most of Garland’s films are strikingly void of musical numbers that exist purely for their own sake. Her talents as an actor and singer would shape the movie musical for decades.
From unwrapping parties to grinding-up mummies to make medicine, Europe has a long and strange relationship with Ancient Egyptian remains.
June 8 marks the 50-year anniversary since Associated Press photographer Hyung Cong ‘Nick’ Út captured one of the Vietnam War’s defining images.
Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.
Running Up That Hill had a prominent moment in the new season of Netflix’s Stranger Things – and now it’s being played on commercial radio and being discovered by a younger audience.
We are repeatedly told superior technology is one thing, but it’s not the plane that’s important in this film. It’s the (American) pilot and their instincts.