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Older women and gay men both rarely see themselves reflected on the small screen.
Archibald Prize 2022 finalist, Yoshio Honjo Yumi Stynes as onna-musha (female samurai), natural earth pigments on hand made washi paper, 97 x 66 cm
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Under the cloud of an election, this year’s Archibald prize is mercifully a politician-free zone. However the artists do have issues …
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Feminists in the 1970s knew the liberation of women and children was inextricably linked.
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The multiverse has been the topic of multiple recent films, such as Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All At Once: but what does science know about the multiverse?
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Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress for five minutes at the Met Gala. That’s showbiz.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still, 1980. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
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Wearing edits life while Sherman imitates it, in these pieces in conversation at Melbourne’s PHOTO 2022.
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The life of the famous pirate Stede Bonnet has been turned into a ridiculous comedy in Our Flag Means Death – but who was the real gentleman pirate from history?
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A new scheme in the Republic of Ireland provides a compelling model for supporting Australian artists.
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Women don’t want to ‘intimidate’ a man through their photos – but this is just one way they are hiding their true selves.
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The outrageous martial arts scenes in Everything Everywhere All At Once pay homage to classic films like Jackie Chan’s Rumble In The Bronx and the Hui brothers’ The Private Eyes.
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It’s only when the characters learn how to embrace all of their emotions that they can become their true, authentic selves.
View of the town of Parramatta from May’s Hill, ca. 1840. Painting attributed to G. E. Peacock.
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A chance encounter in the National Library of Australia’s digital archive holds clues about an 1843 cookbook published in Parramatta.
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Netflix’s subscription losses are a worrying shift for a business that had previously only seen sustained growth since 2011 – however there’s more nuance to the issue.
Hand Clutching an Olive Branch ca. 1353–1323 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period.
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Using Greek and Roman texts, Egyptian iconography and archaeological remains, we have a pretty good idea as to how olive oil was made.
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It has been tradition for soldiers to have a drink with Chloé at the Young and Jackson Hotel since the first world war.
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Nicolas Cage has been in over 100 productions. In his most recent films, he is showing some of the finest acting of his career.
Spinner tosses the penny during a Two Up game at Flemington Racecourse during the Anzac Day in Melbourne in 2021.
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Two-up used to be illegal - playing it now helps us remember the spirit of larrikinism and anti-authoritarianism central to the Anzac myth.
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Drama is an engine of discovery as powerful as media reportage, - with the remarkable advantage of putting humans beings under the microscope, linking opinions to emotions.
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Substitute Russia for the Soviet Union and it’s clear why the cult Cold War action movie Red Dawn has found a new fan base nearly 40 years on.
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The Lord of the Rings paperback edition could be said to have sparked the commercial fantasy genre as we know it.
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From the Easter Show to the ‘busy lady’ competition in the Australian Women’s Weekly, we’ve been competitive cookers for over 100 years.
Eugene von Guérard, Mount Kosciusko, seen from the Victorian border (Mount Hope Ranges) 1866.
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Tadeusz Kościuszko was a revolutionary thinker who was Commander in Chief of the Polish-Lithuanian armed forces.
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You might have heard singing helps lower stress hormones – but there are so many benefits to warming up our voices and letting loose.
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While Netflix’s Bridgerton is both incredibly romantic and erotic, the reality is it’s estimated 1in 5 people in the Regency period in London had syphilis and other STIs.
The Saints (Chris Bailey, Bruce Callaway, Janine Hall).
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John Willsteed talks to Ed Kuepper, Peter Milton Walsh and Kenny Gormley about the man who would change Brisbane music forever.