The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) has been regarded as a classic of European literature since soon after its publication in 1958. It recounts the decline and fall of Sicily’s aristocracy.
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That gentle voice coming from your smart speaker is more complex than she seems.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
Calling out comments about racial diversity in the arts – like those by Josh Thomas this week – should be just the beginning of a deeper conversation about racial justice and representation.
Australian musicians make it work by balancing music and non-music jobs, self-employment, contracts, and a love for the art.
As the American Civil War interrupted cotton production, plantation owners looked to the new colony of Queensland.
Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.
Aboriginal Australians have their own English with unique stories, words and expressions.
Sixty years after it premiered, Psycho remains Hitchcock’s most celebrated film. But it is really two films, glued together by the most iconic scene in cinema history.
Many Australians would like to engage with Indigenous people and history but say they don’t know how. Taking an Indigenous tour is one way to do this and take responsibility for reconciliation.
Monuments are testaments to how a society wants to remember. Now is the time to ask which monuments can withstand introspection. Artists are opening those conversations – sometimes hilariously.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that ‘there was no slavery in Australia’ is at odds with the historical record.
Australian drama, documentary and children’s programs deserve better support – removing content quotas may be the way forward.
Over the past 50 years, protesters’ voices have found power in unison. But activists and onlookers have increasingly been exposed to new sounds that aim to shatter rather than gather the crowd.
Could a lingering impact of coronavirus be a new heyday of the original socially-distanced cinema?
Felicity Volk’s novel Desire Lines traces two families across the 20th century, from the Arctic Circle and to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Coins have always conveyed a message and, helpfully for historians, they are anchored to a specific time and space. Rome’s emperors used coins to push their political agendas.
Concert halls may slowly be able to reopen – but difficulties will remain.
COVID-19 has shown up a mind-bending contradiction. On one hand, the arts are entwined with our daily lives. Yet culture has disappeared from federal policy. Something has gone fundamentally wrong.
Two ABC television premieres – both about the mid-century British nuclear testing at Maralinga in regional South Australia – approach tricky territory in very different ways.
COVID-19 has exposed the insecurity of the cultural workforce. Making the performing arts freely available online may further diminish their value, right when the sector is arguing its worth.
In fiction and popular culture, parasitic characters appear as a metaphor for the threat and spread of disease. But they’ve also played for laughs.
Formed in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Laibach has offended all points of the political spectrum
The destruction of the 46,000 year old site Juukan Gorge forces us to confront archaeology and history in Australia.
Christo’s first major project was Wrapped Coast at Sydney’s Little Bay. His fabric sculptures would become a major symbol in land art.