Audiences know what it’s like to listen to Beethoven’s iconic works - but to play his creations as a concert pianist is to grab the music with both hands and join the composer in a powerful battle.
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In the early 1900s, fortune-telling provided entertainment, social connection and a job for some Australians. Its legal status made criminals of women, yet allowed others entry to the police force.
Beethoven’s compositions combine power, rhythm and deeply felt meaning - and they did not come easily. The composer was ahead of his time, and he knew it, even then.
Rogue coffee cups and changing hairstyles can distract film audiences. Whose job is it to maintain continuity? And does it matter in the big picture?
‘Futuring’ can help us survive the climate crisis. And guess what? You’re a futurist too
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When think about this time next year, are we freaking out, or are we futuring?
This year Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250. Though some of his creations have been overexposed, they are indisputably brilliant. And there are still others waiting to be discovered by music lovers.
Pressure is mounting on fashion producers to stop using skins from Australian native animals. But Indigenous people are reviving traditions and there are ethical ways for trade to continue.
The term Anthropocene - previously known only to geologists and academics - has hit the mainstream. Now it’s being tweeted as shorthand for the negative effects humans have had on the planet.
Philip Pullman’s call for a boycott against the new 50p coin is just the latest Oxford comma controvery.
Alternative therapies have a lot to offer consumers. The Goop Lab only serves to set back the wellness cause.
While popular portrayals of hairdressers and beauticians present them as “bimbos”, salons can also provide a refuge for clients to share painful realities.
There is no single piece of advice that works for everyone, but here is a list that will benefit writers at every stage of their career.
Director Lee Lewis is at the top of her game in this play about family relations, Australia’s treatment of refugees, and the privledge inherent in the audience.
Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak.
Playwright Jane Harrison’s The Visitors shows audiences how a group of Indigenous leaders might have debated what to do when the First Fleet landed in 1788 - but where are the women?
The first director of the National Gallery of Australia has died at 88.
Sarah Krasnostein’s book is not only a provocative premise. It is beautifully written with power and precision.
In today’s economy, adult video stars can’t rely on films alone to make their income. Here’s how they earn all of the rest.
With President Donald Trump’s frequent use of the term “witch hunt” he paints himself as a victim. The women persecuted in one of history’s darkest chapters should not be forgotten so easily.
Jimmy Chi’s 1990 musical is given its first major stage revival – and leaves the audience singing along.
From Peter O'Connor waving the Irish flag in 1906 to rainbow colours at Sochi, athletes have always used the Olympics to share their politics.
A passionate crusader for the rights of women and children, Catherine Hay Thomson went undercover to investigate their treatment in public institutions and testified before a Royal Commission.
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
The pool and the beach have become acceptable spaces to bare all, but how did we get here?
This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.