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There is nothing to prepare us for the shock to the senses in the National Gallery of Victoria’s latest exhibition combining the works of M. C. Escher with Japanese design firm nendo.
The Rocky Horror Show and its star, Frank-N-Furter, debuted in 1973. His character owes much to older performance traditions.
Writerly acts of confession are garish, they are vulgar and dazzling, but they are the only form of disobedience at many a woman writer’s disposal.
Many school music teachers aren’t trained recorder players. And cheap and badly made recorders are often sold in discount stores. But this an instrument with a fine musical pedigree.
Our contemporary education systematically trashes creativity and unwittingly punishes students for exercising their imagination.
Forty-five years after his death, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has mounted a major exhibition of Tony Tuckson, focussing on his intensely personal Abstract Expressionist works
Few classical musicians can fill out an 8,000 seat hall. But then few classical musicians are like André Rieu.
After Shakespeare and Laozi, Kahlil Gibran is the highest selling poet ever, largely thanks to The Prophet, a set of 26 prose poems.
Petyarre, who won the Telstra prize for Indigenous art in 1996, has died in Alice Springs.
Christians go to fewer gigs, are less likely to listen to heavy metal, and prefer classical music. The reason likely comes down to morality.
Shakespeare’s first reputation was as a poet, and particularly as a sex poet. He would later incorporate his bawdy inclinations into his most famous plays.
The NSW government has purchased the land where Bennelong is buried. His third wife played a key role in the early colonisation of Australia.
We should remember past disasters - such as the 1939 Black Friday bushfires in which 71 people died - and learn from them.
The 1991 Royal Commission into deaths in custody was preceded by an 1850 inquiry, which recommended that Aboriginal people be released should their health deteriorate in gaol.
With pirated and amateur pornography widely available online, porn no longer provides a steady income for many working in the adult industry.
Euripides’ dismissal by some as a misogynist sits uncomfortably alongside his complex and sympathetic female characters.
A new show pairs the acrobatic skills of Circus Oz with the local comedians Die Roten Punkte.
This Perth exhibition is a raucous, overwhelming, exciting and at times confusing immersion into ideas about national identity.
US president Donald Trump’s industrial scale deception has dangerous implications everywhere. What then, can we do to foster a more civilised society?
With anti-semitism on the rise around the world, it is timely to consider how images and media discourses can embolden hate crimes.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg) is a long, complex work. An ensemble performance by Opera Australia transports Wagner’s 16th-century guild of mastersingers to a modern-day men’s club.
Remixing a Beatles album might be seen as both artistically redundant and cynically commercial. But this remixed classic allows us to experience the album in a new way.
The images of Mary Magdalene made by Australian artist George Baldessin in the years before his sudden death in a car accident in 1977 are some of his most powerful works.
This play is in fact two plays woven together, one being a tragic love story, the other a farce set in a mythical land.