Culture

Uffizi Gallery, Florence – Painting P1472   ’Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror;   For from the serpents gleams a brazen glare Kindled by that inextricable error   Which makes a thrilling vapour of the air Become a …

Rapper Tkay Maidza’s fleet-footed style-hopping has driven her international success.

Adelaide’s inaugural Illuminate festival offers a mixed bag of work, from the indifferent to the revelatory.

Who – or what – are The Others? This question is asked from the opening pages of Mark Brandi’s exquisite new novel. Are they decivilised humans, as in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? Are they members of an off-the-grid cult? Are they something …

Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Professor Deborah Cheetham AO discusses how the painting Dulka Warngiid (Land for All) (2007) has influenced her musical direction.

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The art of Francisco Goya demands that we bear witness to the horrors of war, both then and now.

Cult comedy I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson asks a simple, recurring question: how far might one go to save face?

Yuri Possokhov’s Anna Karenina is a truly 21st-century ballet, moving between hope and despair.

Hear “mutiny”, think “Bounty”. The shipboard rebellion of 1789 has enjoyed a long and fertile afterlife. It has inspired three films and more than a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction alike, including several titles promising the “true …

Larissa Behrendt’s second novel, the award-winning Legacy (2009), explored the influence of the father. Her new book, After Story, turns her gaze to the matriarchy, which she examines through the fractured relationship of …

There are complex, fundamental questions around how we relate to non-human animals. How can we find a way to organise our systems so they are not exploitative or degrading and are not poisoning the land and water we all depend on? What might a genuinely …