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The Influence November 25, 2023
Conductor Benjamin Northey on Thus Spake Zarathustra
Benjamin Northey – now celebrating two decades with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – says Richard Strauss’s Thus Spake Zarathustra is an exemplar of musical storytelling.
Festival November 25, 2023
Performa Biennial takes an open view of performance art, showcasing work that might as easily be dance or theatre for a visual art audience.
Music November 25, 2023
Frost Children and the ‘indie sleaze’ revival
Siblings Lulu and Angel Prost, recording as Frost Children, are among the few who make the historically vague revival ‘indie sleaze’ a real thing.
Television November 25, 2023
Nathan Fielder’s new comedy drama, The Curse, takes his work into wilder territory.
Music November 25, 2023
Avant-pop artist Caroline Polachek is bringing her myth-making performance of desire to Australia for the first time.
The Influence November 18, 2023
Tra Mi Dinh on Ann Veronica Janssens’ installation Blue, Red and Yellow
For dancer and choreographer Tra Mi Dinh, Ann Veronica Janssens’ installation Blue, Red and Yellow is a sensory inspiration.
Books November 18, 2023
The man who wants to pay Aaron, an 18-year-old heroin addict, for sex, is known simply as “The Man”. He is closer to 70 than 60, has black hair, tailored suits and an expensive car. “Everything about him says money, real money and opportunity” …
Books November 18, 2023
Tyson Yunkaporta
Right Story, Wrong Story
“If you want to know where to find your contribution to the world, look at your wounds. When you learn how to heal them, teach others.” – Emily Maroutian Stepping into the betrayal and bitterness of his history, Tyson Yunkaporta’s Right …
Podcasts November 18, 2023
The podcast Body Electric seeks to undo many of the physical and mental harms of working with technology.
Visual Art November 18, 2023
The Miwatj Yolŋu exhibition at Bundanon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view this collection of masterworks, which engage with colonial experience and the modern world.
books
Books November 25, 2023
Who could be grateful for the bombing of Hiroshima at 8.15am on August 6, 1945: an unprecedented, world-changing act of warfare that saw, as Richard Flanagan puts it, “60,000 Japanese souls ascending to heaven”? Flanagan might be. Without the bomb, …
Books November 25, 2023
Russ Radcliffe (ed.)
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023
Cartoonists are the court jesters of the news section. While journalists are constrained by fact, cartoonists speak truth. Consider Glen Le Lievre’s frame of the ghosts of robo-debt at the foot of Scott Morrison’s bed, captioned with “I don’t …
Books November 18, 2023
Lucy Treloar
Days of Innocence and Wonder
Lucy Treloar’s third novel begins with two small girls playing together in a fenced kindergarten. They crush flowers into perfume and promise always to love each other. A man appears at the fence and, when he leaves, he takes one of the girls. The “outside-the-fence” …