Culture

The Australian National Academy of Music’s ambitious ANAM Set Festival offered a cross-section of contemporary classical music.

A book of Torres Strait Island legends illustrated by his grandfather inspired Jimi Bani to discover his heritage.

Amid the Hollywood glamour, the 75th Cannes Film Festival features its best selection of cinema for years.

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The genre-busting pirate romance Our Flag Means Death is straight up hilarious – and artistically and emotionally gorgeous.

At its heart, Meyne Wyatt’s City of Gold is about a family denied the right to grieve.

Brown shapes move across the screen, leaving dark streaks in the mud behind them. Salt glitters, and some darker crystal. The bodies move purposefully, now and then a flash of teeth that must be laughter. Happy workers, covered in the earth they think …

Playwright, actor and director Elena Carapetis’s latest project brings teenage bad-ass Antigone to the present day.

Confined 13 demonstrates that the carceral state can’t crush the creative energy of Indigenous artists.

In late 2019, journalist and author Louisa Lim found herself standing on top of a Hong Kong skyscraper as a band of calligraphers painted a giant protest slogan onto a bolt of fabric. The journalist, who had grown up in Hong Kong, found herself torn. …

“The day after I tried to kill my mother, I tossed some clothes, a pair of hiking boots, a baseball cap and a few toiletries into my backpack, and left at dawn.” So begins Nigel Featherstone’s My Heart Is a Little Wild Thing. It is swiftly …

Ocean Vuong’s work is replete with entrances, openings, doors. In his first poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), stars are “Little centuries opening just long enough for us to slip through.” In his novel, On Earth We’re …