Culture

As the daughter of a painter, cinematographer Ari Wegner found inspiration from an early age in the portraiture of Lucian Freud.

(after Ben Quilty’s Pig 2011) Flying. That’s the word he used. Actually it was Absolutely flying – as in: Must’ve been absolutely flying! Which was fitting because it was clear the car had, …

Documentary theatremaker Roslyn Oades has spent her life investigating the art of listening.

I Older now than the gods who had died long ago, Sisyphus rarely left his head. One day he imagined himself as Tantalus, standing in a lake with water up to his chin; another Zeus, the infinity on the edge of things. But most of the …

Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci disappoints, but the cast’s committed performances still make it worth watching.

The Sydney Festival opens with work that pushes against structures of promise and oppression.

Artist Yasmin Smith uses ash glazes to reveal the history of soil through the trees that have grown in it.

Session one “This sort of thing really isn’t for me. Oh, I do respect what you do, mind. I had a Great Uncle Albert, the head of the family, really, and one ordinary Tuesday he woke up convinced he was Martin Luther. Kept offering …

Listening to student radio reconnects audiences with the power of niche obsessions.

It has been said of Jane Austen’s characters that their primary terror is of being expelled from the class of their birth. In this reading, the astringently measured dialogue and super-sensible alertness to the details of social existence that mark …

You could describe 60-year-old Michael Winterbottom as a prolific British filmmaker. He has more than 30 movies to his name, from dramas such as Welcome to Sarajevo to comedies including The Trip series starring Steve Coogan and Rob …

“I was fed on a diet of lies and invisibility about the true history of this country from a very young age,” recalls Jackie Huggins. In the new edition of her prescient 1998 book Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation, …