culture

Sydney Festival’s new director, Olivia Ansell, wants to remind the city of its unruly histories.

On the brink of their biggest release yet, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally reflect on what has made Beach House the darling of indie pop.

Leah Purcell’s life and spirituality are expressed directly through her work, as writer, director and performer.

Todd Haynes’s revelatory documentary The Velvet Underground is the latest in a long career of portraying outsiders.

Behind Sjón’s multifaceted work – novels, poems, screenplays and some of Björk’s greatest hits – is a profound belief in the power of poetic imagination.

For Corrie Chen, the chance to direct the groundbreaking television series New Gold Mountain was the fulfilment of a dream.

Sri Lankan–Australian sculptor and ceramicist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran refuses to be pigeonholed.

A multiplatform project launching this month melds visual art and journalism to mark the cost of two decades of conflict in Afghanistan.

Their intense collaboration has seen Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine commingle the sacred and profane.