culture
review
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.
middle east November 25, 2023
Far-right ‘anarcho-capitalist’ wins Argentine presidency
Death toll soars in Ukraine. Chinese sonar incident injures Australian divers. Genocide fears in Sudan.
podcasts November 18, 2023
The podcast Body Electric seeks to undo many of the physical and mental harms of working with technology.
theatre November 18, 2023
Queensland Theatre’s production of Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone considers the long shadow of war on those who suffer through it.
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.
visual art November 11, 2023
The life of American surrealist Lee Miller – from her traumatic childhood to the horrors she encountered as a war correspondent – was as extraordinary as her photographs.
television November 11, 2023
Steven Spielberg’s Life on Our Planet
Spielberg’s Netflix series renders evolution as an extended feud between rival crime families.
theatre November 4, 2023
Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is loyal to the book but weighed down by exposition.
