culture

Philippa Hawker Fairy Tales at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art draws on a rich range of art forms to investigate the enduring fascination of fantasy and folklore.

Lisa Radford Nadine Christensen’s first retrospective exhibition surveys 25 years of a diverse practice.

Anthony Carew Ridley Scott’s epic Napoleon isn’t as bad as his worst films, nor is it as good as his best.

Katherine Cross Northway Games’ I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a sci-fi visual novel without peer, which powerfully evokes the emotions of adolescence.

Jane Howard Performa Biennial takes an open view of performance art, showcasing work that might as easily be dance or theatre for a visual art audience.

Shaad D’Souza Siblings Lulu and Angel Prost, recording as Frost Children, are among the few who make the historically vague revival ‘indie sleaze’ a real thing.

Sarah Krasnostein Nathan Fielder’s new comedy drama, The Curse, takes his work into wilder territory.

Jonathan Pearlman Death toll soars in Ukraine. Chinese sonar incident injures Australian divers. Genocide fears in Sudan.

Louisa Lim The podcast Body Electric seeks to undo many of the physical and mental harms of working with technology.