Culture

When I moved to a new school all the kids instantly loathed the sight of me. I immediately started having these dreams. I was only 10, but I dreamt I had a baby of my own. I called her Lola. She was a newborn, but she’d giggle and grab my finger and talk a bit.

As Hollywood reels from economic and political pressures, the 98th Academy Awards has become a contest between Sinners and One Battle After Another.

Anselm Kiefer has re-created his tomb-like amphitheatre at estate La Ribaute to house his works in a new wing of Mona.

This Adelaide Biennial eschews political content, preferring to focus on materiality, aesthetic forces and the ways works of art are experienced.

At 80, restaurateur and activist Duré Dara – whose percussive hospitality features at this month’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival – is as hungry for life as ever.

We didn’t get to the beach often before being moved to the compound and only twice in the years that followed, until I “escaped”. The fact that I use air quotes so long after they’ve been terminated shows the power of that move and the confusion it brought.

Beyond the headliners of this year’s French Film Festival are some treasures, including Jodie Foster in A Private Life and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unsettling The Ice Tower.