Culture

Geraldine Viswanathan has outgrown her dreams of being Hannah Montana, and is now focused on inspiring the next generation of female actors of colour.

The story of Robert Oppenheimer may be perfect fodder for Christopher Nolan as a director, but his lack of prudence when it comes to storytelling causes his latest film to implode.

I wasn’t always here, of course. I’ve lived elsewhere. But I ended up here. My mother was already old then, when I came back home. She simply opened the door and let me in. I had nothing. I didn’t even have a suitcase. It was just me in the clothes I stood in. I’d called ahead, to say I was coming. There was a phone here then. There’s no phone now. I can’t afford it. All right, she said, I’ll see you when you get here. So I got here and she opened the door for me.

For artist and writer Jennifer Higgie, feminist art historian Griselda Pollock revealed the structural exclusion of women artists and their work.

Michael Zavros’s hyperreal depictions of his family and luxurious lifestyle often annoy critics but, as a retrospective demonstrates, they have an unexpected life.

Drawing from her dialect verse novel, Orlam, PJ Harvey’s spellbinding new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, bristles with sublimity.

Peter Evans’s production of Romeo and Juliet for Bell Shakespeare brings the young lovers into an everyday world.

Ash Flanders has always pushed against convention. His new play, This Is Living, is no exception.