Culture

By Anonymous (not verified) , 20 May, 2023
Two performers upside down on an abstract structure while an audience records on their phones.
Creative Futures Photography/
Flipside Circus’s bright new Brisbane headquarters are built from shipping containers – a possible metaphor for the contingent place of the arts in Australian culture.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 13 May, 2023
My therapist stops writing. Takes his glasses off. He’s got these big bags under his eyes. Looks like he gets less sleep than me.

The only rule, I say, is that you can’t kill them. But there’s a few cases where I think that’s happened. There’d be no way of knowing who did it, though. It’s untraceable. We have names like Cookie Monster, Cousin Greg, Walter White.

He glances at the clock behind me. Back at me.

By Anonymous (not verified) , 13 May, 2023
A balding man with glasses sits at a piano with a pipe in his mouth. A woman sits on the side of the piano, leaning in to read sheet music on the stand.
Everett Collection (above), John McRae (below)
Singer and actor Paul Capsis is inspired by the damaged beauty of Kurt Weill’s music, a signature of the Weimar Republic.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 13 May, 2023
a detail of the portrait of Claudia Karvan, by Laura Jones, titled Claudia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter
The Archibald Prize is Australia’s most popular exhibition for a reason – and it’s treated by the public with a hushed reverence.