Culture

I have been in this queue my whole life. We can faintly hear the murmurs of the person at the front, talking to the person in charge of whatever it is we are queueing for. Sometimes, from a change in volume or tone, it seems as if the front person might be about to wrap up their business and then I and everyone else who has been in this queue their whole life will experience what it is like to move up one place.

When writer and disability advocate Hannah Diviney first encountered the songs of Taylor Swift as a young girl, she discovered the power of storytelling and how to imagine a different future.

Pinchgut Opera’s contemporary production of Médée is musically glorious, if a little static in its staging.

The mysteries and folklore around Hanging Rock made a fitting backdrop for a performance by Nick Cave, pitched between the sombre and the sublime.

The exhibitions in the new Sydney Modern wing of the AGNSW show what a gallery can propose for a city.

Gratte Ciel – next year’s drawcard for WOMADelaide – comes from a centuries-long tradition of French street performance.