Culture

Mr and Mrs Williams live on a large property where they raised their children. The children are gone and now there is too much house. At first, they liked spreading out, claiming rooms for their hobbies. Mr Williams designed the Gym, the Library and the Oratory. Mrs Williams created the Sewing Quarter, the Spooky Suite and the Decoupage Den. Both had a hand in creating the Kitty Room, a place of carpeted ladders, dangling woollen balls and boxes, where their cats once pursued their obscure feline purposes. There are no more cats at the house, the special rooms are unused and Mrs Williams has dementia.

Exceptional performances and spirited direction allow Richard Linklater’s new film, Blue Moon, to transcend a dismal screenplay.

Light almost bends into the valley
with the sun still some distance away
and a solitary kangaroo doe is feeding
inside a clear, freezing morning.

Tasmanian harpist Emily Sanzaro found a way to face her nightmares when she undertook residencies at the Museum of Old and New Art.

The Sydney Festival is a reminder of how art can heal and processional, interactive work can make community.

The dementia ward door was tucked behind the cheerful little cafe, sporting salt-and-vinegar chips and paper-thin birthday cards on wire-frame racks. Rosie turned right and trudged down the other corridor, following the faint-but-growing scent of wee and lemon disinfectant.

A retrospective of Ron Mueck’s hyperreal sculptures reveals the discomfort of voyeurism, while two recent sculptures herald a new phase in the artist’s work.

Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Shakespearean novel, Hamnet, is a film about the collective expression of grief.

Here’s something Jen would never, ever have dreamed of doing, back in the days when she was married – listening to relationship advice from her barely teenage son.