Culture

In the Melbourne exhibition Revisions, more than 60 Warlpiri artists remake photographs and archival records to question colonial histories.

Mavis Staples’ vibrant Sad and Beautiful World – her first solo album in six years – shows the octogenarian singer has lost none of her passion for justice.

James Sweeney’s second film, Twinless, is a joy – its unexpected twists revealing a dazzlingly assured filmmaker.

Acclaimed actor and novelist Tasma Walton discovered her inner funny girl in the new television series Reckless.

If this land was made by anyone, it would be you. You always had a crucial role. Woodend is the beauty of your making. Our mountain is grey like the freshwater pearls you wore just in case he came home. The wet mud looks like one of your letters to Dad, dropped in tea by accident. The clouds are whipped and ready for him to come running down the track. But it won’t lead the walker and rider through the valley and past our mountain, to you, sitting on the porch and reading.

The Last Invention is a sober investigation of the possibility that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity.

Highlights of this year’s New York Film Festival include the powerful blood-and-brocade high seas saga Magellan and the heist drama The Mastermind.