Culture

Now in its fifth year, Illuminate Adelaide’s idiosyncratic programming has built the festival into a feast of immersive audiovisual art and music.

Opera Australia’s new production of Carmen features spectacular design and refreshing physical performance, but some complexity is lost along the way.

For acclaimed Ukrainian–Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk, music expresses the glory of human possibility and freedom.

Jeremy had less than an hour to get everything in place before the museum opened. God, he was tired: up all night worrying about whether they’d chosen the right font for the labels. He tapped his Apple Watch: time for one more scan.

French Impressionism at NGV International is the latest in a long line of blockbuster impressionist exhibitions – but the art remains sublime.

A masterpiece of strategy based on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Russian Civil War, Last Train Home is let down by its shallow history.

For Enrico and Franca Taglietti, whose lives and work are memorialised in an exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia’s capital city was an architect’s dream.