Culture

She came to see my parents about milking our goats. Have you ever milked goats, my father asked her. No, she said. My mother got down the medium good china for her cup of tea. She looked like she preferred a mug, but she took the little cup and saucer, held them in her outdoor hands.

S. Shakthidharan has scaled down his usual epic theatre for a four-woman show with a stellar turn at its heart.

Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives explores the capitalist trappings of modern romance, without subverting them.

Rejecting the cacophony of the current age, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds listens to the silence between the notes.

Cézanne to Giacometti at the NGA, which pairs renowned pieces from the Museum Berggruen in Berlin with similarly inspired Australian works, complicates the linear logic of Western art history.