Culture

The redeveloped St Kilda Pier is a shining example of a structure that’s well conceived, designed and built, and brings new possibilities to a public space.

The Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries, by Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, is a first-person account of her quest for justice.

They lifted their music sheets up, all of them holding the sheet the same way and at the same height, and the sound of feet stopped and the rustling stopped and the coughing stopped and I guess the lady must have smiled because the girls all smiled back and quickly brushed their hair off their foreheads and became like statues. Finally, the lady bent down into her crutches and lifted her hands up as much as they would go while resting on the crutches, and the shoulders of every girl in the choir bounced up all at once as they took a breath.

From modest beginnings, Melbourne’s annual Midsumma Festival has grown into an iconic celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community – and remains as essential as ever.

Luca Guadagnino’s film Queer, like the William S. Burroughs novel, is a stylised howl exposing the bleak realities of addiction.

A major exhibition of textile works from more than 100 artists is a document of the tensions between art and activism that conveys a mixture of lightheartedness and defiance.

After staging blockbusters across Australia’s main theatres, director Sam Strong returns to Red Stitch, the intimate indie venue that made his career.