Culture

Okay, let’s just say the temperature is on the snug side. Let me check the notes… a little over 10,000 degrees. But only 5000 if we’re talking Celsius, and we are. Plus, it will be so far away. You’ll get wrinkles, maybe freckles, but freckles are super cute. Don’t you think? Anyway. Where were we? Miles away. More than you can count. Sorry, could you repeat that? There’s a buzzing. Okay, yes. It is still hot enough to burn skin. We get it. Nobody likes burnt skin. Youch. But you know: wear a hat. Put on a shirt – after all, nobody wants to see that. If you have to wander about, just rub this tube of cream all over your body.

With its themes of declining living standards and racial tension, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play Sweat speaks to the present moment.

Apple TV+’s Shrinking is a glorious study of connection, and of friendship through life’s inescapable transitions and difficult initiations.

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: an edition of her collected prose.

Bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country at Bundanon offers a unique opportunity to see top contemporary Aboriginal artists on Country, in dialogue with the exquisite 19th century drawings of Mickey of Ulladulla.

The cane steamed past, so fast it just looked like two fat lines, one green, the other a strip of golden against the blue sky. As we slowed at an intersection, a lady looked down at me from the cab of a truck. I saw her arm squashed against the sill, peeking out of acrylic floral. Her face that lowly with disapproval. The deafening roar of the engine. I grinned, happy despite it all just to be free.

Angelica Mesiti’s installation at the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank, The Rites of When, is a reminder for times of crisis that there are worlds beyond this one.