Culture

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is a bloody, carnivalesque epic that focuses on a world of angry young men forced to reckon with the myths of previous generations.

I tell Mum I will have to prune the roses. She says she will do it. They’re heirloom, she says. They can be pruned aggressively, but you need to know what you are doing. We drink our tea and eat our cake. We avoid our earlier conversation, about Stephanie, my daughter. She has not returned their calls nor visited them in several weeks. I should speak to her. I should tell her it isn’t on.

The retrospective Tony Clark: Unsculpted reveals the artist’s enduring fascination with how taste has shaped the history of art.

Tactical Breach Wizards is an instant classic – a thrilling, hilarious spec-ops game that refuses jingoism and glorification of violence.

Winner of the heritage category in architecture’s Oscars, the restored Lucas Glass House is a modest structure on the very edge of the possible.

After failing ballet class in college, Stephanie Lake is now resident choreographer at The Australian Ballet, and preparing to launch a new work with her own company.