Culture

Brisbane Festival 2024 is brave, bold and bursting with thought-provoking work.

Bryce Dessner – composer and The National guitarist, whose recent score is for the Sydney Dance Company – says choreography is often at the centre of his work.

Lucy Tran looked in the mirror and felt invisible, behind her black hair and huge school blazer. She felt invisible on most days. She never thought she would actually disappear, be taken, have her life squeezed out of her. If anyone had told her that her face would be on every television channel, she’d snort in disbelief.

MTC offers a rare opportunity to enjoy the brilliance of Suzan-Lori Parks’s work, with a devastating production of her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog.

Alisdair Macindoe’s new dance work, Plagiary, investigates the artistic possibilities of a collaboration between artificial intelligence and the human body.

French filmmaker Martin Provost has long been interested in investigating the lives of unfairly neglected women artists. His latest feature looks at the hidden life of Pierre Bonnard’s wife, Marthe.

The new Sydney Metro City line is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Australia – and it has moments of the sublime.