Culture

The prime minister called a presser to address these urgent issues, at the end of which he took off his jacket, pulled off his pants to reveal legs as slender as two threads of yarn and beat his wings hard. Papers flew, journos covered their faces with clipboards, iPads, notebooks, and he shot out the window, followed by the naked head of ASIO and a dozen prominent journalists whose journalism had long ago folded from interrogation into pure raging spite.

Wu-Tang Clan’s seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, was originally designed for only one listener – but recently 500 fans had the unique chance to hear it for themselves.

Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, with a convincing Robert Menzies in the title role, is an intimate portrait of a demented king but is hampered by its performance in the round.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features stunning images of the endangered natural world – and raises the question, what is the most useful reaction to provoke?

Actor Austin Butler leaves the heightened realities of Elvis and Dune: Part Two to star in Jeff Nichols’s high-octane tribute to 1960s motorcycle culture, The Bikeriders.

All those houses in the ’burbs were built like they were ships made for each family to survive some flood. Not a literal flood. Another kind of flood. But it turns out they’re not seaworthy. They can’t save anyone. And they’re all drowning out there. I don’t know if you’ve stood in an empty house in the suburbs, but I’ll tell you for a fact they do creak that way.

Namedropping, the Museum of Old and New Art’s most expansive exhibition since 2016, explores the seductions, delights and disturbances of the human drive for status.