Culture

Every tree that survives this image-crumbling dry spell
is statutory, and those holding on to layers of story
       on that targeted “farmland”, surviving the record-keeping
       as much a record-making, weep sap for what is to come.
They sense their destruction, the modes of approval
that allow images to blur across the world so we composite
       the fragments of who we are with where we have been.

John Meade is inspired by American artist Robert Irwin’s insistence that beauty is the primary experience of art.

Power, a new Netflix documentary on how the history of policing in America has preserved the dominance of ruling classes, has lessons for Australia.

Geelong Gallery’s thoughtfully curated exhibition of prints by Margaret Preston and Cressida Campbell challenges the inferior status of domestic art – especially if it’s by women.

Experimental British musician Tirzah Mastin, on her first Australian tour for the Vivid and Rising festivals, says her work comes almost directly from the subconscious.

The 77th Cannes Film Festival was defined by a long-overdue focus on the experiences of women.