Culture

Multiple Bad Things, the latest show from national treasure Back to Back Theatre, is a troubling evocation of the heightened tensions of day-to-day experience.

Nina Sanadze’s powerful sculptures – now showing in a major survey at NGV Australia – grapple with the brutal histories and emotional contradictions of public monuments.

Netflix’s lavish adaptation of Liu Cixin’s allegedly unfilmable 3 Body Problem is spectacular, if flawed, epic television.

As the cormorants clasped fish, tossed and swallowed, the pelicans were serene and unhurriedly scooped up any mullet that escaped the cordon. The egret minced carefully in high heels snapping up any sprat that leapt too obliquely and landed on the beach.

Photographer Pia Johnson finds beauty and dissonance in Fiona Tan’s complex video works, which explore the hidden histories of empire.

Drawing on the harsh realities of drought and flood, STC’s production of Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World  is an exploration of silent shame and suffering.

The Biennale of Sydney’s occupation of White Bay Power Station, a vast temple of the industrial revolution, is an inspired metamorphosis – and it’s only the beginning of the site’s possibilities.

Maria Madeira, the first artist to represent Timor-Leste at the Venice Biennale, draws on a heritage of abundance to investigate the darkest histories.