Culture

Yiwarra Kuju was a major inspiration behind Shannyn Palmer’s Unmaking Angas Downs, which just won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History.

The Boy and the Heron, released by Hayao Miyazaki at the age of 82, is a psychedelic and profound film that shows he remains a master of animation.

Andrew Upton’s thoughtful and affecting adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull traverses ideas of art, ambition, passion and change.

The Louise Bourgeois exhibition reveals an artist of feral majesty and range.

After his biggest year yet, artist Ash Keating feels he has returned to his first excitement with painting.

I am a solitary figure wandering over the grass. Some people think being solitary is the same as being lonely, but I have often been one and seldom the other. Today I got caught up with a commitment and needed to shift this walk with my friend until late in the afternoon. I am tired and I was hoping he would say ‘another day’. It seems strange he still wants to go.

For composer and conductor Richard Mills, Botticelli’s La Primavera is a masterpiece that mirrors his own preoccupation with beauty and metamorphosis in art.