Culture

Ridley Scott’s epic Napoleon isn’t as bad as his worst films, nor is it as good as his best.

Nadine Christensen’s first retrospective exhibition surveys 25 years of a diverse practice.

Diana Al-Hadid’s work – on show for NGV Triennial 2023 – layers history and memory in works of paradoxical delicacy.

A plush rabbit I got for the children moves by itself. I bought it for my eldest on his fourth birthday. It wasn’t his favourite toy but he didn’t hate it. He cuddled it for a few days and then it was put into a storage bucket under his bed.

Benjamin Northey – now celebrating two decades with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – says Richard Strauss’s Thus Spake Zarathustra is an exemplar of musical storytelling.

Performa Biennial takes an open view of performance art, showcasing work that might as easily be dance or theatre for a visual art audience.

Siblings Lulu and Angel Prost, recording as Frost Children, are among the few who make the historically vague revival ‘indie sleaze’ a real thing.

Nathan Fielder’s new comedy drama, The Curse, takes his work into wilder territory.