Culture

Claire was careful her door didn’t slam. She felt along the wall for the stairwell lights. Her phone vibrated; the driver was close.

The Australian Ballet’s joyous performance of Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes is a vision of America replenished by the cultures it has suppressed.

The videos in Ragnar Kjartansson’s first Australian solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria open the dark possibilities of make-believe.

Indie singer-songwriter Hana Stretton’s first album, written in solitude during fire, flood and Covid, made her a cult hit. Her new album, tiarn, is about human connection.

A new Campbelltown car park shows the future of ‘carchitecture’: light, colourful and ready to be converted into something else as our need for private cars diminishes.

The cat belonged to her colleague, who was in Portugal. She was doing him a favour. She thought about the favour often, its scale, its generosity, what it said about her as a person, the way you think about generosity when it isn’t producing the right results.

Yve Blake’s delightful recasting of Macbeth as a Disney child star in Bell Shakespeare’s Mackenzie sparkles with well-aimed wit.

For decades, the psychedelic space rock band Hawkwind have been testing the edges of what is possible.

In his debut feature, First Light, director James J. Robinson grapples with questions of faith, cultural dislocation and belonging – issues that assailed him as a queer child.

Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at the Art Gallery of NSW explores the cyclical nature of human experience while presenting multiplicity as an antidote to our polarised world.