Culture

Ingmar Bergman stands as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers whose profound impact on the art form – as well as the author – resonates today.

Myrto sits on Moura’s motorcycle and listens a long time to the clamour of birds, vendors, traffic, yapping street dogs, feeling calm as she looks down side streets … sparkling bright moving black of dead-ends, of time running out of space, in the shade of an eye, then it opens again as an aperture dilating – cones of light into cones of light. She returns to her room around midnight and shadow-boxes until she collapses in a heap on her foam mattress.

In HBO’s docuseries Ren Faire, the battle over who is going to succeed the geriatric ruler of the Texas Renaissance Festival throws a surreal light over contemporary politics.

Terra Nil inverts urban building games to rewild wastelands and offer the player a glimpse of environmental hope.

As the designs for the Reimagining Where We Live competition show, residential care for the elderly can encompass a lot more than warehousing people until they die.

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Melbourne performance group APHIDS helped to create a DIY feminist queer aesthetic that reshaped the art form globally.

The prime minister called a presser to address these urgent issues, at the end of which he took off his jacket, pulled off his pants to reveal legs as slender as two threads of yarn and beat his wings hard. Papers flew, journos covered their faces with clipboards, iPads, notebooks, and he shot out the window, followed by the naked head of ASIO and a dozen prominent journalists whose journalism had long ago folded from interrogation into pure raging spite.

Wu-Tang Clan’s seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, was originally designed for only one listener – but recently 500 fans had the unique chance to hear it for themselves.

Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, with a convincing Robert Menzies in the title role, is an intimate portrait of a demented king but is hampered by its performance in the round.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features stunning images of the endangered natural world – and raises the question, what is the most useful reaction to provoke?