Culture

Actor Austin Butler leaves the heightened realities of Elvis and Dune: Part Two to star in Jeff Nichols’s high-octane tribute to 1960s motorcycle culture, The Bikeriders.

I wonder what is happening beyond these walls and how the people beyond have transformed the All. I wonder what stuff they pull from the ground, what dreams are made on it. I wonder if they still make things to last or only things to burn.

Oscar winner Steve McQueen’s video work Static, in which he circles the Statue of Liberty in a helicopter, is a disturbing work that has long captivated Cate Consandine.

Homo Pentecostus is a complex and moving exploration of the relationships between religion and spiritual and sexual experience.

Kinder World, from Melbourne indie studio Lumi Interactive, is a simple, therapeutic game that is surprisingly effective.

Making new Australian television drama in an age of global competition is a continual challenge. How do we support it? And how do we determine its cultural value?

For four decades, George Miller has been a giant of Australian cinema. His latest film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is his biggest yet.

Someone calls me from the deep twilight across the hallway. It’s Shannon, one of the new graduate nurses who helps monitor the neonatal intensive care unit. She rushes up and pulls me in close, squeezing my arms. I can smell the tuna salad on her breath, see the desperation in her eyes. She tells me the ventilators in the NICU have lost power.

Stadium pianist and composer Balázs Havasi draws from his Hungarian heritage and the epic Romantic paintings of Mihály Munkácsy to create his music.

The classic role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 rejects the capitalist predations of contemporary gaming to create a rich, enchanting world.