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Lubaina Himid’s A Fashionable Marriage – a take on Hogarth’s print series Marriage A-la-Mode that made her the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize – was revelatory for Fijian-Australian artist Salote Tawale.

The Saturday Paper’s podcast critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

The Saturday Paper’s music critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

The Saturday Paper’s film critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

The Saturday Paper’s television critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

Jessica Chastain’s acting career successfully straddles critically acclaimed arthouse projects and blockbuster stardom.

Whatever the pretexts, let me say that disinhibition kicked in around dusk. The photocopier challenge began, as it probably always does, with people photocopying their faces and hands. Personally I regret the direction it took from there, but as team head of human resources tasked with leveraging the input of all employees in the company’s annual targeted goals, I felt compelled to join in.

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.