Culture

Adam Linder’s latest exploration of dance in a gallery space, Hustle Harder, is deliberately designed to prompt the gaze of Instagram.

Showing at the National Gallery of Australia, Nan Goldin’s extraordinary magnum opus, The ballad of sexual dependency, defines an era.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw has done it all, from film to television to opera to rap.

Tommy Sloane was a wee thing and when he was born, they called him little gumnut because his whole head was hard like a stone and they couldn’t find the spot where you were supposed to be able to stick your finger clean through his skull, as if he was already set before he entered the world. He suckled on his mother but in the end, he stayed thin and so they gave him a bottle, which still didn’t help much except he grew attached to it. Even when he was a lad of seven he kept one in his backpack like a lucky charm, so when his mama found it on the road out to the bay she knew it wasn’t good.

When audiovisual artist Robin Fox attended an AC/DC concert in his teens, the viscerality of the experience changed his relationship to sound.

The exhibition Maternal inheritances expands the notion of motherhood to encompass complex ideas of kinship, knowledge and caregiving.

The Australian Ballet’s Identity brings together contemporary Indigenous dance and classical ballet in an inspiring double bill.

A brilliantly curated Rising festival exhibition sets 15 illuminating works by First Nations artists amid the crumbling grandeur of Flinders Street Station’s hidden spaces.

In The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s first film in six years, the Kaytetye director tells a mesmerising story of Indigenous spiritual transformation.

That morning we had pasted virtual missing posters all over the internet. My first thought seeing her was: We should take those down. The whole thing had suddenly become so private. Remy looked up as I squeaked through the gate. We held each other with our eyes, through the hole in the wall. Later, when our baby was asleep, we sat and cried together.