Culture

For artist Jonathan Jones, Aunty Esme Timbery’s striking shell works are a direct line to Aboriginal artmaking traditions at La Perouse.

Moulin Rouge reinvents the jukebox musical with a mix of sentimentality and grit that eluded Baz Luhrmann’s film.

In The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a fascinating real-life story of the televangelist movement is obscured by its redemptive narrative.

Sarah Lucas’s boneless ‘Bunnies’ express female corporeality as a social and psychic phenomenon.

Oscar-winning documentary-maker Eva Orner says that despite the dark places she explores, she never gives up hope.

I thought it was a stone at first, the scrape of metal against clunk. Kept digging and turning and if it wasn’t for the sun I would have missed it. But it caught itself a ray; yeah, Emily, a dazzle, nothing gradual about it, fleeting and blinding me quite still with its thin silver shaft. The spare key for the car – the one he lost last summer, he searched for it high and low but not here, not in the potato patch. When all the dirt was scraped out of the grooves, it grew warm in the palm of my hand.

The deepest influence on ARIA-nominated Emma Donovan is the music of her grandparents, Micko and Aileen Donovan.

The MTC’s production of  As You Like It is burdened by heavy direction and a preponderance of song.

The new Australian game Unpacking  is an intimate experience of domestic realism.

The peacock dress of a new office building in Sydney’s Surry Hills belies its ingeniously modest design.