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Lindy Percival

Lindy Percival

Lindy Percival is Spectrum Editor at The Age

These two women changed the world, one fashionable shockwave at a time

Life would have been so much duller without Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo. A new exhibition gives thanks.

  • Lindy Percival

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What is Squid Game up to this time? The clues are in the colours

As the hit Korean series comes to an end, we decipher a history of scene-setting colours.

  • Lindy Percival
Sunlight on the Road, Pontoise (1874) by Camille Pissarro

The now-iconic paintings that were once derided as monstrosities

As a lavish display of Impressionist works opens, an anatomy of three of the show’s iconic paintings reveals why art’s original rebels can still surprise us.

  • Kerrie O'Brien, Lindy Percival and The Visual Stories Team

The world’s most joyous artist brings her message of hope to town

Melburnians will have plenty to smile about when Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama exhibition opens at NGV International.

  • Lindy Percival
Nikki Shiels, photographed at the Melbourne Tram Museum, revisits Blanche DuBois for the modern era in the MTC’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

This play is set in 1947. What it says about us will surprise you

A Streetcar Named Desire lands with impeccable timing for the MTC. As the nation grapples with the awful toll of gendered violence, what we’re seeing feels anything but dated.

  • Lindy Percival
Prudence Flint in her home studio, with works for the NGV Triennial.

‘A bit dangerous’: Why people worry when this artist paints men

Men have appeared in only four of Prudence Flint paintings, either naked or semi-naked, and very much in the background. Her depiction of them sometimes challenges her viewers.

  • Lindy Percival
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Would you like a burger with that? NGV puts variety on the menu

This year’s Triennial showcases contemporary art of all shapes and sizes.

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Black cats & cameras - how to herd a feline into a photo-shoot

The art of avoiding (black cat)astrophes: How creatives navigate their superstitions

Halloween reminds us that even our most successful artists knock on wood. Our photographer herded some felines to show you.

  • Lindy Percival
Angourie Rice in My Sister Jill.

You’ve seen this rising star before, but never like this

After 14 years in film and TV, Angourie Rice is a long way from Hollywood as she makes her mainstage debut in Melbourne this week.

  • Lindy Percival
Sexiest scenes in cinema

A shirtless Jeff Goldblum to Jennifer Lopez: The sexiest scenes in cinema

Strippers, vampires, peaches and cream: to celebrate the release of Magic Mike’s Last Dance we pick the sexiest scenes on screen.

  • Meg Watson, Thomas Mitchell, Lindy Percival, Melanie Kembrey, Karl Quinn, Nell Geraets, Osman Faruqi, Billie Eder and Michael Bachelard