Culture
Art & design
‘Look at me like you don’t like me’: Why this photographer loves capturing women at their fiercest
Women have long been told to smile, make nice, be good and not be difficult. Instead, photographer Suzanne Phoenix encourages her subjects to be fierce.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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She was a loving witness to our changing city. How did we forget her?
An exhibition of Viva Gibb’s remarkable photographs evokes an inner-city Melbourne that is long gone.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Exhibitions
Why these tiny vampires deserve our respect
A coming show at the Australian Museum gets up close to bloodsuckers – and it’s not for the squeamish.
- by Linda Morris
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Gina Rinehart
Rinehart portrait saga ends with painting returned to billionaire
The flattering portrait of Gina Rinehart has been returned to its donor after a five-year stand-off over the terms of its display.
- by Linda Morris
Opinion
Literature
The game dames: The bold Australian women who found the world, then brought it home
Were Australian men as well travelled in this era? What made these women so keen?
- by Richard Glover
Two mine shafts stood in the way of a gallery extension. It took 15,000 cubic metres of grout to sort out
The new $48 million wing of the Newcastle Art Gallery is as much an engineering feat as a cultural one.
- by Linda Morris
Cancelled, then reinstated. Now this artist is set to make history at Venice
The artistic pair of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino have been accorded a rare double appearance at the Biennale of Venice at which they will unveil artworks they insist will unify, not divide.
- by Linda Morris
I’m all at sea if I’m not creating: Animalia author Graeme Base
A new exhibition reveals never-before-seen works from the Animalia artist
- by Kylie Northover
The radical new wave of Indonesian activist-artists hitting our shores
Driven by a powerhouse of local collectors and a bold new generation of talent, a high-voltage cultural exchange is rewriting the map of contemporary art.
- by Jenna Price
Can art defeat cancel culture? Feel free to disagree
A new exhibition unites unlikely objects in a bid to beat the bullies.
- by Liza Power
Randa Abdel-Fattah to feature in Australia’s biggest literary festival
The announcement comes just weeks after the Adelaide Writers’ Week event collapsed following a mass boycott when the Palestinian-Australian academic was dumped from the program.
- by Linda Morris