‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...

How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...

Publishing unattributed votes is designed to increase accountability, as recommended by the RBA review that Treasurer Jim ...

Does anyone remember the first time they heard Aretha Franklin singing “Respect”? It is a song that arrives like a memory already formed. Franklin, too, is like that, and her death last week at the ...

In the crisp setting of Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne, Brent Harris’ exhibition of new paintings, The Small Sword (until 4 November), presents as intriguingly aloof. Soft bodily forms – flat and ...

Director Bong Joon-ho on ‘Okja’, Netflix and the new cinema model Stranger things have happened at the Sydney Film Festival. Still, in the ornate, art-deco surrounds of the city’s State Theatre, the ...

John Birmingham’s article on Julian Assange (‘The Man who Fell to Earth’, October 2010), is typical of the sort of hatchet job that Birmingham would be familiar with, and perhaps even experienced ...

It’s not often that journalistic bias in a piece that condemns it in its subject is as obvious as in John Birmingham’s hatchet job on Julian Assange (‘The Man who Fell to Earth’, October 2010). First ...

The rural scheme for Pacific Islanders that has seen employers fill labour gaps and workers send money home I realised too late that the front door was open. I should have called out and let myself in ...

The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s ...