Culture
A narrow escape: Murdoch’s failure to launch Fox here
Poor Andrew Bolt. Not long ago the right-wing blogger and News Corp columnist was in line to become the Bill...
Woody Allen: Filmmaker as a “lazy imperfectionist”
Another year, another Woody Allen film. They were as regular as annual rumours of another Stones tour. And many people...
Dior at new NGV exhibition in Melbourne – pas mal for 70!
Svetlana Lloyd, at Melbourne's NGV, looks upset as she recounts how she donated her Dior dresses to the Brooklyn Museum, only...
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters at Canberra’s NMA
As tense as a Hollywood epic, and as multi-layered as Greek mythology, the Songlines of the Seven Sisters dreamtime story...
Captivated, captured: Fitzjames in Italy
Artist Michael Fitzjames opens his newest show Italia in Sydney on October 17 at the Australian Galleries, Roylston St, Paddington. He reflected on life...
The beauty factor: Is this Darwin’s most seditious idea?
For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Books by Darwin number 25. Books about Darwin, according...
In Patagonia forty years on… the myth of Bruce Chatwin survives
Forty years after the publication of his groundbreaking travelogue, In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin’s writing — and style — have lost...
Has a masterpiece been saved from obscurity by a keen amateur?
It's something many of us dream of - stumbling over a lost treasure which is saved from the detritus of...