A new stained-glass window at the National Gallery of Victoria offers clues to one of Australia’s most familiar yet mysterious artworks.
- Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
Winter evenings are the perfect time to escape into another world, with teachers in Korea, a fortune teller in Japan, or in a retirement village in New Mexico.
May’s streaming highlights span Watergate-era journalism, an Aussie kids’ heist caper and new works from Timothée Chalamet and Richard Gadd.
This month’s streaming lineup is full of bold and provocative conversation starters.
Whether you’re chasing escapism, comfort, or something more substantial, these titles new to streaming are worth pressing play on.
This month, our experts are loving shows and films from Australia, Canada, the United States and Korea.
From a new ABC drama to a Biggest Loser documentary, here’s the best of what’s streaming now.
Bob Dylan arrived in New York City at 19 in 1961. In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet plays Dylan during his emergence from obscurity.
Our film and TV experts review a host of new streaming picks, including the final season of acclaimed mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
The Future & Other Fictions has something for audiences of all ages and will be a welcome cultural addition to the hot days of Melbourne’s forthcoming summer.
Mid-century Melbourne was an exciting place, writes Lisa French. And her artist father, like others including Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries, found his tribe at a packed, beer-soaked city pub.
I asked Rachel Griffiths what she thought was the key to the film’s success. She identified its universality.
This month’s pickings offer three home-grown productions with a stellar lineup of Australian actors.
Whether you like Ladies in Black or not will depend on if you like shopping, fashion, stories with female leads about female friendship, clever music and 60s costumes.
Love is in the air with three of this month’s picks. But if you’re looking for something colder and darker, we’ve got that covered too.
Looking for something to dive into summer with? Our critics have you sorted.
Stars we ordinarily think of as goddesses are showcased, but the show also asks audiences to rethink what a ‘goddess’ might be.
There is an adage that feminists and women aren’t funny. However, the history of activism reveals humour as a successful strategy for change.
These women were intelligent, charismatic and unconventional – far more than just muses.
Wearing edits life while Sherman imitates it, in these pieces in conversation at Melbourne’s PHOTO 2022.
A new docu-comedy, The Exhibitionists asks why the dominant image of an artist is a man – and places women back in the frame.
Held in the leafy hills of Olinda, organisers expected 80 people – but more than 800 showed up to watch Australian and international films.
The retrospective of McCartney’s work at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale shows an artist interested in connection and intimacy.
Rhonda Senbergs photographed the Australian art world for over 25 years until her death in 1998. From Fred Williams to Bob Hawke to Margaret Olley, many were captured by her lens.
Screen Australia has announced a five point plan to promote gender balance, including A$3 million funding for female-led creative projects.
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