Time bandits
‘Oooooo,’ coos the middle-aged box office lady with a wink, as I pick up my tickets to the World Science…
Mao’s music
Smog is making me cough and I feel my eyelids smart and redden. High-rises are swaddled in a soupy haze…
Revealing nudes
Nude begins with that most perfect of bodies: champion archer Teucer drawing his bow, his youthful face absorbed in concentration,…
Revealing nudes
Nude begins with that most perfect of bodies: champion archer Teucer drawing his bow, his youthful face absorbed in concentration,…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
European diary
In the pretty medieval city of Wroclaw one highlight is the pierogis – the fat, soggy dumplings Poland is famous…
Australian diary
In the pretty medieval city of Wroclaw one highlight is the pierogis – the fat, soggy dumplings Poland is famous…
Dark places
The Michael Subotzky interview
The artist as entrepreneur
The Alesandro Ljubicic interview
Cat on a hot petal roof
Architect Amanda Levete brings a feline elegance to Melbourne’s MPavilion
Savagely original Shakespeare
Enraged by African-American deaths, Peter Sellars channels his art into dance and re-interpreting the classics
Fat Duckling
Heston Blumenthal chances his hand down under
Hong Kong diary
After a year of living in Sydney, the smog in Hong Kong is a shock. I do not see even…
Hong Kong diary
After a year of living in Sydney, the smog in Hong Kong is a shock. I do not see even…
Yearning to be connected
The art of Shane Cotton draws on his Maori and European roots
Black humour
The non-PC work of playwright Nakkiah Lui draws inspiration and laughter from dark events in her past
The art of dying
David Walsh sees fear of death and access to sex as integral to old and new art
The Cashmere Steamroller
Naomi Milgrom, one of Australia’s wealthiest women, defies the crtics with her philanthropic design and architecture
A legendary artist
Our own Robert Dickerson, now aged 90, will go down as one of the world’s leading painters
