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Facing the overstimulated audience

Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..

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The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate, like its subject, is brimming with ideas; also in common: an uneasy sense of identity.

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The Past (Le passé)

Asghar Farhadi understands the drama of domesticity, the details – large and small – that eat away at a relationship.

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Theatre of the Revolution

In Egypt, where public theatre is often seen as a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the government, independent artists are revolutionaries…

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Does your favourite film pass the sexism test?

In Sweden, a new ratings system has been introduced to highlight gender bias in film.

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Measuring the value of the arts

Ticket numbers don't tell the whole story but how do you calculate the value of empathy, transformation or community-building?

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Mr Pip

Hugh Laurie stars in this moving, but not too far reaching, film about Dickens in a far flung place.

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Nazi looted art surfaces

Stolen art worth $AUD 1.42 billion has been found in the private home of an 80-year-old man in Munich.

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New record for Whiteley, just shy of $4m

Whiteley sells for $3,927,272 at last night’s Menzies Art Brand auction in Melbourne making it the second highest amount paid

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The day the music died

Why does the death of an artist hit us so hard, and why do we need to publicise our grief?

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