National
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate, like its subject, is brimming with ideas; also in common: an uneasy sense of identity.
The Past (Le passé)
Asghar Farhadi understands the drama of domesticity, the details – large and small – that eat away at a relationship.
Theatre of the Revolution
In Egypt, where public theatre is often seen as a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the government, independent artists are revolutionaries…
Does your favourite film pass the sexism test?
In Sweden, a new ratings system has been introduced to highlight gender bias in film.
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?
Mr Pip
Hugh Laurie stars in this moving, but not too far reaching, film about Dickens in a far flung place.
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.
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
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?
Twenty-three Australian artists make Sydney Biennale cut
Juliana Engberg's artist list announced this week, lives up to growing expectations for her 19th Biennale of Sydney.