Reviews

Yayoi Kusama: Life is the heart of a rainbow
Beyond the brand, beyond the dots – we review GOMA’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition and dig deep into the factors that…

Louis Theroux: Heroin Town
The first of his Dark States series is Heroin Town, in which Louis visits Huntington, West Virginia, a place where…

TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art
In its second edition, and with a $17.54M boost from BHP, we take a look at Tarnanthi and its legacy…

Gerhard Richter: The life of images
Does the exhibition live up to the legend? We walk through QAGOMA’s Richter show – the largest in the southern…

On John Marsden: Writers on Writers by Alice Pung
Pung successfully embarks on an insightful interrogation of the themes that pervade Marsden's work.

Bruckner Symphony No 3/Gewandhausorchester/Andris Nelsons
A moving and respectful account of a problematic work.

Hilarie Mais
A survey long overdue. Sitting between sculpture and painting, Mais’ constructions appeal to minimalists and mathematicians alike with their very…

The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture
This extensive exhibition is not only a tribute to the importance that the House of Dior has had on international…

The heart goes last
In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood delivers another disturbing but seductive dystopia.

Overland Autumn 2015
Jacinda Woodhead’s first edition as Editor of Overland continues the journal’s tradition of intelligent provocation.