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Our stereotypes of scientists are usually limited by lab coats and beakers, but photographer Tamara Dean's project for the Australian Museum reveals their intimate relationships with nature in her signature romantic style.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart didn't play the piano, he played the fortepiano. The fortepiano is an entirely different instrument that is still performed today. One of the world's foremost performers on the instrument is Kristian Bezuidenhout who is currently in Australia performing with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair has returned to the railway workshops and old industrial spaces of Carriageworks for its second year. At an art fair a range of galleries exhibit in one space and this year Sydney Contemporary had every major Sydney gallery, along with a few international ones. But does it end up being about art at all, or is it just a marketplace that is all about money? The Guardian's art critic Andrew Frost assesses this question.

The increasing availability and use of unmanned aerial vehicles by Governments and private citizens is causing anxiety among some about how drones may affect our security and privacy. This anxiety is explored in the latest experimental theatre piece "A Drone Opera" at The Arts House in North Melbourne. The world premiere is created by visual artist Matthew Sleeth who seeks to address these concerns.

Jarryd James' musical career has undergone a transformation. Having endured limited success as lead vocalist for his former band Holland, in 2013 Jarryd gave up on music altogether. In early 2015, he accepted an offer to tour nationally with Angus & Julia Stone as a solo performer. It is during this tour that he fell in love with music again and decided to give it one last crack.

The Australian Ballet's resident choreographer Tim Harbour believes recent cuts to Australia Council funding will affect the type of work he produces in future. "I don't think I could have made [Filigree and Shadow] if it wasn't for the independent artists in this country," Harbour told ABC Arts during rehearsals for his latest Australian Ballet commission.

The Indian film industry is known for its schmaltzy love stories and outrageous song and dance numbers, but there is a change on the horizon. The growing Indian middle class are increasingly seeking more sophisticated story-telling and subject matter in their cinema.

Back at the turn of the millennium, when all Sydney cared about was the Olympics and where to spend New Year's Eve, a group of emerging artists were occupying an inner city warehouse and were busy inventing contemporary art.

An incredible feat of orchestral organisation recently came to fruition in under the vision of the Australian World Orchestra's Artistic Director Alexander Briger.

The Mix host James Valentine talks the week in culture with The Final Cut's film critic Jason Di Rosso, and programmer of the Golden Age of Cinema, Kate Jinx .

The Melbourne international Film Festival this year celebrates the career of one of the Australian film industry's most treasured icons, actor David Gulpilil. Included in this year's MIFF program is a retrospective covering his 45 year career and the premiere of his latest film, Another Country. Included is also an in-conversation session hosted by film critic Margaret Pomeranz and Gulpilil himself.

LA based singer-song writer Jenny Lewis focused on her latest solo album 'The Voyager' when performing at Splendour in the Grass this past weekend, but she still managed to throw in some favourites from her days fronting the male-majority band Rilo Kiley of the late '90s and 2000s.