How to be funny in China - very carefully
Stand-up comedy is a very new scene in communist China; patrons at the Melbourne Comedy Festival will be able to judge just how funny it is allowed to be.
Nolans set pace at strong Gould sale
A modest painting by Sidney Nolan Minotaur gave the painter's Ned Kelly - Outlaw a run for its money at a recent auction.
‘Satanic' medal on offer
An example of a controversial medal designed by sculptor Raynor Hoff is on offer next week at a large auction of coins, notes and tokens in Sydney.
Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate of the Caribbean
There was nothing shy about Walcott's poetic voice. It demanded to be heard, in all its sensuous immediacy and historical complexity
New film offers a nightmarish view of Wall St
What is the punishment for too much wealth and a life in high finance? A new horror film attempts to provide the answer.
Consciousness starts with words
As language became more complex, we gained the capacity to mean things.
The horror of smug liberals
A film about the objectification and violation of black bodies; white people's appropriation of black culture; the trope of the white savior.
In China reading has changed
The Western middle-class culture where people discuss new novels doesn't really exist.
This science fiction is old but riveting
It may be a story of alien-bearing meteorites plummeting fantastically from Mars but it also documents the reaction ... as though written by a sci-fi John Betjeman.
Michelangelo's right-hand man
Michelangelo was cantankerous, neurotic and difficult but there was one fellow artist who could charm him.
Romancing high-risk 80s fashion
An exhibition at the RMIT Design Hub riffs on Melbourne's in-your-face 80s fashion aesthetic.
