Culture
Art & design
Age art director wins prestigious international design awards
This continued run of success places Richard Giliberto and The Age among the world's best in newspaper design and illustration.
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Coronavirus pandemic
Dogs flout social distancing rules as Strange Days continue
Owners watch wistfully as their canine companions cavort.
- by Oslo Davis
Plotlines: what to do in the garden this weekend
What to do in the garden this weekend.
- by Megan Backhouse
Home-eopathy: Grow your own cure in the backyard
Flowers and some weeds can help relieve common ailments from toothache to bloating.
- by Megan Backhouse
Spectrum
'Disturbing, even beautiful': A world silenced by coronavirus
From the clamour of Rome to the quiet of Hobart, a welcome hush descends.
- by Gabriella Coslovich
Gardening
Inside the architect's garden: Natural bush is the defining element
A new book about architect Philip Cox's coastal property describes the diverse treatments of its different areas.
- by Robin Powell
Spectrum
Can climate change finally make political art matter?
Picasso, Goya, Vietnam war photographers ... artists have long reflected atrocities to limited effect. Tree planting in a football stadium may have more impact.
- by John McDonald
Arts
Arts suffer as Carriageworks stands down staff
The cancellation of exhibitions and events, brought on by COVID-19, has forced the arts hub Carriageworks to stand down staff.
- by Linda Morris
Gallipoli
An accidental image for our times
The winning entry of this year’s $20,000 Gallipoli Art Prize is an eerily prescient painting of gas masks.
- by Nick Galvin
Visual art
Busting the myths of art history
Frances Morris believes the art we’re taught in classrooms tells only one type of story.
- by Neha Kale
Arts
ACCA launches the Australian Open of virtual, groundbreaking art
With its galleries closed, Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is offering $24,000 in commissions for innovative new digital artworks.
- by Nick Miller