Yesterday
Melbourne curse leaves stage shows, sporting events in the cold
The biggest victims of ongoing restrictions have been Melbourne’s biggest drawcards – food, sport and arts – with the city’s major theatre shows still in the dark on when they can open.
- Patrick Durkin
NGV’s Goya exhibition will be the biggest ever in Australia
The exhibition will feature the largest group of drawings by the celebrated Spanish artist seen in Australia, and etchings of his renowned print series.
- Opinion
- Review
‘Martin Eden’ tackles sex, politics and idealism
The New York Times called his Italian adaptation of Jack London’s novel about a man desperate to become a writer the best film of 2020. Its ambition sees it take on big themes.
- John McDonald
Janet Malcolm, provocative journalist with a piercing eye, dies at 86
Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker who was known for her piercing judgments, her novel-like nonfiction and a provocative moral certainty, has died. She was 86.
- Katharine Q. Seelye
This Month
Sydney Theatre Company claws its way back from $28m hole
Australia’s largest theatre company faced doom and a $28 million deficit - but then the government and private givers came to the rescue.
- Michael Bailey
They won Eurovision. Can they conquer the world?
The Italian rock band Maneskin is a hit on the charts, and its members want to become a rare long-term Eurovision success story.
- Elisabetta Povoledo
The paradoxes and platitudes of Salman Rushdie
In a new collection of essays, the author reveals the difficulty of reconciling his belief in the multiple and ambiguous, with a kind of rational, at times literal absolutism.
- Leo Robson
Berners-Lee to auction web source code as NFT
The founder of the world wide web made nothing from his creation, but is hoping origins of the web will prove a valuable artefact in as the NFT market stalls.
- Tim Bradshaw
The surprising secret in Margaret Olley’s memorial garden
The beloved Australian artist has been given a final resting place among the flowers planted in her memory at the Tweed Gallery.
- Steve Meacham
The museum that celebrates the ‘joyful mess’ of home
In the Museum of the Home – a London institution that has been reimagined – even the humblest of dwellings reveal rich, unique stories.
- Edwin Heathcote
Ed Kuepper and Jim White make bold and borderless music
Their respective bands The Saints and The Dirty Three are world-renowned, and these two showed why with a mostly bewitching show at Sydney Opera House.
- Michael Bailey
This is what you get when a cosmetic surgeon turns sculptor
When he’s not injecting dermal fillers at his Bondi Beach clinic, Dr Adam Rish is a dab hand with a hammer and chisel.
How a world-beating pianist was remade in Australia
Alexander Gavrylyuk began a transformation on a Sydney operating table in 2002 into one of the concert hall’s most sought-after, emotionally engaged musicians.
- Michael Bailey
If you get a six-pack, you’ll be honouring history
The cultural obsession with ripped abs has a long backstory, and thanks to social media, it’s only set to grow.
- Conor Heffernan
- Opinion
- Review
This new film about David Gulpilil will leave you hungry for more
A languid documentary about the pioneering Indigenous actor leaves the impression there is more to be uncovered beneath the surface.
- John McDonald
Colour (and gender) blind Chekhov keeps play relevant
For Lebanese-born actor Priscilla Doueihy, appearing in Belvoir’s new production of ‘The Cherry Orchard’ has been both liberating and confronting.
- Clare Morgan
The masterpieces that Napoleon stole, and how some went back
His art seizures paved the way for similar French excesses in Africa a century later. Yet the return of some treasures after his defeat set a model for museums today.
- Farah Nayeri
Onassis family puts painting by Winston Churchill up for sale
After sitting in storage for decades, a painting by Britain’s wartime prime minister is coming to auction with an estimate of $1.9 million to $2.5 million.
- James Tarmy
Roger Federer to sell off his grand slam gear
Want to literally walk in the shoes of the greatest tennis player of all time? Christie’s is giving you a chance.
- Michael Bailey
Australian World Orchestra gives rare debut for Australian symphony
A recital by the Australian World Orchestra is always an event, but this one was made doubly so by the rare premiering of an Australian-composed symphony.
- Michael Bailey
