Culture
Art & design
From a sex party to a brush with Kate Bush, Sydney Festival heats up
The shows keep coming during week two of the city’s annual culture fest.
- by Nick Galvin
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Jeremy Allen White, in undies, on a roof. But that’s not the ad that has people’s knickers in a knot
People have been swooning over White’s Calvin Klein ad campaign like there’s no tomorrow. Why, then, was a similar ad banned?
- by Nell Geraets
All shook up, the Priscillas take centre stage on the Elvis Express
The 31st annual Parkes Elvis Festival included many Priscilla Presley fans this year, ahead of the release next week of the Sofia Coppola film about Presley’s wife.
- by Helen Pitt
The exhibition winning the battle of the Sydney summer blockbusters
There are plenty of shows at this time of year, but one is drawing bigger attendance than all the others combined.
- by John McDonald
The year ahead in art: the best exhibitions coming to Victoria in 2024
Our pick of 10 if the best exhibitions to look forward to this year.
Here’s the kind of inflation everyone can enjoy
Sculptor Michael Shaw loves blowing things up, and now he’s turned his attention to Sydney.
- by Nick Galvin
The books, movies, music, TV and gigs we’re looking forward to in 2024
Or, a guide to what’s going to go off in your group chat this year.
- by Nicole Elphick
Inside the lustful reimagining of Bosch’s garden at the NGV Triennial
Dutch art collective SMACK put a contemporary spin on Hieronymus Bosch’s famous Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
The painting that scandalised Bendigo (and Victoria’s other hidden art gems)
From a bottle for your tears to a work by “the witch of Kings Cross”, our galleries have dug through their collections to present their most unsung pieces.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Former Sydney artist squat receives $20 million makeover
Three decades after squatters were roused by police from their sleep at 6am, and evicted, artists are invited back in to the Gunnery under a $19.2m renovation.
- by Linda Morris
Why this international artist cut up his childhood drawings
Artist Petrit Halilaj was 13 when his family was forced to flee their home in Kosovo, but he found new hope in a refugee camp.
- by Stephanie Bunbury