Culture

Yayoi Kusama with her recent works in Tokyo, 2016.

Arts

This 95-year-old is the NGV’s next blockbuster artist

The most comprehensive survey of Yayoi Kusama’s work ever to be brought to Australia will include childhood sketchbooks and the famed immersive mirror rooms.

by Nadia Bailey

Performing arts

First KISS, next Taylor Swift? Meet the unlikely band opening for the stars

by Helen Pitt

Jemma Burns is the music supervisor on Heartbreak High, and responsible for deciding which songs make the 100-track playlist.

Streaming

Jemma grew up reading and didn’t listen to pop music. Now she’s the musical gatekeeper on a hit show

by Karl Quinn

Bluey, Bingo, Chili, Bandit, and all the rest of their canine comrades have us all by the heartstrings, and that’s been the way of the world for 151 episodes.

Australian TV

Bluey tackles the housing crisis in highly anticipated, 28-minute long episode

by Thomas Mitchell

Music festivals

Victoria’s oldest festival under a cloud as administrators appointed

by Kerrie O'Brien

Movies

South Korean zombie content has become a global phenomenon, with films like Train to Busan garnering a cult following.

Film & TV production

From K-drama to K-horror: How South Korea is reinventing zombie flicks

South Korea already as a reputation for making great TV dramas and now Netflix is helping bring their horror films to the world.

by Nell Geraets

Cinema

Civil War is dividing audiences. But what is the chilling film trying to say?

The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina has made a film about the collapse of democracy. It’s a harrowing vision but, he says, it needn’t come true.

by Karl Quinn

Amy Winehouse

She took on Amy Winehouse, even though she knew the risks

by Louise Rugendyke

Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse and Jack O’Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil in Back to Black.

★★

Review

Back to Black is a tasteless melodrama that tarnishes Winehouse’s legacy

by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kirsten Dunst stars as Lee, a photojournalist travelling across a war-ravaged US to interview the president, in Civil War.

★★★

Review

Civil War began as a work of fiction, then it almost became fact

by Sandra Hall

TV & radio

TV Guide

Jennifer and Larry explain what their future holds

Jennifer and Larry vow to stay together through Larry's transition on Lost in Transition on 9Now.

Jennifer and Larry explain their love story

Jennifer and Larry tell the story of their relationship including how Larry came out on Lost in Transition on 9Now.

Australian TV

Bluey tackles the housing crisis in highly anticipated, 28-minute long episode

by Thomas Mitchell

Streaming

Jemma grew up reading and didn’t listen to pop music. Now she’s the musical gatekeeper on a hit show

by Karl Quinn

A man named Badruddin seeks the help of Dr. Daniel Carothers after getting a cockroach stuck in their ear on Stuck on 9Now. — 0:56

Perspective

Music festivals

Fifty years ago, I went to Australia’s Woodstock. On Saturday, I went back

by Tony Wright

Grimes performs at the Sahara Stage at Coachella in California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Music festivals

Paris Hilton, a Blur spray and Taylor Swift: Highlights from Coachella

by Thomas Mitchell

Performing arts

First KISS, next Taylor Swift? Meet the unlikely band opening for the stars

by Helen Pitt

Pub Choir chats with Michael Bachelard at Sosta Ristorante in North Melbourne.

Lunch with

Meet Australia’s biggest performing artist you’ve probably never heard of

by Michael Bachelard

Engelbert Humperdinck: a month shy of 88, and still doing it.

We Want to Know

Engelbert Humperdinck on his feud with Tom Jones, Lesbian Seagull, and doing it at 88

by Robert Moran

Music festivals

Festivals ‘in the thick of a real crisis’, says Music Australia chief

by Karl Quinn

Live reviews

Oli Sykes, frontman of British band Bring Me the Horizon.

★★★½

Review

British rockers deliver a chaotic, cathartic experience for the apocalypse

by Michael Ruffles and Kate Prendergast

Tom Jones performs at Margaret Court Arena on March 28.

Melbourne live reviews

Melbourne undies on stage at Tom Jones? It’s still not unusual

by Will Cox, Cameron Woodhead and Tony Way

Mandy McElhinney as Antonia (left) and Emma Harvie, as Margherita (right) in No Pay. No Way.

★★★★½

Review

Who would have thought a cost of living crisis play could be so funny?

by John Shand, Peter McCallum, Harriet Cunningham, Chantal Nguyen and Shamim Razavi

by Genevieve Novak

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher at a screening of the Oscars in 2021.

Divorce

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher announce split

by Ewan Somerville

Kanye West with Bianca Censori on their infamous boat trip in Venice.

Opinion

Celebrity relationships

There are many ways to become famous. Bianca Censori has chosen one of the worst

by Michelle Cazzulino

Stage

Ngali Shaw and Tibian Wyles in Melbourne Theatre Company and QWueensland Theatre’s 37.

★★★★

Review

Adam Goodes’ AFL exit inspires sporting comedy calling foul on racism

2 hours ago
by Nick Dent

Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024 composite

MICF

Coming out as ‘happy’ plus a whole lot of clowns: MICF’s last week

by John Bailey, Mikey Cahill, Hannah Francis, Tyson Wray, Sonia Nair, Cher Tan, Lefa Singleton Norton, Cameron Woodhead, Donna Demaio, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Guy Webster