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May 1, 2024James Bradley’s ‘Deep Water’
The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts
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May 1, 2024James Bradley’s ‘Deep Water’
The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts
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December 1, 2023Kandinsky at AGNSW
The exhibition of the Russian painter’s work at the Art Gallery of NSW provides a fascinating view of 20th-century art’s leap from representation to abstraction
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December 1, 2023The rule of threes: NGV Triennial
The sprawling show’s exploration of technologies and pressing politics takes in artificial intelligence and deep-fake photojournalism
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September 27, 2023Yanis Varoufakis’s ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’
The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative
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October 1, 2023His Bach materials: Violinist Joshua Bell
The latest work of the American classical music superstar – famed for his subway busking experiment – is a collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra
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July 1, 2023Emotional virtue: ‘Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi’ and ‘Rembrandt: True to Life’
Concurrent exhibitions at the NGV survey the intense realism of Rembrandt and the emotional power of colour harnessed by Pierre Bonnard
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March 1, 2023Movers and shakers: Dance at the Sydney Festival
While Sydney Festival director Olivia Ansell’s program appeared dance-heavy, it revealed rich developments in collaboration across art forms
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January 16, 2023‘Antarctica’ at Sydney Festival
Mary Finsterer’s stylistically diverse opera deftly interrogates the stories we have long been told about the great southern continent
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November 1, 2022A close, careful looking: The work of Cressida Campbell
A new NGA exhibition of the Australian artist’s meticulous paintings should deliver her from local obscurity
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September 8, 2022‘Ultra Unreal’ at the MCA
Encompassing video, installation and costume, this intriguing exhibition indicates where visual art is heading now
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June 24, 2022‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
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April 1, 2022‘The Golden Cockerel’
Barrie Kosky’s Adelaide production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera satirising the Russo-Japanese War came with uneasy resonances
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March 22, 2022Altered states: Adelaide Biennial 2022
Sebastian Goldspink’s curation, titled ‘Free/State’, doesn’t quite measure up to expectations
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March 17, 2022‘Juliet and Romeo’ at Adelaide Festival
In Ben Duke’s hilarious reimagining of the Shakespearean classic, the lovers survived only to face the drudgery of middle age
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March 11, 2022‘Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan’ at Adelaide Festival
An oratorio commemorating 50 years since the infamous murder of a gay academic in Adelaide