The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts

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

The sprawling show’s exploration of technologies and pressing politics takes in artificial intelligence and deep-fake photojournalism

The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative

The latest work of the American classical music superstar – famed for his subway busking experiment – is a collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra

Concurrent exhibitions at the NGV survey the intense realism of Rembrandt and the emotional power of colour harnessed by Pierre Bonnard

While Sydney Festival director Olivia Ansell’s program appeared dance-heavy, it revealed rich developments in collaboration across art forms

Mary Finsterer’s stylistically diverse opera deftly interrogates the stories we have long been told about the great southern continent

A new NGA exhibition of the Australian artist’s meticulous paintings should deliver her from local obscurity

Encompassing video, installation and costume, this intriguing exhibition indicates where visual art is heading now

The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime

Barrie Kosky’s Adelaide production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera satirising the Russo-Japanese War came with uneasy resonances

Sebastian Goldspink’s curation, titled ‘Free/State’, doesn’t quite measure up to expectations

In Ben Duke’s hilarious reimagining of the Shakespearean classic, the lovers survived only to face the drudgery of middle age

An oratorio commemorating 50 years since the infamous murder of a gay academic in Adelaide