Culture

There’s no better way to ring in the new year in Australia than by getting loose at Falls Festival. The music and arts festival is one of the most...

There's always one totally Instagrammable art piece at every festival – and at Rising this year, Kaleidoscope is surely it.  Samantha Slicer, the...

We owe much of modern western civilisation to the legacy of ancient Greece, which laid the bedrock for how we approach politics, philosophy, science and the...

See Sidney Myer Music Bowl as you’ve never seen it before in the Wilds. The outdoor amphitheatre is being turned into a supernatural forest filled with...

If you didn't see the previous iteration of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Melbourne (set over a bottom-breaking epic two nights), then the return...

Australia was once the centre of a burgeoning and macabre trade: the selling and collection of the bodily remains of First Peoples men, women and children for...

The environmental impacts of global warming are well documented – but what is the true impact of yet another catastrophic fire season on the people who...

The year 1999 was a big one for movies. The Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2 and The Matrix all came out that year, along with the appalling first Star...

Elvis: Direct from Graceland is a major new exhibition coming exclusively to the Bendigo Art Gallery, and it's set to explore Elvis Presley – his...

Melbourne's premier cutting edge digital gallery Lume made waves last year with the launch of the immersive Van Gogh exhibition, and now it's transforming into...

Not all galleries need to be housed inside a building. Pt Leo Estate's Sculpture Park is 330 acres of undulating landscape dotted with 60 large-scale...

UK artist Luke Jerram returns to Melbourne with Gaia, following a successful season showing his illuminated installation, Museum of the Moon, in...

In Melbourne we're spoilt for choice when it comes to live music, whether you're after a big festival sideshow by an international act or an intimate show at a...

International superstars Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman and Dot Major (otherwise known as London Grammar) will be performing at John Cain Arena on May 26,...

Rising brings visionary rapper Sampa The Great to Melbourne once again, with two dates at The Forum set to debut her new show An Afro Future. With a live...

Tickets to winter festival Splendour in the Grass can be pretty hard to come by, so if you're one of the unfortunate punters who failed to get your hands on...

Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri filmmaker Leah Purcell has walked a long and winding road from relishing a beloved bedtime story read by her late mother, to the...

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is a solid reminder of what we love about Sam Raimi’s brand of moviemaking: both superhero (Spider-Man 2)...

The multiverse is clearly having a moment. After Marvel gave us several Spider-Men and Doctor Stranges in its last two movies, we now have director duo...

Co-written by JK Rowling and long-time Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves, Fantastic Beasts is the third in a five-movie extension of Warner Bros’...