The Arts (Australia) Opera Australia's Whiteley brings together 3 icons to tell the artist's complicated storytheconversation.com - David Larkin Opera Australia’s newest production, Whiteley, brings together three Australian icons. Elena Kats-Chernin, the doyenne of Australian composers, has …
The Arts (Australia) Budj Bim's world heritage listing is an Australian first – what other Indigenous cultural sites could be next?theconversation.com - Claire Smith and Gary Jackson and Jordan Ralph The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in south-west Victoria is the first Indigenous Australian landscape to be gazetted on the World Heritage List purely …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) A black, female 007? As a lifelong James Bond fan, I say bring it ontheconversation.com - Darren Paul Fisher Something incredible might be happening to James Bond: a separation, a personal Brexit of sorts. According to the Daily Mail, while Daniel Craig will …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Your body as a weapon: the rise of the 'revenge body' onlinetheconversation.com - Mair Underwood Months after a public breakup with her husband, the politician Barnaby Joyce, Natalie Joyce made news when she displayed her “new” body in a …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) 'Making up games is more important than you think': why Bluey is a font of parenting wisdomtheconversation.com - Koa Whittingham and Amy Mitchell and Ben Mitchell Bluey is a ground-breaking Australian children’s television series and the most downloaded show in ABC iView history. Since premiering in October …
Persian Culture Explainer: what Western civilisation owes to Islamic culturestheconversation.com - Constant Mews Algebra, alchemy, artichoke, alcohol, and apricot all derive from Arabic words which came to the West during the age of Crusades. Even more …
Self-sufficiency Friday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbintheconversation.com - Rachel Goldlust The term “self-sufficiency” commonly evokes images of communes, yurts and 1970s hippies, most likely living off the land in northern New South Wales. …
Muslim Women How Muslim women break stereotypes by mixing faith and modesty with fashiontheconversation.com - Anoosh Soltani and Hannah Thinyane Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision to wear a headscarf following the Christchurch mosque attacks in March has earned her worldwide praise. But …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Inside the story: writing the powerful female world of Wentworththeconversation.com - Craig Batty and Radha O'Meara and Stayci Taylor and Tessa Dwyer Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. One of the major …
Play buttonDavid Bowie Space Oddity at 50: the 'novelty song' that became a cultural touchstonetheconversation.com - Mitch Goodwin When the 22-year-old David Bowie penned Space Oddity, a song that would ultimately become a recognised classic, he was a burgeoning pop artist …
The Arts (Australia) From Twitterbots to VR: 10 of the best examples of digital literaturetheconversation.com - David Thomas Henry Wright These days all text is digital. From writing an email to publishing a new edition of War and Peace, text nearly always exists on a computer first. …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Opera is stuck in a racist, sexist past, while many in the audience have moved ontheconversation.com - Caitlin Vincent In the first act of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical A Little Night Music, the long-suffering Countess Charlotte Malcolm mentions her …
The Arts (Australia) Indonesian art is fresh, energetic and lively. Why do we not see more of it?theconversation.com - Alison Carroll They talk of a family of nations, or families of nations. In Australia, the UK can still be referred to as the mother country, while the English talk …
The Arts (Australia) 'A woman ahead of her time': remembering the Australian writer Charmian Clift, 50 years ontheconversation.com - Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni Fifty years after her death, Australian writer Charmian Clift is experiencing a renaissance. Born in 1923, Clift co-authored three novels with her …
The Arts (Australia) Inside the story: 99 versions of the same tale in The Drover's Wivestheconversation.com - Dave Drayton Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Ryan O'Neill’s recent book …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Friday essay: romancing the moon – space dreaming after Apollotheconversation.com - Mitch Goodwin Last weekend I sat down for a chat with Lisa Sullivan, senior curator at the Geelong Gallery, to get a handle on the gallery’s new exhibition, The …
Play buttonGothic Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark sidetheconversation.com - Emma Doolan In the popular imagination, the term “Gothic” evokes images of grim, crumbling castles, wild moors, jagged mountain peaks, and coffins creaking open …
Tattoos A new exhibition captures the magic and power of tattoos across culturestheconversation.com - Fareed Kaviani Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, a suite of exhibitions at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum, offers visitors a chance to engage with tattoo on a …
Play buttonK-Pop K-pop fans are creative, dedicated and social - we should take them seriouslytheconversation.com - Joanna Elfving-Hwang The phenomenal success of K-pop (Korean pop music) and its biggest export bands such as BTS, EXO, Blackpink, MONSTA X and Red Velvet can largely be …
The Arts (Australia) A radical new adaptation eviscerates the dominance of male voices in Wake in Frighttheconversation.com - Denise Varney Australian literary classics are currently enjoying a comeback at our major theatre companies. Over the past three years Cloudstreet, Picnic at …
The Arts (Australia) Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women’s beautytheconversation.com - Michelle Smith In the 19th century, a range of thinkers attempted to pinpoint exactly what it was that made a woman beautiful. Newly popular women’s magazines began …
Domestic Violence See What You Made Me Do: why it's time to focus on the perpetrator when tackling domestic violencetheconversation.com - Camilla Nelson Review: See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill. (Black Inc). You will not sleep if you read Jess Hill’s new book. …
The Arts (Australia) Inside the story: Coach Fitz and the accidentally comic voicetheconversation.com - Debra Adelaide Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Early in Tom Lee’s debut …
The Arts (Australia) 5 things to know about the traditional Christian doctrine of helltheconversation.com - Philip Almond Martyn Iles, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, dodged the question this week when asked by Lisa Wilkinson on The Sunday Project if …
Play buttonTasmania Julie Gough's 'Tense Past' reminds us how the brutalities of colonial settlement are still felt todaytheconversation.com - Julie Shiels The phrase “colonial settlement” sounds benign, but Julie Gough’s Tense Past presents compelling evidence to the contrary. Since 1994, Gough has been …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) In Never Look Away we finally have a painter biopic offering insight into the creative processtheconversation.com - Ted Snell Depicting the moment of creative inspiration has been a challenge for filmmakers since the first ribbon of film rattled its way past a camera lens. …
The Arts (Australia) Why revive a forgotten Australian classic? Oriel Gray's The Torrents remains relevant todaytheconversation.com - Vivienne Glance Set in a regional Australian newsroom in the 1890s, Oriel Gray’s The Torrents is a play about change. On the surface, it is about one man’s attempt …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Friday essay: diversity in the media is vital - but Australia has a long way to gotheconversation.com - Helen Vatsikopoulos The inaugural Walkley Award for Media Diversity will be announced on June 26, and has had an impressive number of entries for what was once regarded …
The Arts (Australia) Cross-over cocktail: Indies & Idols mixes rock stars with modern Polish composerstheconversation.com - David Larkin “The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together”: what Samuel Johnson wrote about metaphysical poetry might have seemed transferrable to …
