Yesterday
The Melbourne art fair punching above its weight against Sydney
Victoria’s biggest art fair has been catching up to the sales volume of its northern rival, focusing on entry-level budgets with young galleries and a new salon for designer homewares.
Why more people are swiping right on AI boyfriends
What kind of society emerges when attachment to other human beings itself becomes a subscription service?
This Month
‘Wuthering Heights’ and the birth of the toxic boyfriend
In modern parlance, the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is what an AI chatbot would vomit out if you asked for a definition of toxic romance.
The sliding doors moment that gave Kylie to the world
Amanda Pelman built a career signing recording artists and casting big musicals on being “open-minded” - then a demo of “The Locomotion” lobbed on her desk.
James Van Der Beek, teenage heartthrob of Dawson’s Creek, dies at 48
The former golden-haired teen, who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, would in later years mock his own hunky persona.
AI loves fake images, but they’ve been around since photos appeared
A new exhibition reminds us that photography has always had a complicated relationship with the truth.
Why big galleries are small buyers in the secondary art market
Major public galleries and libraries acquire hundreds of works a year, but they are infrequent players in the saleroom. Here’s what they have bought.
Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think
Birds of a feather flock together, and so do people when it comes to relationships – yet research has found that couples with larger age gaps last longer than those closer in age.
Shouting match over Higgins doco at Senate hearing
Liberal senator Sarah Henderson and Labor’s Michelle Ananda-Rajah traded verbal blows during a chaotic late-night estimates hearing.
Tickets are booming to concerts where you might not expect them
Two blocks away from where violent protests marred Sydney’s streets, shows that mark a quiet move towards healing after the Bondi massacre will soon start.
Decidedly horny Wuthering Heights has one demographic in its sights
Emerald Fennell’s version of the Bronte classic is a two-hour thirst trap with two hot leads who have real chemistry but are occasionally dwarfed by the film.
This inventive but disturbing series has echoes of Adolescence
Jack Thorne dives into toxic masculinity again in his adaptation of Lord of the Flies, showing the ease with which the boys devolve to their darker impulses.
In a make-or-break year, Apple pitches for screen dominance
In a brave new world of all-you-can-watch slop, the technology giant’s streaming platform has decided to try doing things the old way in its bid for eyeballs.
Major donor walks out, pulls funding over show ‘repulsive’ to Jews
Jacqui Scheinberg has accused the Sydney Festival’s flagship show of including comments that demean Holocaust victims.
Anti-Zionist author to appear with Sky News host at writers festival
The Newcastle Writers Festival invited Randa Abdel-Fattah before her presence blew up Adelaide Writers Week, but they haven’t rescinded.
Everyone is missing the point about the Melania movie
Brett Ratner’s documentary isn’t really a movie at all. It’s the hard launch of a new lifestyle brand – and the clues are all there in black and white.
‘I’m sorry but your husband is having an affair with my wife’
In this edited extract from her book “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage”, Belle Burden describes the day her husband tipped her world on its head.
After her gilded marriage imploded, this lawyer decided to tell all
Belle Burden’s memoir about her marriage breakdown reads like a love story and a horror story and, in one nail-biting section, like a financial thriller.
How Annie Leibovitz broke the mould photographing women
Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Stormy Daniels are among 130 photographs in a new tome celebrating the artist’s work.
Jewish artist says exhibition combats ‘pro-Hamas bias’
Rebel gallerist Nina Sanadze is highlighting a massacre she says has been downplayed by the pro-Palestine artists dominating the Biennale of Sydney.
‘Send Help’ is Sam Raimi’s best film in decades
In this spiky thriller, Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien play off each other wonderfully as a worker and CEO stranded on a deserted island.
From prison to the Oscars: Director’s potent strike against Iran
With “It Was Just An Accident”, Jafar Panahi delivers a compelling ethical dilemma, revenge thriller and comedy all at once.
How Patrick Bateman became an aspirational pop-culture figure
The murderous main character in “American Psycho” has become an object of envy for the very finance bros Bret Easton Ellis was satirising.
Sydney Biennale’s olive branch amid anti-Zionist claims
The arts festival will give a Jewish representative an advanced look at its exhibitions, and the opportunity to express concerns.
Cancelled pro-Palestinian author to speak in Adelaide after all
Randa Abdel-Fattah will headline a “guerilla” writers’ week, in conversation with departed Writers’ Week director Louise Adler.
