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Installation view of the Avatar: Forms of Vishnu exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring works by Desmond Lazaro and Cambodian Vishnu statue from the early 800s, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
Features

Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at AGNSW offers a tonic for our times

Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents 200 artworks spanning 1500 years.

Photo: Gowtham AGM on Unsplash.

Lyric essays are an antitoxin for a poisoned world

With lyric essays, readers must be willing to piece together disparate fragments: ideas, information and idiosyncrasies.

Photo: Miguelangel Perez / Unsplash. AI is playing an increasing role in audiobook narration.
Features

From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooks

Almost one in five Australian audiobook listeners have listened to an AI narrated audiobook.

Douglas Stuart. Photo: Martyn Pickersgill/ Pan Macmillan.
Analysis

Douglas Stuart reveals flashes of tenderness in his violent working‑class men

In John of John, Booker Prize-winner Douglas Stuart has returned to his territory and deepened it.

Winner Archibald Prize 2026, Richard Lewer Iluwanti Ken, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 198 x 198 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
News

Richard Lewer wins 2026 Archibald Prize with portrait of Iluwanti Ken

Melbourne-based Lewer has been awarded the prestigious Archibald Prize for his portrait of senior artist and ngangkari (traditional healer) Iluwanti…

Photo: Teslariu Mihai on Unsplash.
Analysis

Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to child exploitation – what do we do with his books?

Silvey is yet to be sentenced – but what we do with his books will be decided outside the court…

Photo: Nina T / Unsplash.
Features

The artist population of Greater Sydney is shrinking – and becoming less culturally diverse

The artist population fell in all areas of Sydney. And a new survey suggests things are probably getting worse.

Photo: Jutta Weber-Vidal / Unsplash.
Features

The Venice Biennale jury has resigned, proving art institutions can't remain apolitical

The Venice Biennale's latest woes mark the unravelling of a long-standing fiction: that art institutions can remain separate from politics.

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Features

How AI poetry betrays our desire for human connection

Think you can tell the difference between Emily Dickinson and AI poetry?

David Malouf. Image: Conrad del Villar.
Features

Vale David Malouf, a writer of wisdom, grace and generosity

David Malouf will be a remembered as a writer of wisdom, grace and generosity, and for the richness of his…

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