Reviews
Exhibition review: Mai Nguyễn-Long, Kôgábịnô, Wollongong Art Gallery
Claiming agency over lost identity and language, Mai Nguyễn-Long delivers a cohesive and confident exhibition of ceramic sculptures.
Performance review: Alchemy Consort: It Lights the Whole Sky, National Gallery of Victoria
Choral music performances that explored the connection between humanity and natural phenomena.
Exhibition review: Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, Melbourne Museum
An easy one-hour amble through a well-trodden historical event with less focus on the Titanic’s artefacts than the exhibition title…
Performance review: Tempo, Arts Centre Melbourne
The Fruities jump back onto our stages with a music themed performance.
Theatre review: Slippery, The Butterfly Club, Midsumma Festival
Mayhem ensues when a polyamorous love square becomes a triangle and one of the lovers returns as a ghost to…
Performance reviews: The Search and Trevor Ashley: The (First Annual) Farewell Show, Midsumma Festival
At Midsumma Festival this year, Jess McAvoy presents an unforgettable performance in ‘The Search’ and Trevor Ashley revealed the dark…
Book review: Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook
An intriguing though somewhat far-fetched historical fiction.
Theatre review: The Inheritance, fortyfivedownstairs
A theatre marathon about the intergenerational relationships, romantic or otherwise, of a gay community in New York City.
Performance review: Dangerous Goods, QPAC
A high-octane cabaret that includes circus, aerials, drag and burlesque.
Performance review: Afrocentric, National Gallery of Victoria
Nightly performances that celebrate the African diaspora in Australia.