review
Exhibition review: Bark Ladies, NGV International
The wider perception of ‘a bark show’ has been locked in the past for too long.These paintings leap out in…
Exhibition Review: Matisse Life & Spirit
'Matisse: Life & Spirit' delivers in doses, living up to the blockbuster tag, but moreso it taps our contemporary psyche…
Book review: Small Joys of Real Life, Allee Richards, Hachette
Friendship, desire, and growing up. In her debut novel, Allee Richard’s accepts that sometimes all you can do is be…
Book review: Upheaval, edited by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, NewSouth Publishing
How the digital age destabilised and reshaped journalism.
Book review: In My Defence, I Have No Defence by Sinéad Stubbins
Life's imperfections and absurdities with a dash of self-deprecation.
Exhibition Review: Richard Bell: You can go now, MCA
Agitator, irreverent, loud – are some of the words used to describe First Nations artist Richard Bell, who has pushed…
Opera Review: Bluebeard’s Castle, Opera Australia
This is a power-packed psychological opera squeezed into just 60-minutes, and manages to strike a contemporary #MeToo chord and questions…