review
Theatre review: North by Northwest, Sydney Lyric Theatre
Based on the Hitchcock film, this seamless production really wants you to enjoy yourself.
Did the Biennale of Sydney 2022 deliver?
A biennale that breaks the model and questions its viable future.
Exhibition Review: Isaac Julien and Helen Fuller, Samstag Museum of Art
A local ceramicist in tandem with an international UK video installation artist in standalone exhibitions.
Opera Review: La Juive, Opera Australia
There are few entry points for new audiences to this opera, which is unfortunately bleak for our times.
An exhibition that restores artists' agency in contested times
The 2022 Adelaide Biennial is a milestone exhibition that will remain in our collective conscious for a long time.
Exhibition review: From impulse to action, Bundanon
Curator Sophie O’Brien captures both the genesis and future of Bundanon as an important site for cultural production and experimentation.
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.