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Wes Anderson art, organic tableware and the closest shave

Luxurious lathers for him, lovely linen for her and so much more in this week’s shopping edit.

  • Eugenie Kelly

April

Noah Mullins (centre) and the cast of the 2024 Australian production of ‘Rent’.

Seven must-see shows in May

From the musical “Rent” to ballet with a tropical backdrop, here are performances you don’t want to miss this month.

  • Michael Bailey

August 2023

P J Vogt

Is it OK to enjoy a podcast by people involved in a workplace scandal?

A new offering from hosts who lost their jobs on a top rating show present their potential audience with a moral dilemma.

  • Rachael Bolton

July 2023

The roving tiger at Light Creatures, Illuminate Adelaide

How to do Adelaide’s Illuminate Festival

Winter light festivals are seemingly everywhere these days, but in its third year Adelaide’s Illuminate has established itself as one worth planning a getaway around.

  • Michael Bailey

April 2023

Young members of the Twelve Tribes community.

This podcast puts a bizarre Blue Mountains cult in the spotlight

“Inside the Tribe” concerns a contemporary group in the process of trying to divest itself of assets and under investigation by police.

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  • Rachael Bolton

February 2021

Researchers in Norway used infrared photography to analyse the mysterious words scrawled on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’.

Final secret of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ revealed

A barely legible phrase scribbled on a modern masterpiece gives new insight into the private thoughts of one of the world’s great painters.

  • Nina Siegal

January 2021

Claes Oldenburg’s “Miniature Soft Drum Set,” 1969, was produced in an edition of 200 by Multiples, Inc.

Who said art is for the 1pc?

A New York exhibition celebrates making art for the masses and feeling good about it.

  • Blake Gopnik

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