The European colonial powers once fought viciously to rule these islands and control the supply of nutmeg. Today, the region trades in a new kind of treasure – sunset and serenity – and it is best taken in from the deck of a 60m luxury vessel.
‘Trailblazer’ is a word that doesn’t fully capture Simone Young, the Australian conductor whose star power and sense of unfettered ambition has shattered one glass ceiling after another.
One year after the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian gulag, photographer Evgeny Feldman recounts an earlier attack on the leader of Russia’s democracy movement, when a caustic green liquid was used.
Actress Tracy Mann opens up about chemo, a double mastectomy, remarrying later in life and the one TV role that made her squirm.
Opera Australia CEO Fiona Allan is to leave the company – the latest in a string of high-profile departures that have rocked the national opera company and broader arts scene.
Fred Williams’ wife, Lyn, reveals how her husband feared his artistic legacy would die with him – but the revered painter’s wife kept it alive.
The relentless pile-on against Nina Sanadze, who moved to Australia in 1996 after her family fled the Georgian civil war, reflects the deep and damaging splits in the arts caused by rising tensions over the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s family is seeking to entrench the Indigenous superstar’s legacy with a new posthumous album.
Sydney Festival marquee show Dark Noon inverts the usual westerns script, as a black South African cast depict three centuries of US history in 100 frenetic minutes: ‘This is what it looks like when you write someone else’s history. Can you see how ridiculous it is?’
From Great Aunt Clodagh’s nerves to “ugly” babies and dire haircuts, the imperative is to tell a white lie, and move on.
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