Cherine Fahd, Author provided In 1979, the American artist Allan Kaprow wrote Performing Life, an important essay in the history of Western art arguing for the...
Opera Australia has received outstanding reviews for its Melbourne season of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. The casting of German singer Jonas Kaufmann in the title role...
With the swearing in of a new arts minister, there is a unique opportunity to address some of the structural issues around pay and job precarity...
In mid-May, Christie’s auction house in New York sold a raptor skeleton (Deinonychus) for US$12.4 million. This represents a failure to protect and share our natural...
A group of artists shook the world in the 1860s by painting what they saw, thought and felt. They became known as the impressionists and they...
In September 2021, a 3-year-old was killed during an exorcism in a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California. The child’s throat was allegedly squeezed and...
When Mum was pregnant with me, Dad bought her a paperback copy of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small because it was an easy, pleasant...
In April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued another report on the dire situation of the planet. The climate crisis is becoming hard to...
In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking. I first read Eve Babitz at the tail end...
In a polarized cultural milieu, the portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters in popular media for youth and children is sometimes contentious. In March, for example, the Disney...