Arts & Culture
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Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard
Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil…
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Whoever, Wherever, Whenever – Everyone has the right to seek safety!
A Photographic Exhibition, featuring the work of Sebastian Rich On the occasion of World Refugee Day On the occasion of…
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Group of British MPs and peers call for Parthenon marbles to return to Greece
Six legislators call for return of cultural treasures held by British Museum ‘to their Athenian home’ Helena Smith The Guardian…
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Pablo Picasso was not a lone genius creator – he was at the centre of several creative hubs, and changed the course of western art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is not presented as the lone genius creator – a mythology promoted by the artist himself –…
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Fleeing to Safety – A Photographic Exhibition
On the occasion of World Refugee Day UNHCR On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2022, the UNHCR Country Office…
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Occupied Cyprus: How Turkey has destroyed Christian cultural heritage
I’m referring to the continual occupation of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey. Uzay Bulut Much of the cultural and…
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Vangelis – as Thucydides once said “The whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men”
An Argonaut of the Cosmos, Vangelis Papathanassiou departed from this life, a modern Jason from the land of the Argonauts…
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Belling the Cats
In his seminal 1999 book What are Journalists For? Nicholas Karides NYU professor Jay Rosen pointed to a plaque at the…
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‘Can you come to my party?’: What it’s like to have your novel studied at schools
For Maxine Beneba Clarke, the excitement of being included on school reading lists was quickly matched by the realities of…
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Pre-Election pledges and the future of the Greek Australians Community in Melbourne
This week, Liberal politicians announced a $1.8 million pledge to the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria (GOCMV), in…
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Raphael: it’s time we stopped dismissing Italy’s great painter as style over substance
In 1848, a new group of painters who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood identified the art of Raphael as a watershed moment…
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First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize with a ‘wild ride’ skewering colonial mythologies
Australian poetics is the target of Araluen’s dark satire in Dropbear. Camilla Nelson The Conversation Her poetry deftly dismantles the literary…
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On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict
Mexico’s crime wars are hottest in the hinterland. In this photo essay, part of a larger project on deadly violence…
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How culture informs people’s emotional reaction to music – podcast
When George Athanasopoulos and his colleagues decided to investigate whether a person’s emotional response to music and harmony is innate…
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Can we ever fully separate our work and home lives?
If you could take work-life balance to its most literal extreme, what would it look like? Peter West The Conversation…
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Harald Jähner: ‘American culture had a very pacifying effect on Germany’
Harald Jähner’s Aftermath, which is published in paperback this April, starts where most popular histories of Europe’s bloody 20th century end,…
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