Culture
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Nobel Prize in literature: Annie Ernaux – an uncompromising author who writes from experience
It is a fictionalised account of her illegal abortion ten years earlier, as a student gradually moving away from a…
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More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls
Due to limitations of space and funds for maintenance, a decision was made to limit the university’s collection to the…
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Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living
He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. Oscar Davis The Conversation The Oracle…
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Five books you’ll like if you love The Odyssey
The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia…
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Excelling as a musician takes practice and requires opportunities – not just lucky genes
There’s plenty of evidence that people can be born that way. Research findings suggest that about half of musical ability is…
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Vale Judith Durham, the cuddly Aussie ‘girl-next-door’ whose soaring voice found international fame
An icon of the Australian music industry as lead singer for The Seekers and a solo artist, hers was an…
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Why John Byrne is one of Scotland’s greatest artists
During an illustrious career he has traversed a number of cultural genres with success as an artist, playwright and scriptwriter…
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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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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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How your culture informs the emotions you feel when listening to music
We are cruising at 27,000 feet, but the mountains around us appear worryingly close and the turbulence has woken me…
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Chinese new year: your guide to everything from importance of the colour red to firework bans
The tiger is the third animal of the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac signs, and famous people under this sign…
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UK minister calls for probe into claim Muslim MP lost her job because of faith
LONDON — A Conservative Cabinet minister has called for an investigation into allegations a Muslim Conservative MP was told she had…
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Covid: Viral photo highlights challenges of vaccinating Amazon
A photo of an indigenous man carrying his father on his back to take a Covid-19 vaccine in the Brazilian…
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Bark Ladies: how women’s Yolŋu bark paintings break with convention and embrace artists’ strong personalities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story includes names of people who have died. Sasha Grishin The…
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Sydney Festival boycott: when arts organisations accept donations, there is always a price to pay
Several artists and arts organisations have withdrawn from the festival over the Israeli Embassy’s sponsorship of the dance work Decadance,…
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The crisis of a career in culture: why sustaining a livelihood in the arts is so hard
Many artists and arts workers have “portfolio careers”, piecing together a mixture of jobs while competing for limited funding and…
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