Melbourne
Review: Beethoven 9, Circa and Cheetham, Arts Centre Melbourne (VIC)
Just as Beethoven’s Ninth blends instrumental music and choral music to thrilling effect, so too the fusion of orchestral music…
Review: Memory Horizon, Heide Museum of Modern Art (VIC)
Carolyn Eskdale presents a thoughtful response to the architectural qualities of Sunday and John Reed’s former residence.
Review: Terminus, Heide Museum of Modern Art (VIC)
Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s exhibition combines virtual reality, textile works, and retrofuturistic aesthetics.
Finding the poetry in an AI world
What does poetry look like in an algorithm-dominated world? The Library of Non-Human Books is attempting to answer that question.
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Malthouse Theatre (VIC)
There’s never been anything quite like this iteration of Wilde’s sparkling comedy in which Jon Haynes and David Woods perform…
Art in the age of disaster
Hope and grief simmer at the centre of two extraordinary live works by Indonesian filmmakers premiering at Asia TOPA.
Review: What Every Girl Should Know, Brunswick Mechanics Institute (VIC)
Monica Byrne’s play is a subversive, feminist take on the familiar Catholic schoolgirl setting.
Review: New Balance, Theatre Works/Midsumma Festival (VIC)
New Balance is a tender, insightful and intelligent look at the collective experiences of what it is to be queer.
Michael Williams exits the Wheeler Centre
Williams is stepping down as Director of the Wheeler Centre after a decade of conversation, podcasts and ideas.
Review: The Feather in the Web, Midsumma Festival/Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre (VIC)
Life getting messy doesn’t begin to capture this web of intrigue.