Reviews
Musical review: Love Actually? The Musical Parody, Athenaeum Theatre
For the rusted-on fans of the 20-year-old movie, this production follows the same beats as the original.
Exhibition review: Yayoi Kusama, NGV International
An overdue retrospective in the name of love, Yayoi Kusama has got little (time) to offer.
Exhibition review: Pompeii, National Museum of Australia
Off the back of new discoveries and a wave of immersive exhibitions globally, Pompeii is the star of an exhibition…
Book review: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon (editor)
Essays on Black speculative fiction speaks to evolving discourses about identity.
Exhibition review: Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar, National Gallery of Australia
Must-see summer viewing. Two women artists who shaped Australian art history get their day with parallel retrospective exhibitions.
Book review: The Wild Reciter, Peter Kirkpatrick
The shifting historical commingling of poetry and popular culture.
Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs
A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.
Review: The Future & Other Fictions, ACMI
ACMI's centrepiece summer exhibition imagines a future where things could be better.
Exhibition review: Carol Jerrems: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Subtlety lost in nostalgic voyeurism, as a retake on Carol Jerrems work is not as fresh as implied.
Music review: Missy Higgins, The Second Act Tour 2024, ALWAYS LIVE festival
Missy Higgins stands in her own power in the face of heartbreak and uncertainty.