Reviews
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.
Music review: Sarah Blasko, Theatre Royal Castlemaine, ALWAYS LIVE festival
Sarah Blasko launches her seventh album to a captive Castlemaine audience.
Book review: Meanjin: Essays that Changed Australia: 1940 to today, Esther Anatolitis (editor)
This collection showcases a range of convincing, important and erudite voices.
Performance review: The Pirates of Penzance – In Concert, QPAC
Gilbert and Sullivan at their finest in this rip-roaring crowd-pleaser, which offers an all-star cast with many musical gems.
Exhibition review: Yin Xiuzhen: Piercing the Sky, Power Station of Art Shanghai
Love letters to shoes, a flesh-like sonic tower and a cosmic horn – it's clear that Yin Xiuzhen is a…