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Ecstatic, Hysterical, Profound Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Sip My Ocean’ at the MCA
To say that Sip My Ocean is an ‘experience’ is an understatement – it’s a full on sensory engagement for the eyes and mind, a joyful plunge
Sexual Healing Gold Class make their protest known
It’s live where the band really prove themselves ... pure muscular romantic thrills.
The Letting Go Janice Liley’s ‘Coastal Walks’ at Art2Muse
‘Smokey Monday in Paddo’ has a menace that the Australian bush occasionally pushes to the coast: a raw land that sits out there every day behind our manicured urban lives.
Typewriters and Eggs A hardboiled view of a painter’s life
"Every typewriter has its provenance, its own fingerprint – the crooked key that leads detectives to the blackmailer..."
Danger in the Past Stranger Things Season 2
The new season has lost its centre of gravity – without the easy, central mystery of solving Will’s disappearance, we’re in murkier terrain.
Russian Resurrections A retrospective appreciation of filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky has one of the most varied careers of any director alive, launching his career in a partnership with Tarkovsky, working in Hollywood with Sylvester Stallone, then returning home to make a film about “the charm of evil”.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard The Fillmore, San Francisco 12.10.17
On stage King Gizzard make signs of the beast, kids in Wizard hats crowd surf, the Indian techies dance like they are on Big Bang Theory.
Great Waves Wesley Enoch and the coming of Sydney Festival 2018
“The role of the artist is becoming even more important … our political leaders, and our social leaders, are abdicating their responsibilities.”
Blade Runner 2049 Does the ability to have a relationship grant us a soul?
Emerging from 'Blade Runner 2049' is a single, mournful question: if love is the human emotion that ties us to reality, then what does it mean for our reality to love something artificial?
Love Hurts Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts’ at Belvoir Street Theatre
Marriage, family, faith, incest, love, STIs, ageing, youth, euthanasia... 'Ghosts' challenges us to live lovingly.
Unmarked Tracks: September A monthly Australian music column
Unmarked Tracks travels the off-road paths connecting our music’s past and present.
Father Mother Son Ravi Coltrane Quartet at The Basement
Ravi Coltrane announced a return to conscious reality with a few notes on his sax that soared above the band… a feeling of dreams flying off and re-entering our sense of here and now. And just as quickly disappearing in a way that creates a sudden space for awe.