Pub Test: Bad News for Turnbull
Media moguls did not knife the PM, his party did
August 2014
Arts & Letters
Virtually pointless
At the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘Augmented Australia’ fails to impress
David Neustein is The Monthly’s architecture critic.
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The 'Augmented Australia' app in action. © Alexander Mayes Photography
August 2014
Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’
This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple
‘John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New’ at the MCA, Sydney
The celebrated bark painter’s ethos guides this retrospective exhibition
In The Big House
The quintessential American cultural experience is still college football
Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
The science is clear, but the way forward is not
Art Gallery NSW’s Michael Brand
Adventures in the artefact business
Australia’s $60 billion submarine dilemma
A decision on our underwater fleet cannot be put off much longer
The women of Papua New Guinea’s village courts
Being a magistrate in the Eastern Highlands is not for the faint of heart
Leonard Bernstein: show tunes and symphonies
Centenary celebrations highlight the composer’s broad ambitions and appeal
The hermitic world of Debra Granik’s ‘Leave No Trace’
The ‘Winter’s Bone’ director takes her exploration of family ties off the grid
Low’s ‘Double Negative’: studies in slow transformation
Twelve albums in, the Minnesota three-piece can still surprise in their unique way
To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event
Walking the Wukalina Walk
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people
Murcutt’s mosque
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is
Twelve of a kind
Why is Australia planning so many new casinos?Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’
This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple
‘MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art’
An eye candy-laden, educational treasure hunt of an exhibition
Turnbull fires back
Unlike Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull never promised ‘no wrecking’
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part one)
A British outlier and a British newcomer are among the stand-outs in the first part of the festival
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