A dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandalDecember 2017 – January 2018
Arts & Letters
A space of one’s own
Detail of Helen Johnson, A Feast of Reason and a Flow of Soul, 2016, acrylic on canvas, velcro, 330 x 310 cm. Photograph by Mark Blower
App trap: ‘Chloe’
‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights
‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
‘An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life’
Alienations and fantasies of escape unify the stories in Australian author Paul Dalla Rosa’s debut collection
Arresting time
Gerhard Richter’s GOMA exhibition finds beauty in banality, meaning in the arbitrary
Home truths
Ah Gong and Ah Mah move into a culturally diverse aged-care facility
The ringmaster steps into the spotlight
Michael Gracey makes his directorial debut with the Hugh Jackman–starring ‘The Greatest Showman’
The new Grotesque
How the Monthly changed its typeface
Standing and ceremony: The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial
Themed around ‘Ceremony’, the NGA exhibition provides a moving examination of what it means to be Indigenous in 2022
The consecration: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
A century after its publication, the difficult reputation of Joyce’s seminal novel has overshadowed its pleasures
Sixty business: Tom Cruise
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ hits screens as its ruthlessly career-oriented star turns 60
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’Standing and ceremony: The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial
Themed around ‘Ceremony’, the NGA exhibition provides a moving examination of what it means to be Indigenous in 2022
Art heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world
A new kind of history: ‘Know My Name’
A radical exhibition of women artists at the NGA draws wondrous connections across time and between disciplines
Market of the apes: NFTs and digital art
NFTs have transformed the art market, but artificial intelligence might transform art itselfA dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandalApp trap: ‘Chloe’
‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
Two sides of the same Shields?
Editor Bevan Shields’ attempts to handle the backlash over his masthead’s treatment of Rebel Wilson points to the dismal and fragile state of news media
