The back of the back of the queue
Young people have waited patiently through the government’s slow rollout, but it’s now killing them
July 2017
Arts & Letters
What must be said
Australia’s Tracey Moffatt leads the way at the 57th Venice Biennale
Rock Shadow from the series Body Remembers, 2016, Tracey Moffatt, © / Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York
Vaccine resistance
Despite historically high vaccination rates, Australia has developed a significant anti-vax movement in the middle of a global pandemic
Racing against time
The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe
The end game
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope
Sweeping us up
Jennifer Peedom’s ‘Mountain’ is a meditation on the allure of the climb
Beyond the notes
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar String Quartet meet some of Melbourne’s youngest musicians
Parallel universes
With their two new other-worldly albums, Shabazz Palaces continue to evade categorisation
A near-impossible sell
Sprout farmer Bruce Adams has created one of Australia’s more unlikely oversized highway attractions
Time remaining
New poetry from the award-winning writer and critic
Breathless spaces: ‘The House of Fragile Things’
James McAuley’s examination of four great art-collecting families and the French anti-Semitism that brought their downfall
Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle
Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history
Boston and Japan: ‘French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’
What connects Boston’s peerless collections of French Impressionism and historic Japanese art and design?
Listening to country: ‘Fractures & Frequencies’ and ‘Infractions’
Elegiac installations from Megan Cope and Rachel O’Reilly at UNSW Galleries call for an understanding of the land as a living entity under threat
The paintbrush is a weapon: Vincent Namatjira
The Archibald Prize winner’s politics are less straightforward than the art world might like to think
Blue is the colour
The idiosyncratic work of Yolngu artist Dhambit MununggurrVaccine resistance
Despite historically high vaccination rates, Australia has developed a significant anti-vax movement in the middle of a global pandemic
A rallying crime
For a country that loves invoking the virtues of wartime sacrifice, why have our leaders failed to appeal to the greater good during the pandemic?
Simultaneous persuasions: ‘Camille Henrot: Is Today Tomorrow’
Radical difference and radical proximity are hallmarks of the French-born artist’s NGV exhibition
Petty bourgeoisie: ‘The White Lotus’
Mike White’s scathing takedown of privilege leads July’s streaming highlights
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