A dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandalJuly 2017
Arts & Letters
What must be said
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
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
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
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
