Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
The prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist for 2025 features 10 diverse novels from across Australia.
Art & Visual Culture
Discover the latest in global visual arts — exhibitions, contemporary artists, trends, and visual storytelling from around the world.
What Do Visitors Think of Thomas J. Price’s Times Square Sculpture?
British sculptor Thomas J. Price’s 12-foot-tall bronze statue “Grounded in the Stars” (2023), which monumentalizes a casually dressed Black woman...
Why Did a Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Sell for $7.5M?
A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed double-pedestal lamp became the most valuable piece by the famed American architect to sell at auction...
The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Outside 101 Spring Street in Soho, pedestrians noisily stream by. But inside this five-story historic space is a different world...
Marlene Dumas Painting Sells for $13.6 M. at Christie’s, a Record for a Living Female Artist
A Marlene Dumas painting hammered for $13.6 million during a Christie’s sale tonight, making the South African painter the most...
Banning books and rewriting history is no longer a dystopian future
What can we do when the dystopian future becomes the dystopian present?
13 unusual book dedications to inspire your own
Finally finished your manuscript and want to write a memorable dedication that's not simply to mum, dad and Fluffy? Here's...
Musical theatre favourite starring Tim Rogers, Brian Nankervis, Mick Thomas and more returns
The Victorian tour of Vandemonian Lags features stories of Tasmania's convict history.
Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
SANTA FE — In DAHODIYINII – SACRED PLACES, Dakota Mace’s first solo museum exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, the Diné artist...
The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism
They said it in the nineties, said it in the aughts, and say it again today: Art criticism is in...
