Arts & Culture

How art is being used to break stigma and create conversations

August 25th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

A CBD street exhibition of images and artworks is set to shine a light on the highly stigmatised health condition of illicit drug dependence.

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Oh, the beautiful, the laneways

August 24th, 2022 - Adrian Doyle

Fresh paint drips down the wall as an artist risks litigious and possible physical consequence. His friend stands at the front of the lane keeping an eye out for a ubiquitous threat. The spotter is flighty as the artist is taking longer than expected.

Cam Butler

August 24th, 2022 - Chris Mineral

Before there were rock stars, Ignacy Paderewski was a rock star.

90 Column Critic The salon at Sarah Scout Presents in Collins Street

Ideas for the mantelpiece

August 24th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

A memorial exhibition for Kate Daw who died during the lockdown is prompting art students and those who knew her to examine her style more closely.

Once an ancient waterfall, now a busy port

August 24th, 2022 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

This photograph was taken in 1906 from one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time – the nine-storey Commercial Travellers Club. The photographer is facing west, towards the area we know today as Docklands.

The festival putting children’s emotional resilience and wellbeing first

August 24th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

As a response to the lasting impact of the pandemic on children’s mental health and wellbeing, The Big Anxiety Festival’s Children’s Sensorium program is confronting the issue head on.

New CBD public art intervention reveals Elizabeth St’s hidden waterway

August 24th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Buried beneath bustling Elizabeth St lies a hidden waterway, and emerging artist Joy Zhou is hoping to excite and intrigue people about its discovery through a new sound-based public art intervention.

Readers get to work

August 24th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

The first of the lockdown novels has been released, Dinner with the Schnables, by Toni Jordan, forcing readers to get cracking.

Laneway management is shambolic

July 27th, 2022 - Adrian Doyle

In a recent news article, the state government has come out and said that it will now protect important laneways in the city. I would like to ask which important laneways they would like to protect. I wonder if they can name one that hasn’t already been irreversibly corrupted.