Powers to strip funding from public institutions who fail on antisemitism, a review of Australia's hate speech laws, and visa screening for antisemitic views are among the recommendations of a wide-ra...

Covering 15km and several suburbs on an e-bike, James Norman discovers vibrant artist-run spaces, crowds spilling on to pavements and a garbage bin of ice-cold beer

It was forty years ago today When the sirens told the band to play… …So may I introduce to you The scenario you’ve known for all these years… His Master’s Voice is a series of three Call of Cthulhu…

I went into the city because I’d heard Hosier Lane had been completely painted black and silver, and the Juddy Roller was painting a very large mural on Flinders Street. Silver and black are also t…

The arc of a swinging light globe, Shifts. A fountain of water springs from a desk lamp, Strange Currents. Nadège Philippe-Janon, Strange Currents Considering the poetics of ordinary objects like f…

Leaked government documents reveal AI companies would be allowed to train their models on online content without paying its creators as long as they struck deals with enough rights holders.

As I was leaving Conquest Games Market on Saturday, Edward R Jones was coming in. I hadn’t bought anything at this market; I had in previous years, but my need for dice towers or RPG-inspired hot s…

The small South Australian town of Hahndorf attracts visitors who enjoy the German-style architecture, artisanal food, and wine from local vineyards. The Hahndorf Academy is located on Hahndorf&#82…

MonoMelbourne remembers the visual tagger and public nuisance PAM, the bird in a series of stencils and other street art. “You always inspired me turd bird!!!! Fly free habibi; go crap on som…

Emily Floyd’s Owl of Minerva is located in a small garden off Little Lonsdale Street at the back of the Wesleyan Church; Charles Summer’s statue of Wesley is out the front (see my post, Landscaping…

“Is she a queen?” asks a little girl, pointing at a picture in NGV’s 17th-century European art collection. She asks the same question about the next painting of a woman. It is a fair enough questio…

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

I was in the city looking at a few galleries and considering if I should write a blog post. Arc One had a group show of the artists it represents, a fine exhibition but difficult to review (even th…

A library in Australia “removed” How to Sell A Genocide from its shelves, and the media’s coverage of it committed at least three of the tropes I document. Let us review them.