When Michele Y. Smith arrives in Australia this June, she’ll bring the bold ethos of the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), Seattle’s immersive temple to […]
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Hidden history of Aboriginal-Chinese culture comes alive at National Museum of Australia
In 1989, Zhou Xiaoping was a 29-year-old Chinese artist travelling around Australia pursuing his passion for Aboriginal culture. He had explored the desert town of […]
AGNSW’s Volume festival
During World War II a vast, underground bunker full of fuel for Australian and Allied ships lay in the periphery of Sydney’s Domain parkland. In […]
The perfect symbol of Australian unity? I’ve seen it
What’s the best thing about Australia? Or at least the most emblematic thing? Here’s my vote: the free gas barbecues in local parks. They’re everywhere: […]
American Girlhood Culture Is Really Strange
In the 2000s, male artists routinely excavated the popular culture of their boyhood for imaginative repurposing in their art. Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of […]
The darker side of Disney songs
How the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired It’s a Small World, and a cat tune sung by Peggy Lee had racist undertones – Arwa Haider traces […]
Seaweed could replace plastic
Plastic made from seaweed and milk that doesn’t come from a cow. Those ideas may once have been seen as fanciful science fiction, but a […]
Vivid Sydney biggest on record
Vivid Sydney, Australia’s biggest festival hit its biggest attendance record in history boasting a crowd of more than 3.28 million. The preliminary figures demonstrate another […]
Culture is Life and ABC Education Launch Official Educational Resources for NAIDOC Week
Today, educators around Australia have access to the official educational resources for this year’s NAIDOC Week theme: ‘For Our Elders’ on the ABC Education website. […]
Inside Prince Harry’s depressing new life, which includes late-night gaming and vacant hotel rooms
Nearly exactly six years ago, Prince Harry touched down in Sydney and the city succumbed to a bad case of Aitchmania. The dashing HRH was in town […]