Melbourne, Australia – More Indigenous people are behind bars in Australia than ever before, making them the world’s most imprisoned people. Despite making up 3.8…
Filmmaker Raoul Peck and author Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss their road to making art that’s political and subversive. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck highlights the roots…
Soon the lights of Vivid will be switched on, bathing Sydney in a rush of colour, sound and flavour.This year, trains trundling around the city…
A LEADING suspect in the $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist pitched a film script mirroring the still unsolved caper - which culminated in…
The Venice Biennale may have lost much of its singular luster, now that hundreds of periodic surveys of new international art have joined the roster…
In short: Archibald Prize winner Vincent Namatjira released a statement responding to reports Gina Rinehart had requested the removal of his portrait from the National Portrait Gallery. Archibald…
Prince William made a surprise video appearance at the BAFTA TV Awards over the weekend to praise Floella Benjamin, a baroness, for her work with…
Civic Youth Orchestra (Courtesy of Civic Youth Orchestra / Photo by Bill Kraus) Hello and welcome to another week of Essential Arts, where we highlight…
The first Monday in May, fashion’s biggest night of the year, is almost here. The Met Gala is the rare occasion that brings together the…
Hammer Director Ann Philbin was given the celebrity treatment at the museum’s star-packed gala Saturday night as a host of arts and culture luminaries, including…
Hello and May the 4th be with you! From a cultural galaxy near, near by, the Essential Arts newsletter is back again, corralling the best…
Creative tourism is on the rise - and a new study has found that Paris, London, Berlin and Amsterdam are among the European capital cities…
A Meow Wolf exhibition is designed as a dream space, a walk-through floor-to-ceiling collection of psychedelic art with a sci-fi bent and an anything-goes, punk…
In large-scale charcoal drawings filled with movement, details and pop-art references, artist Anna Park explores what it is to live in an age consumed by…
Most comedy clubs in L.A. can book a lineup on any given night, but it’s the special venues that know how to treat comedians properly…
NINETIES music fans have been left doing a double take after seeing new pictures of a popstar from the iconic decade. Jewel stormed the charts…
Ruth Russell, 75, has never met the woman she exchanges letters with once a month.But over the past two years, the pair have forged a…
Hamish Lamond works day in, day out doing what some see as a dying art. He takes horses — animals unbroken and fearful of humans — and teaches…
A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary…
“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” the sprawling and much-anticipated retrospective of the great American Pop and Conceptual artist, opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County…