Art, Architecture & Design

rufus sewell and juliet aubrey in a bbc production of middlemarch

George Eliot’s Middlemarch: egoism, moral stupidity, and the complex web of life

06 Jun 2023

In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.

Julia Gutman with her work Head in the sky, feet on the ground at the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2023 winners announcement

The fine art of storytelling for Archibald winner and UNSW alumna

15 May 2023

Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman paints portraits whose stories run deep, and are layered with meaning and with textiles, too.

Cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our ‘art monsters’

12 May 2023

So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?

a woman moves under water breathing out bubbles

How do we remake ourselves after unravelling? Plunge into life, says a mesmerising new work

11 May 2023

Deborah Levy’s new novel, set in our pandemic-era present, contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. Jane Gleeson-White says she ‘read it like a thriller’.

main characters from the netflix show beef

More than 'model minorities': in Netflix's Beef, Asian migrants are allowed to have real emotions

09 May 2023

Beef gives permission to its feuding central characters and minority audience members to feel complex and nuanced emotions.

Australia now has its own grand mosque: a brief history of how these buildings fold into the urban landscape

09 May 2023

Grand mosques mark the urban space of major historical cities such as Mecca, Medina, Cordoba and Tunis. Now, Melbourne has its very own.

parent and child looking out window from apartment

Wanted: family-friendly apartments. But what do families want from apartments?

27 Apr 2023

Despite a surge in development, most apartments are one or two bedrooms and not family-friendly.

Adaptive reuse: should we convert empty offices to address housing shortages?

19 Apr 2023

Quality of life must lead office-to-residential conversions to ensure inequities are not built into our housing system, says UNSW expert.

Content quotas are a start - but Australia's screen industry needs more

03 Apr 2023

The forthcoming screen industry consultation needs to consider more than content quotas to ensure a strong and thriving Australian screen industry, says UNSW expert.

What is a cultural policy and why does Australia need one?

06 Mar 2023

Bold cultural visions can be useful for society and give certainty to the arts sector, says UNSW cultural data expert.

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