Art, Architecture & Design

A woman sits on stairs using a typewriter

'The problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

23 Jun 2023

‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.

School kids play on a high rise outdoor area

Vertical schools are increasingly common. This is what students want in ‘high’ school design

21 Jun 2023

In a new study, students say they want access to indoor and outdoor play spaces at vertical schools. But they don’t want too much noise.

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.

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