Yesterday
A 55cm X-Wing model from the original ‘Star Wars’ sells for $5m
The model, discovered in a cardboard box owned by a Hollywood visual effects artist, headlined at a sale of movie props that brought $21 million.
- Michael Levenson
A ‘Columbus letter’, the world’s first news release, sells for $6m
The 1493 pamphlet announcing Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World has a long history of being forged and stolen.
- Julia Jacobs
Why women should never get married – ever
A new book by Australian feminist Clementine Ford aims to stop females entering into an institution that does them harm.
- Theo Chapman
Inside an expedition to locate the Beagle’s lost anchors
A remote river in the Northern Territory is being persuaded to reveal its secrets. Yet like any wild thing, it does not wish to be known.
- Paul Toohey
‘Dumb Money’ is a miraculous one-off fairy tale
Australian director Craig Gillespie weaves a human-interest story out of a tangle of encounters that usually take place at one remove.
- John McDonald
‘The fewer people who know what you’re doing, the better’
Joe McGrath spent 150 days on the road this year touring with the $600k Melbourne Cup. The key, he says, is knowing when to keep a low profile and when to wax lyrical.
- Gus McCubbing
This Month
Is this the toughest job in the Victoria Racing Club?
Forget the horses. Punters need track manager Liam O’Keeffe to deliver for them, too. And while he does his best, some things are simply beyond his control.
- Hannah Tattersall
Sarah Brightman’s first musical in 30 years an Opera Australia coup
Phantom of the Opera legend stars in world premiere of a new production of Sunset Boulevard, highlighting OA season that leans heavily into female and local talent.
- Michael Bailey
These sound therapists made a stress-relieving orchestra
Review: Perth’s En Coda Symphony Orchestra used droning instruments, and strings tuned below concert pitch, for a ‘therapeutic’ listening experience in Sydney on Sunday night.
- Michael Bailey
The extraordinary life of photographer Lee Miller in 100 pictures
When things were going well, the model and muse turned wartime and fashion photographer was wonderful company, says her son. She could be monstrous too.
- Tony Davis
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Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
- Opinion
- Performing arts
Almost-billionaire Taylor Swift could show Elon Musk how to do rich
The singer-songwriter has made a fortune from her adoring fans and now has a chance to become the poster girl for responsible capitalism.
- Amanda Little
- Opinion
- Review
Scorsese’s new film about oil and greed is one of his greatest ever
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a movie of weighty moral force by Martin Scorsese, a director who is in command of the medium.
- John McDonald
Former NAB director’s art collection goes under hammer
Artwork in the estate of a Melbourne business blue-blood who shrugged off a fraud scandal in the 1990s will go under the hammer in Melbourne on October 29.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Can you dance fast enough for the latest nightclub fad?
A lockdown trend is spreading across Europe, but it’s not for those with two left feet.
- Thomas Rogers
- Opinion
- Review
A TV actor wrote the crypto book Michael Lewis should have
When Ben McKenzie of The OC saw other celebrities cashing in on the digital coin craze, he got angry, righteous, and decided to correct the record.
- Myriam Robin
‘I use my paintbrush as a weapon’: Vincent Namatjira’s new exhibition
The acclaimed Indigenous artist takes aim at Empire and influence, using broad strokes of humour to skewer his targets.
- Stephen Todd
- Opinion
- Review
When your fiancée gets that Wall Street hedge fund job you wanted
New Netflix film Fair Play is a gripping battle of the sexes set in a toxic, misogynist corporate world where power and sex are inextricably linked currencies.
- Jake Coyle
Sarah Blasko had long dismissed ‘Twelfth Night’ – then she scored it
Composing a soundtrack for the Shakespearean comedy seemed an unlikely job for this most serious of singer-songwriters, but music proved to be the food of love.
- Michael Bailey
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Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
