Glass is ordinary, boring stuff, right? Shanghai’s Museum Of Glass shatters that perception with an extraordinary array of glass-related art and history, along with a cutting sense of humour.
Joss Whedon was handed a huge task in both writing and directing Marvel’s The Avengers, given that it’s the culmination of a sequence of half-a-dozen other movies. How well did he assemble his Avengers?
Are you in Sydney and looking for something cool to do this weekend? Let me point you in the direction of the Museum of Contemporary Art, where you’ll find a crowdsourced electronic art exhibition like nothing you’ve ever seen. Bonus: admission is free!
Famous MIT professor Noam Chomsky was in Sydney last week to accept Australia’s only international peace prize and talk at a sold-out Q&A event as part of Ideas at the House. The talk is now available to watch online, and there are plenty more events featuring some of the world’s greatest minds coming up.
Melbournites! Head to the streets and you might be in for a culture shock, or for that matter a pleasant surprise, as the city’s hosting its first digital arts festival, titled Pause Fest.
Walter Isaacson’s authorised biography of Steve Jobs is a fascinating book, both in how it came to be and how it unfolds, but it’s certainly not your average celebrity puff piece.
Yes, tickets for the live version of perennial TV quiz favourite QI were hideously expensive. But I was more than happy to see the show in Melbourne, and not just because Stephen Fry and Alan Davies tripped down under to do it. Here are five other reasons.
Yes, really. Stainless Steel Rat follows a determined film director’s struggle to bring Assange’s story to the big screen. A fictional film within a play, if you will. So does it rate? And how deep does the script dive into the WikiLeaks story?
