This Month
Developer to display Baker’s music trove after paying $314k
Amateur drummer Paul Lambess has already rejected requests to sell parts of journalist Glenn A. Baker’s 80,000 records and CDs.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- Music festivals
Who decides on the fair price of an Oasis ticket?
Outrage over computer-driven ticket prices to see a legendary band has left music fans and the British government in a muddle.
- Matthew Brooker
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
Why men are joining book clubs
The world sleepwalked into a loneliness epidemic. Is the humble book club the remedy?
- Lucy Dean
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The MSO brought this row on itself
Young self-absorbed artists and old complacent arts organisations like the MSO don’t understand that great art is powerful because it transcends politics.
- John Roskam
In Beetlejuice sequel, Michael Keaton looks the same 36 years on
The actor delivers a barnstorming performance as the fast-talking sleazebag demon in Tim Burton’s comedic vision of the Afterlife as a nightmarish bureaucracy.
- John McDonald
How to start your own book club
So, you and a couple of your friends have embarked upon a quest to read more? Here’s how to get your book club up and running – and enduring.
- Lucy Dean
Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach. Exclusive 20% off tickets
Special 20% off tickets for subscribers to attend the latest concert from the Australian Chamber Orchestra
- Opinion
- Art
There is a compromise for disputes like the one at MSO
Art is meant to disrupt, but audiences must be free of interference too. There is a time and a place for both.
- Patrick Langrell
- Exclusive
- New music
Why Missy Higgins stopped therapy to make an album
Two decades on from the multi-platinum The Sound Of White, Missy Higgins is looking inward again – only this time it’s to cope with being a newly single mother of two.
- Alexander Gow
Female sculptors deliver at mid-year art sales
Bronywn Oliver and Gloria Thancoupie caught collectors’ eyes, while a piece of Mosman history with a colourful past is back on the market.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Feuding Melbourne Symphony players choose their fighters
While we doubt much of this will end up in court, everyone is getting the very best legal advice. If only for leverage.
- Myriam Robin
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra rejects pianist’s claim for compensation
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s fight with a pianist it cancelled after he made political comments onstage has led to an exchange of aggressive legal letters.
- Michael Bailey
August
- Opinion
- Live music
The Oasis reunion is all about the vibe
In that sense, Oasis Live ’25 will be no different from a Taylor Swift gig - another major moment but with more bad hair and beery tears.
- Jo Ellison
Opera Australia artistic director gone amid rift with boss
Australia’s largest performing arts company is in turmoil, with Jo Davies resigning after just nine months in the role amid a split with CEO Fiona Allan.
- Michael Bailey
This Gen Z banking show has made greed good again
Because of the show’s sharp-witted, slickly produced treatment of money, privilege and existential emptiness, some critics have anointed it the heir to HBO’s ‘Succession’.
- Spencer Kornhaber
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
The one thing I didn’t expect when I took paternity leave
For this new dad, it was the unexpected emotions around returning to work that really caught him by surprise.
- Craig Wright
Inside the board meeting showdown at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Contradictory accounts have emerged of a May meeting called to discuss a documentary about MSO chair David Li, underlining divisions at the orchestra.
- Michael Bailey
- Exclusive
- Art
How the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is tearing itself apart
War erupted on the board of one of Australia’s most prestigious arts institutions long before the public upheavals over a pianist’s remarks about Gaza.
- Myriam Robin, Michael Bailey and Patrick Durkin
