Maximum Arousal - Rafael Toral (Portugal)

Art and crime make an odd couple. Like most celebrity flings, any attempt at marriage usually ends in divorce; think good-guy/criminal Mark "Chopper"...

Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine...

If the closest you have come to art in your kitchen has been a Pollock-esque tomato sauce stain on your white shirt then the Third Drawer Down®...

The Beatles. The Stones. Godard. The Cold War. This is the old testament of rock and roll. Psychic Soviet fittingly looks like a pocket bible, albeit...

It's Remembrance Day - the day the world remembers the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. But the senseless deaths of millions of young...

Peter Rabbit; Miffy; Mushie Moro. Ask anyone - bunnies are so hot right now. Riding high on the bunny bandwagon are artists Dan and Kozue Kitchens, with...

Unless you’re in the market for an old vacuum clearer or splatted paint can, there’s no use heading to Alpha’s new store in the city...

In The Science Of Sleep, Stéphane hosts a talkshow in his dreams which is filmed on a cardboard set inside his head with windows that look out...

Alcohol will be available at this opening. (This will become relevant later.)

Lane Cormick is really into the Eastern European body artists from the...

Before there was Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon and Shirow Masamune’s Ghost In The Shell there was Astro Boy and his creator...

The only bad thing about the Fitzroy Pool is that there really aren't too many decent cafes within walking distance where you can grab breakfast before...

Remember 1990s summers spent indoors listening to Future Sound of London, United Future Organisation, Tricky and the Wu-Tang Clan? The nights were long...

There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer has this idea to make acoffee table book about coffee tables. Everything is going well untilhe spills...

The Cold War may be over but this doesn’t mean our world is free from nuclear threat. With Saddam allegedly hiding WMDs, and Uranium mines in our...

Don't be fooled by the fact that Martin McDonagh's In Bruges stars legendary douchebag Colin Farrell. Gone is his whiplash-inducing Miami Vice-era...

You don’t have to walk down King St too often to realise that humans (particularly men) behave like animals and in an Attenborough-esque analogy...

Right now, Mumbai looms in the Western imagination as a place where terrorists gun down tourists in luxury hotels. I can't work out if now's a good or...

After what seemed an eternity between Wet From Birth and the release of Fasciination, I was anticipating an incredible, mind-blowing record which...

Notebooks used by Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin are gaye with an e. Now everyone has the notebook used by the founder of antweb.org.

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The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...