‘The God's Mistakes' Trimapee party

True Story: When Space Invaders was first launched back in 1978 it created a nationwide shortage of pennies in Japan. People were dropping some much...

Remember the days when sneaking a peek at your Christmas presents required a series of capers involving younger siblings, your dog, and prank calls to...

The craftsman behind Note to Self was not your average kid. While most juveniles were trading fags for swigs of Spumanti behind the shelter sheds, Max...

You can’t talk about Neil Burger’s The Illusionist without talking about The Prestige. Both are recent films about stage magicians...

The boys of Trimapee revel in change. Their previous collection, Cubicle Confessions, breathed an understated finesse. It was characterised by shades...

Unlike its name suggests, Lt Collins boutique Extinct doesn’t deal in dinosaur bones. It does however take influence from the best of bygone fashion...

Before there was digital, there was Polaroid. Long the choice of fashion stylists, agents and the impatient in general, the camera’s instant ‘snap...

The Melbourne International Arts Festival has pulled a big name for its visual arts program in the 2004 Turner Prize winner, Martin Creed. Thousands...

As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding...

There is nothing more painful than a story told badly, yet there are few things better than one told well. Fortunately, San Franciscan multi-instrumentalist...

Senses of Cinema, one of the world's most popular film websites, is celebrating its 40th issue. To do this, they have enlisted the dotmov media arts...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...

It could be tempting to compare American superstar artist Barbara Kruger with pop superstar Madonna - both have been continually producing hits for...

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 is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures...

For those of you who missed Liv Barrett and James Deutsher's awe-inspiring turtle/tortoise/cat video at the VCA gallery as part of Next Wave's, Unsheltered...

Melbourne, and Other Myths examines the mysterious charm of this city in a way that is altogether more interesting and less embarrassing than the ads...

Mapplethorpe:A Biography is a mixture of the beautiful and the tragic, a story of honesty and undoing, and an insight into a life that is both real...

If you think about the last time someone turned to you and said, "Hey, I like you!" Chances are you'll stare wistfully out the window and crave...

If, like us, you associate short fiction with Readers Digest and the smell of your Granny's lounge room then you need Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope...