The weirdest things in our Spotify Wrapped this year
On Spotify Wrapped day, we share the music we loved. But sometimes the data just doesn't seem to match up with our expectations.
Hannah Story is a writer and editor for ABC Arts, working on Gadigal land. Find her on Twitter @hannahmstory.
On Spotify Wrapped day, we share the music we loved. But sometimes the data just doesn't seem to match up with our expectations.
Sydney-based management company The Junkyard, run by Craig Ivanoff, has stranded dozens of comedians without representation, just weeks before comedy festival season kicks off.
Scottish Indian artist Jasleen Kaur has won the UK's most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize, amid calls for the Tate to cut ties with organisations linked to Israel.
With her debut movie Your Monster, American filmmaker Caroline Lindy takes a traumatic and formative experience and turns it into a charming and monstrous rom-com.
Miles Franklin's debut novel may have been published way back in 1901, but the story of the "ratbag" aspiring artist Sybylla Melvyn remains as vibrant as ever.
Welsh American journalist Jon Ronson has interviewed conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis and soldiers trained as psychics. This week, at his live shows, he'll teach you to spot a psychopath.
Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but he's declined to accept the prize money until its sponsors make a plan to divest from fossil fuels.
Pamela Rabe has been a star of Australian stage and screen for more than 40 years. Now, she takes on a new challenge: playing the matriarch in August: Osage County.
This year, the Waanyi author of Carpentaria, Tracker and Praiseworthy has won the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and now the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Lisa McCune stars in the Australian premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, a play that uncovers the simmering tensions beneath America in 2024.
It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which just won one of the world's top literary awards.
ABC chair Kim Williams says investment and regulation are needed to fund the production of Australian stories, as he calls for the broadcaster to be "aggressively, consciously ambitious" in its programming.
Eric Idle, one-sixth of legendary comedy group Monty Python, brings his new live show, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!, to Australia this month.
Michael Brand is set to depart the Sydney art gallery in July, less than three years after the completion of the $344 million Sydney Modern project.
Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko has won one of Australia's richest literary prizes, the ARA Historical Novel Prize, for Edenglassie, which interweaves stories of Aboriginal peoples in the past and present.
Much-loved comedian Kitty Flanagan talks about the hard road to getting her ABC TV sitcom Fisk made, and how the show has taken off both in Australia and overseas.
With Flat Earthers: The Musical, Lou Wall and their ex, playwright Jean Tong, craft a love story for the chronically online generation Z.
Four years after he retired from playwriting, David Williamson brings three new plays to Australia's main stages in 2024, including his latest The Puzzle at State Theatre Company South Australia.
It's the first song from the English goth rock band's forthcoming record, Songs of a Lost World, which is due out in November.
Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria will tour to North America from next year, as part of The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art.
Charlotte Wood is shortlisted for her 10th book, Stone Yard Devotional, a novel about a woman who leaves her life in the city to join an enclosed religious community.
The Logie Hall of Famer is one of many TV stars featuring in Sydney Theatre Company's 2025 slate, for the final season from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams.
Jo Davies, artistic director of Opera Australia, has left the company over a 'difference in opinion' with the CEO and board about how to balance artistic and commercial imperatives.
Jayson Gillham, whose scheduled performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was abruptly cancelled last week, talks about choosing to highlight the plight of journalists in Gaza at concert.
Olympic breakdancer Raygun sends a special message to the Logies as Boy Swallows Universe scores early wins. Look back on our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.