Andrew Goldsmith says he's learnt his lesson and intends to prove his doubters wrong.

In the lead-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, previously unseen images evoke the visit that devastated the legendary Australian artist.

The creator of George Smiley has gone, but it's not the end of the espionage novel, far from it.

Our pick of what's showing around Melbourne this weekend on the big screen.

The two-time Oscar nominee coped with darkness and birds in the movie Penguin Bloom, the true story of a northern beaches woman paralysed in a holiday accident.

After nearly 50 years of being Australia's favourite bit of English crumpet, John Waters can finally see the funny side of sex appeal.

Kikuko Tsumura's novel about one woman's experiences in the world of work is quietly funny.

The New York-based Australian writer's complete short fiction reveals her intellectual confidence and stylistic control.

For the opening scene of Wagner’s Ring cycle, director Suzanne Chaundy wanted to plunge the audience into the depths of the Rhine river.

The British actress has one request for press junket journos: Don’t mention the war. The one in Westeros.

The bubbles hold enough oxygen for three people to breathe for approximately an hour and 10 minutes before they must be refilled or unzipped.

Storylines about female empowerment aren’t enough to compensate for the many flaws in this poorly scripted bodice-ripper.

The veteran journalist has said there is something “fundamentally wrong with a system that can produce such a deeply insensitive and divisive decision”.

A haunting performance set in a defunct zoo was a highlight of the captivating second weekend of the Mona Foma festival in Hobart.

Some of the most exciting music being written is for contemporary opera: a new Australian company wants to bring it to national audiences.

Scott Maclachlan said he had been guilty of “stupid, insensitive and ignorant comments” to women in the industry, including asking them if they wanted sexual contact with him, and making comments about their bodies.

The Sydney experimental noise outfit make music that is the exact opposite of ‘easy listening’.

King, who died on the weekend aged 87, lived most of his life as a persona more than a person, and perhaps outlived the era that made him.

The Sydney restaurateur will auction nearly 170 works by artists such as John Olsen and Charles Blackman - but there are some he can’t bear to part with.

Our guide to what’s showing in Melbourne’s galleries.

Closing the Guantanamo Bay detention centre is a vital first step towards change in America, says the star of The Mauritanian.

Staff are hoping that the Melbourne chain will become the first in the country to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement.

Duncan McNab investigates the fiasco of the plague ship that docked in Circular Quay – and let its passengers disembark.

In Barry Divola’s novel, his hero, a middle-aged Peter Pan-type figure, gets into all sorts of scrapes as he drives his brother across the US.

Azita’s Glen Echo, Jesswar’s Tropixx, Middle Kids’ Today We’re the Greatest and Avgenicos Brothers’ Treading Water.