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Designer of stunning Bilbao museum wants to build Melbourne’s new NGV Save Normal text size Advertisement Edwin Chan, a Hong Kong-born architect who worked with Frank Gehry designing the world-renowned Bilbao Guggenheim art museum in Spain, has pleaded with the Victorian government to relax its “Australian only” rule for designers of the new NGV Contemporary. Chan said he’d love to bid for the project in partnership with an Australian firm and bring his experience and “out of the box thinking” to Melbourne. Edwin Chan at CHALET, a collaboration with artist Piero ...

They fell in love, and set about terrifying people in their homes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement “I hate being scared,” says Nathan Alexander. Which is fair enough. But slightly ironic, given he spent most of 2020 sending shivers down the spines of Australians. Alexander and his partner Amy Johnson are the producers behind Darkfield Radio in Australia, whose three immersive horror-tinged audio productions were among the few homegrown theatrical success stories in a year stripped nearly bare...

Advertisement Ormond Street is a classic, buttoned-down, Paddington neighbourhood, lined with Audis and Land Rovers in front of tastefully renovated multimillion-dollar terraces, each tightly sealed behind heavily barred doors and windows. All, that is, apart from Number 45, whose door is flung wide open to the world on this humid summer morning. This is Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ former home, left by the great composer in trust to allow selected musicians a 12-month rent-free residency to work on their craft. William Barton and Veronique Serret are set to present an hour-long collaboration at ...

Sarah Taryam, Arts Editor This week, our cover story is about something we don’t give too much thought to. From a young age, all of us have heard that sugar and caffeine before bed is bad for sleep. In fact, almost all of us were forbidden by our parents to snack on sugary foods before bedtime as it would keep us up. Now, new research conducted has suggested that what we eat does indeed affect how we sleep, and vice versa. For example, researchers have found that eating foods which are high in sugar, processed carbs and saturated fats can disrupt our sleep. On the other hand, if we includ...

Who's that Gal? Wonder Woman returns, just don't call her a feminist We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Who's that Gal? Wonder Woman returns, just don't call her a feminist Normal text size Patty Jenkins, director of Wonder Woman 1984, had one main direction she gave to the woman she calls “The Gal”, aka Gal Gadot, aka Wonder Woman. It was about an expression Gadot sometimes got on her face when playing fight scenes. The Gal looked too mean. “Wonder Woman is going to f--- you up, but she’ll do it because she has to,” says Jenkins. ...