The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art
They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhausted, says freelance writer Isabel Brooks
Vegemite, VB and Hills hoists: Drew Hopper’s scenes from outback Australia – in pictures
Drew Hopper’s photographs of inland New South Wales reveal a cinematic Australia shaped by long drives and fleeting encounters. His series West of Somewhere East is showing at Yarrila Arts and Museum in Coffs Harbour
Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?
By Nick Buckley
From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the city
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/29/melbourne-record-stores-vinyl-capital-of-the-world
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Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?
From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the city
The week around the world in 20 pictures
Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Ebola outbreak, Eid al-Adha in Gaza and Sinner at the French Open – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain
Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism
London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with disease
Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures
Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at the Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) in Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman
Milking it: inside America’s lactation rooms – in pictures
Some are bright and cosy, others are starkly depressing – these images of rooms used to pump breast milk expose the sometimes grim reality of being a new mum in the US
‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on why literature is erotic
Now in residence at the Madrid Prado, the author talks about its dark, inspirational Goyas, the clandestine nature of her writing – and why she finally wrote about her jailed then posthumously exonerated father
Stripteases, ecstatic embraces and a dog in a dress: the full-on photos celebrating queer dancefloors worldwide
A thrillingly unsanitised new photo book captures the liberating power of queer clubs in all their sexy, messy, kinky, cacophonous glory. ‘I wanted it to feel like a night out,’ says the woman behind it
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