Culture

A new policy promises round-the-clock graffiti reporting and removal. But do these proposed changes accurately reflect Melbourne's love-hate relationship with urban culture?

When fans saved a fictional grave on a Welsh beach, they showed how stories can transcend fiction to become part of the world we live in

Australian artists are struggling. To support those who tell Australian stories, we need to go beyond the government’s Revive policy

When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects her community had no idea were there. Now she's changing that

They have lucrative brand deals and strong political opinions. They’re also not real. Behind the scenes, a handful of tech companies are rewriting the rules of global culture

The fashion designs of Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo show that being punk is about more than just style – it’s an approach to freedom, politics and society

Mattel’s latest doll has stirred conversations about the commercialisation of autism, but the benefits of this kind of representation cannot be understated

The undead's latest resurrection in the new 28 Years Later film reflects our collective need to grapple with what experts call the 'polycrisis'

From classrooms to communities, social movements to storytelling, games aren’t diversions – they are blueprints for how we create, connect and change our world

The best stories crackle with a kind of electricity, but why they grab us can be hard to articulate. A new podcast is trying to find the answer