The partner and the gallerist of Jeffrey Smart share their memories of the man and the artist.

We explore Dark Mofo’s Dark Park, an industrial art wonderland on the Hobart docks.

Director Donna Jackson uses art for social change. Her show Dust used performance to tackle the issue of asbestos.

A lively debate on whether technology is degrading our language and whether it matters that the 2015 Oxford Dictionary's word of the year was an emoji.

Simon Armitage brings to life a medieval poem about grief and the afterlife.

Katherine Brabon, this year's winner of the Vogel's Literary Award, shares the artwork on her Top Shelf.

Lionel Shriver discuses her new novel The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047, a dystopian tale of the fall of the once great USA, told through the prism of the Mandible family.

Conductor Richard Gill was given just three days to create a unique vocal and instrumental performance piece with the children at Perth's Wesley College.

Classical guitarist Matthew Fagan Matthew Fagan has drawn on the musical traditions in his own family for his recent album. Matthew's great uncle Cecil Parkes was famous in Australia in the 1920s for his skill as a violinist.

James Lee and Michael Munson delve into the ABC Sound Library in search of rock songs that borrow heavily from classical music.