How do you write about an ephemeral, visual contemporary art form in a way that's: a good read, helps audiences and contributes to the art form?

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos draws a complex portrait of life, art, and lies from the Dutch Golden Age to modern Sydney.

Red Seppelt is a scientist and an artist - an exhibition of his botanical illustrations is on show in Hobart.

'Sound from the Ground' is a concert inspired by the graves in the historic East Perth Cemeteries.

One of the highlights of this year’s Adelaide Writers Week – a fiery conversation about the English poet Ted Hughes.

The results of RN’s Shakespeare's Greatest Hits poll are in! You voted for a soliloquy from Hamlet, and a monologue by Emilia from Othello. Have a listen to Bell Shakespeare actors read them.

Shakespeare's description of Cleopatra - “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety” - applies to his own work. Professor Indira Ghose gets to grip with the bard's infinite variety and ongoing appeal.

Shakespeare scholar and literary historian James Shapiro argues that 1606 was one hell of a year. It was tumultuous for England and highly productive for the Bard.

From Brave New World to Warm Bodies, the number of books, films, plays and chocolate bars inspired by Shakespeare are myriad.

Literary critic Geordie Williamson reviews In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri and My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.