In the continuation of my long journey nowhere, New York City has given me something to latch onto: real life.

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With an enormous quantity of work on show, the 2022 Venice Art Biennale rests its bona fides on scale and technical trickery. But the end result is one big empty gesture.

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Velvet ropes, cynicism, and an unshakeable sense of unreality all have their day in the sun at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

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An update on where I’ve been, and how I became a nobody in France.

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With all the signs coalescing, the message is clear: it’s time for something new.

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In this edition I recap what has been, by any measure, a real mother f****r of a year.

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Melbourne, an enemy of coherent style, plays host to a new exhibition at the NGV commemorating the revolutionary output of fashion icon and Nazi sympathiser, Gabrielle Chanel.

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With summer only days away, everyone's out and looking super hot. But the question remains: just what kind of summer are we all expecting?

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Jews have a habit of sticking together, but certain lurid reports about rule-breakers had the Melbourne community smouldering. So what was all the fuss really about?

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