The Drawing Room

Did you know that new research has indicated one of those Magpie population’s is smarter than the other? And that the more aggressive the swooping the less intelligent the bird?

The marvellous art critic and curator Julie Ewington regales us with tales of those artists who began the Impressionist art movement and the women and Australians among their ranks.

With five Grammy awards under his belt, he’s written music for Disney and sung and performed with Stevie Wonder … New Orleans-born PJ Morton drops by on his way to play the Byron Bay Blues Festival.

One of Australia’s leading housing economists has taken a deep look at the way we do housing and believes the whole system is a hoax and a myth.

Bush food is diverse and plentiful in Far North Queensland, and in a new series premiering on SBS, Samantha Martin, the Bush Tukka Woman, embarks on a hunt and forage through this extraordinary region for fresh local ingredients from the sea to the trees and the land.

Kyle Chayka's new book Filterworld asks the question, are you really thinking for yourself or are the algorithms doing it for you?

Soprano singer Nina Korbe is playing Maria in Opera Australia's production of West Side Story, she speaks with us about what the character means to her.

You may have seen The Mona Lisa, but few have been as up close and personal as Optical Engineer and consultant to The Louvre Museum, Pascal Cotte who was given unprecedented access to the painting by the French Ministry of Culture. 

The Baroque opera movement had it all celebrity, money and bad behaviour. Find out more about the origins of this era of opera. 

What exactly is the West? Is it a Big Mac, the Magna Carta, the Christian cross, or the Statue of Liberty? One Professor of Classics at Oxford University argues the West is a sum of its parts, borrowed, stolen and traded from the East.