The veteran star was in Cannes for the premiere of his directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach when he delivered an update on the future of the plane.
The director's film John Lennon: The Last Interview uses a conversation conducted hours before the musician's death in 1980. But that's not what has observers feeling anxious.
The pianist is suing the orchestra for wrongful dismissal after it cancelled his performance following controversy over his on-stage comments about the Gaza conflict.
The legendary Kiwi band may have aged – but they are not going quietly. Plus, our critics look at performances by the ACO and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Dunham accused her Girls co-star and on-screen love interest of behaving "something feral … half-man, half-beast” on set. Now he has broken his silence.
A proposal for an extra tax has raised questions about whether consumers or corporations should fund the impact that large tours have on the local gig economy.
The answer is not as simple as send an extraordinary singer and equip her with an extraordinary song. Even after a decade in the competition, we remain a newcomer.
She says she "felt the country with me” and is thrilled with Australia's fourth place after Bulgaria won in a nail-biting final count, Michael Idato reports from Vienna.
More than 80 works from the private collection of Dame Marie Bashir and her husband Sir Nicholas Shehadie are going up for auction, with one painting expected to fetch up to $50,000.
Dami Im finished in second place, performing Sound of Silence, while Guy Sebastian finished fifth with Tonight Again and Kate Miller-Heidke finished ninth with Zero Gravity in the Eurovision contest.
After wowing Vienna with her gravity-defying performance at the semi-final, Delta Goodrem has increased her odds of winning the world's oldest music contest.
Delta Goodrem set the Eurovision stage ablaze overnight, booking a slot in this weekend's final and restoring Australia's standing in the world's oldest music competition.
The memorial for the much-loved Sydney radio personality will be held on May 29 and hosted by Richard Glover, who shared a 25-year career with Valentine.
The Welsh singer reportedly went into cardiac arrest when doctors tried to bring her out of an induced coma, but doctors say they are "positive” about her recovery.
The creator of The Colour Orange is working on a new composition – and help is at hand as he weaves RuPaul's Drag Race and Verdi's Rigoletto with a slash of Eurovision theatrics.
On the walls of the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, imagery and words collide in a show celebrating photographer Juno Gemes and poet Robert Adamson's 50 years together.
The broadcasting legend has turned down numerous invitations, including several from Dancing with the Stars, but he's decided now is the right time to step out of the commentary box.
The American accents in the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey have raised eyebrows but British accents would be just as inaccurate. What's with the desire to make films sound so English?
Richard Lewer has won this year's Archibald Prize for a portrait of Iluwanti Ken, a Pitjantjatjara elder and artist from Tjala Arts in South Australia's APY Lands.
Birthright, the first feature film by award-winning Australian writer and director Zoe Pepper, looks at intergenerational wealth, housing crises, and family entitlement.
Creative Australia chair Wesley Enoch says removal and reinstatement of Australia's Venice Biennale representative Khaled Sabsabi holds lessons for all arts organisations, as former PM says his treatment was "absolutely” unfair.
Baby Reindeer creator and star Richard Gadd returns with his new series, Half Man, a shocking, violent exploration of the toxic relationship between two men raised as brothers.
This week's new releases include Jodie Foster speaking French and Anne Hathaway as a fictional pop star – but the film our critics gave the highest rating to may surprise you.
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage and bestselling novelist Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta relied on pirated books to train its AI program.
Human rights expert Francesca Albanese writes movingly about her time as UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory.
The Things We Never Say is a departure from Strout's Olive Kitteridge/Lucy Barton universe, but in its psychological exploration of ordinary individuals it's familiar territory.
The bestselling author is a self-confessed hugger. She is so warm it's difficult to believe she makes a living writing about ritualistic mutilation and kidnappings. It wasn't always the case.
The artist's multimedia installation goes on show after his invitation to represent Australia at the world's biggest art festival was rescinded and then reinstated.
I'm not sure about the darling buds of May but here are 18 darling books for May, some of which are just out, others yet to come; there's a lot to discover.
The pop star pleaded guilty through her lawyer to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after prosecutors accused her of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
The two sides settled their legal dispute ahead of a planned trial over Lively's claims that Baldoni conspired with publicists to destroy her reputation after she accused him of sexually harassing her on set.
Character.ai allows users to step inside and even rewrite some of the most the world's most beloved books. Our culture writers debate whether this is sacrilege or sensational.
Melbourne artist W.B. McInnes won the first Archibald Prize for a sober portrait of an architect who sat stiffly beside a table of architectural drawings and objets d'art. This year's cohort is something else.
Rob Mills is a musical theatre person – that is to say, he believes wholeheartedly there are just some things that can only be expressed through the power of song.