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Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?

From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the city

The Guardian - AU

Music fans find groove of vinyl culture at exhibition

Music lovers can check out releases from London's The Vinyl Factory at an exhibition that celebrates the joys of vinyl records.

AAP

What's that, Big Ted? Play School celebrates 60 years

Step through the windows into the world of Play School, where kids can crawl into a rocket clock, or pretend to film episodes of the much-loved show.

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Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"

"It's a specific kind of lock-and-key type of progression"

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Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter

Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3

GamesRadar

Airlines struggle with strikes and aircraft shortages: What does it mean for your travel plans?

From longer routes to fewer planes, here's why flying in 2025 might cost more and take longer.

Euronews

Playable videogames at ACMI, from Zork to Hollow Knight

Game Worlds is a playable videogame exhibition opening at Australia's national museum of screen culture, ACMI.

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Back to Back Theatre tackles an epic Shakespearian conflict – set in a factory, with cardboard props

Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s national treasures. Over 30 years this dynamic Geelong-based company – an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities – has built a dynamic body of innovative work renowned for its formal experimentation.

The Conversation

Serwah Attafuah: a powerful and most welcome voice in contemporary Australian art

Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.

The Conversation

At ACMI’s The Future & Other Fictions, artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world

The Future Other Fictions, ACMI’s flagship summer exhibition, explores where storytelling imagines and rethinks the future.

The Conversation

All surface, no substance. Kids will probably love Beings at ACMI. Pity about the rest of us

At this week’s launch of Beings by Universal Everything, ACMI board member Ian Forsyth noted that ACMI’s last exhibition, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature, exceeded audience targets by 40–50%. This is an enormous success by any measure. It proves ACMI’s vision for its premiere exhibition space is working.

The Conversation

Universal Everything a parade of the digital fantastic

At a world premiere exhibition by global art collective Universal Everything, visitors will find their movements generate the strangest of digital creatures.

AAP

Remote worker havens: we review the best places to work for free in central Melbourne

Cafes, public libraries, even Federation Square can offer Melbourne’s remote workers respite from four walls at home

The Guardian - AU

Marshmallow Laser Feast at ACMI is a sumptuous visual feast – but something is missing

In my office, someone has pinned a cartoon in which two dogs consider an abstract sculpture on a plinth. As he strokes his chin one of them asks, “Yes, but is it food?”.

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ACMI’s Goddess asks us rethink our gaze – and the bias it contains – when we look upon women on the screen

The most fascinating aspect of screen museum ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion, and the major contribution it makes, is the way it generates fresh understandings of women on screen, including in relation to Australia.

ABC News

Dr Nigel Gray was determined to stop tobacco advertising in Australia. Eventually his efforts paid off

The powerful anti-tobacco ads that shifted public opinion in Australia are featured in a new exhibition at Melbourne's ACMI museum.

The Guardian - AU

From Marilyn to Margot: Goddess is a crowd-pleasing celebration of women on film

This compact new exhibition at Melbourne’s Acmi, opened by actor Geena Davis, will have something new for most

ABC News

Geena Davis on Thelma and Louise, rejecting Jack Nicholson’s advances, and working to break Hollywood’s glass ceiling

Geena Davis is a big-screen feminist icon. But she wasn't always the trailblazer we see today.

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Treasure trove of historical Mildura footage saved in WIN TV building clear-out

A historian intends to digitise the archival footage of Mildura taken from the former TV news building, which he says is oftentimes "the only coverage" of local past events.

The Guardian - AU

Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in December

The Conversation

Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI

AAP

ACMI lights up with art from the UK's Tate

Artworks from the UK's Tate galleries will go on show for an exhibition exploring how artists use light.

The Conversation

How conceptual artist Gillian Wearing and photographer Cindy Sherman make us confront our performances to the world

Review: Gillian Wearing Editing Life, and Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #58, PHOTO 2022.

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