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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

Maids at work

IT IS SUMMER 2008 in downtown Beirut and in the tiny bathroom of an upmarket rooftop restaurant a young...

By Annee Lawrence

Baby steps

 AT 10 ON a Tuesday morning on a busy street in Melbourne’s inner north, a young woman in black...

By Jenny Sinclair

We say: a work of art.

THROUGHOUT HISTORY INTERPRETATIONS of the exact work an artist is responsible for have changed dramatically. And yet what audiences...

By Pat Hoffie

Ting Pei

he’s a conjurorof shapes tossing trianglesinto blue calling stalksfrom the ground asking waterto dance rocks to slideand roll roofs to boblike sea birds he’s a...

By Duncan Richardson

Ghost figs

Once, magpies squabbled overheadwhile kookaburras stared.At dusk, our car was a boatin a tide of cattle,tails swishing, bitumen studdedwith...

By Laura Jan Shore

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