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.
Ripped in half?
ON THE HIGHWAY before the turnoff to the tranquil village where my small house sits in the heart of...
The time of our lives
Listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘The time of our lives’. YEARS AGO, I read a book by Douwe Draaisma, a...
Foresight, hindsight and the present day
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Foresight, hindsight and the present day’. IN 2013, US-based Chinese visual artist...
In the small hours
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read ‘In the small hours: Stories from madrugada’. THIS MORNING, I was up at 5...
Retribution, reform, rehabilitation
THE PERIMETER OF the New Gaol on Norfolk Island features imposing walls set with three archways, one high and...
Seeing through the digital haze
THERE IS SOMETHING seductive about aircraft vapour trails, those long streaks – ice, carbon dioxide, soot and metal – that...
On suicide watch?
THE WORLD IS full of beautiful places. Beaches and oceans, cliffs, forests, mountains and valleys, deserts, rivers, islands, harbours...
Symbols, shorthand, signs
IN THE WINTER of 2018, the National Gallery of Victoria’s ground floor was given over to the MoMA at...
Settling and making a place
AUSTRALIA WAS THE last continent to experience the transformation wrought by new settlers arriving to make it their own....
Whispering in our hearts
LONG BEFORE 1873, when William Christie Gosse ‘discovered’ the six-hundred-million-year-old sandstone monolith at the centre of Australia and called...
Ties that (still) bind
TWELVE YEARS AFTER William the Conqueror sailed across what is now known as the English Channel to invade England...
Stories we tell ourselves
‘NATIONS TELL THEMSELVES stories,’ the Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole wrote recently. ‘They are not fully true, they are often...
