Once you leave Australia’s cities and head inland, masculinity as an idea and a reality can grow weird and phantasmagoric.

During his 15-month stay in the city of Arles, in the south of France, an aspiring artist Vincent van Gogh would paint more than two hundred paintings that captured the people and places he ...

His reign lasted only nine weeks, and he soon found himself imprisoned in England, where he fell into a life of crime - only to be transported back to Van Diemen's Land in 1826.