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DNA Study Revisited by artist Roberto Lugo, part of an exhibition, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

Trump’s order on museums sparks debate on truth-telling

The US president’s latest executive order removes “improper ideology”; some experts argue it’s a fascist move that revises history.

  • Bianca Flowers, Andrew Hay and Julio-Cesar Chavez

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The brief life of a flower mirrors something of the human condition, which is partly why artists return again and again to them in still life paintings.

Hey bloomer: The simple things we use to celebrate life’s big moments

A new exhibition celebrates the role of the flower in art – and what it reveals about the human condition.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Lorenna Grant outside the North Coogee storage facility where the Northbridge Arch is being kept.

Arch enemy: Is the City of Perth treating its public artworks with the respect they deserve?

Lorenna Grant thought her Northbridge Arch was safely stored in the City of Perth Works Depot, not left to corrode in the sea air in a North Coogee storage facility.

  • Mark Naglazas
Artist Khaled Sabsabi at the Campbelltown Art Centre in 2021.

University ‘postpones’ show by artist dropped by Creative Australia

After being dumped as the nation’s representative at the world’s biggest art show, multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi has been dealt another setback.

  • Kerrie O'Brien and Linda Morris
A mock-up of the Boonji Spaceman in the Council House gardens.

Get ready Perth for Boonji Spaceman, a seven-metre tall graffiti-covered astronaut

The Ore Obelisk is gone but not forgotten by the arts community, who are demanding a suitable replacement and horrified by the prospect of a seven-metre tall spaceman.

  • Mark Naglazas
Kirsty Neilson in her northern beaches studio with sketches she made for her Archibald Prize entry of Lucy Culliton.

‘You better get down here quick’: The race to paint an Archibald Prize winner

When Kirsty Neilson asked landscape artist Lucy Culliton to sit for the $100,000 Archibald Prize, there was one condition.

  • Linda Morris
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Art Gallery of NSW names first female director in 154 years

Director Michael Brand will depart the gallery next Friday, in a quick handover following a global search for his successor.

  • Linda Morris
Beyond the Grave examines everything from people planning their own funerals to how cemeteries are designed. Tania Davlidge, executive director and curator of Open House, and Bjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne professor, specialist in digital death commemoration.

Designer deaths: From ocean paddles to sneakily scattered ashes, we’re doing things differently

Funeral at the pub? Sure. A digital avatar to remind loved ones about you? Why not. Death may be a constant, but our approach to it is changing dramatically.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino were dropped as Australia’s representatives at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Review into controversial dumping of Biennale artistic duo to avoid key question

The review into the circumstances of the sacking of artistic team Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino just a week after they were appointed is unlikely to satisfy furious critics of the decision.

  • Kerrie O'Brien and Linda Morris
Performative carve up of a whole yellow fin tuna at Powerhouse Museum’s Christmas drinks.

Live sushi making, prawns and pav: Powerhouse museum defends Christmas party

Details of the celebration are contained in documents recently released to the Herald under freedom of information laws.

  • Linda Morris

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