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Betty Kuntiwa Pumani with her major work Antara commissioned for Malatja-malatja at Bundanon, 2025.

Landmark show is a monumental tribute to family, Country and care

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani’s exhibition at the Bundanon Art Museum binds generations.

  • Ksenia Radchenko

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Romance Was Born’s Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales with artist Samuel Hodge who created a portrait of the designers unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Romance in the capital: The designers happy to hang in Canberra

The intricate designs of Romance Was Born have earned them a humbling spot alongside Australian icons such as Nick Cave.

  • Damien Woolnough
Janet Dawson

Janet Dawson was told to ‘stick to one’ thing. Instead, she broke all the rules

Australia’s art maverick, Janet Dawson, finally gets her spotlight.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Robert Holden with some of the newly discovered material.

‘Like walking into Tutankhamun’s tomb’: Hidden Norman Lindsay archive unearthed

A university library find has shed new light on the legendary artist.

  • Nick Galvin
Lia Arraiano, Neda Nikolic and Andrew Haysom at the Jacinda Ardern mural in Brunswick.

This trio has mapped hundreds of murals in Melbourne. Here are 15 of the best

Neda noticed Victoria’s capital was underrepresented on the world’s largest urban-art website. So she formed a team to put Melbourne on the map.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Bella Freud, left, and sister Esther.

‘She doesn’t want to upset people - I probably do’: Bella Freud on sister Esther

Fashion designer Bella Freud and her novelist sister are daughters of artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughters to Sigmund.

  • Amanda Hooton
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A young mum picked up a hobby. Years later, a princess ended up wearing her works of art

An exhibition at the NGV celebrates the intricacy and evolution of an iconic piece of clothing.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Emily Kam Kngwarray painting at Delmore Downs Station about 1992.

Britain celebrates Emily, after hidden letter reveals it turned down Indigenous art

A long-hidden letter reveals how Britain once dismissed the idea of showing the work of one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.

  • David Crowe
Curator Michael Dagostino (left) have and artist Khaled Sabsabi have been reinstated after being dropped as Australia’s entry to Venice in 2026.

There is only one worthwhile test of social cohesion. We may have just failed it

Governments like to censor art which promotes division. But that leads to propaganda.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Logan Zhang, 6,  with his winning portrait, ‘My Dad’.

A father, a grandpa, and a 93-year-old great-grandmother: Family portraits shine at Young Archies

Tasha Rogoff, aged 15, painted her grandfather with “his three necessities”: Nutrigrain, trail mix, and laxative Osmolax.

  • Sarah Mitchell

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