Throughout his 45-year career, the barrister counterbalanced his day job as one of Australia’s leading King’s Counsels with his passion for the creative industries.
Ethel Carrick Fox and Anne Dangar, the two subjects of the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibition of women in art, are of a very different calibre.
Why famed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is making a Gandhi-inspired dance work staged in a Perth shopping mall.
Pina Bausch blew up pre-existing notions of dance, attracting devotees and haters in equal measure. Now her famed German dance company is in the hands of choreographer Boris Charmatz.
For 20 years, Sullivan+Strumpf has championed Australian contemporary art on the global stage. Founders Joanna Strumpf and Ursula Sullivan celebrate the milestone.
Jackson Pollock had no idea that he was part of a CIA drive to burnish the West with soft power – unlike Putin’s overt efforts today to challenge Eurovision.
A single theatrical show attempts to give voice to a sprawling ancient Hindu text about what it means to be human.
One year after the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian gulag, photographer Evgeny Feldman recounts an earlier attack on the leader of Russia’s democracy movement, when a caustic green liquid was used.
The British Museum is staging a staggeringly ambitious exhibition of the ancient trading route connecting East and West.
President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to live forever, represented by modern stained-glass windows in Notre-Dame has been panned – and may be headed for court.
A team of specialists is trying to prove that a canvas bought for less than $US50 was painted by the iconic artist — and is worth $US15 million.
The visually stunning installation, powered by Fondation Cartier, links two vastly different artists in a moving show of country and culture.
Sydney Biennale has had a chequered history, but half a century after its first iteration a new book about the event reminds us of its champions, its humble beginnings, and why the timing was just right.
Cultural edginess has been replaced with self-pity about our ‘vulnerabilities’ and our supposed need for ‘healing’.
Fred Williams’ wife, Lyn, reveals how her husband feared his artistic legacy would die with him – but the revered painter’s wife kept it alive.
Whalemen who were bored out at sea scratched their longings into the teeth and bones of the great ocean mammals. Then one such mariner became tangled in a story of mutiny and misfortune.
What was this place, occupied by the Incan Empire, from about the early 1400s to the mid-1500s?
International news wire agency Associated Press has been forced to defend an acclaimed photographer’s credit for shooting ‘Napalm Girl’.
The J. Paul Getty Museum’s survival against daunting odds is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness as the Los Angeles fires continue to wreak havoc.
The late satirist and comedian Barry Humphries’ private collection of art and objects will be sold in London next month. His son reflects on his father’s passion for beauty.
Free entry to the great museums of the world allows truly democratic access to some of the most important art and archaeology of the world. Has the MCA doomed itself to failure?
The relentless pile-on against Nina Sanadze, who moved to Australia in 1996 after her family fled the Georgian civil war, reflects the deep and damaging splits in the arts caused by rising tensions over the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Hopes and Fears traces the successive waves of migration that made Australia a more harmonious multicultural nation.
There were some welcome surprises on the exhibition calendar, mostly imports, but many metropolitan galleries had a lacklustre year.
This year my film favourites are an eclectic bunch … but all of them are well worth your time. How many have you seen?
An Italian author says the woman who followed Christ to the end is in a Sistine Chapel fresco.
Paul Jacoulet was born in an exotic location and made his life there, while Ian Fairweather fled in search of the exotic.
We’re fourth in the world for creative thinking, but a cultural strategy could take us to the top.
Crocodile hunter, sanctuary keeper and art collector George Craig lived a daring life to the full.
Entry to the Museum of Contemporary Art will cease to be free in 2025, with general admission set to start costing art-lovers $20 from the end of January.
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