The discovery of Frida Kahlo’s personal items, locked away for 50 years in the Blue House, revealed much about her identity and artistry. For the first time, Australians will see a truly intimate portrait of the artist.
Photographic artist Tamara Dean loves the ‘otherworldly’ effect of shooting underwater – and she has cleverly designed her underwater studio so she doesn’t even get wet …
Anyone with any judgment would have avoided choosing an artist connected with the nations involved in the bitter Middle East conflict as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative. Can you imagine the apoplectic outrage if a Jewish artist had been selected?
With its carnival vibe, Australia’s largest arts festival transforms the South Australian capital.
The fashion designer-to-the-stars has dressed the likes of Cate Blanchett and the Qantas crew. Ahead of his survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Grant gives a glimpse into his surreal world.
Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette has told parliament he won’t resign over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s representative to the Venice Biennale, insisting the decision was necessary.
Gerwyn Davies has a unique schtick as an artist: he wrangles gaudy materials into fantastic sculptural costumes then photographs himself in situ. What do bystanders make of it?
Kathy Temin’s in-demand soft sculptures have taken her to some strange places – including James Turrell’s Roden Crater – but none more unexpected than the home of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Beloved actor Stephen Rea is bringing his brilliant staging of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to the Adelaide Festival. As is standard for anyone interviewing this national treasure, I’ve been instructed not to ask questions about Dolours Price.
The artist’s pieces certainly stand out, but there’s little evidence their messages changed the opinions of Australians in the Depression, World War II and Cold War eras.
The nation’s oldest arts festival returns with a program that pushes the boundaries even as it honours Perth’s history.
With a new director at its helm, the major contemporary art event is opening itself up to a modern demographic of collectors – and forging an approachable image.
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.
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.
Why famed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is making a Gandhi-inspired dance work staged in a Perth shopping mall.
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’.
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