More than 500 artefacts from the British Museum will go on show at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday aimed at a ‘new generation’ and the curator is still making discoveries.
Her chart-topping music career was cruelly cut short but a decade after she stopped performing this pop star has carved out a new creative life – one that changes lives.
Archibald Prize-winning artist Laura Jones has understood that you have to see through and, as it were, behind original images, not just reproduce them.
Sydney artist Laura Jones admits a ‘glitch’ delayed the news that she’d won the nation’s most celebrated award with her ‘bold but tender’ painting of Tim Winton.
Recently discovered frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology highlight the skills of regional masters commissioned to paint them.
Dynamic cultural figure Tony Albert will take centre stage with a work resembling a comical alien invasion … until you look closer.
Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Naomi Hobson hopes her photographs offer those on the other side of the world a fresh and homegrown perspective of Aboriginal Australians’ life on country when they are displayed at London’s prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum.
As Melbourne prepares to unveil the biggest exhibition of Egyptian antiquities seen in Australia, we dig into the priceless treasures contained the British Museum’s storage rooms. What did we find?
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The Art Gallery of NSW’s chief packers have had their say in the 33rd iteration of the Archibald’s favourite side prize, the curtain-raiser to the nation’s most popular portrait award.
A recently rediscovered work by the Italian master Caravaggio is to go on show in the Prado museum after being bought for $59m.
The complicated legacy of Paul Gauguin — sailor, stockbroker, painter — continues to be debated. Is it anything more than seedy colonial opportunism?
A painting by Hannah Uzor is a ‘portrait of strength and dignity’ … but critics aren’t convinced on its likeness.
The winning work at the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize features a torn-apart 100-year-old dictionary of Indigenous words. How this is supposed to represent ‘linguistic resilience’ is a mystery to me.
Patti Astor was the doyenne of the avant-garde scene and co-founder of the Fun Gallery in New York’s East Village where she championed street art.
Artists are involved in ‘arduous, dishevelled, iterative work – as messy as building a business case’.
The painter trusted by King Charles has overcome tragedy and pays no heed to online mockery. But his daughter loved the satanist conspiracy theories.
The Adelaide Biennial’s Inner Sanctum supports contemporary and Australian art, and the power of painting that transforms the experiential world into visual meaning.
Donors are threatening to withdraw from the Biennale of Sydney, after pro-Palestinian art curator and Emirati royal, Hoor Al Qasimi, was confirmed as artistic director of the 2026 event.
Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson defied the local art world to follow their common vision.
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