Brisbane artist Julie Fragar wins 2025 Archibald Prize
Julie Fragar has won the $100,000 Archibald Prize, the country’s most coveted – often controversial – portraiture award, with her painting of friend and fellow artist Justene Williams.
Julie Fragar has won the $100,000 Archibald Prize, the country’s most coveted – often controversial – portraiture award, with her painting of friend and fellow artist Justene Williams.
Pro-Palestinian activist artist Abdul Abdullah has taken out the Art Gallery of NSW’s 2025 Packing Room Prize, a curtain-raiser to the $100,000 Archibald Prize, the country’s most celebrated portrait prize.
A new documentary draws on previously unreleased archival material to challenge Leni Riefenstahl’s claims she knew nothing about the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities.
Brisbane Festival artistic director Louise Bezzina will step down from the nation’s largest arts festival following ‘remarkable’ growth period.
Instability has plagued the flagship company since the resignation of ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Li Cunxin in 2023.
The NGA says the donation of an Edvard Munch painting is its ‘most significant acquisition’ this century.
Abou Sangare’s prize-winning turn in Story of Souleymane is just one of the highlights of the 2025 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, the biggest showcase of Gallic movies outside France.
Sydney’s MCA has dropped its own description of Khaled Sabsabi’s video installation of a Hezbollah leader as a work ‘suggestive of a divine illumination’.
Rare Aboriginal spears seized by Captain Cook’s crew in 1770 are back home and about to go on display. Their symbolism ‘is huge’.
Adelaide Festival director Brett Sheehy questions whether the arts have ‘shut out 50 per cent of humanity’ through a focus on minority identities.
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