Art & Design
Art
Glimpse of lost war treasure
It is essentially a modern-day story of pirate treasure: the discovery of more than 1400 works of art, many of them probably stolen during the Nazi days.
Art
Artwork a memorial to indigenous soldiers
ANDREW TAYLOR A young Aboriginal artist, whose grandfather fought for Australia during World War II, has been commissioned to create an artwork for Hyde Park to commemorate indigenous soldiers.
Art
NGA fails in bid to buy historic works
ANDREW TAYLOR George Stubbs never came to Australia nor saw a kangaroo or a dingo - but he did paint them. His paintings are unlikely to make it here either, after a rearguard action saw a billionaire secure them for Britain.
British campaign ends National Gallery of Australia's bid to buy historic animal art
ANDREW TAYLOR The National Gallery of Australia is ''extremely disappointed'' it was blocked from buying two paintings representing the first known depictions of Australian animals in Western art.
Movies
Still living under soft detention: Ai Weiwei judges festival in absentia
A chair with a curved bar preventing anyone from sitting on it at Stockholm Film Festival represents absence of one of its judges, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, still under 'soft detention'.
Art
Lucy Humphrey's two-tonne water-filled sculpture turns horizon on its head
Lenny Ann Low On a visit to Venice last year, Lucy Humphrey was given a small water-filled bouncy ball as a present.
Nazi loot
Unknown Marc Chagall painting among looted Nazi artworks
The unknown Chagall painting dating to the mid-1920s was said to be of "especially high art history value".
Visual arts
An age of elegance captured forever
Robert Nelson Harold Nicolson reclines with his shoulders in profile on a curving chair, his head turning towards us while tilted back.
Art
Record prices expected at blue-chip New York art auctions
New York's frenzied auction season is about to get under way with blockbuster works of art poised to set records.
Art
Space: Around the galleries
Dylan Rainforth All the latest news and views from in and around the galleries.
Art
Hoard of looted Nazi art may lead to more
The discovery of 1500 lost works looted by the Nazis might form only part of a vast hoard of missing modernist masterpieces.
Mid century everyday living - California style
Eames chairs, an Oscar statuette and a 1959 Barbie doll are among objects on display in the Queensland Art Gallery's latest exhibition, California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, a smorgasbord of furniture, clothing, jewellery, art and pop culture artefacts that began life at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ''Most of these things are not unique and that's the point of design, that it's accessible by the masses,'' co-curator Bobbye Tigerman said. However an Eames prototype of a children's elephant toy is one of only two in existence, and an unusual board game called Boom is about life after a nuclear winter. California's beach lifestyle is reflected in an original 1936 silver Airstream Clipper trailer, a Greg Noll surfboard and swimsuits galore, including a gold lame creation made for Esther Williams' film Million Dollar Mermaid. California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Mo
Art
1500 paintings seized by Nazis found in Germany
A private stash of 1500 paintings that were seized by the Nazis, including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, has been found in Germany.
Six burning questions for ... Ben Clement
Max Olijnyk The photographer reveals what makes a good photo and tells us what he thinks of Instagram.
Doubt cast on $1.5m of indigenous artwork
ANDREW TAYLOR Tommy Watson's recent creative burst has been controversial.
Tracing our modernist roots
Megan Backhouse Cultivating Modernism is the first book devoted to the influences of modernism in the Australian garden.
Recasting everyday items as art
ANDREW STEPHENS Interesting items pass regularly through the gallery's roller doors, but this time the registrar had to explain.
Fashion
Fashionable art with a neoprene theme is a cryptic triptych in white
ANDREW STEPHENS Fashion designer Toni Maticevski, recently returned from the catwalks of Paris, has revealed his latest collection - made to behold, not to wear.
Photos
Photos of the week
The best photos from award winning Fairfax photographers from the week ending November 7, 2013. Like these photos? Go to Fairfax Photos.
Looted Nazi artworks recovered
The discovery of nearly 1500 paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, looted by the Nazis was discovered during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt, the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prosecutor said.
Cultivating Modernism: Reading the Modern Garden 1917 to 1971
'Cultivating Modernism: Reading the Modern Garden 1917 to 1971' is published by Miegunyah Press with the University of Melbourne Library, $39.99.
Highlights of Banksy's New York 'residency'
Some of the best installations that have popped up during Banksy's month-long stint on the streets of New York
Melbourne's Latest Tram
Melbourne's latest tram has arrived but it's not going anywhere fast. Created by artist David Bell the installation titled "Raising the Rattler Pole- the last of the Connies" is a W-Class tram parked in Spencer street in front of the Grand Hotel.
Video
‘The Scream’ to sell for $80m
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is one of the main items this spring art auction season.
