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Architectural collective Assemble has won the 2015 Turner Prize for contemporary visual art. The London-based group has blurred traditional boundaries between art and design with its redevelopment plans for 10 Victorian houses in the run-down Toxteth district of Liverpool, in north-west England.

A confronting performance art installation inspired by rising sea levels is making waves at this year's Art Basel fair in Miami.

The Dressmaker, a film led by women and starring Kate Winslet, was one of the best performing Australian films of the year but initially struggled to attract interest. Screen Australia hopes a new program means that doesn't happen again.

Though its reputation as a "boys club" persists, street artists who happen to be female many shun the "female artist" trope are claiming their place on the streets. "On the street I didn't have to ask permission to express myself; it was a way of taking back some of the power from an often rarified, elite and exclusive art world," says one artist who goes by the name Baby Guerrilla.

Tattoos are a fading fad, according to veteran celebrity tattooist Lyle Tuttle, who is visiting Australia as part of the international body art expo circuit.

Shaun Gladwell's latest exhibition sees him collaborating with some of his contemporaries in the art world and returning to an old friend, the skateboard. In both cases there is a conscious attempt to be open to forces outside of his control.

Short film festival Tropfest will go ahead in February 2016 after securing a financial backer, organisers say.

A Brisbane artist with a vision impairment has created a new exhibition celebrating the hidden joys of daily suburban life in inner-city Brisbane.

Cheryl Strayed is best known for her memoir Wild, which is about a hike she took along America's Pacific Crest Trail.

More than 250 artists and supporters of the Perth Fringe Festival sign a petition calling for better conditions for performers, saying some barely broke even at this year's event.

The State Theatre Company sells off thousands of vintage costumes and props to the public as it struggles with a lack of storage space.

Thousands of love locks cut from Melbourne's Southbank footbridge will be turned into works of art.

The largest collection of works by one of Australia's most prominent artists goes on display in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.

British artists Gilbert and George launch their exhibition at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art.

A mini-season of new plays at the North Melbourne Arts House pushes back at our long-held ways of categorising theatre in Australia. Alison Croggan reviews three of the works and examines why playing with the conventions of playwriting can be so powerful.

Visitor numbers to the Art Gallery of Western Australia continue to plummet, contributing to big drops in revenue in the last financial year.

The Perth Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor Jessica Gethin is breaking the mould of a stereotypical musical conductor.

Fresh from a whirlwind tour of Australia, Margaret Duncan talks about her plans for her future art, and a new swimwear range featuring the scenes of Arnhem Land.

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia displays 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions.

An exhibition of artworks which draw on natural science for inspiration opens at the National Archives of Australia.

The Abbott government's heavily criticised arts funding policy has been shelved, but is Turnbull's offering any better? Alison Croggon breaks down what the recent changes to arts funding actually mean and why it matters to Australia's cultural life.

Now in its fifth year, Melbourne Music Week is an annual eight-day festival that this year features more than 115 individual events in the heart of the city.

As bodies lash on stage, the experimental art festival Liveworks demonstrates that movement is not just how our bodies traverse through space, it also forms and challenges our gender identity. Among the performers is Hissy Fit, who employ the lens of a female punk rock gig to interrogate hysteria the medical condition once used to control women of the 1800s and early 1900s.

Cambodian youth from impoverished rural areas who are changing their lives with a dance collective in Phnom Penh show off their skills in Darwin.

Cinema chain Hoyts reveals it is considering funding Australian film production and has even considered rescuing Tropfest.