Opera House unveils Le Corbusier tapestry

ANDREW TAYLOR The Sydney Opera House is a step closer towards realising Joern Utzon's vision for his landmark building with the unveiling of the Utzon/Le Corbusier tapestry.

Chisel to receive award for outstanding service

BERNARD ZUEL Warm praise, and a rare prize, to Cold Chisel for four decades of achievement.

Nude street art by Lushsux censored

KARL QUINN The City of Melbourne is famously supportive of street art, but it has drawn the line at a couple of giant nude murals.

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Mae Martin changes minds through comedy

STEPHANIE BUNBURY Canadian comedian Mae Martin finds humour can change people's minds in ways she didn't expect.

Touching songs on new Jeff Buckley album

Danielle McGrane Almost 20 years since the death of seminal singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, an album of previously unheard tracks is being released.

Songhoy Blues still play banned music of Mali

PHILIPPA HAWKER A jihadist ban on music in Mali had the reverse effect, with bands thriving in exile.

Singer songwriter Jon English dead at 66

EBONY BOWDEN Singer Jon English has died at the age of 66 after suffering complications while undergoing surgery on Wednesday.

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Courtney Barnett wins Australian Music Prize

BERNARD ZUEL The win makes Courtney Barnett only the second female artist to claim the prestigious Australian Music Prize in the award's 11-year history.

Daddy Cool guitarist Ross Hannaford dies

Martin Boulton Just months after releasing his latest solo album, legendary Daddy Cool guitarist Ross Hannaford has died, aged 65.

Masterpiece a fitting Adelaide Festival finale

Cameron Woodhead David Sefton has successfully steered the Adelaide Festival from a biennial event to an annual one, losing none of the depth, range or daring that arts lovers had come to expect.

Technology expands theatrical experience

ELISSA BLAKE Technology is taking theatre to the next stage.

Chris Ryan on Canberra Comedy Festival bill

Kate Kingsmill Chris Ryan remembers vividly the first time she did stand-up comedy.

Migrant women find bonds in Mother's Spice

LENNY ANN LOW Western Sydney migrant women tell their stories of leaving home for a new life in Australia via food, family and friendship.

Martin's first Perth Festival has heart and soul

DEBBIE CUTHBERTSON Perth Festival dazzles with best visual arts line-up in the country

Shows go on as Melbourne Art Fair halts

Dylan Rainforth Alternative art fairs Not Fair and Spring 1883 will go ahead in August despite the cancellation of this year's Melbourne Art Fair.

Dubbo mayor, deputy Premiere at loggerheads

ANDREW TAYLOR Dubbo Mayor on collision course with local MP and Deputy Premier Troy Grant over arts funding, local government mergers.

Federal agents raid Christie's in New York

Federal agents raided Christie's in New York on Friday to seize what they said were stolen antiquities.

Redlands Art Prize celebrates 20 years

ELISSA BLAKE The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize is an exercise in that concept known as pay-it-forward.

Stella-Rae Zelnik taps into motorbike culture

SALLY PRYOR Photographer brings out the joys of the community who travel on custom-made motorbikes.

Lumby and Lamb pen Moorhouse biographies

SUSAN WYNDHAM ''I've gone from writing and living to being an archive," says Frank Moorhouse, the subject two biographies under way.

Noted festival brings bookish cool to Canberra

Ashley Thomson For writers, editors, publishers and book-lovers, writers' festivals are the single best opportunity to engage with and to hear from the writers we love as well as the ones we didn't know we loved.

Man Booker International longlist announced

KYLIE NORTHOVER In what is possibly the most intriguing list for years, this year's Man Booker International 2016 longlist includes a couple of Nobel Prize winners, one novel already banned in China and a mystery author.

Gloria Steinem heading to Australia

LOUISE RUGENDYKE Revolutionary feminist Gloria Steinem has been announced as the first headline guest of the Sydney Writer's Festival.

Is Maestra the new Fifty Shades of Grey?

Victoria Lambert 'Geeky' Oxford graduate LS Hilton has written a sexy thriller that brings reality to adult themes.