What's on in Canberra's arts scene from July 8

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has created an aromatic pavilion for Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation's fourth and final Fugitive Structures series of experimental architecture.

Mami Kataoka takes over as artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney as the number of similar contemporary art events increase.

Two more Asian antiquities in the National Gallery of Australia's collection may have to be returned to India.

His art was the supreme triumph of visual intelligence, perfectly distilled and brilliantly resolved.

Ben Butcher promotes himself as 'Australia's worst artist', so it must be gratifying to see his work on the wall of one of Australia's biggest cultural institutions: even if he had to put it there himself.

A remote Indigenous community shares its stories and protects the environment with its ghost net art.

We asked 10 questions of major and minor parties and gave them a mark based on their responses and performance during the campaign.

The Turnbull government is unlikely to attract many votes from the arts sector, but are the alternatives any better?

The art world abounds in images depicting the heavenly host in moments of triumph, but only in Melbourne could you expect to hear the soundtrack of Saints sighing in anguish.

Telling tales of unspoken narratives.

Sydney University is no friend of the arts and set up its art school for failure as anger rages about the merger of its art school with the University of NSW.

Sydney may be left with just one tertiary art school, with the head of the National Art School conceding the institution may be forced into a merger with the University of NSW.

''Expressive'' design meets espresso on a tour of some pioneering public spaces.

Peter Lancaster's archive of lithographs is full of surprises, even to himself. "Recently I was admiring a Les Kossatz scultpture in Canberra and later discovered a print in my drawers that we had made together."

The story behind what happened when photographer David Darcy's lens zeroed in on Levi Zane Miller on set of his new film.

We think of Degas as a decorative realist, a delicate painter of ballerinas, but he has a persistently darker side, an eye for systemic ennui and the alienation of individuals in failed love.

An influx of people to a small Italian town to see a big orange art installation has caused unforseen problems.

Frida Kahlo is famed for her self-portraits but the Mexican artist may not have fared well in Australia's infamous portrait prize.

Victoria's most senior major events executives responsible for managing and attracting sporting, cultural and tourism drawcards have departed.

The NSW government's plan to move the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta could be derailed after opponents secured support for an upper house inquiry.

Maria Chatzinikolaki's ceramics are arresting, though as an exhibition this lacks a satisfying concept and focus.

The common ingredient throughout this exhibition is the preoccupation with dynamic movement, a form of frozen dance suspended in time and light, where the body is a carrier of both narrative and emotional content.

Frazer's figures are both absurdly silly and helpless, and lack motivation to change their lot.