Artists get to grips with Botanic Garden's 'waste' wood, with exquisite results.

A proactive private sector is helping boost Indonesia's art scene.

Painting of naked woman on Vault magazine's cover deemed too inappropriate for newsagents.

Natasha Johns-Messenger's slick circular sculpture clamps around your head and leads you on the vain chase for your double.

Frei Otto's influence is Olympian: from the design of Rio's Maracana stadium to his own impressive tent-like roof designs for Munich in 1972.

With artworks in the bathroom, others hidden from public view, performance art and even an exhibition within the exhibition - that's essentially an artwork -  the 2016 TarraWarra Biennial promises an eclectic survey of contemporary Australian art.

Darwin Festival review: Critical mass of events brings bigger crowds and new hope

A new exhibition spans 60 years of the artist's work.

Melbourne youth focused organisation says 'extinction' in youth arts funding from Australia Council cuts forced closure.

The anguish and despair is writ clear on their faces: the child being snatched by white authorities; the mother biting on the captor's finger in a bid to free her baby; the father grappling on to her and their other child as their family is torn apart.

A non-invasive technique developed by the Australian Synchrotron has revealed a hidden portrait beneath a Degas painting.

Fashion designer Lisa Gorman has rigorously defended claims from three independent artists that her label copied their works.

A modest, self-effacing man built one of the greatest private collections of Australian art.

Two artists attempt to bridge the cultural divide between Australia and China.

Parr is widely regarded as one of Australia's pre-eminent artists, but his practice has always been divisive.

The University of Sydney's attempts to shut down its art school could lead to a drop in donations from angry philanthropists, while gallerists and artists have thrown their support behind the National Art School.

Enormous inflatable chambers will fill Hamer Hall as part of the world premiere of Lady Eats Apple, the new show from Geelong's critically acclaimed Back To Back Theatre that will open the 2016 Melbourne Festival.

The paintings that failed to make it as finalists in the Archibald prize are worth visiting in this year's Salon des Refuses.

A new generation of architects is taking an optimistic approach in a rethink of age-old housing issues.

Suburban houses, sheds, shops, streetscapes and even inhabitants are the subjects of a Melbourne photographer aiming to capture an aesthetic that's rapidly vanishing.

Australia Council board members, including Waleed Aly, have failed to defend Australia Council, which now faces an uncertain future.

Maribyrnong Council has asked a small business in Footscray to take down an "offensive" mural by a renowned Australian street artist featuring US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a swimsuit.

A group of artists and theatremakers are working together to tell a story of war and its devastating effects on soldiers.

Guo Jian shares a refugee background like some of the world's best-known contemporary artists.