Kanye's 'Famous' sculpture has gone on display. But is he an artist?

Sydney University claims its art school is losing money. Yet the NSW government offered generous terms to establish the Sydney College of the Arts at Callan Park.

What's on in Canberra's art scene from September 2

The University of Sydney has been attacked by a Liberal heavyweight over its decision to shut down its art school at Callan Park.

The art world remains a boys' club, according to Tate Modern's director Frances Morris, one of the few women leading a major public art museum.

Renovations for a chain pasta bar at the St Kilda space have partially obscured a heritage-listed art work.

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The pieces have a strong transcendental quality, where the artist has stepped out of himself and surrendered to the process and the medium.

A little piece of Melbourne's history, thought destroyed, has been rediscovered.

An arresting painting by significant Chinese artist Zhang Peili, thought to have been lost, has been donated to the Australian National University.

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has appointed its first ever full-time artistic director to oversee all aspects of the festival component of next year's event.

Peter Doig is adamant the landscape - a desert, its perspective oddly warped - was neither a product of his brush or the LSD he took.

Music guru Tim Ritchie includes an iconic 'scary' face in his first photographic show.

As in her earlier work the combination of the scientific and the poetic is beautifully achieved.

A new exhibition opening at the National Museum of Australia manages to distill 2 million years of human history in just 100 objects.

Many iconic sounds in hit 1980s songs were made possible by a landmark 1979 invention by two Australians - the Fairlight synthesiser.

What's on in Canberra's arts scene from August 26

Faced on stage with a bowl of strawberries, Jess Thoms plunges her hands among them and pushes two great handfuls towards her mouth that mostly squash over her face. Jess has Tourette's syndrome. How does she get food into her mouth? It depends on which food, apparently: the tics of Tourette's are inexplicably provoked by some things, pacified by others. "I'm particularly impulsive around strawberries," she says after her show Backstage in Biscuitland, wiping at the sticky residue and laughing ruefully. "Soup is definitely not my friend. Ice-cream can be a bit tricky. But most food is all right - and I ask for help if I need it."

She made her first painting at 81, but the visionary artist's 10-year career left an indelible mark.

Mike Parr has had his face sewn up, nailed his arm to a wall, and been spattered with his own blood. What is it like being Australia's most extreme artist?

With a noisy, eerie installation of invisible people, an Indonesian artist reflects on the power of a crowd.

On his way to Melbourne, acclaimed book designer Jon Gray lifts the cover on a delicate process.

About 150 people have gathered to hear wise words from a man dressed like a real-life transformer.

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The exhibition at the National Gallery is a high-energy experience that is guaranteed to leave you emotionally drained and intellectually challenged.

Since the launch of his fashion label in Melbourne in 1999, Toni Maticevski's designs have been considered a celebration of the female form.