The internet is abuzz with news that the true identity of the world's most famous street artist has finally been unveiled. But is the truth really that simple?

Akerman has mastered a technique, a form of pictorial expression, and fostered an audience with another almost sold-out exhibition.

Why this sense of suburban surreal succeeds in the case of Latimer, but fails in the art of many others, is in part due to his mastery of the colour etching technique through which he embellishes the most mundane objects with loving precision and detail.

Better known as an ARIA award-winning musician, the shadow of her father Charles Blackman, and the call of visual art, has lingered.

She has been to Guantanamo Bay, Beirut and Syria; now Molly Crabapple is bringing her pen and sketch pad to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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

Sculptor Heather B. Swann has created a surreal world filled with larger-than-life Banksia Men as part of a new installation at the National Gallery of Australia.

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.

"The best for the most for the least," was Charles and Ray Eames' democratic design mantra. Yet their most iconic design – the lounge chair and ottoman, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary – only subscribes to one of those principles: "the best". 

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."