Photographer Walker Evans' photographs appeared in the most glamorous magazines of the 20th century, including Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Yet he never photographed celebrities.

It's been the subject of strong opinion over its potential redevelopment but next month fans of the Queen Vic Market can revel in an art exhibition at the historic site.

Geier is a master of arranging surface tensions so that equilibrium is achieved, but with the realisation that at any moment things may fall apart and be swept away.

Hali is a veteran artist who has a considerable body of work that demonstrates technical virtuosity and a consistent mode of visual thought.

The art of Arthur Boyd has been transformed into music for Bundanon's Siteworks festival.

Nick Stathopoulos has won the 2016 Archibald Prize People's Choice award with his hyper-real portrait of Deng Adut, a lawyer and former child soldier in Sudan.

Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had to personally approve the purchase of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, because it was worth more than $1 million.

The ''greatest living Australian painter'' was remarkably consistent, and consistently uncurious.

A new exhibition featuring the star's touring costumes, dating back to 1989, is on at the Arts Centre.

Legal claims are mounting against Sydney University over its plan to shut its art school at Callan Park.

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This exhibition contains work from the past seven decades including paintings, ceramics, tapestries, drawings, prints and notebooks.

The National Gallery of Australia will voluntarily return two sculptures to India as new evidence of their provenance comes to light.

This year's Young Archie winning portraits are an inspiring insight into the impact of family, friends and community members on children's lives.

Irish artist Gerard Byrne explores the gap between time and space in his retrospective A Late Evening in the Future for this year's Melbourne Festival

A botanical something has taken over the gallery space at Canberra Glassworks, just in time for Floriade.

The NGV has secured more than 60 works from the Dutch painter for its 2017 Winter Masterpieces season.

Those sceptics who think modern art is crap have just scored their exhibit A with a new installation at New York's Guggenheim Museum.

Shakespeare is big in India. Since the days of the British Raj his works have been staged across the subcontinent in multiple local languages. Now a celebrated Indian take on Shakespeare has arrived in Australia.

The Art Gallery of NSW's proposal to build a $450 million new wing is attracting more criticism as fears are expressed for the independence of the gallery's membership society.

While most of us are moaning about the spate of rain due to last in Melbourne until Monday, one man, at least, is rubbing his hands with glee.

Artist Jonathan Jones hopes a positive message will be spread at a site of historic tragedy as Bangarra dancers perform on his vast artwork.

A major retrospective of arguably Australia's greatest living painter opens this week at the National Gallery of Victoria.

What's on in Canberra arts scene from September 16

The Hunter Region is hosting excellent surveys of work by two very different but equally talented artists.