Cate Blanchett re-enacts a spider's deadly mating ritual in new film Red
The deadly mating habits of the redback spider inspired Cate Blanchett's latest role.
The deadly mating habits of the redback spider inspired Cate Blanchett's latest role.
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.
She's lying on her back, white singlet stark against the pale sky, tanned arms and every blade of grass crisp and defined.
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.
The Garden Palace is a significant part of Sydney's history which most people have never heard of, recreated in this major public art project.
Legal claims are mounting against Sydney University over its plan to shut its art school at Callan Park.
New colours, designs and materials are shaking up the look of racing liveries.
Banned in many places in Japan, these intricate tattoos are almost a way of life for the artists that make them and those who wear them. Photographer and illustrated man Kip Fulbeck says his goal is to unite the two worlds of tattooing and the art.
This exhibition contains work from the past seven decades including paintings, ceramics, tapestries, drawings, prints and notebooks.
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota makes complex webs from dreams and memories.
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.
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