"If I have done my job right it should look like a computer threw up in space," she says, staring up at the ceiling. And if the world's largest PC had to heave, it just might look a smidge like this. Several hundred strands of wiry tape stretching down from the canopy of Customs House, cloaking the atrium in streams of colour.

Carriageworks receives more visitors, and at a fraction of the cost, than the major cultural institutions as it reveals 2017 artistic program.

Artist Penny Ryan has created 1468 hearts to represent every a man, woman and child held in Australia's offshore detention centres.

Are they fake or the fabulous work of Van Gogh's hand? A book released this week has sparked a storm of controversy over whether 65 drawings are the find of the century or a giant hoax.

A major exhibition dedicated to the claymation creations of Aardman will arrive in Melbourne next year.

A love of animals and nature is integral to the work - and very different styles - of artist sisters Lucy and Anna Culliton.

What's on in Canberra's arts scene from November 18

The Powerhouse Museum will be forced to share a building with other businesses if it moves to Parramatta, while its Ultimo site may be rezoned to increase its sale price to developers.

In the great modernist competition, Georgia O'Keeffe was ahead of the more conservative Australians, but in a project that emptied painting of its vibrancy.

Contemporary Istanbul 2016 is a crowded and lively exhibition, despite the climate of political unease.

Sydney University's museum will be housed in a new building as it announces a $5 million donation towards the project. But art students still do not know where they will be located following the shut down of the Sydney College of the Arts campus at Lilyfield.

Melbourne's most eagle-eyed seamstresses have known for some time where to find a little corner of haberdashery heaven.

If Janine Burke had her way, anthropomorphism – assigning human traits to animals – would be banished. Why should human consciousness be privileged in the animal world? Why should human attributes be the standard against which other animals are judged? 

Ten years before Mambo graphics burst into irreverent bloom in the mid-1980s, a collective of illustrators known as All Australian Graffiti unleashed a series of self-promotional postcards featuring Kevin Pappas.

When it comes to summer blockbusters at the National Gallery of Australia, more can only be a good thing.

Tatsuo Miyajima's Connect with Everything at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art is a profound meditation on the shape of time.

Talking to David Astle is a bit like talking to a dictionary.

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Australian singer Tina Arena has been named the official ambassador to Versailles - the next summer blockbuster at the National Gallery of Australia.

It's not that David Hockney​ has caught up with the latest technology – technology, rather, has finally caught up with him.

Two exhibitions – one of still life paintings and another celebrating the natural world – at Form Gallery in Queanbeyan are a pleasure to visit, says Peter Haynes.

A new exhibition by Canberra artist Marie Hagerty leaves Peter Haynes speechless.

What's on in Canberra's arts scene from November 11.

New works by octogenarian artist Michael Taylor show an established talent that will endure long into the future, writes Sasha Grishin.