The Australian Ballet delivered some thrilling displays of dance, presented not in an exhibitionist way but with a kind of modesty that fits the folksy theme of the ballet.

Birthdays. Love them or hate them they come around each year.

A moving portrait of a homeless man in Oklahoma wins National Portrait Gallery prize.

The grand halls of Versailles in the middle of high summer in Canberra? I smell a blockbuster...

What's on in Canberra's arts scene from December 2.

The Creative Industries Minister has hit back at comments from the lord mayor likening a new public sculpture to the controversial Yellow Peril.

Nothing is permament in the world of French conceptual artist Philippe Parreno.

A new sculptural landscape is under construction at the Power Street Loop, which will attract birds and wildlife.

The octogenarian is not shy of new technology, and uses it to best effect when exploiting the liberties of graphic design.

The new Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery at the Melbourne Museum is at the cutting edge of design.

Sister Corita Kent had catholic tastes. Long before sampling went mainstream, the feisty Catholic nun's 1960s poster graphics co-opted the catchy slogans and bright, hard-edge colours of advertising, together with the poetry of popular music, to create her politically charged screenprints. 

The British have turned their noses up at Australian art (one critic calling John Olsen's Sydney Sun, "a cascade of diarrhoea") but will Australia's Impressionists exhibition convince them we can make art?

The works of British moderns jostle for attention with famous masterpieces by the likes of Picasso and Rodin in Nudes at the AGNSW.

Desmond Hynes and his trolleys painted with messages about Jesus were a fixture in Melbourne streets for decades. Now they form an exhibition.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for New Zealand designer David Trubridge, it's the worst kind of insult.

Six brave souls are butt-naked for this undressed dress rehearsal of Nude Live, a celebration of the unclothed human body.

Melbourne artist Patrick Francis' brightly coloured portraits are distinctive works of art.

The facade of St Kilda's Palais Theatre will be painted yellow, restoring the building to its original 1920s colour scheme, as part of a $20 million restoration of the art deco gem.

When Dame Quentin Bryce saw her portrait unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday, she couldn't help wondering what her mother would think.

Labor says the NSW government is putting the state's cultural heritage at risk, but Arts Minister Troy Grant has hit back at the criticism.

This exhibition offers an encounter with one of the great maverick artists of our time, writes Sasha Grishin.

It's official: the days of pure art are over, and the big glorious mish-mash of disciplines is the new norm when it comes to the modern-day art school experience.

The NSW government's "reckless" case for moving the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta has been cruelled by figures showing visitors are flocking to its current inner-city site.

These two exhibitions contrast works made from recycled items with newly designed and made pieces.