Live Nation, the world's largest events promoter, and the owner of the world's largest ticketing company, has bought a controlling stake in two of Australia's largest music festivals - Splendour and Falls.
One hundred years after she breathed life into the iconic Gumnut Babies, the work of one of Australia's best-loved authors May Gibbs goes on display at the State Library of NSW.
In a remarkable coincidence, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is being cared for by Dr David Bowie in a New Zealand hospital after being evacuated from the South Pole.
An American artist builds a two-storey creative play space made up of 56,000 metres of packing tape inside a south-east Queensland gallery in the hopes of attracting thousands of visitors over the summer holidays.
A young ballet dancer is set to be catapulted from rural New South Wales to one of the world's most prestigious dance schools, if a fundraising campaign pulls through.
By Cesar Albarran Torres and Dan Golding, Swinburne University of Technology
Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film 'the air of a snuff piece'. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
A recently unearthed video interview with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest and outrage over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter rape scene
Aboriginal families in Western Australia's north are finding ways to reclaim a sacred image that sparked rumours of Arab voyages and aliens during the early days of British exploration — the large, looming Wandjina.
Central Australia's vast stretches of outback roads are known for their red dirt and the occasional roo. But another manmade spectacle is becoming just as common.
Adelaide might be fashionably late to the world of design and couture but with the power of the internet and social media those in the local industry say it is booming.
Drumming teacher Andrew Hewitt does not want to be pitied because he has cerebral palsy — especially not on International Day of People with Disability.
A Cirque du Soleil technician who was killed while setting up for a show in the United States was the son of co-founder Gilles Ste-Croix, the circus says.
An Australian artist's chance encounter with a man outside a 7-Eleven store in the United States leads to him winning this year's Digital Portrait Award.
British actor Andrew Sachs, best known for his role as bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel in the classic 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died at the age of 86.
This week on The Mix: Zan Rowe sits down with Flume to discuss music, touring, and surfing 150 kilometres from the nearest beach, photography group The Light Collective captures the vast beauty of Lake Eyre, and we profile pop artist and Catholic nun Sister Corita Kent.
A group of performers with disabilities working alongside Opera Queensland are getting ready to take the stage for a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.
In this episode: Dog therapy helping kids in need, a daughter's quest to honour her father's fashion legacy, coroners inquests, are they always necessary? Burnt cars, trash or treasure? #AustraliaWide.
Opera singer Deborah Cheetham was forcibly removed from her birth mother at three weeks old, and re-homed with a white Baptist family in Sydney. Only as an adult did she discover her personal history as part of the Stolen Generation.
In ABC News Breakfast's "Now Showing" movie segment, we look at the Dreamworks animated feature "Trolls", and the latest installment in the "Underworld" franchise.
Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina is drawing on her personal experience of imprisonment for a performance of the Belarus Free Theatre's "Burning Doors" which premiere's tonight at the Melbourne Arts Centre.
An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees.
