The MSO under conductor Richard Eggar focused on the last year of the composer's life

Forensic scientists exhuming the remains of Surrealist painter Salvador Dali made a startling discovery.

Amid a population and building boom, Sydney has been named as one of two global cities vying to become the "world design capital" in 2020.

The Archibald Prize brings artists 15 minutes of fame but rarely more than that, so how have recent winners fared?

This production is a step in the right direction for Bell Shakespeare following a bad run.

Thanks to improvements in technology, the community focused arts festival has come a long way.

The portrait of the popular TV journalist shows husband Peter FitzSimons in the background.

There's plenty to see and do in Canberra this week.

Painting Country is in many ways a survey of Namatjira's art and is spectacular in its scope and diversity.

Visual art meets music in a harmonious collaboration between David Bridie's My Friend the Chocolate Cake and the iconic paintings of Jeffrey Smart.

Hundreds flock to Hosier Lane every day to look at the street art, but not everyone wants to see the homeless people who painted it.

From evening dresses to art, Australia was entering a brave new world in the 1930s.

The award-winning artist wants to explore working with neon.

The grey fortress has been breached and turned inside out.

Australian art is exposed in a confronting show curated by Del Kathryn Barton in Berlin.

The mood throughout is of heroic resistance and triumph over a material existence.

Take an eco-friendly rickshaw on an artsy jaunt along Chapel Street and surrounds for its new "adult-focused" festival.

An Indigenous artist has won what is believed to be the world's richest landscape art prize for a drawing of his remote South Australian birthplace.

Six years after her death, Margaret Olley is being celebrated in an unusual concert tribute.

For heaven's sake, don't paint a politician. An illustrated guide to winning Australia's famous face-off.

Australia's Aaron Seeto is leading Indonesia's embrace of contemporary art at Museum MACAN.

The NGV's Great Wave will appear in a landmark exhibition of Katsushika Hokusai's work, the biggest ever seen in Australia.

Wooden carvings of native animals are capturing the imagination of Chinese buyers here and overseas.

The Canberra Writers Festival in August is shaping up nicely.

"It's about having that keenness to be a bit fresh," says Christopher Armstrong.