The acclaimed artist's long journey with Oscar Wilde's tale of heartbreak began in childhood.

Architectural ethics are in the spotlight as the Robin Boyd Foundation builds a case for genuinely good design.

Tasmania's Dark Mofo winter festival entertains with its adventurous artistic program and devil may care attitude.

Persistence paid off for young artist Irene Vides who convinced larrikin businessman John Singleton to sit for a portrait that she will enter in this year's Archibald Prize.

Seton's Break in the Weather, named after Jenny Morris' song, features two marble upside-down gumboots modelled on the footwear he wears in his Newtown studio.

Seen through the eyes of our most acclaimed photographer, the works of Edgar Degas take on a new potency.

Canberra may have long had a tense relationship with public art, but a new festival may well change the way we think about art and our landscape.

Stormy weather provided the theme and a few headaches to this year's Dark Mofo festival.

Octavio Garcia Alvarado and Matthew James espouse photographic techniques far removed from the sophistication of contemporary digital technologies.

This event is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.

In both artists' work there is an immediacy, a sense of the attraction that the various places visited has exerted on each of them.

Until this week, Canberra artist Dan Power spent his days explaining to people why science is important – either through art, or his day job as an educator at Questacon.

What's on in Canberra arts scene from June 10

Works drawn under trance by eccentric artist and medium Georgiana Houghton have travelled from Melbourne for an intriguing exhibition in London.

Head of furniture at the ANU School of Art Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen has always seen household furnishings as part of the family, she tells Sally Pryor.

"Go out and get yourself something nice," Julia de Ville's father told her after hearing she'd won the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

Tasmania's Dark Mofo festival is warning punters to be on the lookout after a number of fraudulent tickets appeared online.

Guy Ben-Ary realised his dream of becoming a musician by taking a knife to his arm to create an "external brain" that will jam live on stage.

Even the Pirate Party has a cultural policy, so why can't the Coalition articulate its vision for the arts. Does it even have one?

It's the ultimate mirror for the modern Narcissus and the perfect place to channel fictional international supermodel Derek Zoolander while practising your best "blue steel" look.

Treasures from the Silk Road Capital is an exhibition that helps us imagine how people thought in Tang times. Being human, they were probably just as confused as us.

Film artist Julian Rosefeldt has harnessed the great powers of Cate Blanchett for a series of art manifestos at the Art Gallery of NSW.

If the Australian Greens have their way, the nation's creatives will be more likely to be able to afford food, rent and maybe even heating under its plan for a living wage for artists.

The world's most famous anonymous artist left a unique thank-you for a primary school in his hometown of Bristol.

Floral artist Dr Lisa Cooper has been named as the the winner of the $15,000 Emerging Creative Talent Award at the 2016 NSW Creative Achievement Awards, as part of Vivid.