He was once one of Australia's most prominent artists but while Leonard French disappeared from the public eye, he continued to paint into his eighties.

Corbett Lyon likes to do things differently.

Jackson Pollock's masterpiece has returned from Britain where it was the centrepiece of an Abstract Expressionism exhibition.

An art thief had all the climbing skills of Spider-Man, yet he needed none of them to walk off with more than $141 million worth of masterpieces

Cultural figures and institutions are calculating how Donald Trump's executive order seeking to keep many foreigners from entering the United States will harm their art and missions.

Still Life spends close to half its 90 minutes bemusing the audience with the idea that human bodies can plunge through a solid wall and in the process twist their legs in impossible directions or acquire extra limbs.

A man has died at the Rainbow Serpent Music and Arts Festival overnight.

Parramatta's former mayor says the proposed site of the new museum on the banks of the Parramatta River is a poor choice.

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The artist uses technology to create beautiful, illuminated, metaphysical protests.

No-one does it by themselves, especially not Springsteen.

You'd never pick it from the street but at the top end of Uriarra Road is every glass artist's dream home.

Arts news and events in Canberra.

A show that reinforces art's ability to deal with experiences that are too traumatic, too frightening, too terrible for words.

Lin Utzon was a 17-year-old art student when Martin Sharp, the notorious young cartoonist of the satirical magazine Oz, arrived at a noisy Paddington party. She found him intelligent, charming and roguish.

Some artists have women or men for muses. David Hockney and Viktor & Rolf have sausage dogs.

Artist Dacchi Dang has long been exploring his experiences as a Vietnamese migrant through his art.

Phil Ferguson has built an empire out of an unlikely hobby: making crochet hats that are shaped like everyday objects.  

Chicago's loss is Los Angeles' gain.

It was work that left her bleeding and exposed to dangerous poisons, but Bronwyn Oliver created some of Australia's most marvellous and important art.

Four experts from outside the art world offer their ideas on why we create.

Deep inside Barangaroo is a beach made from 1.1 million plastic balls.

Coming to the Sydney Festival this month is one of the brightest events of the year as Hyde Park is transformed into a world of big hair in The Hair Salon.

"It provides free and accessible space for experimental and emerging artists in the arts precinct, and there's nowhere else really like it in Australia."