If there are any lessons to be learned from scrutinising the private papers of the convict son-turned cattle baron who became the country's first self-made millionaire it is that the public greatly admires humility, grit and charity in its obscenely rich. 

Sydney University's controversial decision to shut down its art school at Callan Park will not happen for at least two years as students and staff continue their battle against university management.

Philippe Parreno sets up beautiful scenes, panoramic vistas with rich light. Still, his exhibition looks weak, like a poem that doesn't proclaim something

A collection of the late singer's personal items and more, co-curated by family members, will have its Australian debut in October.

They're pretty enough to give even the staunchest tattoo detractor pause for thought.

For this exhibition each of the 16 artists was charged with interpreting, building on or extending the ideas of the artist they succeeded in the chain.

This was Opera Australia's 200th performance of a work that never seems to tire.

Opera Australia's 200th performance of La Traviata never seems to tire.

A new social enterprise helps disadvantaged artists promote and sell their work online and in galleries.

The Book of Mormon is the hottest ticket in town with good reason.

Chuck Close and other prominent and profitable older artists face important decisions about how to secure their creations and provide for their heirs.

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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.

The question of what is art is pushed to its boundaries by one of the world's most popular artists.

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.

Chinthu Sukumaran writes on how a love of art drove the rehabilitation of Myuran Sukumaran and gave him inner strength.

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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