An exhibition at Sydney's Blender Gallery starting April 1 will show portraits of the iconic musician Patti Smith never seen before in Australia.

The winning portrait in the National Photographic Portrait Prize is both subdued and striking.

Museums might seem like institutions that have had their day, but a revolution in the way science is done and communicated makes them more important than ever.

Jinx was nine when she asked her father, Sidney Nolan, to teach her to draw. He told her to sit down with a pencil and piece of paper. Now draw, he said.

As the rich get richer, they buy more (and more expensive) art. And art fairs such as Art Basel are quick to accommodate them.

You'll be asking yourself a lot of questions after viewing the entries in this year's prize, writes Karen Hardy

Forget thanks: Couple donating $3 million to State Library redevelopment just want to sing the library's praises.

If it looks like it doesn't belong, that is a good thing, says artist Alex Gawronski on the eve of The National: New Australian Art 2017, a ground-breaking three-way collaboration between the Museum Contemporary of Art, the Art Gallery of NSW and Carriageworks.

An Australian photographer who documented the Standing Rock protests is set to have his first solo exhibition in Sydney

Two self-published books - including a unique album of typographical art in which every image is made with letters that spell its very name - have cracked the shortlist for information books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

Tom Rowney and Zeljko Markov both push the properties of their material - glass and wood.

Some people design a dream home around a library or a kitchen. The owner of the Garden Pavilion in Brunswick renovated in order to dream. An insomniac for 50 years owing to childhood trauma, he required a refuge to sleep.

The provocative Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has announced he will build more than 100 fences and installations around New York City in a project called Good Fences Make Good Neighbours, one of his largest public art works to date.

The strange transformation of Khadim Ali into a demon might be traced back to when he was a boy, drawing pictures on the walls of his home in Quetta, by the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, using charcoal scraps from the local bakery. He liked drawing a gallant man with a feather in his helmet, who tamed wild stallions, slew dragons and battled evil beasts. Ali kept the charcoal in his pockets, which annoyed his mother when she did the washing.

Artisan Fabian Scaunich says the once broken and dirty floor of 200,000 pieces will be ready for the Comedy Festival launch on March 28.

 Artist Tracey Moffatt describes her bucolic studio surrounded by national park as her temple. But inside hell awaits.

An unprecedented collaboration by Sydney's biggest galleries takes the temperature of the nation's cutting-edge contemporary art scene.

A four-day multi-disciplinary arts festival descends on the rural town of Kandos for its 2017 edition.

If there is a must-see photography exhibition this year, William Eggleston Portraits – mainly taken near the photographer's home in the American south – should be at the top of your list.

Robert Bleyerveen has produced a sonorous and meditative show that involves a profound contemplation on the earth beneath our feet.

This exhibition by 10 printmakers triumphs over physical reality in its diversity.

What's on in the Canberra's arts scene

A quilt with 121 hand-stitched messages to the Prime Minister has found a home in Canberra

Back before he was Beastman, the teenager Bradley James Eastman travelled on trains across Sydney, searching for spots to skateboard. He sometimes stopped at St Leonards, for the fun to be had with its handrails, ledges and bounty of pebblecrete. The lower north shore suburb - better known for attractions such as the College of Law, Gore Hill Cemetery and the Pacific Highway - was rather gnarly.