• EXCLUSIVE

Melbourne Art Fair will be back in 2018, not in the Royal Exhibition Buildings.

"I'm walkin' here" may be the ready mantra of every chippy New Yorker. The source of this antagonism is invariably cars. Yet in 2009 when then Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed turning Times Square into a pedestrian plaza, businesses told him to take a hike. No cars surely meant business would suffer. 

The breeze on the morning of Monday, February 18, 1839, blew light and lovely across the ocean.

Bruno Leti's art evokes a feeling of joy, freshness and purity.

More than 10,000 slides from the ANU's art department are up for grabs

At just 30 centimetres deep, this pool is meant more as a place for deep reflection than actual swimming.

 Established in 2015, Pigeonhole Theatre is a theatre company dedicated to staging professional productions and providing opportunities for women to embody great roles on and off the stage.

The arts and business worlds have joined forces to ensure the future of a world-class facility

Two major European shows reveal unpleasant truths about the international art world.

The mind of the beloved children's book author Theodor Seuss Geisel springs to life in the Amazing World of Dr Seuss Museum.

• Art review

This is a pioneering and large collection of art that is often overstated, sentimental and absurd.

While domestic tourists see Melbourne as Australia's arts capital, for international visitors, it's Sydney.

Synaesthesia – the condition of seeing sounds as colours – can lead to skills such as perfect pitch. But can it be a hindrance as well as a help?

• Design

The perennial appeal of mid-century ideas that still shape the way we live.

A tapestry designed and made with the help of 200 refugees tells a different tale to the one we hear.

A circular ampitheatre shrouded by plants and topped with a floating aluminium grid, OMA's structure is vastly different to the pavilions that have come before it.

Despite the House Rules work site on the Gold Coast being ground to a halt due to Cyclone Debbie, the teams were able to return and finish their landscape designs.

Artist and taxidermist Rod McRae explores our responsibilities to animals and the planet, including the impact of pollution, climate change and hunting.

Naked bodies adorned with offal and drenched in blood; a frenzied crowd tearing at the bloodied insides of a cow carcass with their bare hands. Sound like a fun weekend out?

When former Canberra Times cartoonist Ian Sharpe left the office, he took off to see the world.

M16 Artspace is running another series of Confident Collecting, after the success of the inaugural program last year.

American artist Shepard Fairey's "Peace Waratah" is the largest art mural ever seen in Sydney.

Now in its 10th year, the annual event that opens up some of Melbourne's most interesting buildings to the public is bigger than ever, and will also expand to Ballarat.

Art - Peter Haynes

The Art Gallery of NSW's Board of Trustees is expected to make a "considerable contribution" towards the $100m required to complete the $344m Sydney Modern Project.