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

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

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

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.

A vast cavern will form the foundation of the Art Gallery of NSW's $344m Sydney Modern plan.

• COMMENT

More than four years after it was first proposed, Sydney Modern, it seems, is finally about to be transformed from a vision that exists only on the architects' computer screens and in the mind's eye of Art Gallery of NSW director Michael Brand into a reality of steel and glass.

• EXCLUSIVE

The controversial expansion project is expected to be completed by 2021.

The need for effective fundraising is more pertinent than ever in the struggling arts sector. Increasing competition for limited government dollars means many non-profits need to find new ways to win support.

The 2017 Hindmarsh Prize showcases Canberra's best glass artists

This year's Financial Review Rich List reveals that Australia today has no fewer than 60 billionaires. Looking at this list it's remarkable how few of our billionaires do anything at all for the arts.

Melbourne-based artist John Scurry returns to Canberra with a solo exhibition.

• Design

International experts bring new focus on Victoria's creative and cultural economy.

Sasha Grishin came away from Defying Empire with a clear sense of political message

Canberra designers are front and centre at this weekend's Denfair, Australia's leading showcase of contemporary design