The paintings arrive at the Art Gallery of NSW's loading dock via courier vans, trucks, maxi taxis, midsize SUVs and on a skateboard. Artist Patrick Hromas lugs a large portrait of his godmother in his arms from St James Station, his forehead dripping great gobs of sweat in the winter sun. It's his first time in the Archibald Prize. "I'm not a big fan of big heads," he says.

This collection of paintings of 19th-century British street people is fascinating social history.

Street artists get green light following arrest scare of stencil duo.

The world might be a terrible place, but art still has the power to soothe.

Over the next five years 90,000 new students will enter the Victorian school system. To cope with the increase, 56 new schools – primary, secondary and specialist – are being built or upgraded at a cost of $2.5 billion across the state. Ten of the schools opened this year.

It was only a matter of time before Melbourne's creatives took things into their own hands.

The state government is establishing a creators fund for independent artists to come up with ideas for and develop major works.

Robert Boynes: Modern Times.

Will this do?" Gough Whitlam asked, bending down to collect a second clump of soil.

It was only a matter of time before a Melbourne artist 'fixed' one of the city's new eyesore concrete bollards.

New Australia Council data shows anxiety about our hip pockets is affecting support for the arts.

Remember the drawing scene from Titanic? Karen Hardy finds that being a life drawing model is not so erotic.

From art exhibitions, to school holiday fun, there's something for everyone this week

The times have caught up with French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, whose multimedia work has seemed to presage the tumult of the present.

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The brooch can encompass complex narratives as an art form.

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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.