This book is a close study of an artist famous for one work.

The portrait of the popular TV journalist shows husband Peter FitzSimons in the background.

There's plenty to see and do in Canberra this week.

Painting Country is in many ways a survey of Namatjira's art and is spectacular in its scope and diversity.

Visual art meets music in a harmonious collaboration between David Bridie's My Friend the Chocolate Cake and the iconic paintings of Jeffrey Smart.

Hundreds flock to Hosier Lane every day to look at the street art, but not everyone wants to see the homeless people who painted it.

From evening dresses to art, Australia was entering a brave new world in the 1930s.

The award-winning artist wants to explore working with neon.

The grey fortress has been breached and turned inside out.

The mood throughout is of heroic resistance and triumph over a material existence.

Take an eco-friendly rickshaw on an artsy jaunt along Chapel Street and surrounds for its new "adult-focused" festival.

An Indigenous artist has won what is believed to be the world's richest landscape art prize for a drawing of his remote South Australian birthplace.

Six years after her death, Margaret Olley is being celebrated in an unusual concert tribute.

For heaven's sake, don't paint a politician. An illustrated guide to winning Australia's famous face-off.

Australia's Aaron Seeto is leading Indonesia's embrace of contemporary art at Museum MACAN.

The NGV's Great Wave will appear in a landmark exhibition of Katsushika Hokusai's work, the biggest ever seen in Australia.

Wooden carvings of native animals are capturing the imagination of Chinese buyers here and overseas.

The Canberra Writers Festival in August is shaping up nicely.

"It's about having that keenness to be a bit fresh," says Christopher Armstrong.

An exhibition of original artworks from some of Australia's best loved children's books offers a rare insight.

Staring from a great height at the endless plains, red-dirt roads and mining pits cut like open wounds across Western Australia, artist Bec Juniper sees something surprising. This rugged, bullish land seems strangely soft and feminine to her.

Deep spiritualism and infectious energy colour this rarely seen collection from a Sydney identity.

It is time for gay AFL players to come out? A Swans footballer and his cabaret performer brother have different views.

In the foreground a naked, seated figure voices a cry of apparently existential anguish while a black-clad priest hovers over his right shoulder like an malevolent, predatory crow. Behind, a bishop retreats serenely towards a distant church on top of a hill.