Jonsi bends from the waist, sawing his electric guitar with a cellist's bow as decibels hit the red.

Graham Fransella is a virtuoso artist and this is a brilliant exhibition.

More questions have been raised over Justine Varga's controversial prize-winning "portrait" of her grandmother.

A gathering of western Sydney residents has rejected the closure of the Powerhouse  and expressed support for maintaining iconic world-class museums in Parramatta and the city. 

The Gertrude Contemporary art gallery and artist studios has moved up the tram line from Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

The value of arts and culture was examined at a forum on Wednesday,

John McDonald takes a punt on the work most likely to triumph in Australia's famous face-off.

The Melbourne Science Gallery's inaugural exhibition is provocative, controversial and may lead to some fainting.

More than a third of the finalists selected for Australia's oldest art prize are Indigenous artists.

For all its big ideas, the most effective moments of Nick Payne's Incognito are human in scale.

If baby yoga and bush playgroup don't fill up bub's diary, there's always baby art appreciation.

Epic battles, life stories and questions about humankind set the theme for Jonathan Holloway's second Melbourne Festival.

There's plenty to do and see in Canberra over the next week.

The NGV exhibition Brave New World: Australia 1930s highlights an era of changes and contradictions.

Artist Robert Young has drawn on his own family's connections to Fitzroy and Gertrude Street.

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The realism of detail makes some of the faces in this exhibition difficult to forget.

The MSO under conductor Richard Eggar focused on the last year of the composer's life

Forensic scientists exhuming the remains of Surrealist painter Salvador Dali made a startling discovery.

Amid a population and building boom, Sydney has been named as one of two global cities vying to become the "world design capital" in 2020.

The Archibald Prize brings artists 15 minutes of fame but rarely more than that, so how have recent winners fared?

This production is a step in the right direction for Bell Shakespeare following a bad run.

Thanks to improvements in technology, the community focused arts festival has come a long way.

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.