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 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.

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.

Former residents and members of the public have made a last visit to St Kilda's Gatwick Hotel before it closes its doors.

In one extraordinary gesture, a revered printmaker has transformed the gallery's collection of post-war American art.

Could a painting found in a Sydney flat be the work of 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi?

David Walsh's plans to court the interstate and international business market are well underway.

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.

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