A reclining nude absent-mindedly strokes the erect penis of a suspended horse. Two halves of a severed human head are locked in a kiss. Meet the photographer, Joel-Peter Witkin.

Sadness turns to joy as windfall announced for ailing Castlemaine gallery.

A tree grows in Brooklyn but in Sydney it has been tipped on its side and suspended 10 metres above a laneway where once a freshwater stream ran.

Two of these three exhibitions deal with World War II themes.

Money woes blamed for closure of 104-year-old tourist attraction in the goldfields town.

A challenging piece was seen off with aplomb.

"She considered brighter, vibrant colours better suited to the Australian light, and stimulating to creativity."

Ben Quilty has described John Olsen's criticism of Mitch Cairns' loving portrait of his artist wife as untimely and ungracious.

The veteran artist has savaged the winners of both Archibald and Wynne prizes.

After the terrorist attacks of November 2015, attendance dropped at most Paris museums. Not so to the National Museum of the History of Immigration.

Mitch Cairns' portrait of artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, his partner of 10 years, has won this year's Archibald Prize.

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

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.

Art and science merge in an exhibition of experimental inventions and creative crossovers.

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.