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The artist behind a series of mysterious faces lining a Brunswick West footbridge says she created the sculptures in an attempt to make the "lonely" structure less intimidating.

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of a hotel room?

Pigs can fly, and seesaws can talk. The latter, at least, is true.

Jo Hollier is a consummate printmaker and her exhibition is a showcase of many graphic techniques

From the ugliest animal on earth to a BDSM jumping castle and a gender-bending mummy, our museums and galleries are full of things that will astonish, intrigue and even disgust.

The Age Music Victoria Awards are gearing up to celebrate 12 years commemorating the state's most talented musicians.

Art meets activism in an exhibition that celebrates Indigenous talent.

Women account for 70 per cent of art school graduates but that hasn't produced gender parity on the walls of galleries and museums.

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

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.

Art critic John McDonald takes a look at the art that didn't make the cut – for better or for worse – for this year's Archibald and Wynne Prizes.

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.

An art movement with an eye to a better world.

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.