In this exhibition, artists tackle a difficult premise with skill and variety.

There is in all Sheffer's ceramics a strong sense of structural design.

One video documents a man's first sexual experience while another artist has taken hardcore images of his mother.

The late Neil Roberts was fascinated by the dual potentialities of glass

The line between art and pornography is tested in an exhibition that deliberately courts controversy, writes John McDonald.

He exhibited with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Rene Magritte, but Robert Klippel returned to Australia to work from his home in Birchgrove.

The two-bedroom condominium in the Philippines that artist David Griggs calls home, overlooks a train station and shopping mall. The apartment is small with shoddy ventilation. Paint fumes from his adjoining studio give him dizzy spells and crazed dreams. "You get immune to it but it's not healthy," he says.

This exploration of collaborative art yields interesting results, but the irony is the memorable aspects come from individual voices.

There is a charm in Dickson's finely crafted, detailed studies in acrylic and oil on linen.

On the eastern apron of Cockatoo Island where rusting shipyard cranes mark a century of industry, artist Jun Yang is scoping out an ambitious art project to construct something akin to a modern observatory.

The woman with a green nose wasn't upset by the uproar over the winning portrait of her.

High-profile artists have signed a strongly worded letter to director Tony Ellwood.

Local mayor says Brunswick West's parade of concrete faces scare children and should be removed.

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

A team of curatorial staff from Paris has arrived to unpack the precious cargo ahead of historic exhibition.

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.

An exhibition at the State Library of Victoria captures a spirit of rebellion.

Art meets activism in an exhibition that celebrates Indigenous talent.

Can a building be both grand and modest? The Rose house in North Fitzroy resembles a curved castle turret, yet it's not forbidding. Despite its double-storey scale rising from the footpath, its hit-and-miss brickwork creates a permeable facade, providing views and privacy.