How did we get to the point where a government is ready to abandon a purpose-built museum on an historically significant site just 30 years after it was opened without anyone quite knowing why?

Malthouse Theatre's 2018 program is no picnic; it's bold, has a political edge and will reward theatregoers.

Talented first time director at the helm for Red Stitch's dystopian Australia in The Way Out.

A bucolic scene of rural Victoria by colonial artist Eugene von Guerard​ almost tops the $2 million mark at a Sydney public auction.

A temporary living installation will feature an artist lifted by 20,000 children's party balloons.

Bodies pile up behind Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds in Australian director Patrick Hughes' The Hitman's Bodyguard.

George Gittoes has been to some of the must dangerous places on Earth. Now he returns to the Potts Point terrace where his life as an artist began - the Yellow House.

Francis Lee's first feature God's Own Country is a place he knows well.

Paulini Curuenvauli sings with heavyweight punch and power in The Bodyguard.

Art critic John McDonald says the Hokusai exhibition in Melbourne is one that should not be missed.

This is not just timeless fashion, but time-filled: every stitch painstakingly made by hand.

Hurry to Ballarat to see an exhibition of "one of the most important photographers of our time''.

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

Jacqui Taffel went to handwriting class in a bid to transform her illegible scrawl.

The state government stands accused of excessive secrecy over its decision to move the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta, with experts claiming the plan could cost $1.5 billion.

Hayden Fowler wants to bring modern living and a much-maligned animal into focus.

Sad but true, the songs of Tex, Don and Charlie stay with you long after they've wandered off to another town.

Gone are the trestle tables of the struggling start-up or the grey laminex of the soulless business centre. Today, co-working spaces go beyond the office partition and meeting room, and blur the lines between hospitality, university campus and home.

Entering the NGV's House of Dior exhibition is like walking into a Disney princess wonderland.

New Shoots has commissioned 10 poets to respond to plants and places in the Royal Botanic Gardens for the Melbourne Writers Festival.

What matters in a Rae painting is emotional resonance generated on a visual and spiritual level.

Art installations ranging from the commemorative to the interpretive have come together for Rookwood Cemetery's annual Sculpture Walk.

A time of economic and social upheaval in Indonesia has brought about a burst of creativity, writes John McDonald.

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Exclusive: Sydney's Carriageworks has announced its most ambitious single-artist commission, and it's dazzling.