An innovative new program is bringing together an impressive list of the city's major cultural institutions in an effort to encourage teenagers to "have a go" at cultural activities such as theatre, visual art, music and theatre.

Melbourne Festival: This triennial of media arts rides the fast wave of the present with a glimpse into the future.

The Mad Max director is one of 100 people living and dead selected by the museum for a new exhibition.

Music curator Brian Ritchie says Mona has made its mark on Hobart; now it's Launceston's turn.

There’s soaring international interest for Australian artist Cressida Campbell - but that’s not the only reason demand for her work is outstripping supply.

Just one day after opening her first commercial solo exhibition in Sydney, artist Sally Anderson has won the 2017 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.

Annika Romeyn enjoys playing with monotypes and their ghosts enhanced with pencil.

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

The blood-filled artwork will be on show at Hyper Real at the National Gallery of Australia.

Melbourne Festival 2017: The French-Algerian artist plumbs bleak depths in an enticing exhibition.

The Melbourne artist conveys a deep humanity in a major new commission.

For those with the means, high fashion is one of those dreams that money can buy. For the rest of us it's simply a vicarious pleasure.

Anne Masters has opened a new, tiny gallery to help support new artists.

Arts news and events in Canberra

The renowned comedian, author and painter has won with a painting of indigenous actor Jack Charles.

A new conservation management plan aims to preserve the integrity of one of the world's great buildings.

Yes, that does appear to be a five-storey shiny, inflatable Popeye standing in the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House.

Featuring works by 21 artists or groups of artists, Ritual Spirit is a a mixture of new acquisitions and past favourites, including Xu Zhen's enormous sculptural construction suspended from the ceiling.

Artist Anri Sala's latest work will see a modified Mozart concerto played through speakers hidden inside drums suspended upside down from the roof of a century-old bandstand.

More than 50 Australians are giving their view of what happens when we die in a new art project.

A new model of home design and ownership that sidelines profit-driven developers offers a more affordable solution to Sydney's housing crisis, an audience of architects, planners, designers and home buyers will be told on Monday.

Architect Glenn Harper is one of the few public admirers of Sydney's off-maligned concrete heritage. Sadly for Mr Harper, his favourite example of brutalism in Sydney, the "bold and heroic" building formerly known as the Bidura Children's Court is under threat of demolition.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's delicate Clarinet Concerto in A Major, premiered in October 1791, two months before the composer's death.

When Annette Ruzicka struck a rocky patch in her marriage with husband Ryan, her response was as unexpected as it was creative.