As midnight approaches on New Year's Eve, when much of the United States will be glued to broadcasts from Times Square, Anthony Amore will be waiting for his phone to ring.

Gareth Sansom's cacophonous style can seem a trifle like gorging on sweets when viewed en masse. Yet, as this retrospective reveals, his paintings of the past 15 years have been his greatest achievements, writes John McDonald.

As most artists will readily admit, talent alone is often not enough to get you noticed. Frequently, it also takes good luck and and a dash of old-fashioned chutzpah to get your work recognised.

There is already a bee woman and a snake lady in her university course, but Samantha Bayly wants to be known as the ugly animal painter, depicting beasts that only "a mother could love".

This summer of art in Canberra enhances the nation's capital's claim as the cultural capital of Australia, writes Sasha Grishin

A new exhibition of John Gollings' photographic survey of architecture from around the world and from different times tells us a lot about human development.

The improvements to the Joan Sutherland Theatre are the first in the Opera House's $273 million renewal program.

Arts news in Canberra.

For some Sydney families, it was their first time inside the Opera House.

They are one of the art world's great enigmas, immortalised in novels, music, dance and contemporary artworks – with even a bit part in Harry Potter. As The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are packed up for Sydney, Shona Martyn unravels the mystery of their history

Having a great time at the theatre defies logic in so many ways.

A resurgent National Gallery of Victoria, boasting attendances of 3 million in 2107, has set out to revisit the idea of a large, contemporary international exhibition – and this time it has got it right.

For a city of its huge size - 10 million people - and economic heft, Jakarta has lacked many things one might expect of a thriving Asian metropolis: a metro system, for one, as well as a major international modern and contemporary art museum.

The value of art increasingly relies on external validation, whether it's a lost masterpiece or a new commission at the NGV Triennial.

Last-minute changes by international artists to some of the key works commissioned for the exhibition have left the gallery with egg on its face – or as one artwork says, "bloody" hands.

The humble swing has entertained us for millenniums. Today we think of swings largely in terms of urban design and education, as a useful tool for developing children's motor and social skills. But its roots in our popular imagination go back much further – largely to amuse, excite and educate adults.

After all of Valda's old-timer contemporaries had died, she felt she could no longer call the band "old time" because the other members were so young.

The ambitious exhibition has works ranging from the creepy to the political, to the playful and immersive.

We've all seen it - a man does the cleaning up or looks after the kids and receives inordinate amounts of praise for it. Whatever happened to gender equality?

Visit Victoria hints it could extend the longevity of many of the artworks and projections beyond just one night.

The artistic director of the Sydney Festival says his job is "to keep provoking people to think in different ways".

Agnes Lockhart's veil graced the heads of 27 brides over the course of 66 years.

Mami Kataoka​, the artistic director of Sydney's 21st Biennale, was eight in 1973 when the inaugural biennale of contemporary art was staged to coincide with the opening of the Sydney Opera House.

The perennially youthful Australian artist is challenging art's traditional boundaries.