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

The new generation of artists from the Warmun Art Centre are shown to good effect here.

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Unknown Neighbours starts in one of four homes in St Kilda, where performers have been invited to create site-specific work based on their experience of a stranger's house.

Art has been shown to aid in the healing of returned service personnel, and how there's an art prize just for them.

One group of crossword enthusiasts have made The Age’s cryptic puzzles a communal affair.

Her predilection for shooting those on the fringes of society did not win her any hearts but Diane Arbus' images capture the otherness in us all.

Hamlet's lament "the world is out of joint" runs throughout the exhibition.

An artistic challenge to the urbanisation of the wild.

This is a successful body of work by a confident and highly skilled artist.

The dissident Chinese artist - in Australia for the Biennale of Sydney - has decried the country's hardline attitude.

Peter Boggs is one of Australia's finest tonal painters and his work is constantly rewarding.

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Arts Minister Don Harwin ends years of uncertainty surrounding Australia's oldest art school.

Young readers to discover the world of books, through art.

Courts are traditionally intimidating places. Grand buildings from the 19th century, such as Melbourne's Supreme Court, exude authority, power and control. Today, rather than intimidate, courts the world over are increasingly designed to alleviate stress.

Jo Reitze moved into her Surrey Hills house in 1981, back in the days when her neighbours all had big back gardens and there were vacant blocks up the street. How the place has changed.

One man has flown all the way from Hawaii to get inked by Eric Gordon.

John McEnroe sold a 10-metre painting inspired by serial killer Charles Manson for $10.4 million (13.2m) on Thursday at a Phillips auction in London.

1. Marco Fusinato's​ sound installation Constellations, 2015/2018 invites visitors to pick up a baseball bat and bash what looks like a plain white gallery wall. Inside the Carriageworks' installation are 16 microphones connected to a concert size amplifier that will send 120 decibels reverberating through the space. One strike only per visitor. 

Contemporary artist and experimental "noise musician", Marco Fusinato, has witnessed some scary audience reactions to his enormous sound installation, Constellations, 2015/2018, which invites visitors to pick up a baseball bat and bash what seems to be a plain white gallery wall.

These two shows are both well worth visiting for their beauty and their technical qualities.

Sydney's Artspace has invited 52 artists to respond to the biggest political and social issues of our time.

Cement Fondu, a new exhibition and live arts space, opens this Saturday in Paddington.

It drew some of the biggest names in the nation's fashion industry including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, but the Fashion Ball proved disappointing.

Cockatoo Island's power generation room couldn't be a more perfect setting for a new installation from Yukinori Yanagi, a leading Japanese contemporary artist.