Two decades in the making, director Gus Van Sant's film about controversial cartoonist John Callahan celebrates human connection and the sheer will to carry on whatever the cost.
Environmental artist Amber Countryman turns waste material into art installations to raise consumer awareness of single-use plastics' impact on marine species.
Exclusive by national arts, entertainment and culture reporter Michaela Boland
The great-great granddaughter of Melbourne founder William Lonsdale is putting a 62-piece set of silver up for auction after her family carried the slice of history around the world for generations.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra receives a $1 million grant from the NSW Government and Arts Minister Don Harwin admits some of that money was redirected from a recent funding round.
The Innamincka races were at risk of ending after more than 100 years because of a rule technicality, but this year it returned when outback pastoralists needed it the most.
Brisbane is the inspiration for a major new work by internationally acclaimed artist Qiu Zhijie at GOMA, but it's hard to see much that is recognisable.
Barack Obama received 10,000 letters a day while he was president. Every day, he read 10 — and he often wrote personal replies. These are some of them.
A United States appeals court orders a new trial in a lawsuit accusing Led Zeppelin of copying an obscure 1960s instrumental for the intro to its classic 1971 rock anthem Stairway to Heaven.
China's wealthy citizens have been splashing out on real estate and luxury cars. Now they are turning to contemporary Western art to show off their cultural sophistication.
Brazil's iconic musical styles of samba and bossa nova swept across the world's record players in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and then all but disappeared as the popularity of vinyl dwindled. But those irresistible beats, as well as the vinyl records they're on, are making a comeback.
Footy season means one thing to me — getting stuck in traffic jams on a Saturday afternoon while inebriated fans wearing ugly scarves traipse through the cars sneering. Here's how to avoid it this weekend, writes James Norman.
It has secret doors and brings a whole new meaning to the term home theatre, but living where you work while raising three young kids isn't always easy.
Valentino Dixon — whose golf artworks drawn from his US prison cell made him famous — last week had his murder conviction overturned after 27 years in jail. But what most people don't know is that since 2002, he has been married to an Australian woman.
The music industry legend cuts the ribbon on a new statue in his image, saying he only agreed to the pose for the tribute because he could do it with his dog Ziggy.
A look at the home, the work and the creative processes of Kit Hiller, one of Tasmania's great living artists and feature artist for this year's Burnie Shines festival.
Art and commerce collide at Sydney Contemporary; taking fashion to the streets with Melbourne Fashion Week; and our café critics look at how reality TV is eating the traditional documentary.
Peter Combe is best known for his wacky songs, including Wash Your Face In Orange Juice, and 35 years after launching his singing career he still regularly performs to sell-out crowds.
Director Bruce Beresford has a special connection — in fact, several — with Madeleine St John's tale of shopgirls, friendship and love across cultures.
Lawyers for Craig McLachlan are granted access to look through phone records and documents that have passed between people making sexual harassment allegations against him, including journalist and #MeToo campaigner Tracey Spicer.
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the man behind the first season of US drama True Detective and the Netflix comedy Maniac, will direct the next James Bond film, 007 producers have announced.
The sexual orientation of the perennially bickering puppet roommates becomes a topic of discussion after a former writer for the show says he had written the characters as gay, with Sesame Workshop saying they are just good friends.
China's wealthy citizens have been splashing out on real estate and luxury cars. Now they are turning to contemporary Western art to show off their cultural sophistication.
Melbourne schoolgirl Jade Hameister is the youngest person to complete the polar hat-trick, reaching both North and South Poles and crossing Greenland on skis by the age of 16.
Several times a week 18-year-old Finley Ford can be found on the side of the road, outside the University of Wollongong's Innovation Campus, playing the drums.
