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The grim truth behind the glitz of this monumental work
A moment's deeper investigation into this monumental installation by US artist Nick Cave reveals a much darker and overtly political intention.
- by Nick Galvin
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'Exceptional' fresco highlights Roman taste in bedroom art
Archaeologists have uncovered, in an ancient Pompeii bedroom, a fresco depicting a sensual scene of a goddess and swan.
Pablo Picasso
'Picasso' found under a tree in Romania appears to be hoax
A Romanian novelist who thought she had found a painting by Pablo Picasso stolen from a museum in the Netherlands six years ago seems to have been the victim of a prank.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's stolen Tête d’Arlequin found six years after Rotterdam heist
Works by Matisse, Monet Gauguin and Lucian Freud were also stolen in the 2012 Rotterdam heist.
David Hockney
$123.7 million for David Hockney painting shatters record
The price for the 1972 painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures), easily surpassed the previous high.
Human 'animals' another endangered species
When photographer Tamara Dean was invited to the Heron Island research centre to learn about climate change she had no fixed notion about what she might come away with.
- by Nick Galvin
Artworks celebrate unsung stars of the sky
Migratory shorebirds aren't colourful show-offs. Australia's least-known birds, they are usually small and brownish, and neither sing nor build fancy nests. They do, however, fly extraordinary distances.
- by Andrew Stephens
Spectrum
A fitting finale for the remarkable Watters Gallery
It’s unlikely there will ever be another commercial gallery in this country that survives for more than 50 years under the same ownership.
- by John McDonald
Spectrum
The amazing Maria Fernanda Cardoso
The artistic vision of the ‘‘queen of fleas’’ springboards from nature.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Spectrum
Cindy Sherman, the great chameleon of our time
The renowned photographer has turned her focus to the Instagram selfie.
- by Parul Seghal
Canberra life
Here are the finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize
The Canberra Times photographer Jamila Toderas has been selected as a finalist from 3113 entries.
- by Serena Coady