Visual Art

Groote Eylandt's Indigenous communities celebrate the return of 174 artefacts from the Manchester Museum, saying the move has encouraged them to start making and using them again.

Illustrator Shane Foley traded in his paramedic uniform to draw the costumed crusader, but one thing he won't give up is using pen and paper to bring the world's oldest comic character to life.

The only contemporary art centre in south-east NSW opens its doors this weekend, after a major rebuild expanding its capacity to host artworks from all over the world.

An enlarged version of Maggie Sandles' artwork goes up at a construction site in Southbank — and its creator is eager to inspire others who live with a disability. 

There's been a flurry of excitement at the Australian Museum recently where the ancient artefacts of Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, have found a temporary new home.

Spencer Tunick has photographed thousands of naked people all over the world, from Barcelona to Bondi. In November, it's Brisbane's turn.

Comedian Celeste Barber is no stranger to the absurdities of the fashion industry, but even she was taken aback to learn the extent to which some clothes – and the women who wore them – were policed in our nation’s past.

Dawit Dersolign does not describe himself as an artist, but what he makes from discarded items contradicts that statement.

When Lavene Ngatokorua steps onto her ancestral country at Aroona in South Australia's southern Flinders Ranges, she feels the weight of wthat happened there more than 170 years ago.

Previously, when tourists stopped at Coolgardie's visitor centre for souvenirs, there were none. It gave Rose Mitchell the idea of making some. Then, with her town's support, her dream of creating wearable art, and a high-end fashion show, became a reality.

The Pablo Picasso painting has sold for more than $US139 million ($217 million), making it 2023's most valuable work of art sold globally at auction. But what makes it so special? 

Sunny Singh was the target of a racially charged video when running for local council five years ago. A colourful mural celebrating Indian culture and since been unveiled in his regional community, prompting praise from the Sikh councillor.

An organiser of the first exhibition at a new $30 million cultural centre says Victorian Aboriginal artists "really put themselves out there" with their stories and styles.

The AGNSW's international art series returns for Summer with the biggest Kandinsky retrospective ever mounted in Australia, featuring never before seen works.

Forty-three West Papuan refugees made headlines in 2006, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Australian and Indonesia. A new documentary project and exhibition is helping their children and young people find out what really happened.

On a residency courtesy of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Nick Swann finds Broken Hill gives artists clear views of all that surrounds them, translating into vibrant images on canvas.

A selection of 400 images from the State Library of NSW's vast collection — with one for nearly every year between 1845 and 2022 — will be on show for the first exhibition in its new photo gallery.

Disappearing Cantonese dialects and centuries-old Vietnamese instruments feature alongside bilingual K-rap and punk Malaysian street art in a program that champions freedom of expression.

As Marc Fennell debuts an intriguing new crime series following the true story of a rather unfortunate art heist at a Spanish mission in Western Australia, here's a wrap of some other shows, movies and binges from the art world that are worth a viewing.

"This is what every art historian dreams of finding in their lifetime and they never do. Here he is." How art valuer Elizabeth Arthur discovered a brilliant, obsessive mind.

Thousands of unknown paintings in a derelict South Australian farmhouse is making waves. They were painted by a reclusive maths teacher from Mount Gambier who no one knew was a painter.

Archibald and Ramsay prize winner Vincent Namatjira opens a major 10-year survey exhibition of his work at the Tarnanthi Festival this weekend.

After spending the past two years travelling around Australia, the Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize exhibition has reached its final home at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Young Blak artist's queer, provocative work included in NGV Australia's new dedicated First Nations gallery space, Wurrdha Marra.

It started as a "bit of fun for an old chap", but now people from all over the world are visiting this out-of-the-way art installation in rural Queensland.