Elizabeth Fortescue

Fondation Cartier strengthens partnership with Sydney Biennale and appoints new First Nations curatorial fellow

The celebrated Australian Indigenous artist Tony Albert has been named as the inaugural recipient of the fellowship

Australian War Memorial seeks to offer ‘hope and healing’ at time of rising military suicides

Artist Alex Seton has created a series of marble “droplets” that will wear in places over time as they are touched

Vast ‘fish fence’ takes centre stage at Melbourne’s NGV Triennial

A team of Aboriginal women artists, working in Australia's far north, spent two years weaving the 100m-long work from local plant material

Superstar of Australian art Emily Kam Kngwarray to get Tate Modern show in 2025

The Indigenous painter, whose survey opens at the National Gallery of Australia this week, only started her artistic career in her mid-70s

Clothes swap among highlights as Sculpture by the Sea celebrates 25 years on Bondi Beach

A melting ice-cream truck that was a crowd-pleaser in 2006, is making a comeback this year

British Museum makes biggest-ever international loan for Ancient Egypt blockbuster in Melbourne

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Pharaoh exhibition will open next year with 500 pieces from the London institution's permanent collection

National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition

An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists

Greatest hits of Asia Pacific Triennial to tour to London's V&A in 2026

The exhibition is being co-produced with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, home of the flagship Brisbane festival

‘Enema of the state’: Aboriginal artist Richard Bell on his protest pieces heading to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Works going on show include a ticker tape calculating what the British government owes Indigenous Australians for use of their country during colonisation

Sydneyfeature

Must-see arts and culture in Sydney: from a farmers market in a railway workshop to a walk through the city's Indigenous heritage

As the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens its long-awaited expansion, we look at the city's other cultural highlights

In partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales

150 years of Australian art: a history of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

As the Sydney museum reopens, we look at its long history of supporting artists, and when it began to collect Indigenous art

In partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art theftfeature

The shocking story of a Picasso painting that was brazenly stolen and held at ransom by the 'Australian Cultural Terrorists'

Weeping Woman is one of the star works in the new exhibition Picasso Century at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria

'A desecration': Australian Aboriginal elder fights plans for Indigenous art gallery in Outback, claiming it will disturb ancient spirits

Government plans to build $111m Alice Springs venue would violate numerous sacred sites, First Nations woman says

Australian artist couple documents destruction of Central House of Culture in Irpin, Ukraine

George Gittoes and his wife Hellen Rose are living in Kyiv for at least a month and filming stories about the impact of war on everyday citizens

Australian artist couple pack up their video cameras and head to Ukraine to film impact of war

George Gittoes and Hellen Rose will create a large “peace mural” in Kyiv and develop collaborative videos and performances with locals

If a polluted river could speak, what would it say? Sydney Biennale gives waterways a voice

Event’s artistic director says bodies of water “will be represented by ancestral custodians or contemporary custodians that will speak on their behalf”

Ukrainian-born artist Stanislava Pinchuk unveils poignant work on the refugee experience at the Adelaide Biennial

Marble work, which intertwines texts from Homer's Odyssey with leaked documents on Australia’s offshore refugee detention centres, touches on the "universal experience of having to leave home through turmoil"

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art highlights ‘marginalised artists on the precipice of being the next establishment’

Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia opening today aims to provoke discussions around Aboriginal heritage

'Most people won't like my work': Marco Fusinato, artist representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, reveals pavilion plans

Visitors will experience a durational performance featuring a barrage of images including war scenes and defecating dogs

Have archaeologists discovered Captain Cook's ship Endeavour? Experts in the US and Australia fight it out

The director of Sydney’s Australian National Maritime Museum announced that he is "convinced" it is the long-lost vessel, while the director of Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project says the findings are not conclusive

After years of wrangling, Australia commits $228m to build a landmark centre for Indigenous culture

Ngurra precinct in Canberra will provide a home for returned ancestral remains in the heart of the capital

Traditional art forms are fighting back in the Asia Pacific region

The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane explores connections between people and place—and the encroaching danger of climate change

Australian painter's beloved Bundanon estate to be reborn with 32 guest rooms and a bushfire-resistant gallery

Arthur Boyd's rural home—which hosts his collection and Australia's largest residency programme—will reopen after a major expansion in early 2022

Melbourne Art Fair aims to be ‘Australasia’s most sustainable art fair’

The February 2022 edition of event will offset carbon and use a reusable wall system, organisers say

National Gallery of Australia commissions its most expensive ever piece of art

Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works