The 50,000-year-old carvings on the Burrup Peninsula include the earliest-known depictions of a human face

While Indigenous Australian art dates back for millennia before European settlement, it has long been barred from the fine art canon

Creative Australia’s chief executive has said Morgan’s decision is unrelated to the scandal over the artist Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the nation’s 2026 Venice Biennale team

The museum reported that 570,537 tickets were purchased for the show, which closed in April

The artist criticises Australia’s arts funding body for failing to allow him to defend “misinformation” about his art, and says he hopes to take his planned work to Venice independently

Team led by neuroscientist used stem cells originating from Alvin Lucier's blood to create sound installation

Amid colourful ceremonies, Chau Chak Wing Museum returned 16 human skulls to the inhabitants of six villages

The CEO of Creative Australia yesterday admitted to an estimates committee that the country's pavilion could be empty in 2026

Last year’s Golden Lion winner Archie Moore and the National Association for the Visual Arts are among those to speak out in support of Sabsabi after he was dropped by Creative Australia

Government funding for the Sydney institution, which is already closed one day a week and is now charging A$20 entry, remains the same as in 2008

The head of Creative Australia’s visual arts department and the board member and artist Lindy Lee among those who have reportedly left their posts

Move follows an article in The Australian newspaper, which called attention to controversial works by the artist including depictions of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

The painter was also a keen supporter of women artists

Sabsabi’s curator will be Michael Dagostino, who also came up through the multicultural western Sydney arts scene

The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

Kirsha Kaechele' Ladies Lounge will be reinstalled at the Hobart museum for a month after the supreme court overturned a ruling that the work was discriminatory

It will join a record-breaking nine other immersive rooms in the National Gallery of Victoria's retrospective on the Japanese artist, spanning eight decades

The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held

Penrith Regional Gallery focuses on sightings of the folkloric ‘Blue Mountains panther’ through works by 18 Australian artists

Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’

Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui closed in 2014 after a report found it vulnerable to earthquake damage

The Asian art scholar spent much of his tenure overseeing the museum's redevelopment project, Sydney Modern, which doubled the institution’s exhibition capacity

The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective

The controversial work, Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art made headlines when a visitor complained after being excluded from visiting the all-female space

Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"

Sculpture by Lindy Lee is part of a new arts programme developed by the precious metal services conglomerate Pallion Group

Thought to be 3,500 years old, the squatting ritual figure has never before been exhibited

Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters

The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'