Elizabeth Fortescue

Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

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

New Zealand art museum reopens with anti-earthquake reinforcement and a new wing

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

Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Michael Brand, to step down

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

A testament to the power of Pueblo ceramics and community-based curation

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

Tasmania's supreme court overturns ruling that saw women-only art installation shut down

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

Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America

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"

Australian artist commissioned to make work using pure gold worth $6.7m

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

World debut for ancient stone sculpture from Papua New Guinea at Parcours des Mondes in Paris

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

Art activists bill businesses for billions in environmental damages

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

Australia's National Gallery acquires country's first Gauguin painting

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'

Picasso estate to take no further action over forged paintings at Mona

The Succession Picasso has made a statement after curator Kirsha Kaechele’s admitted she created the fake works, which she then hung in the women’s toilets at the Tasmanian museum as part of a protest

'King Dingo': After his portrait of Australia's richest woman stirred controversy, Vincent Namatjira turns his sights on British royalty

The aboriginal artist's portrait of Gina Rinehart made headlines after she called on the National Gallery of Australia to have it removed—now he has made a painting responding to British monarchs

Gauguin’s complex life and career probed in huge Canberra survey

Exhibition curated by a former Louvre director includes a deep-dive into the artist’s time in French Polynesia, where he painted many of his most famous works

Australian blockbuster Pharaoh show could inspire British Museum's revamped Ancient Egypt galleries

Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria

Hoor Al Qasimi named artistic director of the next Biennale of Sydney

Al Qasimi is the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation

Showing respect in the house of the dead: Australian museum removes mummified human remains

Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

Women-only art installation is 'discriminatory', Tasmanian court rules

Kirsha Kaechele's Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art must admit men within 28 days

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