The show at Canberra's National Gallery of Australia spans the past 120 years and includes works by Nora Heysen, Tracey Moffatt and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Opening on 4 November, the centre, which is part of the city's National Art School, is modelled on the the Drawing Centre in New York and London’s Drawing Room

The MV Merino had gone aground on its way to Hobart for an exhibition of Modern French art in 1953

Parliamentary enquiry will examine how mining giant Rio Tinto obtained legal right to destroy ancient Juukan Gorge site

Sydney Opera House may step in to take over Carriageworks, which hosts the art fair Sydney Contemporary and exhibitions

Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks

Private consortium offered $80m to turn former industrial area into Australia’s answer to Naoshima art island in Japan

First museum survey exploring both artists together to open at the National Gallery of Victoria

Proposals for Alice Springs and Adelaide have political support but concerns have been raised over competing projects and lack of Indigenous involvement

Founder of Finkelstein Gallery aims to counter the low representation of women in the Australian art world

Mark Fraser makes the remarks as a group of works by the Australian artist is about to be offered at Bonhams in Sydney with a combined estimate of AUS$1.3m-$1.8m

Artistic director Brook Andrew aims to counter the dominance of Northern American and European narratives

As the Australian artist's major retrospective opens in Adelaide, we speak to him about his time as a war artist in Afghanistan and his campaign against the death penalty

Acquisitions include woven clothing mats from the Marshall Islands and reflections on the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror

Work by the indigenous artist John Mawurndjul sold for $140,000 at the fair, where organisers estimate AUD$21m of sales were made

Australia deepen ties with the London museum as trove of masterpieces travels to the National Gallery of Australia for first time

Chinese authorities did not explain why Ken and Julia Yonetani’s four works will not be part of Powerlong Art Museum group show

Works are on show as part of Dark Mofo, a festival organised by the Museum of Old and New Art just north of Hobart

Artist Brook Andrew’s work deals with notions of history, identity and race

Show will be first commercial viewing of controversial photographer’s latest works

National Gallery of Victoria’s mega-shows range from art by convicts to contemporary indigenous work

Giant refugee lifeboat is one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney

Mass, an arrangement of 100 fibreglass and resin skulls, is a highlight of the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural triennial

Funders are furious about plans to exclude them from selecting the artist to represent the country

The US artist was in Australia to create his largest-ever mural, a 44-metre-tall message of “peace and harmony”

Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney

Richard Bell’s homage to the 1972 Aboriginal protest site will host speakers from black activist groups

“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”