Australia
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
Remembering Barry Humphries, art lover, artist and creator of Dame Edna Everage, who has died, aged 89
Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors
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
From an Aboriginal memorial site to the music of Nina Simone: curator Beatrice Gralton on her greatest influences
Senior curator at Australia's Art Gallery of New South Wales discusses her podcast recommendations and her multi-genre music playlist
Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves
Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women
Melbourne family whose house museum has welcomed thousands will give the building and its huge art collection to the public
The Lyon Housemuseum first opened its doors to the public in 2009 and features an array of Australian contemporary works
First Nations artist Archie Moore to represent Australia at 2024 Venice Biennale
The exhibition, curated by Ellie Buttrose of the Queensland Art Gallery’s Gallery of Modern Art, will be the third in the Australian pavilion selected via an open call process
‘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
'This land has an important history': Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA on their design for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney
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
Sneak peek: see inside Australia's newest museum expansion, neighbouring Sydney's famous opera house
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has been expanded with a new building by Japanese architects SANAA, while new displays will push Australia's Indigenous artists to the fore
A vast forest of concrete columns: the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens new gallery in a disused oil tank
A once-hidden relic of the Second World War by Sydney's harbour has been turned into an underground exhibition space
Sydney museum turns underground Second World War oil reservoir into dramatic new gallery space
The Tank is part of the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, due to open in December
Aboriginal art to take centre stage at $225m expansion of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house
Australian art dealer goes on the run after allegedly ripping off emerging artists
The art dealer Tristian Koenig is accused of selling works by emerging artists and making off with the profits
The year of Australia's corporate art sell off? Major pension fund latest to liquidate collection
The Construction and Building Unions Superannuation fund hopes to net $6.3m from auctioning its works with Deutscher and Hackett’s in Melbourne
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
National Gallery of Victoria receives $74m to build Australia's largest contemporary art museum
The Melbourne museum will span around 30,000 sq. m and open in 2028
SJ Norman wins Australia's Blake Prize for diptych of scarification ritual
The prize recognises a live performance in which the artist was slashed 147 times, addressing the disproportionate incarceration and custody deaths of First Nations people
How Donatello changed art history forever
Plus, the Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of rivers and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation opens in London
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”
'The damage is incomprehensible': toll of Australia floods on cultural precinct of Lismore
Floodwaters rose to second-floor ceiling of Lismore Regional Gallery, at the “epicentre” of the disaster for the New South Wales town
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
National Australia Bank to sell off its $7.2m contemporary art collection next week
Proceeds from the auctions, at Deutscher and Hackett and Leonard Joel, have been earmarked for climate change programme, but questions arise over bank's motivations
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
Australian government spends £10.5m on copyright for Aboriginal flag
Rights to use the design had been granted to a company fined for selling fake Aboriginal art
How an Australian collector’s strings-attached gift paved the way for a new $36m museum
Shepparton Art Museum opened late last year but a ballooning budget and conflicting local politics have made led to a mixed reception