Australia
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
Art activists bill businesses for billions in environmental damages
Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters
Acquisitions round-up: Zandra Rhodes textiles inspired by Uluru, a Cavalcanti head and a portrait by Mary Beale
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
'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
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
Archie Moore’s Australian Pavilion wins Venice Biennale’s coveted Golden Lion for best national exhibition
Mataaho Collective, Samia Halaby and Karimah Ashadu also receive awards
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
Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices
While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives
Instagram-famous Australian gallerist charged with nine counts of theft
Tove Langridge faces up to five years in prison if convicted in the criminal case
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
Australia's National Library is seeking campaign material from the Indigenous Voice referendum
Items from "all perspectives" about the debate are being sought
After referendum defeat, Indigenous Australian artists reclaim their voice in Adelaide
The Tarnanthi art festival features more than 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists
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
Ahead of major Indigenous rights vote in Australia, Desert Mob Aboriginal art fair welcomes collectors to the Outback
The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists
The Australian art world pays tribute to Tim Klingender, an expert on Aboriginal art, who has died aged 59
Klingender’s body was found in the sea after an apparent boating accident
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