Australia
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Veteran performer's tribute to victims of totalitarian violence is part of Dark Mofo festival in Hobart
Australia's largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne
New space will help National Gallery of Victoria to capitalise on blockbuster exhibitions
Bill Henson unveils new works in Melbourne
Show will be first commercial viewing of controversial photographer’s latest works
The many faces of Australia’s colonial legacy unveiled across two shows
National Gallery of Victoria’s mega-shows range from art by convicts to contemporary indigenous work
The world's most popular exhibition? Ancient sculptures in Tokyo versus Modern masters in Paris
Plus record crowds in US, UK and Australia
In pictures: Ron Mueck's biggest-ever installation
Mass, an arrangement of 100 fibreglass and resin skulls, is a highlight of the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural triennial
Risk is the key to success at the Venice Biennale
Museum founder David Walsh on Australia's controversial new artist-selection process
Top Australian donors pull funding from Venice Biennale
Funders are furious about plans to exclude them from selecting the artist to represent the country
Why I’m no longer funding Australia at the Venice Biennale
The financier and philanthropist Simon Mordant says the proposed restructure is 'not in Australia or the artists’ best interests'
Emily Kame Kngwarreye painting sells for $1.6m, breaking record for an Australian female artist
Aboriginal work, Earth’s Creation I, was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale
Exhibitions: Bacon goes down under with the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Francis Bacon’s Australian connections are explored
Interview with dealer Richard Nagy on Schiele: “It is about sex, it is tense, anxious and emotional”
His new space in London will open with an exhibition on the Austrian painter
Sex, death and models of down under, down under: Newly opened Mona already a success
Outspoken collector David Walsh unveils crypt-like private museum
Australian forgeries to be destroyed
Fakes were purported to be by Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson
Shaun Gladwell sets off for Afghanistan as Australia’s official war artist
He is creating video and photographic works to document the conflict
“A quantum leap” for Australia as collector John Kaldor donates $35m-worth of art to AGNSW
Kaldor has donated work by Rauschenberg, Christo, LeWitt, Koons, Judd, and Gursky, among many others
New government in Australia?
Former rock star would be Minister for Arts and Environment
David Walsh reveals art for new private Tasmanian gallery
Walsh, described as “every casino owner’s nightmare”, owns around 1,300 antiquities and 300 contemporary works
Australian collectors build their own museums
New museums in Sydney and Tasmania are in the works
British Museum director Neil MacGregor calls for laws that would encourage lending Aboriginal artefacts
As two objects are detained in Victoria, MacGregor believes something good could come out of the present confusion
Will Tate pay millions for this Leighton?
“The Syracusan bride” may be coming home from Australia
Collector interview: Peter Fay, Australia’s champion of the outsider
The collector of works that are knotty, passionate, perverse and deeply personal talks about his tastes and his gift to the nation
New exhibition 'The pre-Raphaelite dream' rocks the Art Gallery of Western Australia
The paintings and drawings on show in Perth are on loan from the Tate collection
Tracey Emin follows up book buzz with a retrospective down under, but will the Aussies approve?
The Art Gallery of New South Wales plays host to her new show
Ethnographica or art?
Some European and American museums have bought work by Aboriginal artists but there is no broad base of collectors outside Australia for such paintings and no consensus that this work qualifies as “art”
Exhibition of the largest selection of Australian Aboriginal art to have been presented in Europe
Show demonstrates the aboriginal passion of an Austrian collector
Interview with Andres Serrano: Mining the seamy side for all it’s worth
After sacrilege and violent death the artist whom the moral majority (minority?) love to hate, is now into explicit sex
The first exhibition of Angkor-period art to leave Cambodia
Australia makes capital out of the 1991 peace accord in Cambodia and demonstrates its newly established diplomatic ties
Minimalist masterpieces on show in Sydney
The Drill Hall Gallery is showing works by Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, among others