The National Gallery will host an exhibition of art from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands three years after a video appearing to show a non-Aboriginal assistant helping to paint an artwork led to it being postponed.
Gallery of tiny treasures joins global community
A new tiny art gallery on WA's south coast adds to a growing global movement of community verge-side offerings that range from puzzles to seed exchange.
Topic:Feel Good
Whoever said cars can't fly hasn't seen Back to the Future the Musical
In the 1985 film Back to the Future, the DeLorean takes to the skies. So too in the musical production.
Van Gogh painting to be displayed in Adelaide for first time
A "rarely seen" collection of works from renowned artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse will be on display in Adelaide next year, as part of 57 works on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art in the US.
Why stars are 'disgusted' at those performing at a Saudi comedy festival
The Riyadh Comedy Festival stars A-list comedians like Peter Davidson, but despite its blockbuster acts, it has copped backlash for what one human rights organisation says is a "whitewashing" of a "brutal repression of free speech".
Topic:Explainer
Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen's stories come to life in this exhibit
At 91, Pamela Allen has published more than 60 books. This exhibition brings her work off the page and invites children and adults to play as they read.
'Like a magic pair of goggles': Theatre show set at 100-year-old ocean baths
A new headphone theatre production is set among the swimmers and sunbakers at a NSW city's much-loved ocean pool.
Sculpture by the Sea offered $200,000 lifeline after financial woes
Sculpture by the Sea was facing cancellation with organisers forced to make an urgent public plea for last-minute funding.
This groundbreaking theatre company shaped Andrea's career. Now she runs it
Andrea James will take the helm of Australia's oldest Indigenous theatre company Ilbijerri, as outgoing artistic director Rachael Maza steps back after almost 18 years.
$200k shortfall could see this year's Sculpture by the Sea scrapped
Australia's famed sculpture walk is facing cancellation after failing to secure funding less than a month out from this year's event.
Two giants of 20th-century photography appear together in new exhibition
Surrealist photographer Man Ray revolutionised 20th-century visual culture. In Australia, a local photographer was exploring similar territory.
Renowned street artist paints a 90-metre love letter to Geelong
The faces of 14 people will be immortalised in an enormous mural on the side of a new building in Geelong by locally born, globally renowned artist Rone.
Life after divorce for this man meant moving to Florence in his 70s
Victor Caulfield packed up his Australian home and moved to Italy, where he fell into the art scene as an accidental model.
This Aussie game broke the internet. A new exhibit reveals how it was made
An exhibition at Melbourne's ACMI will pull back the curtain on how iconic games like Hollow Knight Silksong, Team Fortress, Neopets and Sim City were made.
Lisa Reihana's exhibition, Voyager, recasts history through an Indigenous lens
The internationally renowned Maori artist's technically complex, visually mesmerising exhibition spans nearly a decade of artwork.
John Farnham's comeback becomes main-stage musical as Whispering Jack turns 40
Whispering Jack: The John Farnham Musical is one of 13 plays coming to Sydney Theatre Company next year, alongside shows starring David Wenham and Miranda Otto.
Renowned NT artist becomes first Australian with solo Tate Modern show
Emily Kam Kngwarray has been recognised as "one of the world's leading artists" after becoming the first Australian whose work is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.
A stage adaptation of Craig Silvey's novel Runt will premiere next year
Runt earned a slew of awards for younger readers and was turned into a movie. Ahead of the release of the sequel, a theatre adaptation is in the works.
Artist says Tina Arena became 'like a sister' while sitting for portrait
The new portrait comes in two parts — known as a diptych — and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery from September 6 to mark Tina Arena's 50-year career.
Audrey Jacob's 100yo 'murder' on the dance floor brought back to life
A century ago, a young woman shot her former fiancé dead in the middle of a crowded Perth ballroom, but was acquitted of murder by a jury. Now, a stage play is retelling the story of Audrey Jacob's astonishing defence.
Former elite athlete takes home $100,000 landscape art prize
Former track cyclist and downhill skier Sophie Cape says she struggled after losing her Olympic dreams to injury but found catharsis in art school.