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Latest news: Painting
Crews guard richest collection of rock art from blazes
Emergency crews are fighting to contain out-of-control bushfires from scorching a rich concentration of Indigenous rock art as hotter weather looms.
Jan 31, 2025
Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates
A new commissioning program features Indigenous artists including Mervyn Street, who led a class action to recover stolen wages in Western Australia.
Jan 26, 2025
Artist illuminates the calm and fear of rural Australia
Painter Nerrida Parfitt's work could be considered Australian gothic, using rural roads and landscapes to explore themes of isolation, peace and impermanence.
Dec 31, 2024
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Find humanity in a surreal high-tech city with Cao Fei
At the exhibition Cao Fei: My City is Yours, people can imagine their virtual identities, or contemplate the loss that accompanies relentless urbanisation.
Nov 29, 2024
Liberation of abstraction embraced in troubled times
Acclaimed US painter Julie Mehretu is holding her first exhibition in the southern hemisphere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Nov 27, 2024
A whole room of Banksys as street art fills a gallery
A new work by street art superstar Bansky will feature when two of Australia's biggest street art collectors show off their finds.
Nov 25, 2024
South African dissident writer Breyten Breytenbach dies
South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former South African government’s apartheid policy, has died in Paris.
Nov 24, 2024
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European fake art network uncovered in Italy
European auction houses were complicit in selling thousands of fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos to unsuspecting buyers, Italy’s culture ministry says.
Nov 13, 2024
Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis, dies at 93
Frank Auerbach, who escaped Nazi Germany as a child and went on to become a leading painter in the post war School of London, has died at the age of 93.
Nov 13, 2024
Police bust art crime network forging Banksy, Picasso
Modern and contemporary fake artworks including Banksy and Andy Warhol have been uncovered following an Italian police operation.
Nov 12, 2024
The surreal world of René Magritte comes to Australia
The first-ever Australian retrospective dedicated to the influential surrealist René Magritte opens at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Oct 25, 2024
Reddit, Wikipedia images inspire artist's Paris posting
Sydney artist Adele Warner has won the 2024 Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, earning her a three-month residency in the French capital.
Oct 23, 2024
Buyers step through portal at nation's biggest art fair
Many artworks have already sold as Sydney Contemporary - Australia's biggest art fair - opens to the public.
Sep 05, 2024
Artist puts High Vis glare on Australia's colonisers
In an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, works by artist Joan Ross use lurid colours to talk back to colonial paintings.
Aug 23, 2024
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Long road to Australia's top Aboriginal art award
Tjuntjuntjara artist Noli Rictor drove 25 hours to Alice Springs and then flew to Darwin to receive Australia's most prestigious award for Aboriginal art.
Aug 09, 2024
'Beautiful' Langton tribute the public Archibald choice
The artist whose portrait of an esteemed Indigenous activist won the Archibald People's Choice says the prize is a platform to speak about important people.
Aug 08, 2024
NGA acquires painting by 'nasty piece of work' Gauguin
The National Gallery of Australia has bought a significant artwork by Paul Gauguin, during its exhibition of works by the controversial painter.
Aug 01, 2024
Whiteleys fail to sell at 'Mr Melbourne' art auction
Three valuable artworks by Brett Whiteley were the centre of the late Ron Walker's art collection, but have been passed in at auction.
Jul 24, 2024
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Johnny Depp turns to tarot to inspire art collection
Actor Johnny Depp pays tribute to his ex-partner Vanessa Paradis in new artworks inspired by tarot cards.
Jul 18, 2024
'Picassos' hanging in Tasmania's MONA were 'created'
Artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed two paintings hung in Tasmania's MONA are not Picassos and were, in fact, painted by her.
Jul 11, 2024
'Unwilling participant' helps secure major arts prize
An "unwilling participant" captured hanging out with horses and an accomplished author bathed in moonlight are featured in two award-winning portraits.
Jun 21, 2024
Aspiring doctor wants more 'familiar faces' in health
After the birth of her second son Kahlie Lockyer knew she wanted to be a paediatrician, following a lifelong passion of helping others.
Jun 15, 2024
Laura Jones' portrait of Tim Winton wins the Archibald
Artist Laura Jones has won Australia's most prestigious art award, the Archibald Prize, with a portrait of author Tim Winton.
Jun 07, 2024
What would Banksy think? Big data steers mega art bucks
A multimillion-dollar company is using data to bring global entertainment to cities across Australia - but does it matter if what they offer is the real thing?
Jun 06, 2024
Painting within painting sheds light on hidden abstract
An artwork revealed inside a painting of a close collaborator brings an exciting edge to an exhibition of Australia's earliest and most important abstract art.
May 23, 2024
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