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Aussie brings grain silo art to small North Dakota town

Aussie brings grain silo art to small North Dakota town

A huge grain elevator and silo in North Dakota is the site of a massive mural being created by Brisbane artist Guido van Helten.

Dali painting bought at clearance sale worth $A61,000

Dali painting bought at clearance sale worth $A61,000

Dali painting bought at clearance sale worth $A61,000

Dali painting bought at clearance sale worth $A61,000

A painting by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dali found in a clearance sale is expected to fetch up to $A61,000 at auction.

Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio

Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio

Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio

Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio

Street artists Rone and Callum Preston are throwing open the doors of their shared studio for the first time, as part of Melbourne's Open House weekend.

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From Arnhem Land to the world, power of art on show

From Arnhem Land to the world, power of art on show

Artists connected to the remote Yirrkala community in East Arnhem Land were among the first Indigenous Australians to use their art for political ends.

Period scenes set mood for Impressionist masterpieces

Period scenes set mood for Impressionist masterpieces

An exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces from a Boston museum has returned to Australia after closing early in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artist wins $100k prize with art of wax, sand and glass

Artist wins $100k prize with art of wax, sand and glass

The winner of the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize, Australia's richest for contemporary artists under 40, uses everything from beeswax to copper pipe and stained glass.

Australia’s dark past woven through powerful exhibition

Australia’s dark past woven through powerful exhibition

An exhibition celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art confronts the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history.

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Frans Hals portraits return to Holland after a century

Frans Hals portraits return to Holland after a century

Frans Hals portraits return to Holland after a century

Frans Hals portraits return to Holland after a century

Two paintings by Golden Age master Frans Hals have been brought at auction for $US7.8 million by two museums with support from the Dutch government.

Never-before-seen Margaret Preston artworks go on show

Never-before-seen Margaret Preston artworks go on show

Never-before-seen Margaret Preston artworks go on show

Never-before-seen Margaret Preston artworks go on show

Paintings by Margaret Preston that have never been on show to the public before feature in an exhibition of Australian women artists.

Multiverse of motherhood shines brightest in Archibald

Multiverse of motherhood shines brightest in Archibald

Multiverse of motherhood shines brightest in Archibald

Multiverse of motherhood shines brightest in Archibald

A portrait addressing the juggle of motherhood, a day job and making art has taken out one of Australia's richest and most prestigious sector awards.

King and Queen unveil portraits marking coronation

King and Queen unveil portraits marking coronation

King and Queen unveil portraits marking coronation

King and Queen unveil portraits marking coronation

Portraits of the King and Queen commissioned to mark their coronation have been unveiled by the royal couple two years after they were crowned.

Intrepid artists get the retrospectives they deserve

Intrepid artists get the retrospectives they deserve

Intrepid artists get the retrospectives they deserve

Intrepid artists get the retrospectives they deserve

Retrospectives at the National Gallery of Australia give Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar the attention they deserve, but time is running out to see them.

Antiques and auctions inspire Archibald artist

Antiques and auctions inspire Archibald artist

Antiques and auctions inspire Archibald artist

Antiques and auctions inspire Archibald artist

The 2025 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes are underway, with more than 2000 entries expected to arrive at a gallery in Sydney this week.

Exhibition tells 'bigger story' of survival and culture

Exhibition tells 'bigger story' of survival and culture

Exhibition tells 'bigger story' of survival and culture

Exhibition tells 'bigger story' of survival and culture

Secret family stories showcasing the strength, survival and culture of Kalkadoon people will be unveiled after decades of being kept under wraps.

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Beyond The Scream: Munch portraits on show in London

A new exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery will explore how Norway's master of loneliness was in fact surrounded by people.

Rare Banksy owned by blink-182 rocker up for auction

Banksy's re-imagining of the 1992 painting The Singing Butler by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano is expected to fetch millions at auction.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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