Visual Arts

The French presidency revealed the death of the graphic novel author who went on to become the first female Oscar nominee in the animated feature film category.

A portrait of Pitjantjatjara elder Iluwanti Ken has bagged Richard Lewer Australia’s biggest portrait award, the $100,000 Archibald Prize.

This year’s highly commended images include bear cubs playing on a road and flamingo’s flying against power lines, but the winning photograph was of a young Iberian lynx playing with its food.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: After journalists spotted it online, prosecutors and Interpol tried to locate the painting.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Louvre Museum has named a repatriation advocate as the next ‘Chaire du Louvre’, sending a strong signal about France’s changing attitudes toward returning wrongfully removed artworks.

Julie Fragar has won the 2025 Archibald Prize for her portrait of friend and artist Justene Williams.

The widow of acclaimed artist Clifton Pugh has claimed credit for helping convince Gough Whitlam to buy the Jackson Pollock painting, a purchase that had huge ramifications.

The renowned Australian photographer’s early death gave her self-destructive behaviour a lurid glamour. But in just one decade she did more than enough to ensure her immortality in Australian art.

There’s something wild and uninhibited about Santiago’s work, which is broadly autobiographical but draws on the beliefs and history of the Philippines and the iconography of European Old Masters. 

The staggering quality on display at the Islamic Arts Biennale is a superb introduction to Islamic history

Peter Godwin’s admirers can never understand why his work isn’t currently hanging on the walls of all the public art museums. But the reason is simple - he’s a straight, white, male artist.

The NGV’s amazing exhibition shows Yayoi Kusama not simply as a maker of commercially tuned product and spectacle, but as an artist whose nine decades of creativity seem to transcend mere humanity.

There are more risks than benefits in consigning pieces by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol to the bush for years on end.

Alfred Lowe did not set out to become a world recognised sculptor — despite being surrounded by art during his childhood in Alice Springs

After growing up in a China that modernised at a furious rate, Cao Fei uses her innovative art to scrutinise globalised techno-utopias and the consumer revolution with wit and warmth.