Australia

More Australian art world figures condemn decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale project

Last year’s Golden Lion winner Archie Moore and the National Association for the Visual Arts are among those to speak out in support of Sabsabi after he was dropped by Creative Australia

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reverses ban on admission fees

Government funding for the Sydney institution, which is already closed one day a week and is now charging A$20 entry, remains the same as in 2008

String of resignations after Khaled Sabsabi withdrawn from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale

The head of Creative Australia’s visual arts department and the board member and artist Lindy Lee among those who have reportedly left their posts

Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026

Move follows an article in The Australian newspaper, which called attention to controversial works by the artist including depictions of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

‘His paintings are magical’: Barry Humphries’s art to feature alongside Dame Edna memorabilia at Christie’s auction

The entertainer’s collection also includes rare books—such as very early editions of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

Secretive underground exploration group assists with missing museum artefacts in Melbourne

Members of clandestine group retrieve objects from drains after burst pipe at Australian museum’s storage facility

Mysterious sightings of wild cats in suburban Sydney explored in new show

Penrith Regional Gallery focuses on sightings of the folkloric ‘Blue Mountains panther’ through works by 18 Australian artists

Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’

Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Michael Brand, to step down

The Asian art scholar spent much of his tenure overseeing the museum's redevelopment project, Sydney Modern, which doubled the institution’s exhibition capacity

Angelica Mesiti’s first major solo show in Australia explores humans‘ connection to the cosmos

Work has been commissioned for the Tank, a former oil reservoir beneath Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales

Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America

Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"

Australian artist commissioned to make work using pure gold worth $6.7m

Sculpture by Lindy Lee is part of a new arts programme developed by the precious metal services conglomerate Pallion Group

Art activists bill businesses for billions in environmental damages

Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters

'King Dingo': After his portrait of Australia's richest woman stirred controversy, Vincent Namatjira turns his sights on British royalty

The aboriginal artist's portrait of Gina Rinehart made headlines after she called on the National Gallery of Australia to have it removed—now he has made a painting responding to British monarchs

Hoor Al Qasimi named artistic director of the next Biennale of Sydney

Al Qasimi is the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation

Showing respect in the house of the dead: Australian museum removes mummified human remains

Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

Australian War Memorial seeks to offer ‘hope and healing’ at time of rising military suicides

Artist Alex Seton has created a series of marble “droplets” that will wear in places over time as they are touched

Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices

While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives

Instagram-famous Australian gallerist charged with nine counts of theft

Tove Langridge faces up to five years in prison if convicted in the criminal case

Vast ‘fish fence’ takes centre stage at Melbourne’s NGV Triennial

A team of Aboriginal women artists, working in Australia's far north, spent two years weaving the 100m-long work from local plant material

After referendum defeat, Indigenous Australian artists reclaim their voice in Adelaide

The Tarnanthi art festival features more than 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

Clothes swap among highlights as Sculpture by the Sea celebrates 25 years on Bondi Beach

A melting ice-cream truck that was a crowd-pleaser in 2006, is making a comeback this year

Ahead of major Indigenous rights vote in Australia, Desert Mob Aboriginal art fair welcomes collectors to the Outback

The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists

National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition

An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists

Obituariesfeature

Remembering Barry Humphries, art lover, artist and creator of Dame Edna Everage, who has died, aged 89

Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors