Yayoi Kusama's polka dots and Infinity Rooms made her a global phenomenon, but behind the spectacle lies a radical exploration of self-obliteration, mental health, and our fascination with seeing ourselves reflected back.
The Gwangju Biennale's Taiwan Pavilion dispute has exposed tensions between artistic freedom, institutional responsibility, and international diplomacy, raising concerns over how cultural institutions navigate political pressure.
Melbourne photographer Guy Little, 41 years in, shoots Hasselblad and 5x4 film and still does his own darkroom work. From AFP forensic photographer to copyright-law campaigner to minimalist award winner, his meditative series Photography's Shadow turns childhood trauma into quiet, unhurried art.
Margaret Preston’s first major retrospective in 20 years traces the influences, ambitions and complexities behind one of Australia’s most recognisable modernist artists.
After Cara was scraped three times in ten days, the artist-led platform has become an uncomfortable test of what "opting-out" of AI training actually means online.
Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas has launched 'Heap', an installation where visitors physically dig up 80 artworks buried under 120 tonnes of dirt. This tactile exhibition offers educators a brilliant blueprint for teaching students how physical parti
Marri Ngarr artist Dr. Ryan Presley has won the prestigious Telstra Art Award with a monumental painting that uses European Renaissance techniques to challenge colonial power dynamics.
Ancient Rome wasn't as silent, white, or pristine as museums make it seem. One St. Louis exhibition used scent and sound to put some of the life back into antiquity.
Galleries aren't disappearing, but their authority might be. Social media, direct sales, and a new generation of collectors are rewriting who gets seen, sold, and taken seriously.
Eighteen Benin artefacts have returned to Nigeria after years of provenance research traced their likely looting during the British attack on Benin City in 1897.
For the first time since John Constable painted "The Hay Wain" in 1821, the masterpiece has finally returned to Suffolk. Surrounded by the landscape that inspired it, the painting offers a lesson in how places change, and what are can preserve.
AI can paint, write, and generate ideas in seconds. But as machines become increasingly creative, the bigger question isn't whether AI can make art. It's what happens to human creativity when we hand over the process.
Fifteen years of chasing a life in music gave David Frazer something better than a band. It gave him a story to tell. Frazer, the Castlemaine printmaker on Wimmera rooftops, talks about narratives, wood engraving, and how Paul Kelly, Nick Cave and Tom Waits all came to hand over their songs.
Despite being funded by a billionaire, the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is drawing fierce criticism for charging steep admission fees after quietly firing its entire education department.
The 7th annual National Indigenous Art Fair debuted at Sydney's newly transformed Cutaway venue, spotlighting Ngalakgan artist Karen Rogers' popular paintings of Toyota vehicles traveling through the bush.
New York's New Museum reopens its doors with a striking OMA-designed expansion and the ambitious 'New Humans: Memories of the Future' exhibition. This event provides a timely opportunity to examine the evolving role of museums in the 21st century.
