Visual Arts
The world’s most expensive painting: Bacon sells for $152 million
More than friends, Francis Bacon’s triptych of Lucian Freud set world record last night at Christie’s New York sale.
Lily Allen returns, packing heat for feminism
The comeback song from the indie pop songstress takes aim at sexism in the music industry, changing the meaning of…
Facing the overstimulated audience
Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..
Theatre of the Revolution
In Egypt, where public theatre is often seen as a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the government, independent artists are revolutionaries…
Measuring the value of the arts
Ticket numbers don't tell the whole story but how do you calculate the value of empathy, transformation or community-building?
Nazi looted art surfaces
Stolen art worth $AUD 1.42 billion has been found in the private home of an 80-year-old man in Munich.
New record for Whiteley, just shy of $4m
Whiteley sells for $3,927,272 at last night’s Menzies Art Brand auction in Melbourne making it the second highest amount paid
The day the music died
Why does the death of an artist hit us so hard, and why do we need to publicise our grief?
Twenty-three Australian artists make Sydney Biennale cut
Juliana Engberg's artist list announced this week, lives up to growing expectations for her 19th Biennale of Sydney.
Sir Anthony Caro dies aged 89
British sculptor Antony Caro influenced a generation of sculptors internationally. He will be remembered well.