Visual Arts
Bob Dylan exhibits his Mood Swings
The music legend is more than meets the ear, as is evident in his new sculptural exhibition.
Federation Square’s Solar Equation shines on
Australian commissioned art work lights up UK festival
Farewelling Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize winning author died in at her home at the age of 94, leaving behind a legacy of…
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