Visual Arts
Monet’s 'Water Lilies' makes a motza
Selling for $A57.3 million, Claude Monet’s iconic painting leads the way in a wave of demand for "trophy paintings".
Calls to review peak body funding
Service organisations and peak bodies are essential to the ecology of the sector but funding is haphazard and opaque.
Rare chance to join the Convent
For an arts organisation in need of studio space this vacancy may be the answer to a fervent prayer.
It’s a matter of money, actually
What keeps the art market spinning? Is Bonhams up for sale, and how did Basel fare? We take a look…
Buying art via an app
Positioned between IKEA and the gallery sector, this app for emerging collectors puts a new spin on online shopping.
Idea too dangerous for festival
Sydney Opera House has cancelled a talk by Muslim writer and activist who claims he is the victim of censorship.
Unveiling traditional Japanese theatre at AGNSW
Over 165 exquisite traditional works from nō and kyōgen theatre take centre stage at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Brisbane Festival unveils 2014 program
Noel Staunton’s fifth and final Brisbane Festival features circus, theatre and Indigenous arts, bookended by American culture.
A socially alert Arthur Boyd
Exhibition takes a different view of Boyd's paintings, examining them for their take on racism, war and environmental degradation.
From Grace Jones to TarraWarra
A line from a Grace Jones song - Whisper in My Mask – becomes the theme for the 2014 TarraWarra…