Visual Arts
Arts glaring absent from Tourism Awards
Only one arts organisation got a guernsey among the 33 winners in the Victorian Tourism Awards.
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.
Gertrude Contemporary appoints new Director
Melbourne institution Gertrude Contemporary sets for a new future.
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…
Education Program to 'keep performing arts relevant'
School students are offered the chance to see both local and internationally-acclaimed productions in 2014.
Dead animals, living art
A work using mummified frogs is the first by an important contemporary duo to be acquired by an Australian public…
'Abundant music talent' recognised in 2013 Melbourne Prize Awards
The triennial Melbourne Prize for Music Awards has been endowed to internationally-acclaimed Australian artists and composers.
Vale Yvonne Boyd
Yvonne Boyd, widow of the late artist, Arthur Boyd, has died in Melbourne aged 93.
Mike Parr takes on Easter Island
Whopping big photo-drawings line the walls of Anna Schwartz Gallery.
It's official: Government endorses value of arts for health
In what may be a world first, Australian health ministers have endorsed a national framework that acknowledges the value of…