The Latest Breaking News on Art

Ballarat’s art gallery has closed for a year and Bendigo’s is set to shut for two years, both for necessary upgrades. But what will happen to the cities’ cultural life in the meantime?

A French organisation dedicated to the conservation of the country's heritage has launched a fundraising drive offering participants the chance to win a fragment of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral.

More than a century ago, Pablo Picasso smashed the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris into a web of tangled lines on his canvas, deconstructing reality with the brushstrokes of a master cubist.

When the invitation for artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale was rescinded, the statement from Creative Australia’s board said their selection now posed “an unacceptable risk” and “could undermine our goal of bringing Australians together”.

Somerset House’s upcoming Virtual Beauty exhibition will explore concepts of self-image in the post-internet world.

The Three Trees by Rembrandt is widely considered to be one of the artist’s greatest landscapes.

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

Plus: Why coastal comforts lured this artist to his California home.

A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around him