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for artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale was rescinded, the statement from Creative Australia’s board said their selection now posed “an unacceptable risk” and “could undermine our goal of bringing Australians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

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

Hugo Morley-Fletcher died in 2022, aged 82. His personal collection raked in a sum of £249,201 under the hammer.

‘We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe – and waited until the air was really still’

Ficre Ghebreyesus, who died in 2012, made vertiginous paintings celebrating family, the diaspora and his own turbulent story. His first British solo exhibition charts this remarkable journey

The Scream artist’s friends, family and physicians populate this patchily assembled collection that suggests little of a boisterous, bohemian life

A free laser beam art installation will run every night of Rising in June. But organisers can't confirm Melbourne's popular arts festival is funded beyond 2025.

Jessica Brösche to join Lucas Sielaff, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March