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January 03, 2026

‘Ten more years’: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street

Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1...

December 31, 2025

€1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for €100 in charity raffle

Artwork by one of the most influential artists of 20th century raffled to fund Alzheimer’s researchHis work is consistently ranked among the world’s...

December 06, 2025

Frank Gehry: maximalist master who created instant icons like the Bilbao Guggenheim

He made buildings that looked like slouching drunks and quarrelling couples but it was the Spanish museum that secured his ‘starchitect’ status - a...

November 21, 2025

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in...

September 18, 2025

Picasso painting not seen for 80 years unveiled by Paris auction house

Portrait of Dora Maar completed in Paris during war had been in private collection since being bought in 1944

September 06, 2025

How an 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis was recovered 80 years later in Argentina

Painting was spotted online by Dutch journalists when the daughter of a former Nazi official put her house up for sale in Mar del PlataThere was...

August 28, 2025

Looming crisis for NSW’s regional galleries averted with $15.4m in state arts funding

Labor announced on Thursday Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program will provide financial assistance for 62 organisations statewide

August 27, 2025

Old master painting looted by Nazis disappears from home in Argentina

Search for artwork seen in estate agent’s photo continues after police raid on house finds tapestry hanging in its placeArgentinian police have said...

August 08, 2025

Natsiaa 2025: Gaypalani Waṉambi wins $100,000 award for ‘exquisite’ artwork made with discarded road signs

Waṉambi takes home Australia’s most prestigious First Nations art prize for her artwork Burwu, blossom, which saw her etch thousands of stringybark...

August 04, 2025

Denmark to reportedly remove ‘ugly and pornographic’ mermaid statue

Danish agency for palaces and culture requests removal of 14-tonne sculpture from Dragør Fort in CopenhagenA debate has erupted in Denmark over the...

July 30, 2025

Heritage coalition saves Scottish modernist ‘jewel’ in fiercely fought auction

Derelict studio built for textile designer Bernat Klein in 1972 goes for £279,000 after starting price of £18,000A coalition of design and...

Art-and-design Articles

‘Ten more years’: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street

€1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for €100 in charity raffle

Frank Gehry: maximalist master who created instant icons like the Bilbao Guggenheim

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

Picasso painting not seen for 80 years unveiled by Paris auction house

How an 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis was recovered 80 years later in Argentina

Looming crisis for NSW’s regional galleries averted with $15.4m in state arts funding

Old master painting looted by Nazis disappears from home in Argentina

Natsiaa 2025: Gaypalani Waṉambi wins $100,000 award for ‘exquisite’ artwork made with discarded road signs

Denmark to reportedly remove ‘ugly and pornographic’ mermaid statue

Heritage coalition saves Scottish modernist ‘jewel’ in fiercely fought auction