It would be natural to assume that one of the principal missions of a “national gallery” is to collect, research and display the art, and thus record the cultural history, of its own nation. Of course ...

Global attention to First Nations art is on the rise, with numerous institutional exhibitions and climbing auction prices. Last week, at Frieze in London, visitors could also see work by a key First ...

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest—both institutional and from collectors—in Australian First Nations art. No longer confined to the margins of the market, a select number of ...

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world, a new partnership is set to elevate the global presence of Indigenous works. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ...

They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a ...

In the 1960s, two sisters offered an exceptionally valuable portrait of their mother as a donation to the Art Gallery of NSW. It was rejected because the subject was Jewish, but now hangs at the ...

These are troubled and changing times – a view of the zeitgeist that permeates Yield Strength, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of ...

In a World War II-era fuel storage tank deep beneath Sydney, the smell of gasoline still hangs in the air. Pulsing lights sweep the cavernous space to reveal fragments of “The End of Imagination,” an ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne On September 10 1965, Sir Robert ...

An Australian art gallery owner has received no compensation and recovered just half of the 36 paintings he entrusted for sale a decade ago to a now-defunct Santa Fe gallery. Tom Colrain, who helps ...