A swanky Manhattan art museum or an obscure Brooklyn gallery would be the expected choice for Claw Money's original exhibition, but Warrnambool has managed to snag it.
Maurizio Cattelan's viral banana Comedian to go under the hammer for $1.5 million
A conceptual artwork of a banana duct taped to a wall is expected to sell for more than $1.5 million at an upcoming auction in New York.
Photo shows banana duct taped to a white wallExhibition puts human face to WWI regional war memorials
Artist Clayton Tremlett has visited almost every WWI memorial across regional Victoria for his portrait study of digger memorials.
Photo shows A man in a blue shirt in an art studio surrounded by screen printing equipment with portraits pinned to the wall.'I feel healed when I look at it': This artist took COVID-era rubbish and made a couture collection
We catch up with the self-taught artist to hear about her design process, the varying reactions to her work (the strongest of which come from her children) and what she's trying to say with her garments.
Photo shows A jacket made entirely of used blue surgical masks is shown in a flatlay against a white background.'It's absurd': The reason behind this artist's shark-banana artwork at Sculpture by the Sea
The shark-banana sculpture simply doesn't make sense. But that's exactly what NSW artist Drew McDonald wanted to convey.
Photo shows A man with dark hair leans back on his sculpture, which consists of a shark head coming out of a peeled yellow banana skin.Brisbane's big glowing cicada to make a comeback after two years without a home
An enormous, sparkling, chirping cicada sculpture is set to return to the streets of Brisbane after two years in storage.
Photo shows A cicada statueWill Mona's Ladies Lounge close? Confusion as artist walks back comments, says it may 'go on tour'
The female artist behind the "women only" lounge at the centre of a discrimination complaint from a man who was refused entry says the space at Hobart's Mona will close.
Photo shows Women in blue suits dance on documents with red signsMiniature historical buildings are this couple's passion project.
Jim and Sue Roach have been constructing miniature historical buildings together since 2013, it's a passion they share.
Photo shows A couple stand beside a model of a Queensland pubHas Audio .From the Titanic to heavy machinery, mining town's sculptures are a labour of love
Known as Anchovy Flats, the salt pans between Karratha and Dampier in Western Australia's Pilbara feature some unique local art.
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Photo shows A man stands with his hand on a pole and the connected art work piece of an excavator.'Deeply beautiful and unique': Gallery brings largest-ever exhibition of Indigenous art to global stage
Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria will tour to North America from next year, as part of The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art.
Photo shows Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, an Indigenous Elder, sits on a mat in front of a large painting, which features pink figures.'I am ready to begin': At 70, Lindy Lee says she's old enough to start having fun with her art
The celebrated artist — who recently delivered the $14 million Ouroboros sculpture to the National Gallery — draws on a lifetime of love, loss and spiritual enlightenment in her work.
Photo shows A woman with black hair tied up in top knot and Mao collar style jacket laughs in lush green outdoor area surrounded by ferns.Sick of being told queer love didn't exist in Western Sydney, Mohammad Awad decided to put it on film
Despite being kicked out of his home for being queer, Western Sydney is where Mohammad Awad feels most comfortable. Now he wants to show other queer kids they don't have to leave their neighbourhoods to find acceptance.
Photo shows A man with dark hair and a beard, sitting on a bench with TV screens above him.As construction on Snowy 2.0 continues, this artist asks us to think about the cultural cost
Walgalu/Wiradjuri artist Aidan Hartshorn, one of five young artists selected for Primavera 2024 at the MCA, doesn't want to rewrite the Snowy Hydro narrative — but add to it.
Photo shows A young Indigenous man stands with arms folded between two silver diamond-shaped artworks, each printed with an abstract patternHatched exhibition helps emerging artists find their place in the world
Emerging artist Kasia Kolikow was born with one hand. She's using art to help her find her place in the world and is one of 22 graduate artists on display at a national exhibition.
Photo shows Young woman with long hair and cream jumper standing next to artwork with pale textileArt brings colour and healing to town left ashen grey amid bushfire trauma
How do you make sense of natural disasters and trauma? This remote community uses art and creative expression as a form of therapy to support their healing and recovery.
Photo shows Two women with short gray hair laughing together in an art gallery.Small NSW business supplies hundreds of lights for permanent Paris Olympics display
When athletes walk through the Paris Olympic Village or into the stadium in the coming weeks, high-tech and sustainable lights made in Australia will illuminate their way.
Photo shows dark red lighting illuminating a boardwalk in the Paris Olympic Village'Supremacy of men' to be argued in court at Mona's appeal against discrimination ruling
Fresh off its faked 'Picassos' controversy, Tasmania's Mona reveals it will argue about the "supremacy of men" in a Supreme Court bid to re-open its women-only art installation, the Ladies Lounge.
Photo shows MONA Ladie's Lounge and Kirsha Kaechele and supporters.'Picasso' artworks put in female toilet as part of art gallery response to court ruling
Multiple artworks in the style of Pablo Picasso have been relocated to a female toilet at Hobart's Mona, following an adverse court ruling which found a man was discriminated against when he was turned away from the women-only 'Ladies Lounge'.
Photo shows Picasso artwork hanging in a toilet cubicle.'Should we actually be doing this?' Thylacine de-extinction project questioned in new science exhibition
Even though we might be able to bring the thylacine back from extinction this science exhibition asks whether we should.
Photo shows A Tasmanian tiger stands in an enclosure.Brendan collected dog-food tins for four years to create his junk festival masterpiece
It took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel — the same length of time for Brendan Penzer to collect enough cans to create his own masterpiece.
Photo shows A man sits with two sculptures of dogs behind him.Art world mourns death of 'superstar' Aboriginal artist
Tributes are flowing from friends and the art world for a trailblazing contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist.
Photo shows Two works by Destiny Deacon