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The Archibald Prize is the oldest and most prestigious portrait competition in Australia, but not the richest.

An Australian auction record for Brett Whiteley’s painting, Henri’s Armchair, puts the star on top of the Christmas tree for the local art market in a year when only doom and gloom were predicted.

A new exhibition of more than 80 works at the David Roche Foundation House Museum, Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation. offers a glimpse into the vast depth of Western floral art in the last 400 years and explores the major narratives of life – religion, marriage, death, belonging...

On Tuesday, somewhere between the canapes and cork-popping, a horse race will be run.

It is with great privilege that Bonhams announces the forthcoming auction of the Collection of Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax on Sunday 22 September 2019 in Sydney.

The river, and daylight, beckoned as I descended to the Potter Galleries from Federation Square to see the Heysens’ show.

The author of this impressive book, Lou Klepac, has had a long association with the life and work of German-born Hans Heysen, a pioneer of Australian art who transformed how we see, draw and paint the Australian landscape.

Little-known paintings by the revered impressionist Tom Roberts from the 1920s are among the highlights of a large auction this month, as auctioneer Menzies begins the new year with an unusually early sale.

A Muraqqa is a codex where Persian miniature paintings are combined with Islamic calligraphy to create an illuminated narrative.

Robert Hannaford is probably Australia’s pre-eminent portrait painter, and this survey at the Art Gallery of South Australia, in his home state, is a timely recognition of his achievement.

There seems to have been a striking resurgence of interest in drawing and painting around the world in recent years.

It's time to speak out, because the industry's fears are being realised.

WHEN George Johnson was running a leather factory in England during the 1800s, he knew many of his workers couldn't read, so to enliven their working day he would read aloud to them, often from Charles Dickens, while they worked.

WHEN Robert Green was a boy, he sneaked his friends into the family home to stare and giggle at a painting of female nudes frolicking in the sea.

AUSTRALIANS spend a lot of time in galleries during our summer months, although paradoxically much of it is in the great museums of Europe,