Art History

In her first major solo exhibition, Melbourne-based Nusra Latif Qureshi takes her deep understanding of Mughal painting and Urdu storytelling traditions, and brings her own powerful perspective to them.

More than 60 years after Sue Dowling looked into the eyes of notorious killer and rapist Leonard Lawson, his legacy continues to haunt her as debate over the future of his artwork in Grafton jail flares again.

After more than five years of restoration work following a devastating fire, the Notre Dame Cathedral has unveiled its new interior as it prepares for reopening. 

A sculpture made by late Australian artist Bronwyn Oliver has broken Australian records, selling for more than $1.2 million. 

Christos Tsiolkas is one of Australia's most celebrated authors, but as a young man he nearly left the country after experiencing 'absolute euphoria' overseas.

The final work of master craftsman Geoff Hannah was badly damaged during the devastating Lismore floods in 2022. Now that an insurance dispute has been resolved, work to restore the piece can finally get underway.

At best, the starving artist trope is a manufactured aesthetic of suffering. At worst, it's a convenient way to excuse the poverty many artists throughout history have endured.

When conservators at the National Gallery of Victoria X-rayed a 17th-century artwork, they discovered a strange swirl in the right-hand corner. A little investigation ultimately revealed a hidden painting.

Painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music all once were Olympic categories — but the medals have been stricken from the official national medal counts.

Betty Bunning, who painted under the name Elizabeth Blair Barber, was a prolific WA artist whose brilliance was largely overlooked at the time — and it's led to a search for answers about eight mystery portraits.

These Arthur Boyd paintings, commissioned in 1984, show the Shoalhaven River landscape from dawn to midnight. Now, for the first time, they're on display in the place they were created. 

The Picasso estate has contacted Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art to express its regret about artist Kirsha Kaechele's faked Picasso artworks, but said it considers the matter to be now closed. 

Artist Natasha Walsh has enlisted major Australian creatives, from singer Montaigne to writer Bri Lee, to re-imagine major works of art history and empower the women at their centre.

The sculptures were looted from the country during a period of war and unrest and their return is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia's culture minister says. 

Most of us find it hard to stomach seeing priceless artworks vandalised. But when we look back at the long history of attacking art in the name of protest, we seem to become far more lenient.

Andrea Boltresz, from the New South Wales Southern Highlands, made a series of 25 miniature books with jewelled covers. To her surprise, they sold out within a week, for up to $500 a book.

The world's most famous classicist helps unpack the mystery behind statue penis-size and shares her theory on why so many men are obsessed with the Roman Empire.

Marc Fennell goes around the world in search of the hidden histories of a whole new suite of artefacts in the second part of the popular ABC series.

Fry is a long-term campaigner for the sculptures to be returned and supports the British Museum displaying exact replicas made by a team of archaeologists from 3D scans of the marbles.

The future of murals found in the north Queensland town is in question as the number of volunteers keeping the art alive declines.