Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence
Online protest claimed the work mocked the Christian religion and Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun called for it to be taken down
June 2024
Ouroboros: NGA’s polarising new four-year $14m artwork to close roads on its journey to Canberra
Lindy Lee told ‘to be as ambitious as you possibly can’ and to not even consider the cost of her project to ‘announce the NGA is here’
May 2024
Australian arts in focus
Gina Rinehart gifted painting of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates told
Gina Rinehart gave portrait of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates hears – video
Australian arts in focus
Archibald prize 2024: Baker Boy portrait wins packing room prize
Archibald prize 2024 finalists: Julian Assange, Tony Armstrong, Chloé Hayden and more – in pictures
Australian arts in focus
Doug Moran prize: Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’
Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went global instead
Gina Rinehart's portrait: how painting of billionaire made headlines around the world – video
Out of cold storage: the miraculous rediscovery of Australian art’s most coveted fridge
Redone, hidden, burnt: seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated
April 2024
‘It’s not about where you were conceived’: how a giant Chiko Roll reignited a feud among Australian towns
Painting of Sydney Harbour by impressionist Arthur Streeton sells for $1.875m
‘Very totemic and very Aboriginal’: Australia’s entry at Venice Biennale is a family tree going back 65,000 years
Arthur Streeton painting of Sydney Harbour shown in public for first time in 130 years
March 2024
Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination
NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’
February 2024
Adelaide festival 2024: giant whalebones pierce the sunset for ‘transformative’ opening night
Adelaide Biennale 2024: light takes centre stage in ‘tender’ survey of Australian art
January 2024
Screen bites
‘David Bromley runs this town’: are there hidden depths to the popular, divisive Australian artist?
If you think you’ve never seen his work: you definitely have. A documentary about the ubiquitous painter reveals the tragedy behind his compulsive creation
December 2023
Australian arts in focus
Melbourne’s Anna Schwartz gallery drops artist Mike Parr after political piece on Israel-Gaza war
Gallery owner, who has represented Parr for 36 years, says she was sickened by ‘hate graffiti’ in the work, but denies censoring it and has kept it on display