Two Andy Warhol prints are missing from a southern Netherlands art gallery, and two more are damaged after a botched heist.
Two men charged over theft of Banksy's Girl With Balloon painting
Two men have been charged with burglary over the theft of an artwork by Banksy from a London gallery.
Photo shows A man in a white shirt holds a framed image with white gloves; the image shows a girl and a heart-shaped balloon.Becoming a mum for the first time changes everything, including your art — as Atong Atem found out
Artist Atong Atem has gone from changing backdrops on her stunning photo shoots to changing nappies. Motherhood has not only changed her art's focus but also the way she makes it.
Photo shows A mother holds her infant son who is looking at the camera.Unlivable, freezing and haunted: This artist made her studio in a house too derelict to rent
Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration for her current exhibition, Strong Hold, when she took up residence in a derelict worker's cottage in Fitzroy North.
Photo shows A woman wearing yellow stands in front of a paintingAn Australian gallery acquired this painting in the 50s. They only recently discovered its secret
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.
Photo shows A 17th-century classical painting, showing a woman, arms outstretched, and a mostly naked man lying in front of her.The nude female body has been depicted in art countless times. But where is all the pubic hair?
From the influence of the devil to overzealous restorers, there are numerous strange reasons and theories behind the conspicuous lack of pubic hair on women depicted in Western art.
Photo shows A marle statue of three headless female figures, standing nude, side by side, with arms on one another.Indigenous Elder wins $100,000 art prize for three-metre-tall painting of the Spinifex Lands
The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, worth a total of $190,000 have been announced, including prizes for an emerging artist and multimedia work.
Photo shows Noli Rictor, an Indigenous Elder with a white beard, wearing a hat, stands smiling in front of a red painting.A portrait of 'one of our greatest ever thinkers' wins the Archibald People's Choice award
Angus McDonald has won the People's Choice award for the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Marcia Langton.
Photo shows An artist wearing a green checked shirt pointing at his large portrait of a silver-haired Indigenous womanA confluence of land, sea, and desert country inspires Ceduna's thriving art scene
What began as a way to preserve memories and explore her grief has blossomed into a thriving art career for Ceduna artist Jaylene Ware, joining the ranks of artists from a town known for its distinctive creative scene.
Photo shows over shoulder of young female artist doing dot painting on a large sculpture of an AArt mystery at the heart of belated recognition for woman who married into the Bunnings hardware empire
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.
Photo shows Bl;ack and white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a couch, the man's arm extended along the back of it.His 'Looney Tunes Jesus' was pulled from a major art prize, but there's more to artist Philjames
His recent painting may have caused offence to some of Sydney's Christian community, but Philjames explains how his artistic process is one of care and a deep fascination with iconography.
Photo shows A biblical painting of Jesus Christ in which various characters have been replaces with cartoon charactersFriends with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome helping others to deal with the little understood but painful condition
Evelyn Froend has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means she wakes every day in chronic pain. She needs to wear braces on many of her joints just to stop them dislocating, but her condition is not well understood by the medical system.
Photo shows A woman gives a subtle smile to the camera from inside a home, with art supplies in the background. She has a neck brace.Arthur Boyd paintings finally on display in the place they were created, 40 years later
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.
Photo shows painting of stars in the blue night skyPicasso estate responds to MONA's faked artworks
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.
Photo shows Paloma Picasso, with shoulder-length brown hair and brown jacket, smiles with closed mouth near large drawing in frame.Distant Familiarity exhibition highlights the importance of home
Painter and Bundjalung man Shaun Daniel Allen's new exhibition highlights the importance of home. Shal's art started as a way of finding peace and calm, not knowing it would develop into his unique and distinct style.
Has Video Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds.Art history is full of depictions of the abuse of women. This artist wants to up-end those images
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.
Photo shows Picture of artists face gazing and reaching out at the wall in her studio. She has long red curly hair and wears a black shirtHow this Warlpiri man who lives in the desert got his first art show at a London gallery
This year, Adrian Jangala Robertson became the first Aboriginal artist to be a finalist for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in the same year. Now he's taking his art overseas.
Photo shows An older Aboriginal man in a cowboy hat sits in a wheelchair, bright paintings behind him. He's wearing a red London jumperRemote Aboriginal artists secure permanent creative space after years struggling to 'get noticed'
These artists were winning some of the country's most prestigious art prizes, but had no professional space to hone their craft — until now.
Photo shows A man wearing a cap and glasses sits on a chair in front of painted landscapes of mountains.One of the most famous book covers in history just sold for nearly $3 million
Thomas Taylor was just 23 years old when he landed his first professional commission to illustrate the first Harry Potter book cover. It's now sold at auction for $2.8 million.
Photo shows The watercolour painting featuring Harry Potter in front of the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross StationA trolley of paint and 12-hour days: Aussie artist pulls off three-storey mural in Italy in a week
It was one of Australian artist Jasmine Crisp's "biggest ever life dreams" to paint an original international mural — and she had only one week to do it.
Photo shows A large portrait of the artist painted on the side of an appartment building. It pictures the artist gazing out at the viewerLocals call it the original 'mural capital of Australia' but the future of its street art is under threat
The North Queensland town of Bowen unveiled its first mural in the late 1980s, but preserving the art and commissioning more is an expensive challenge.
Photo shows A man in a beanie holds a paint palette and brush in front of a mural of a building