Last year’s Golden Lion winner Archie Moore and the National Association for the Visual Arts are among those to speak out in support of Sabsabi after he was dropped by Creative Australia
Government funding for the Sydney institution, which is already closed one day a week and is now charging A$20 entry, remains the same as in 2008
The head of Creative Australia’s visual arts department and the board member and artist Lindy Lee among those who have reportedly left their posts
Move follows an article in The Australian newspaper, which called attention to controversial works by the artist including depictions of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
The painter was also a keen supporter of women artists
Sabsabi’s curator will be Michael Dagostino, who also came up through the multicultural western Sydney arts scene
The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s
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Kirsha Kaechele' Ladies Lounge will be reinstalled at the Hobart museum for a month after the supreme court overturned a ruling that the work was discriminatory
It will join a record-breaking nine other immersive rooms in the National Gallery of Victoria's retrospective on the Japanese artist, spanning eight decades
The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held
Penrith Regional Gallery focuses on sightings of the folkloric ‘Blue Mountains panther’ through works by 18 Australian artists
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui closed in 2014 after a report found it vulnerable to earthquake damage
The Asian art scholar spent much of his tenure overseeing the museum's redevelopment project, Sydney Modern, which doubled the institution’s exhibition capacity
The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective
The controversial work, Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art made headlines when a visitor complained after being excluded from visiting the all-female space
Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"
Sculpture by Lindy Lee is part of a new arts programme developed by the precious metal services conglomerate Pallion Group
Thought to be 3,500 years old, the squatting ritual figure has never before been exhibited
Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters
The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'
The Succession Picasso has made a statement after curator Kirsha Kaechele’s admitted she created the fake works, which she then hung in the women’s toilets at the Tasmanian museum as part of a protest
The aboriginal artist's portrait of Gina Rinehart made headlines after she called on the National Gallery of Australia to have it removed—now he has made a painting responding to British monarchs
Exhibition curated by a former Louvre director includes a deep-dive into the artist’s time in French Polynesia, where he painted many of his most famous works
Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria
Al Qasimi is the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation
Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
Kirsha Kaechele's Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art must admit men within 28 days
The celebrated Australian Indigenous artist Tony Albert has been named as the inaugural recipient of the fellowship