“Police have asked prosecutors to decide whether child pornography charges should be laid against celebrated photographer Bill Henson and a leading Sydney gallery that wanted to show his work. “One week after more than 20 Henson photographs were seized from

“FAMOUS for his skateboarding videos, Sydney artist Shaun Gladwell has been chosen to represent Australia at the prestigious Venice Biennale. “Although the international exhibition is more than a year away, Australia’s $2 million campaign has started in earnest with the

“La Specola” (Museo di Storia Naturale) : Florence, Italy“Anatomical Venus“Wax model with human hair and pearls in rosewood and Venetian glass case;Probably modeled by Clemente Susini (around 1790) “Anatomical Theatre is a photographic exhibition documenting artifacts collected by and exhibited

“The Olympic Culture Wall is a 200-metre-long, state-endorsed celebration of the Beijing Games and an angry riposte to critical media coverage in the West. “In the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese have been breaking records: the

“As an art-hungry child growing up on the wrong side of the world, I shall be forever grateful to a man called Albert Felton who, when he succumbed to prostate cancer in Melbourne in 1904, left his entire fortune to

“You wouldn’t know it from wandering around the crowded art fair in Bologna a few weeks ago, or from seeing Larry Gagosian’s new gallery in Rome, where some of the moneyed, antiseptic air of the Chelsea of New York reaches

“The female nude has been a popular subject with artists for centuries, and has continued its dominance at this year’s Moran Prizes. At the State Library today, Sydney artist Fiona Lowry won the $100,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for

From NineMSN… Barton’s self portrait wins ArchibaldFriday Mar 7 13:08 AEDT Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton has won the Archibald Prize with a portrait she says celebrates the love she has for her two children. The 35-year-old artist won the