Australian Ballet dancers Joseph Romancewicz and Belle Urwin in a rehearsal room at the Sydney Opera House. Telstra Let’s Dance provides rare opportunities for country kids to learn directly from The Australian Ballets talented artists and go behind the scenes of life as a professional ballet dancer,an opportunity rarely given to kids in regional areas. Sydney. April 24,2025. Photo:Louise Kennerley

‘Take down the walls’:The innovative program bringing ballet to the bush

Hundreds of children in regional Australia will have the opportunity to learn from the Australian Ballet’s teachers and dancers.

  • Cindy Yin

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Blak Douglas

An Archibald win brought Blak Douglas plenty of advice. This is what he did with it

After winning Australia’s most famous portrait prize in 2022,Blak Douglas is finally back in the spotlight.

  • Linda Morris
Death of a Unicorn is a bonkers film about killer unicorns,but it’s drawing on real-life source material.

This bonkers film about killer unicorns is less far-fetched than you’d think

Death of a Unicorn is inspired by real-life artworks that still perplex art historians to this day.

  • Nell Geraets
Thom Roberts

‘Faces can be trains,buses,mountains’:This unique artist might turn your world on its head

A substantial exhibition of the works of Thom Roberts has opened at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

  • Matthew Westwood
Artist Khaled Sabsabi,who had his invitation to participate in the Venice Biennale revoked by Creative Australia,with his work at Barangaroo Metro Station in Sydney.

‘I do not stand for terrorism’:Sacked artist breaks silence,vows to fight for reinstatement

Khaled Sabsabi said his cancellation as Australia’s representative to the Venice Biennale has plagued him with sleepless nights,anxiety and nightmares.

  • Linda Morris
DNA Study Revisited by artist Roberto Lugo,part of an exhibition,The Shape of Power:Stories of Race and American Sculpture,at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

Trump’s order on museums sparks debate on truth-telling

The US president’s latest executive order removes “improper ideology”;some experts argue it’s a fascist move that revises history.

  • Bianca Flowers,Andrew Hay andJulio-Cesar Chavez
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The brief life of a flower mirrors something of the human condition,which is partly why artists return again and again to them in still life paintings.

Hey bloomer:The simple things we use to celebrate life’s big moments

A new exhibition celebrates the role of the flower in art – and what it reveals about the human condition.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Lorenna Grant outside the North Coogee storage facility where the Northbridge Arch is being kept.

Arch enemy:Is the City of Perth treating its public artworks with the respect they deserve?

Lorenna Grant thought her Northbridge Arch was safely stored in the City of Perth Works Depot,not left to corrode in the sea air in a North Coogee storage facility.

  • Mark Naglazas
Artist Khaled Sabsabi at the Campbelltown Art Centre in 2021.

University ‘postpones’ show by artist dropped by Creative Australia

After being dumped as the nation’s representative at the world’s biggest art show,multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi has been dealt another setback.

  • Kerrie O'Brien andLinda Morris
A mock-up of the Boonji Spaceman in the Council House gardens.

Get ready Perth for Boonji Spaceman,a seven-metre tall graffiti-covered astronaut

The Ore Obelisk is gone but not forgotten by the arts community,who are demanding a suitable replacement and horrified by the prospect of a seven-metre tall spaceman.

  • Mark Naglazas