Tom Slingsby sits for the Archibald ahead of Sydney chapter of SailGP

Tom Slingsby sits for the Archibald ahead of Sydney chapter of SailGP

The five time Australian Male Sailor of the Year will skipper Team Australia at its home SailGP race on Sydney Harbour this weekend. He’s also been asked to pose for the country’s top portraiture prize.

  • byMichael Koziol

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Baseball club lauds artist’s ‘incredible’ gift to honour late player

Baseball club lauds artist’s ‘incredible’ gift to honour late player

Artist David Bromley was well qualified to commemorate Chris Lane,the young Melbourne baseballer who was murdered in the United States over a decade ago.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Thirty-five years after her acquittal,Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and a key scientist reunite

Thirty-five years after her acquittal,Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and a key scientist reunite

Chamberlain-Creighton,wrongfully convicted of murdering baby Azaria,says Hans Brunner’s evidence was vital in clearing her name.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Legally blind artist wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize

Legally blind artist wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize

Redlands artist Dylan Mooney has won the $50,000 top prize in the annual portrait competition for an artwork praised for speaking “of personal experience and the power of love”.

  • byNick Dent
‘Quite spooky’ portrait of Play School favourite wins Archibald people’s prize

‘Quite spooky’ portrait of Play School favourite wins Archibald people’s prize

Jaq Grantford’s painting of Noni Hazlehurst is a nod to the long-running children’s TV show.

  • byLinda Morris
‘Conservative choice’:Would this artist still win the Archibald Prize today?

‘Conservative choice’:Would this artist still win the Archibald Prize today?

The same portrait submitted to the present-day prize would almost certainly not be selected.

  • byJohn McDonald
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APY Lands art investigation the elephant in the Wynne Prize room

APY Lands art investigation the elephant in the Wynne Prize room

The country’s oldest art prize is awarded for best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture.

  • byJohn McDonald
The portraits that didn’t make the Archibald Prize cut

The portraits that didn’t make the Archibald Prize cut

Here are the best of the works that were rejected for the nation’s most famous art prize.

  • byJohn McDonald
‘Contentious’ portrait among Archibald rejects celebrated in own show

‘Contentious’ portrait among Archibald rejects celebrated in own show

A semi-nude portrait of Sydney performance artist Betty Grumble didn’t make the cut for this year’s Archibald Prize,but has been hung at the SH Ervin Gallery’s Salon des Refusés.

  • byLinda Morris
The fake identity and the forgotten wife of the man behind the Archibald

The fake identity and the forgotten wife of the man behind the Archibald

Jules Francois Archibald wooed Rosa Frankenstein in London. But he was not what he seemed.

  • byDavid Myton
Artist subject to review into provenance of Indigenous art takes out Wynne Prize

Artist subject to review into provenance of Indigenous art takes out Wynne Prize

One-half of the electronic pop duo Electric Fields,Zaachariaha Fielding,said he was humbled and honoured to be awarded the Wynne Prize.

  • byLinda Morris