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They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a ...

Yinimala Gumana, Wukuṉ Waṉambi, Kade McDonald and Henry Skerritt examine a work by Mathaman Marika at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Credit: Dan Addison / UVA ...

Australia will investigate whether nine paintings at a government-run museum were looted by the Nazis. The paintings, housed at the New South Wales Art Gallery, include two highlights of the gallery’s ...

Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art seemingly hung fake Pablo Picasso paintings in an exhibition. Kirsha Kaechele, the museum's curator, said she made the paintings herself. Reactions to the stunt ...

Vandals destroyed ancient aboriginal art in an Australian cave, officials say. Photo from Fiona Smallwood via Unsplash. Ancient cave paintings from up to 30,000 years ago were damaged beyond repair by ...

The exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria called She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism includes those artists alongside paintings by female contemporaries including Jane Sutherland ...

Blumann was no libertine, however, and she didn’t set out merely to shock. This German emigre in Perth had a modern vision that would leave an enduring imprint on the culture of her adopted home. She ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two paintings of Francis Bacon, by an Australian artist believed to have been his lover, were sold for well over their pre-auction price on Monday, offering good news in a market ...

Ancient cave paintings from up to 30,000 years ago were damaged beyond repair by vandals in Australia, experts and officials say. Officials believe vandals removed a barbed wire section of fencing to ...