Visual Arts

David Bowie Is: ACMI’s next Winter Masterpiece
The iconic rocker and cultural icon David Bowie will be the subject of the next Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Series.

$50,000 tourism grant for Melbourne Festival
Tourism Victoria has provided the Festival with funding to deliver interstate and overseas marketing activities.

Students given design tools of the future
Schools say goodbye to shoe box dioramas and hello to 3D robots, space observatories, mini satellites and race cars.

Creative relaxation: the healing potential of interactive art
BrightHearts is a relaxation training app that translates changes in heart rate into a calming interactive art experiences.

Art Awards on the brink of greatness
The 2014 Victoria Park Art Awards will increase the profile and prestige of the thriving visual arts community in the…

Hirstville Housing Inc.
Damien Hirst's plans to build a small village have been approved by North Devon council.

Top 10 unmissables at the Melbourne Art Fair
From live performances to a salt-of-the-earth recreation of a supermarket, this year’s Melbourne Art Fair has surprises galore. And this…

Cordeiro and Healy fuse Lego and Ikea furniture
After a year in Malaysia, Cordeiro and Healy’s Sydney show explores a sexual undercurrent common to Lego and Ikea.

Drawing on centuries of beautiful graphic skills
The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents European graphic prints in a rare collection.

Does art almost always get a free pass?
Rotten food and dirty rooms are used to test whether aesthetic experiences are more or less intense than ‘ordinary experiences.'