Libraries, Museums and Galleries

The sculptures were looted from the country during a period of war and unrest and their return is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia's culture minister says. 

The derelict Newstead House heritage museum was shut to the public in 2021 for repairs, but it is ready to hold a grand reopening.

Memorial sites along Canberra's Anzac Parade near the Australian War Memorial are graffitied with comments relating to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Celebrated 19th-century Post-Impressionist French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin is one of the world's most famous artists, but his works have been cast in a new light ever since troubling allegations of sex crimes emerged.

The exhibition covers the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Andrea Boltresz, from the New South Wales Southern Highlands, made a series of 25 miniature books with jewelled covers. To her surprise, they sold out within a week, for up to $500 a book.

The Moreton Bay father has collected more than 2,000 of the Austrian candy dispensers as a dad-daughter bonding activity, despite not liking how they taste.

Amos Gebhardt's Alexis with moon, 2024 — a two-part image, or diptych, showing award-winning author Alexis Wright visible by only the light of the moon — wins this year's National Photographic Portrait Prize.

The Sunshine Coast Council was due to vote on the controversial project, but Mr Palmer's company withdrew the development application hours beforehand. 

Ouroboros by Lindy Lee, based on the ancient tale about a snake swallowing its own tail, was commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia to celebrate its 40th birthday — and its $14 million price tag means it's the single-biggest ever investment in an artwork.

Fry is a long-term campaigner for the sculptures to be returned and supports the British Museum displaying exact replicas made by a team of archaeologists from 3D scans of the marbles.

A group of Wu-Tang Clan fans are among the first in the world to hear a mix of a "secret" album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. It comes as its former owner faces a bitter legal battle, with allegations parts of it have been leaked.

For three decades, hundreds of notebooks filled with detailed descriptions of sacred Indigenous practices were locked away in a museum's archives. Now, Ngadjuri man Vincent Copley Junior hopes to finally have access to his great-grandfather's history.

A free cooking program is teaching low-cost recipes as the City of Melbourne says 1 in 3 residents experience food insecurity. 

Frank Harding built a studio and art gallery for himself in the 1970s and filled it with magnificent works. It has been untouched since his death and his daughter would like more people to come and appreciate its treasures.

An artist whose work captured the beauty of Sydney Harbour is being honoured two years after his death.

Acclaimed artists Anni and Josef Albers were highly influential in the Bauhaus movement. Their works and love story are now set to be celebrated at the National Gallery of Australia.

The WikiLeaks founder is the unlikely subject of a finalist in this year’s Archibald Prize. Here's how artist Shaun Gladwell covertly sketched him inside the walls of Belmarsh Prison.

Victorian street artist Matt Adnate wins the $3,000 Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Baker Boy, as the full list of finalists for the 2024 Archibald Prize is revealed.

From the bold to the sentimental, the flashy to the quaint, why these restorations are worth knowing about.

Few people have ever heard Wu-Tang Clan's legendary seventh studio album. That's because only a single copy was ever made and the masters were destroyed. But visitors to the Mona gallery in Hobart will get a chance.

This museum curator explains why we should bring our childhood toys, old band T-shirts and family heirlooms out of hiding and honour them for the memories they contain.

Libraries and librarians are common targets for attacks because they are easy for the public to access and because they represent learning, ideas, imagination, equality, choice and barrier-free access to information for all.

An artwork portraying a "prank" played on a member of the Australian Defence Force is shortlisted for the 2024 Napier Waller Prize, with the artist saying it explores the "blurry line of camaraderie and the abuse culture" in the army.

Buckingham Palace releases never-before-seen photos of the royal family, including a portrait of Princess Catherine on her 40th birthday.