Yesterday
David Rowe cartoons for March 2026
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
This Month
Moll find delivers 19x pay day, Carrick emerges and Monet trumped
The eagle-eyed collector who recognised a Carl Moll painting secured a huge profit, while the 200th anniversary of Claude Monet’s death brings works to market.
Biennale to review remaining acts after DJ Haram furore
The organisers of Australia’s largest visual arts festival admit the performer’s tirade distressed some, and are now primed to pull the mic on hate speech.
‘Unknown’ artist expected to deliver 10-bagger for canny collector
A work picked up recently for $5000 turns out to be by an Austrian who founded the Vienna Secession movement with Gustav Klimt.
Billionaire scores 3500pc return on art by Freud, Bacon
After being pardoned by Donald Trump, entrepreneur Joe Lewis, 89, is offloading some of his School of London art. One piece went for five times the estimate.
‘Glory to all our martyrs’: the moment the crowd turned on DJ Haram
An opening night speech has put Sydney’s 53-year-old art showcase at risk after the Biennale’s organisers ignored months of warnings.
Banksy’s true identity revealed in 26-year-old arrest record
The anonymous graffiti artist has produced work in locations as far afield as London, Ukraine and the West Bank, but has avoided being named.
The best shows and exhibitions to see at the 2026 Sydney Biennale
The 25th edition of the nation’s biggest visual art festival has been dogged by culture war controversy – but here is what the actual works look like.
Jewish group rejects offer to preview Sydney Biennale
The snub from the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies comes after Biennale artists put up antisemitic social media posts without censure from the organisers.
Vendors lift Emilys off walls for year’s first big Indigenous sale
Boosted by the acclaim of a Tate Modern retrospective, vendors are hoping Emily Kame Kngwarreye will deliver in an auction expected to top $4.5 million.
Sydney Biennale unveiled despite curator no-show
The director of Australia’s largest visual art festival did not turn up to her own media preview, after months of controversy about a supposedly anti-Zionist agenda.
Artwork ‘painted’ with incense sticks wins $80k prize
The Glover Prize for contemporary Tasmanian landscapes has been won by an artist using a traditional Chinese technique.
Signature reveal: Ethel Carrick Fox reclaims Paris scene from husband
For decades the painting was credited to Emanuel Phillips Fox, but a reappraisal finds it was painted by the woman once dismissed as his “minor sidekick”.
February
$190k totem takes top sale at Melbourne Art Fair
The weekend’s contemporary art fair showed the market remains tough for works over $50,000 – unless they are by a big-name artist.
Sacked, then rehired. Now rare Venice honour for Khaled Sabsabi
He almost did not appear in the Venice Biennale at all. Now the western Sydney artist will be shown at the “arts Olympics” not once but twice.
Final vestige of Alan Bond’s art collection heads to auction
A Marc Chagall work that hung in Eileen Bond’s home until her death is one of the last remnants of Australia’s most significant, and notorious, art collection.
Why CEOs don’t need gravitas to be successful
Art Gallery of NSW director Maud Page says one of her biggest failures was not speaking up enough early in her career. Here’s why.
Adviser to the rich Tim Eustace offloads art from historic mansion Iona
Fresh from selling the Darlinghurst estate to Kerry Stokes’ son, the Mercury Private adviser is selling much of the art and contents that filled it.
The Melbourne art fair punching above its weight against Sydney
Victoria’s biggest art fair has been catching up to the sales volume of its northern rival, focusing on entry-level budgets with young galleries and a new salon for designer homewares.
