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Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize also tells us a lot about the nation – so we’ve gone through more than a century of data and 6,000 finalists to get the big picture

Collector, curator and gallerist Elinor Wrobel devoted her life to conserving the works of unsung Australian artists and preserving cultural artefacts.

A Sydney vendor who bought a print of the street artist’s infamous Girl with Balloon in London could be floating on air if expectations are on the money.

Tiarney Miekus reveals her top 10 exhibitions around Victoria in the coming year.

A record number of women made it into the top ten auction prices this year. That number was two.

Emanuel Phillips Fox - impressionist painter and teacher

The market is so strong that Deutscher and Hackett is on track to have the best year for an Australian auction house since before the GFC.

Clarice Beckett: Australian artists place in global art history cemented in exhibition By Hannah Reich for The Art Show © Provided by ABC NEWS The Art Gallery of South Australias Clarice Beckett exhibition positions Beckett as an international master of modernism. (Supplied: AGSA/Saul Steed) Imagine if shortly after Mark Rothkos death, someone who thought they knew better decided to destroy his iconic paintings.  When Australian artist Clarice Beckett died at 48 years of ag...

Her works ache with feeling: the stunning ‘return’ of Clarice Beckett We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Clarice Beckett was nearly lost to Australian art history. The highly acclaimed modernist painter died suddenly in 1935, aged 48, when “her memory was extinguished like a candle, overnight, just gone,” according to Tracey Lock, curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia. “Her...