Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art - and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi's removal from the ...

Move follows an article in The Australian newspaper, which called attention to controversial works by the artist including ...

It is not fair to compare two absences, just as two presences cannot be compared. Our inclination to draw comparisons seems intuitive, and indeed it is, as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s ...

The pair selected to represent Australia at next year's Venice Biennale say they are "extremely hurt" after the government's ...

Khaled Sabsabi removed from show after article singles out 2007 work featuring late Hezbollah terror leader; Sabsabi says he ...

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has expressed his “shock” after an artist, who has previously depicted a dead terrorist ...

Australia has dropped its artist for the next Venice Biennale in 2026 after critics dug up some of his controversial early ...

What happened? Future historians might puzzle over this seismic shift in sentiment at the top of Australia's foremost public ...

The funeral of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine is expected to be one of Lebanon’s largest public events in recent ...

The Greens have refused to condemn an artist’s depictions of a dead Hezbollah terrorist and the 9/11 attacks as they demanded Australia’s top arts body reinstate him and his creative collaborator as ...

Australia triumphed at the world’s most high-profile art event last year, but a controversy over Creative Australia’s choice ...

The nation’s taxpayer-funded art council was forced to backflip on their selection for the Venice Biennale after discovering ...