A teenager has sold out a Darwin cinema with the premiere of a film that he made almost entirely in secret.

Sydney-born, Brooklyn-based, these Orthodox Jewish sisters are building a modest fashion empire — and you don't have to be religious to appreciate it.

The Adelaide Fringe is one of the centrepieces of the state's festival season — but the cost of organising a show has some artists reconsidering the value of participating.

A few simple ways to tell if that photo your uncle shared on Facebook is authentic — or has been manipulated.

Australian children need stories and books more than ever to help them deal with a "dark and uncertain world", says newly appointed Children's Laureate Morris Gleitzman.

Everyday photographer Jon Lewis hits the streets to document the ever-changing cosmopolitan face of Sydney.

One of Bill Henson's long-time models speaks out about her artistic collaboration, controversy and the decision to pose when she was an adolescent.

The new King Kong movie is thrilling, funny and occasionally sublime — and beats Hacksaw Ridge as an effective depiction of war.

The former Northern Territory public trustee who sold the copyright to Indigenous artist Albert Namatjira's life's work for just $8,500 in 1983 says the sale was a mistake.

When Andrew Grant became wheelchair bound at the age of 28 from a muscular disease, he decided to "reinvent" himself as an artist and channel his experience into his paintings.

Twenty-seven years ago Melinda Clarke published the iconic, hand-drawn Melbourne Map and now she's determined to make a new one.

American publishers don't shy away from the science fiction genre. So why is the situation so different in Australia?

A new statue of a resolute young girl now faces Wall Street's famous Charging Bull, erected for International Women's Day to highlight the scarcity of women on the boards of the largest US corporations.

A Melbourne teenager is turned away from seeing The Book of Mormon after being sold an invalid ticket through reseller website Viagogo, a problem theatre staff say they face regularly.

With house prices fast becoming unaffordable for young adults — particularly in Sydney and Melbourne — is it time to have a closer look at Adelaide?