The extraordinary estate of late 60s pop art king Martin Sharp is set to go under the hammer this weekend, offering Australians a rare glimpse into one of the country’s most eclectic collections of ...

Pop artist, underground cartoonist, and chronicler of swinging London, Martin Sharp helped invent the psychedelic aesthetic that would define the look of 1960s counter-culture. Yet, despite the ...

NEW YORK — He painted Marilyn Monroe blooming in a van Gogh vase, devoted decades to documenting the cultural significance of Tiny Tim, and was sentenced to prison for breaking obscenity laws in his ...

On the 50th anniversary of Oz magazine’s era-defining launch in Britain, biographer Joyce Morgan tells how the artist who produced its most famous images was liberated by the political culture he ...

Garry Shead’s portrait of Martin Sharp shows the artist as he lived, orchestrating a magic theatre of people and objects. Felicity Jenkins/EPA The common thread linking all the tributes, all the ...

ELEANOR HALL: He was acclaimed internationally for his colourful images of Luna Park and Marilyn Monroe, and his cartoons and illustrations lit up the pages of the Australian satirical magazine, Oz.

Turning the pages of the hefty Rizzoli monograph, Punk: An Aesthetic, is an excursion into an austere underground; it's all ragged collage, grainy Xerox and sullen mugshots. That is, until you arrive ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: The acclaimed Australian artist Martin Sharp has died in Sydney after a long illness. The ...

The dying wish of Australia's greatest pop artist, Martin Sharp, was that his grand, heritage listed home "Wirian" in Bellevue Hill be preserved and used for exhibiting and continuing his iconic work.

When Marianne Faithfull died in January 2025, she left behind an art collection no one knew existed. A Marlene Dumas portrait, drawings by Anita Pallenberg, personal diaries—here's what they reveal.