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2024 is expected to be a year of elections around the world, and as often happens, anti-immigrant rhetoric is on the rise. Art can play a critical role in challenging that rhetoric.
Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes they use and occupy.
Philosophers of art have, at times, entertained quite seriously the claim that art can come to an end.
Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
Especially in a time when trust in political leaders and institutions wanes, arts leaders, patrons, policymakers and artists face daunting but critical questions about the value and role of artists.
I want to help people without prior knowledge of art history write about issues that affect them – through the prism of an artwork.
Can a trip to a museum help cure mental dullness? Here’s what the science has to say.
Scotland has lost a wonderful writer and artist in the Paisley-born artist.
Artists have embraced AI despite the risks to them, educators could learn from their example.
When people find themselves displaced from their homes, finding or creating beauty can be just as vital as food, water and shelter − and serves as a form of resistance and resilience.
Why this 1866 painting by French artist Auguste Toulmouche has become an online sensation.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a penny. But after he died, it took on a life of its own.
The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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