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The icon has left so much of himself in popular culture, art and fashion.
What effect might AI have on an activity like art-making?
Timely Alex
The field of computational creativity examines the mechanisms by which technology can perform creative tasks, particularly in the arts. How can software create works of beauty, value and meaning?
Jesus, Stained Glass Detail Of The Church St Etienne Fecamp, Normandy, France.
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We all know his name, but the face of Christ remains frustratingly elusive … doesn’t it?
Come Hell or High Water, Michael Pinsky, 2006.
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Artwork – from knitting birds and amateur science to listening to the trees – might empower us to remake climate science from below.
LaBeouf Rönkkö and Turner, Day 2 of #TOUCHMYSOUL.
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Shia LaBeouf’s latest artistic performance interrogates celebrity, online community and the endless search for ‘true connection’.
Art demonstrated it still has the power to inspire, and maybe even change the world.
A man carries a self-portrait painted by Australian death row prisoner Myuran Sukumaran. Beawiharta
There are as many ways to summarise a “year in art” as there are eyes to look at art with. Art had some shining – and not-so-shining – moments in 2015.
William Kentridge art exhibition in Beijing. Kentridge is one South African artist who has made commercial success worldwide.
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South Africa’s art market has seen substantial growth in the past few years. But investing in art remains risky and produces limited returns.
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Two new monster movies are to be released this week in the lead-up to Christmas, and each sports a very different kind of beast.
General relativity isn’t only a powerfully descriptive theory, but there’s a beauty in its elegance.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a triumph of reason and imagination, of art and science, with a profound beauty of its own.
The exhibition includes the kind of art not held in any Australian collection.
Sir Edwin Landseer, Rent-day in the wilderness, 1868. Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland
Anyone who has even a passing interest in art exhibitions or how culture can define a country should allocate a good few hours to contemplating these riches from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Anita Hustas performing in Melbourne.
Phil Bywater
Music is ubiquitous in our lives, but where are the spaces for boundary-pushing experimentation?
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Trace fiber from Freud’s couch under crossed polars with Quartz wedge compensator (#1), 2015, unique jacquard woven tapestry, 2.9m x 2m.
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In the middle of a rose garden, on a leafy road in northwest London, nestles the Freud Museum – though the petals, in October, are tumbling. The house, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, is the proud bearer of…
Infrastruktur, Nicole Wermers, 2015 at Tramway in Glasgow.
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Shortlisted for the Turner in 1997, Christine Borland discusses the suffocating nature of the prize and its shortsighted attempts to branch out.
Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds?
Daniel Parks
Is a novella published 130 years ago our best bet for explaining the worlds of 4D and beyond?
It may seem like photographer Greg Marinovich captured a bare landscape in his photos of Marikana, but the dreary photos are filled with haunting memories of the massacre that took place there.
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The Marikana tragedy has dominated recent South African memory and produced many different aesthetic responses.
Who, exactly, was Catherine II, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia?
Catherine II by Fyodor Rokotov. The Hermitage/ Wikimedia Commons.
Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The legacy of Catherine the Great is currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria. But who, exactly was Catherine II, the Empress of Russia?
The selfie that (according to Jonathan Jones) would ‘turn Titian on’.
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If Kim Kardashian is being peddled to us as both art and feminism, we – and she – are in really dire straits.
Look tasty?
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Do you like your coffee to have artistic flair? Recent research shows we’re likely to pay more for a coffee with latte art than a mere ‘flat’ white.
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Artists and satirists have long played around with currency. With fiscal uncertainty only on the up, artsy cash is becoming more and more prevalent.
White painter William Gilbert Gaul’s To the End (1907-1909) uses the loyal slave trope.
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Black Like Us? – a new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art – looks at how blackness has been portrayed in American art through the years.