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Leonardo’s obsession with water flowed through his technical work, his art and his scientific ideas.
Leonardo’s professional life reveals his genius for creating technologies of destruction.
Leonardo’s interest in the human form and replicating human bodily movement foreshadow ideas present in modern robotics.
Those in charge of urban spaces would like the public to believe that town and city environments have a predetermined function: participatory art challenges this view.
Banksy’s legal team has won an action to stop unauthorised products featuring his work alongside an Italian museum exhibition.
The US president as avant-garde provocateur.
A new piece of performance art features a lookalike Ivanka Trump vacuuming crumbs. Not only is it a cutting commentary on labor and gender, but it also highlights the complicity of the viewer.
A London exhibition of the French post-impressionist painter is an opportunity to examine what it is that fascinates us about art itself.
A human rights researcher documents the stories of Central American migrants leaving behind endemic poverty and high homicide rates. In limbo in Mexico, many use art therapy to express their anxiety.
A recent and powerful exhibit by New York artist Mickalene Thomas at the Art Gallery of Ontario has opened the door for some deep discussions about Black Canadian women and visual representation.
Unsolicited artwork by the world famous artist can cause big problems for private building owners.
Smee insists that the rich and intense visions of artists such as Cézanne or Chekhov are increasingly lost to us.
Researchers have found a way to reduce light damage to artworks by up to 47% by optimising LEDs to prevent light from being absorbed by the artwork.
Sexual subcultures create space for critical social conversations and the formation of meaningful political alliances.
The discovery of an apartment crammed with art has revealed the dark history of collaboration and looting during the days of the Third Reich.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
We’ve had 90 years of those famous ears.
Art can be a powerful means to confront and subvert stigma around menstruation.
Art is no cure all. But it can open up new spaces for us to ask new questions.
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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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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice and BA(Hons) New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, York St John University
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of York
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Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
