Renewed interest in mid-century modern houses is more about substance than style. They represent the emergence of a new spirit and a coming of age in postwar Australia.
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Sydney Schools weren't actually schools, but houses that embraced the native Australian landscape, and reacted to international modernism.
The Progressive Conservative government's call to modernize education invokes long-standing rhetoric about progressive education in paradoxical ways.
What does Hockey's auction record for a living artist mean beyond the art market?
In the early 20th century, two families of collectors brought the best of modern French art to Russia. Many of their paintings - including works by Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne - can now be seen in Sydney.
Our current celebration of cities is a big shift from the past generation when cities were seen to contain all of our problems. Should we believe the hype? Are the new ideas equally problematic?
We asked five architecture experts to name one building or structure they wish had been preserved, but couldn't resist the tides of decay, development and discrimination.
Hokusai's Great Wave is the enduring image of Japanese art. Less well known is the story of its primary pigment - Prussian blue - which was created in a lab accident in Berlin and sparked 'blue fever' in Europe.
How has Malcolm Lowry's novel stood the test of time?
His rise was just as swift as his fall. To mark the painter's 100th birthday, an art historian explores the forces – cultural, political and personal – that created a polarizing legacy.
Without protection, Iran's spectacular American- and Italian-designed mid-century structures will be reduced to dust, beams and concrete blocks.
The tale of a married woman who joins her lover in Paris, The Beauties and Furies is a modernist classic. Like Joyce's Ulysses, the action is concentrated in one city, but dreams are nightmarish in this city of night, not light.
The humble shipping container is sparking a revolution in architecture, plug and play infrastructure, portable labs and many other innovations.
There is a growing trend of designing modernised replicas of traditional buildings for entertainment and tourism. That’s no way to salvage positive lessons from building traditions.
Slated to be demolished this year, a crumbling brick building on Ole Miss' campus once operated as a power plant where novelist William Faulkner shoveled coal – and feverishly wrote.
The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
Marlon James’s book is a whirlwind of different voices ostensibly about the infamous failed assassination of Bob Marley in 1976.
A new BBC drama follows the life and loves of Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and centre of the famous Bloomsbury group.
From his line of Target homeware to his one-of-a-kind buildings, Michael Graves was inspired by the basic needs of everyday people.
In 1919, Ivy MacKusick, an art student at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art, completed a Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. We know nothing about the man of African descent depicted in this portrait…
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Professor, Head of Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Director, Urban Studies and Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne
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Reader in Historical Geography, UCL
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Professor of Art History, Newcastle University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Honorary Academic, School of Architecture, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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Adjunct Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne
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Research Student, Modernist Literature and Culture, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer Art Theory, Monash University
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Lecturer Film and Media, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Design, George Washington University
