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This artwork tells the incredible story of the Indigenous Traditional Owners who have long called the Tanami home.
Katy Hessel’s ambitious, weighty corrective to an art history canon that sidelines (or erases) women is ‘impressive and overdue’, writes Edwina Preston.
The history of breastfeeding reveals uncomfortable truths about women, work and money.
A newcomer to the Artificial Intelligence art market, Stable Diffusion, can create images almost indistinguishable from human artwork.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
After Anita Lane died, former collaborator Nick Cave said she “despised the concept of the muse but was everybody’s”. Meera Atkinson highlights her achievements – with help from those who knew her.
Norman Daly’s 1972 exhibition, ‘The Civilization of Llhuros,’ presented fiction as fact – and reminded viewers of just how easily they could be duped.
AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are starting a revolution in the way art is made.
Gathered throughout the period of the British empire and gifted to the people of Glasgow, this famous collection is both spectacular and problematical.
Barbara Kruger’s ‘Untitled (Your body is a battleground)’ has seamlessly transitioned to social media, inspiring a new generation of media-savvy artists and activists.
Long before the James Webb telescope brought us these deep field images, artists have been capturing notions of space.
Even though Afrofuturist works are set in fictional worlds, they provide a blueprint for social, political and economic systems free from exploitation and oppression.
The National Gallery’s reliance on outdated, male-dominated art history is a failure of its duty as a steward of the British public’s art collection
The text-to-art program DALL-E 2 generates images from brief descriptions. But what does it mean to make art when an algorithm automates so much of the creative process itself?
The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
I have been re-drawing my data to make visible what Strava cannot. The unheroic stuff: emotions, persistent thoughts, body sensations, lyrics from the songs, the weather.
Dilomprizulike’s startling vision has both mesmerised and befuddled art critics and audiences by equal turns.
Their drawings and paintings often express a mix of horror, fear, hope and beauty.
Climate artists can offer a vision of tangible networks, activities, behaviours and lifestyles that, rather than damaging the planet, support planetary — and personal — health and well-being.
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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
