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Music is ubiquitous in our lives, but where are the spaces for boundary-pushing experimentation?
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…
Shortlisted for the Turner in 1997, Christine Borland discusses the suffocating nature of the prize and its shortsighted attempts to branch out.
Is a novella published 130 years ago our best bet for explaining the worlds of 4D and beyond?
The Marikana tragedy has dominated recent South African memory and produced many different aesthetic responses.
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?
If Kim Kardashian is being peddled to us as both art and feminism, we – and she – are in really dire straits.
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.
Artists and satirists have long played around with currency. With fiscal uncertainty only on the up, artsy cash is becoming more and more prevalent.
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.
Sound art is nothing new. But do we really need it to appreciate the classics?
The violence of the Royal Opera House’s production of William Tell should shock us - but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The famous portrait, usually resident in France, is on a rare tour in the US. From looking at it, one might assume its subject had a tranquil, even monotonous, life. But one would be wrong.
Newsome’s actions can be thought of as a significant piece of performance art.
Latin America might have found itself on the dark side of the “digital divide” over the last 20 years or so, but this hasn’t impeded the development of digital arts there.
Conceptions of forced displacement are very often tied to the notion of “loss”. But certain things do remain.
Almost immediately after the battle, Waterloo became a tourist destination for contemplative souls.
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. I usually begin my end of life ethics lecture with one of Dylan Thomas’ best-loved…
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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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