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.
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Working with an embedded artist for a year helped one physicist realise that art and science share a lot of common ground
Three techniques Andy Warhol used can also help you to take and post pictures that people will find engaging.
Hobart’s Dark Mofo deals with plenty of challenging subjects but seeing it with a child can highlight the wonder of intuitively experiencing art.
MONA’s latest exhibition draws on the work of people - patients, housewives, hermits - who were compelled to create, raising age-old questions about how we define art.
In the 10 years since Google Street View launched, the platform has provided ample fodder for artists, who have used it to comment on surveillance, poverty and gentrification.
From military mapping to brain imaging, holograms are no longer relegated to your bank card.
Luxury is a global phenomenon present in all societies in various forms.
Hopper’s brand of Americanism was a counterpoint to American optimism. Fifty years after his death, his legacy lives on.
Look back into prehistory and it’s all about trusting strangers.
Western media continues to sell Muslims as perpetrators of savagery, deprivation and torture. But a new exhibit by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia challenges us to see beyond these depictions.
A sense of renewal and purpose in the prize sparked by a lifting of the age limit and looking beyond London.
A better understanding of science among ordinary people validates the vast amounts of public funds spent on scientific research.
The pickers and sinewy olives in this painting all strain upward towards the hope of spiritual salvation. But six months after he completed it, Vincent Van Gogh walked out into a wheat field and shot himself.
Robots are strange creatures, and not only because they might steal our jobs. We humans actually have good reason to be a little worried about these machines.
In what ways do our sexual pleasures and fantasies inform the way we see the world?
It’s a golden age for visualization in mathematics. How tools like 3-D printing, animation and even knitting machines are reimagining the way mathematicians study and share their work.
In early modern times, wooing happened at balls and markets and in churches; while sex was obtained in bathhouses, inns, brothels and alleyways. Art tells the story.
The Royal Academy’s two shows allow us to dive into the history of US/Soviet relations at their most vivid.
The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how locals imagine far-off landscapes, idealise nature and define beauty.
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Joanna Mendelssohn est un·e ami·e de La ConversationHonorary (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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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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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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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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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, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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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
