The author in Nairobi as part of a research project in 2019 into art and community health.
Photo by Georges Mboya
In times of crisis, the role of art becomes more central to our lives, like it or not.
Photographer Ansel Adams poses on a bluff with his camera.
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Largely self-taught, Adams learned to harness the communicative power of photography during his years as a marketing photographer.
The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.
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To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.
Charlotte Solamon’s expansive work told a story over 784 paintings that saw words intermingling with pages of beautifully painted pictures.
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Charlotte Salomon’s dizzying work of hope and creativity amid destruction and despair, is a moving early example of the contemporary graphic novel
Portrait of Edmond Belamy, 2018, created by GAN (Generative Adversarial Network), sold for US$432,500 on Oct. 25, 2019, at Christie’s in New York.
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Last fall, a piece of art work created by AI to resemble 18th century classical western art sold for almost half a million dollars. But the second in the series sold for much less.
Julie Adams (British Museum), Jody Toroa and Kay Robin (left to right) discussing a cloak from the British Museum, collected by Lieutenant James Cook in 1769.
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Repatriations cannot be made solely on the terms and timeframes that suit European political whims.
Piñera huele a dictadura.
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Chilean art activists are using social media to expose abuses and, in doing so, they’re engaging in the legacy of Latin American mail art
Eleanor Antin Judgement of Paris (after Rubens), 2007, from ‘Helen’s Odyssey’
© Eleanor Antin. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
The British Musuem
From art that centres the African-American experience to feminist retellings, the British Museum’s new exhibition explores culture’s enduring fascination with the legend of Troy
A statuette of a proposed memorial that has yet to find full funding.
Memorial 2007
Despite the millions used in the transatlantic slave trade and Britain benefitting from their forced labour, a national memorial is proving difficult.
Close up of ‘Segment of aself’.
© Eleanor Minney
It is essential that scientists seek to understand the unique experiences of individuals with schizophrenia.
Museums are starting to present visual art in multisensory ways that audiences can touch and feel.
Richard Harlow of Blind Eye Works
New multisensory approaches to presenting visual art propose solutions to barriers that limit access for marginalized audiences.
The Orange Problem, 2019, Acrylic on panel, 72 x 72 cm. © Robert Pepperell 2019.
The author
When we look at art we may not all see the same thing. It all depends on what happens in our brains.
Peter Longstaff, one of the participants in the study.
© Peter Longstaff
Ultra-clear maps of individual toes were found in the brains of two foot painters – these are not found in typically developed humans.
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent Van Gogh.
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Finding your creative space with meaning.
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The number of students achieving GCSEs in technical and creative subjects along with religious education has declined yet again.
A ‘back-to-back’ Beetle rolls along the road at the 2006 Houston Art Car Parade.
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When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts, it became the ideal canvas for self-expression.
Chesley Bonestell’s detailed drawings of space travel inspired millions.
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While the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological achievement, it’s worth reflecting upon the creative vision that made it possible.
Tom Schilling as Kurt Barnert – a slightly blurred facsimile of the famous German artist Gerhard Richter – in Never Look Away.
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Standing out among the crowd of recent artist biopics, the new film Never Look Away peels back some unhelpful tropes that have blinkered our understanding of the artist’s process.
The ribbons on this grafitti portrait by London-based Chilean artist Otto Schade play with idea of presence and absence. The eyes evoke the intensity of the original.
Courtesy of the artist, Otto Schade
Che Guevara’s image has been used for everything from fashion shows to revolutionary posters. But his image still means something and represents change and resistance by everyday people. Why?
Mona Lisa, Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 2019.
Susan Broomhall
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the world’s most visited artwork. Its appeal rests partly on several mysteries.