Anthropologist Percy Leason thought he was painting the extinction of Victoria’s Indigenous people in the 1930s. He was wrong, but his portraits, part of a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, are surprisingly sympathetic.
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Jim Dine and other pop artists like Andy Warhol took everyday things and transformed them into magical objects. In his prints a robe could become a self-portrait, a president, or a hero.
The Men’s Painting Room - a Nissen hut in the government settlement of Papunya - is Australian art’s most important atelier. A new form of creative expression happened here.
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.
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection presents 64 works by European artists. Its best moments are both intimate and inquisitive.
The acclaimed Museum of Old and New Art is located in one of Tasmania’s most disadvantaged municipalities. But new research has found that locals have mixed feelings about the gallery.
Today, the idea of a male artist making a major series of paintings about schoolgirls, or any sort of children, sits uncomfortably with the public. But these were memorable and original works when painted in the 1950s.
In what ways do our sexual pleasures and fantasies inform the way we see the world?
Fractals are patterns that repeat at increasingly fine magnifications. They turn up in the natural world and in artists’ work. Research suggests they contribute to making something aesthetically appealing.
The Royal Academy’s two shows allow us to dive into the history of US/Soviet relations at their most vivid.
A more intimate connection with the details of migrants crossing the Mediterranean can happen through art.
South African Visual Artist Senzeni Marasela’s work creates a tension between the narrations of public wounding and her private one.
Exploring the role and limits of photography is a task that appears all the more relevant in the era of fake news.
An internationally renowned jeweller, now based in Germany, Helen Britton is inspired by the landforms of Western Australia. A new exhibition of her work is captivating.
Warhol has become one of the most well known artists in the world, but his work still has secrets to reveal.
Many leading Australian artists have benefitted from a Samstag scholarship. But who were the Samstags and what motivated them to create this legacy?
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
The job of a war artist probably seems, to many, a curious calling. Here’s why Paul Nash and I were both drawn to the front line.
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
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Joanna Mendelssohn es Amigo de 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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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Honorary Lecturer, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
