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The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different. But a trip through history – from an Islamic palace to Pollock’s paintings – proves the parallels between the two can be uncanny.
Rose Skinner opened her Perth gallery in 1958. But her contribution to the art world has been skimmed in Christopher Heathcote’s recent look at Australia’s early art market.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
War got the futurists noticed and earned them new respect.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
‘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.
It took cutting edge technology and a collaboration between the Australian Synchrotron and the CSIRO to reveal the mysterious hidden lady in Degas’s famous painting.
How expert opinion can out-trump the artist’s own word.
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
A new field of research aims to deepen, and even quantify, our understanding of artistic style. We use mathematical techniques to help discover novel insights, even in well-studied paintings.
As the longest-running avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Surrealism’s scope and richness is perhaps unparalleled in its influence of modern art and culture.
What, exactly, was going on at the Knoedler Gallery in the years leading up to a forgery indictment?
The best forgers don’t simply create convincing fakes; they go after the preconceived beliefs of the very people who judge a painting’s value and authenticity.
The history of the picture title is really a history of the last 300 years.
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
Humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
Through the years, the iconic lawn dweller has migrated across a range of tastes.
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.
Top contributors
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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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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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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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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Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University
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Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
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Professor in Art History, University of Sydney
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Pro Vice Chancellor, Aboriginal Leadership, University of Tasmania
