Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
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Changwon Sculpture Biennale casts a wide net, from a disconcerting jumble of plastic body parts to a break-dancing sculptor armed with an angle-grinder.
Laying the first telegraphy cable under the Atlantic was the Victorians’ version of the Apollo mission – it caught the imagination of a generation.
The Maralinga atomic tests were devastating to life and land in Central Australia. Black Mist Burnt Country brings together dozens of artistic responses in a powerful, but somewhat incoherent memorial.
This quintessential modern art movement couldn’t have gained precedence without the work of critics – and the Cold War.
A yellow line becomes a blistering ray of sunlight in Summer in the You Beaut Country. John Olsen’s paintings, often described as ‘quintessentially Australian’, teem with life.
A new study shows that looking at paintings can bring pleasure to people living with dementia, affecting their wellbeing even after the memory of the event has gone.
Ghana’s Chale Wote festival’s main aim is to provide an alternative platform for the arts. It uses street arts to break creative boundaries and cultivate a wider audience for the arts in West Africa.
In 1983, a groundbreaking inquiry into the economic circumstances of artists released a report containing a string of recommendations. Thirty three years on, the inquiry’s chair asks, what has changed?
It’s time to finally put art on the Olympic map, prove the sceptics wrong, and renew and advance some of the more tired aspects of the Games staging process.
The Dobell is a celebration of drawing. And the work in this year’s show, from Noel McKenna’s beautifully rendered drawings of dogs to Richard Lewer’s depictions of states of mind – is first rate.
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.
New York’s Met just announced more job cuts to balance its books as the shifting tastes and demographics make it harder to make a museum’s ends meet.
The value of the Armada painting, soon to go on show in Greenwich, lies in its masterful storytelling.
Climate disaster films are an emerging genre that reflect people’s desire to cope with a changing planet through art. How will they affect public attitudes on climate change?
How expert opinion can out-trump the artist’s own word.
Many of their extraordinary artworks are now on show in a new exhibition.
This year’s Archibald Prize winner is a painting with great affection for its subject. Louise Hearman’s Barry was a surprise choice – but it deserves to find an ultimate home in the National Portrait Gallery.
Going naked in public has its own benefits.
A scientist dips her toe into a new form of group-based performance art: devising new words to describe new feelings and phenomena of a rapidly changing world.
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Joanna Mendelssohn est un·e adhérent·e de The 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
