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Hobart’s winter festival explores darkness, storms and the very nature of the universe, with artwork performed in an asylum; echoing the elements and conceived while on a residency at Geneva’s Centre for Nuclear Research.
Indian artists such as Bhupen Khakhar may be gaining international acclaim, but more is needed to help build and maintain a strong infrastructure for artists at home.
Sentimental, high-class illustrators – or a revolution in British art?
From Tintin weeping to spotlit buildings, images are rapidly circulating on social media as a way of comprehending the Brussels bombings. But where was the cartoon for those who died in Ankara? Are some tragedies “ungrievable”?
The decision looks like a reinforcement of the large imbalance in cultural spending between London and the north of England.
Botticelli has become a constantly evolving myth, but is best-known as a sensuous painter of alluring women.
The Melbourne Art Fair’s steadfast refusal to move with the times was a factor in its surprise demise.
Casuarina trees and the tortured forms of the Melaleucas on the foreshore of the Swan River were the perfect metaphor for Blumann’s life and the world before and during the second world war.
Weiwei has taken Denmark to task for its asylum-seeker policy. Given Australia’s decision to return 267 asylum seekers to Nauru, he should surely consider pulling his current Melbourne exhibition.
Brisbane street artist Anthony Lister has been convicted of ‘wilful damage’ graffiti. Who is being harmed, when our legal system is forced to devalue cultural capital?
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.
Guy Grey-Smith’s painting showcases the insistent rhythms of the indigenous vegetation and the rolling, flowing movements that take our eye meandering across the landscape and back towards the horizon.
That traditional monolith of culture, the museum, has begun to embrace the digital world. As a series of projects reveal, the possibilities are endless.
You may have heard about the male gaze, but what is it? And is there such as thing as the female gaze?
It’s another year in Arts + Culture, so in case you missed it we’ve collected all the best coverage of screen, theatre, music, books and culture in one place.
The NGV’s summer exhibition is curated to create a dialogue between Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol, and this conversation operates on multiple levels on a variety of themes, and across time and space.
There are as many ways to summarise a “year in art” as there are eyes to look at art with. Art had some shining – and not-so-shining – moments in 2015.
Gough Whitlam’s government paid $A1.3 million for Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles in 1973. But why exactly is this ‘seemingly unintelligible mess of house paint’ revered as a masterpiece?
Lurid Beauty is the first major examination of Australian Surrealism and its profound impact on Australian art from the 1930s to the present day. So how does it all hang together?
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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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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT 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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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
