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Why this 1866 painting by French artist Auguste Toulmouche has become an online sensation.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a penny. But after he died, it took on a life of its own.
The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.
Guston’s complex engagement with racialised evil caused a contentious three-year delay in the exhibition opening.
The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
Artistic representations of scientific imaging can help illuminate complex ideas and help bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
Digital archives can have an important part in creating more inclusive art histories, but paying attention to ethical research practices when sharing and circulating resources is critical.
Encourage your child to make their own paintbrushes or draw everyday objects in huge sizes. Or try a portrait without taking their marker off the page.
Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
Rublev, active around 1400 in and near Moscow, was a monk and painter of icons, frescoes and (possibly) manuscripts in the tradition of the Orthodox Church
Art and science may seem like opposites, but throughout history the disciplines have fed off each other − and still do today.
A psychiatrist explains the many ways anxiety can hinder, color or compel creativity.
Iranian artists are showing renewed determination to promote freedom as a cultural necessity in Iran, even in the face of a government crackdown.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of 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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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, York St John University
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Philosopher, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
