Can empathy be taught to students in the healthcare professions? A groundbreaking project is using visual art to ensure they pay attention to the whole person, not just the disease.
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War got the futurists noticed and earned them new respect.
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
A new exhibition exploring the relationship between birds and humans is variously gaudy, delightful and disturbing. We sent two ecologists along to review the show.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
Fake Cambodian sculptures have infiltrated the antiquities market, where they remain unacknowledged and their production continues unabated.
When art meets the biological sciences, living matter becomes the medium. From the chaotic beauty of smallpox to poems implanted in bacteria, Bio-art investigates the boundaries of life and death.
All eyes are on ex-forces veterans come Remembrance Day. We may see heroes – but no one asks them whether they want to fit that mould.
A new exhibition at MONA, curated by scientists, explores the biological and evolutionary origins of art. The show is spectacular - but it offers an overwhelmingly male perspective.
The Art Gallery of NSW’s summer blockbuster sparkles with famous names, including Picasso, Matisse, Turner and Rodin. But for all of its trumpeting of risk and daring, it remains essentially a rather puritanical exercise.
Grumpy curmudgeons, ex-artists writing about friends … art critics here rarely help viewers understand the challenges of new work.
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”.
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.
Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
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.
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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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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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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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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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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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PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of York
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Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
