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Living in cities filled with tags may make us feel less safe. But tags don’t mean crime and gangs. The real reasons people tag buildings and bridges are to show off and create community.
Gwen John was very much her own woman and followed her own artistic instincts, producing small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that resonate.
The Warlpiri Dictionary has been 60 years in the making – and it’s shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards, a rarity for a dictionary.
Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
Growing up in Yorkshire gave Hepworth and Moore outsider viewpoints on the art world.
AI is poised to reshape parts of US culture and society. Have tech developments raced ahead of our ability to understand the consequences?
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
The artworks created by women in prison brought us greater understanding of their often complex and traumatic experiences
If there were any doubts about the destruction caused by the fire on 14th June 2017, then Steve McQueen’s film reveals its true desolation.
In various sketches and pencil sketches that Picasso made during his formative years, the most important plastic, perceptive, communicative and expressive revolution of the 20th century was being foreshadowed with absolute clarity: Cubism.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
An art historian explains how Vincent van Gogh went from an unknown painter to one of the world’s most expensive artists.
Museums have pushed the narrative of Vincent van Gogh as a ‘tortured genius’ for decades, but in its 50th year the Van Gogh Museum is questioning this approach.
What will happen to this villa and its unique collection of 16th- and 17th-century ceiling paintings?
Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
The artist’s fabled archive spans his entire career, showcasing his playful curiosity, his need for beauty and his respect for style.
During the medieval and early modern era, the Iberian Peninsula was an extraordinary cultural melting pot.
Historically, baldness was treated with neutrality, as a regular part of daily life. Ancient Egyptians had different balding hairstyles
Critics will say that immersive exhibitions destroy art but Hockney is ready to challenge them with his hour-long show
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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, 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
