Fifty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the NSW coast at Little Bay, the Art Gallery of NSW celebrates the long term consequences of John Kaldor’s creative philanthropy.
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As the Port Talbot Banksy is moved to a new street art museum, the very reason it was created is being ignored.
Graffiti contributes to place-making by creating meaningful or identifiable spaces.
A human rights researcher documents the stories of Central American migrants leaving behind endemic poverty and high homicide rates. In limbo in Mexico, many use art therapy to express their anxiety.
Unsolicited artwork by the world famous artist can cause big problems for private building owners.
Melbourne has its first playable art tram – a 32.5-metre-long musical score played via augmented reality. So what’s the idea of playable trams and playable cities really about?
Trump Baby is the latest in a long history of visual protests. But is this ‘cheap shot street theatre’ truly effective, or should we ask more of protest artists?
Artscape Nordland – a Norwegian environmental sculpture project – is exceptional.
The artists in this inaugural event have created works within, on and around the buildings of an old port town.
Public art and gender politics clash in corporate America.
Residents of two high-rise public housing blocks are being given ‘mood lights’ to express how they feel based on their experience of the process of redeveloping their neighbourhood.
As museum culture increasingly drifts into private ownership, we need to keep a watchful eye on those shaping our cultural landscape
Melbourne’s street art has an international reputation and may be a very valuable tourist attraction. But the city remains ambivalent about the activities that have created its ‘laneway galleries’.
Over the past 15 years, community groups in a rundown inner-city district have created public murals as part of a successful process of reversing decades of stagnation.
Pakistan’s rich visual and poetic culture is expressed every day on walls, rickshaws and buses. As the country struggles to offer solace to its people, they carry its narratives and emotions.
The National Endowment for the Arts is on the chopping block…again. But this time, the ideological justifications don’t pass muster.
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.
Many praise the internet as a democratizing force. But with online spaces replacing physical public squares as places for debate, what do we risk losing?
With more and more street artists partnering with corporations, it’s important that they don’t compromise their moral standing to earn a living.
Vivid Sydney draws larger crowds each year and when it opens this weekend, the streets will be packed. Are events like Vivid Sydney and Paris’ Nuit Blanche artistically valuable – or just a lot of fun?
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Professor Design and Computation Arts, Université de Montréal
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History & Theory of Art & Design, Bath Spa University
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Associate Professor of Sculpture, University of Texas at Arlington
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Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Society, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Rockefeller University
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Director, Cities of Culture Research Observatory, University of Liverpool
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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
