The classical tradition has long excluded anyone who wasn’t white. But a succession of Black female artists have attempted to broaden these ossified boundaries.
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A woman’s right to use fillers and have plastic surgery was a topic of discussion on the show after a male contestant alluded that he found women who used such enhancements ‘fake’.
Pristine and beautiful or black and dirty? As bushfires become more frequent and we look to Indigenous fire control practices, it is time to reconsider our attitudes to burnt earth.
Pastel colours and serif fonts: is Annastacia Palaszczuk trying to be an Instagram influencer?
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Design bloggers have long had creeping suspicion of a more monolithic web, so a team of researchers decided to analyze the aesthetics of nearly 10,000 websites.
From Chile to Lebanon and Iraq to Hong Kong, the same masks have become a common language to register dissent.
An algorithm named AICAN has been ‘taught’ the entire canon of Western art history – and now produces, titles and sells works of its own.
The number of people going under the knife for a big bum is increasing – but it carries the highest risk of death in any cosmetic surgery.
The changing aesthetics of protest allow many more voices to be heard.
Today, beauty counts for little in the judgement of works of art. But our felt experience of beauty connects us with an object’s maker, revealing a pure moment of humanity.
Sometimes a work of art is characterized by a string of failures, but nonetheless ends up being a gorgeous freak accident of nature.
Kitsch has slowly become the main cultural reference for all that surrounds us, and thrives in propaganda.
Fractals are patterns that repeat at increasingly fine magnifications. They turn up in the natural world and in artists’ work. Research suggests they contribute to making something aesthetically appealing.
Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
Are you sceptical about maths being stunning? Let this brave academic try to change your mind.
Watching sport is more than just an entertaining experience. As the 2016 Olympic Games again highlighted, it can enrich and improve our lives in many more complex ways.
Cosmetic surgery booms are happening around the world. Here are some key augmentations.
Red berets, hard hats, overalls and domestic workers’ uniforms have become a prominent part of South African politics. But these are more than just props for the EFF political party.
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Professor of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Anglia Ruskin University
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Reader in International Politics at Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University
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Claire Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Research Associate in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Professor, Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Associate Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Metaphysics , Durham University
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Research lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, Australian National University
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Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford
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Director of the Materials Science Institute and Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University for Science and Technology
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PhD Student in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
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Independent researcher, Trinity College Dublin
