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Artists have embraced AI despite the risks to them, educators could learn from their example.
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.
A psychiatrist explains the many ways anxiety can hinder, color or compel creativity.
Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
The same boldness that enabled hip-hop to endure can benefit teachers in the classroom, a hip-hop scholar writes.
As a composer who has used creative AI in my music, I see that many artists will need to renegotiate terms of their labour, but there are also opportunities for different forms of collaboration.
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.
The genre – also known as ‘folk art’ or ‘outsider art’ – serves as a reminder that art is a universal human pursuit.
Record numbers of visitors are flocking to blockbuster exhibitions. Behind all the excitement, there are difficult questions over how to address their carbon footprint.
Growing up in Yorkshire gave Hepworth and Moore outsider viewpoints on the art world.
Whereas ‘the camera sees everything, but captures nothing,’ courtroom artists can channel the emotional highs and lows of a trial through a single image.
The technology’s focus on the framing of the artistic task amounts to the fetishization of the creative moment – and devalues the journey that waters the seed of an idea to its fruition.
Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
The “Festival do Boi-Bumbá” changed the fate of Parintins, Brazil. Its success shows the crucial role that cultural festivals play in isolated territories that often lack material infrastructure.
These women were intelligent, charismatic and unconventional – far more than just muses.
Barbara Kruger’s ‘Untitled (Your body is a battleground)’ has seamlessly transitioned to social media, inspiring a new generation of media-savvy artists and activists.
The experience of war also inspires non-violent forms of resistance.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Teaching Professor in Culture & Performance, Arizona State University
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Research Assistant, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Higher Education, University of South Carolina
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Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
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Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Indiana University
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Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor/Reader in Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
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Associate professor, RMIT University
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Vice-Dean for Education & Student Experience, Royal Holloway University of London
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JD-PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
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Associate Professor in Visual Arts, Federation University Australia
