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An art historian uncovers the truth about Marthe Bonnard, for decades labelled as a jealous recluse with a neurotic need to bathe.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
‘The Life of Washington’ was painted in the 1930s by an artist who sought to upend a rosy narrative of US history. Now some are saying its images ‘traumatize’ viewers – and ought to be taken down.
If it is wrong to censure art or refuse to display it because of its content, how can it be right to shun it because of the behaviour of the artist?
On the 500th anniversary Leonardo’s death and in appreciation of his rich and varied contributions, how can our educational systems inspire the same imaginative qualities in students today?
When artificial intelligence systems try to behave like humans and make mistakes, they show their limits – but also their startling advances.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.
Because a host of artists and programmers can leave their stamp on a final product, disagreements and claims of theft have ensued.
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
From solitary confinement, Moliere Dimanche started drawing on anything he could find. The result was a series of fantastical, allegorical images that depict abuse, racism and profound isolation.
Anish Kapoor made “Cloud Gate”, a giant bean-shaped mirror in Chicago. Visitors play with the light in the city and its surroundings, where our future lays.
The loss of creative spaces to development is pricing Sydney artists out of the city. But they could be encouraged back with new cultural policies.
In his short play from 1830, ‘Mozart and Salieri,’
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin proposed that genius and evil are incompatible. Here’s why this argument is worth revisiting in light of #MeToo.
Pop culture, personal tragedy and heroic persistence all played a role.
A judge in New York City just awarded graffiti artists US$6.7 million after a developer whitewashed their murals. On the surface, it seems like a huge victory for street artists. But could it backfire?
Ségou in Mali has successfully developed its urban cultural economy in ways that’s inclusive, sustainable and context-sensitive.
How an act of destruction can simultaneously become an act of creation.
There are a few things that musicians should understand about the music industry if they are to avoid being taken for a ride.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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PhD Student, University of Strathclyde
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Dundee
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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 History of Art, University of York
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, McMaster University
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Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, University of South Australia
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Flinders University
