Margel Hinder was responsible for some of Australia’s most significant public sculptures in the 1960s and 70s. A major exhibition now examines the totality of her career.
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When artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work Comedian sold for $120,000, the art world went bananas. Little did we know it wasn’t the end of the story.
A London exhibition of the French post-impressionist painter is an opportunity to examine what it is that fascinates us about art itself.
The Spanish artist was a master self-publicist and one of the most important thinkers in 20th-century art.
All of the big names are present in this show – from Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo to Roy Lichtenstein and Cindy Sherman – and represented by some of their best-known work.
Some classic tales about the way artists can mess with your mind.
The artist’s figures are alone and vulnerable.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
New York’s Met just announced more job cuts to balance its books as the shifting tastes and demographics make it harder to make a museum’s ends meet.
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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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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor - History of Art, University of Leeds
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Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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PhD Candidate, UCL
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Lecturer in Art History, Loughborough University
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Senior research associate, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University
