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Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.
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.
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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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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PhD Candidate, UCL
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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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Lecturer in Art Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
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Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Art History, Loughborough University
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Professor of Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior research associate, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
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Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
