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.
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Was it a marketing stunt or a critique of the market itself?
The film of Cave's first tour since the death of his son is powerful and evocative.
Self-expression from the streets.
Drags kings have recently been declining in popularity, partly due to the evolving debate around gender and identity. But now a new and more inclusive drag culture is taking the stage.
Warhol has become one of the most well known artists in the world, but his work still has secrets to reveal.
In a world seemingly spinning out of control, music has important roles to play – either to reflect or interpret the state of affairs, or simply to provide solace.
Ghana’s Chale Wote festival's main aim is to provide an alternative platform for the arts. It uses street arts to break creative boundaries and cultivate a wider audience for the arts in West Africa.
Richard Demarco, aka Mr Edinburgh Festival, has been fostering vital UK links with artists around the world for decades.
Going naked in public has its own benefits.
Hobart's winter festival explores darkness, storms and the very nature of the universe, with artwork performed in an asylum; echoing the elements and conceived while on a residency at Geneva's Centre for Nuclear Research.
Shia LaBeouf's latest artistic performance interrogates celebrity, online community and the endless search for ‘true connection’.
Is this a dance work, an exhibition, or a melding of the two? Xavier Le Roy's latest work, in Sydney, raises many questions, such as: Is it enough to present dancers as interactive, moving art objects?
Music is ubiquitous in our lives, but where are the spaces for boundary-pushing experimentation?
It gets us nowhere to distinguish between page and stage poetry, except as terms in an analysis. There is bad and good on both sides. Both forms need to be kept alive and to flourish.
Held annually in venues all over South Australia for the entirety of August, SALA’s magnitude and reach, its extraordinary range of exhibition venues, both conventional and left-of-field, make it unique.
Newsome's actions can be thought of as a significant piece of performance art.
It's hard to resist the extraordinary charisma of performance artist Marina Abramovic, who has just started a new residency in Sydney.
This collection of Marina Abramović’s works from 1975 to the present isn’t a retrospective. It offers a chance to consider the supremely artist-centric art as something separate to its creator.
Perth’s Fringe World 2015 is currently sauntering through the Western Australian capital. Featuring more than 2,000 performers, the annual festival has perfected a blend of cabaret, circus, theatre, film…
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Associate Head of Theatre, University of Melbourne
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