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Artist Janet Echelman explains how she collaborates with engineers to create massive sculptures that have changed city landscapes and inspired people around the world.
Nel Law’s voyage to Antarctica and back, through the choppy waters of a longstanding marriage, is the story of a woman’s right to be, to change, to grow and to love.
Western approaches to studying African materials have had a colonial bias. A curator considers what it means to think of the collection as needing to exist in relation to communities.
Yevonde’s photographs celebrated women’s creativity, ingenuity and individuality which, she argued, was often expressed through colour.
Ngam dù is a form of divination in which questions are asked of large spiders that live in holes in the ground. The results of spider divination can be used as evidence in Cameroon’s courts.
Evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves loves classical choral music, but grew tired of its biblical themes. So she set out to write an alternative based in science.
Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s seat of making art, it erects a barrier between the artist and the canvas.
Surreal Spaces paints a portrait of fragility and strength, passion and determination.
Living in cities filled with tags may make us feel less safe. But tags don’t mean crime and gangs. The real reasons people tag buildings and bridges are to show off and create community.
Gwen John was very much her own woman and followed her own artistic instincts, producing small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that resonate.
The Warlpiri Dictionary has been 60 years in the making – and it’s shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards, a rarity for a dictionary.
Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
Growing up in Yorkshire gave Hepworth and Moore outsider viewpoints on the art world.
AI is poised to reshape parts of US culture and society. Have tech developments raced ahead of our ability to understand the consequences?
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
The artworks created by women in prison brought us greater understanding of their often complex and traumatic experiences
If there were any doubts about the destruction caused by the fire on 14th June 2017, then Steve McQueen’s film reveals its true desolation.
In various sketches and pencil sketches that Picasso made during his formative years, the most important plastic, perceptive, communicative and expressive revolution of the 20th century was being foreshadowed with absolute clarity: Cubism.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra