Rather than fighting over this or that patch of art history, surely London’s museums can agree that all art is a ‘continuum’?
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A photography expert explains how a photographer makes artistic decisions that an AI algorithm or robot can’t replicate.
A protagonist of surrealism, Schiaparelli was an extraordinary couturier who pushed the bounds of creativity, leaving her mark on Paris fashion and beyond.
The Freud Museum is a perfect fit for the story of Carrington’s confinement and the creativity which ensued.
Anonymity and secrecy are fundamental to the artist’s oeuvre.
For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother or maternal figure.
The surrealist aspiration to evoke a sense of the marvellous and mysterious in the everyday permeates the exhibition.
In Opie’s photographs, the constraints and limitations of the portrait are part of its potential.
Several artists have turned in‑game photography into a serious artistic practice, with radically different approaches.
By centring her own experience in her work, Emin also humanises and universalises it.
Emirati Princess Al Qasimi is pro-Palestine and this year’s Sydney Biennale arts director, a choice that has drawn criticism. But should art be comfortable?
The cuts are a sign of how exposed even our best-known cultural institutions have become.
From first dates to sleeping lovers, these are the paintings that have touched the hearts of our experts.
This is the challenge of the Kahlo legacy: the more ubiquitous her image becomes, the more its original and liberating meaning risks being flattened.
Art projects can help unlock more enthusiasm from citizens for deposit return schemes, reuse pilots or new recycling sorting rules.
The expression is, ‘handed to you on a silver plate’; but a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one.
Jeanne Duval fascinates many feminist and postcolonial scholars, partly because of how little is known about her.
The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.
Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ‘unmistakably male’ David.
For the Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, the Hinematioro Pou is the material presence of an ancestor.
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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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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice, University of the West of Scotland
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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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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra