Yanagi Sōetsu’s call to value simple, well-made objects feels especially relevant in our current disposable culture.
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Celia Paul’s extraordinary, art-focused life is captured in two brilliant autobiographies. Stella longlisted Stephanie Radok makes the ordinary special in her art.
Women’s experiences of pain – and how pain is felt, understood and lived through the body – sit at the heart of the exhibition.
Nnena Kalu’s win shows how contemporary art can be more inclusive if more facilitation, like that provided by ActionSpace, can be supported.
Amid air sirens and sandbagged streets, Kyiv’s art scene offers unexpected glimpses of life, reflection and the human spirit.
The art market attracts money-laundering activities. How can it better protect itself?
Art and the body are often linked in Kahlo’s life, which was short and traumatic.
Napoleon’s sister Pauline used to rouge her nipples to enhance their appearence.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
This collection of scenes of contemporary Paris life sits among the paintings of grand masters.
Thirteen artists with ancestral lands in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean are subverting the role drawing has played in conquest and colonialism.
From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.
By systematically tracking changes in murals over time, we have gained profound insights into the dynamics of peace and conflict.
Taking up a hobby like art, dance or music classes could have significant hidden benefits.
The festival invites reflection on what happens when languages and homelands are lost.
For the original surrealists, dreaming was not a matter of idle fantasy but a tool for political and social transformation.
Van Gogh sought to evoke the character and soul of the sitter.
Cave paintings are often called the first art ever made. But can we really call these early cave people artists?
Swift’s cover transforms the corpse-like Ophelia into a striking image, with her eyes open and staring, as though a dead woman has come back to life to accuse us.
The work is about the artist’s power of immortality, his features frozen in time forever.
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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