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Improv performance artists are finding resonance in the fears, ideals and artistic expression evoked by the chaos of war in the early 20th century.
The artist says he chose an English civil war-era coin because ‘it is one of the few British things in the British Museum’.
A sculpture of Harriet Tubman dominates much of the opening room, questioning our idea of who gets to be commemorated.
To understand this exhibition, you need to move your body through it and dance with Adams’s sculptures, tapestries and cloud installation.
Acts of Creation is an incisive look at over 100 women artists who have created art representing their lived experiences of mothering and care-giving, from joy and grief to ambivalence.
These artworks can teach us many things about a society’s attitudes towards the human body, perceptions of the western and wider world and political supremacy.
As an ex-Bachelor contestant framed as an ‘undercover spy’, and an author who has written a novel on the subject, the two of us are intimately familiar with reality TV ‘villains’.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
A century ago, the French writer and poet André Breton penned his ‘Manifesto of Surrealism,’ launching an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.
The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
Rachel Cusk’s twelfth novel is strange, compelling and ferociously intelligent. It explores artists, mothers and daughters, and the ‘blankness of spirituality’ on the other side of gender.
Rediscovered legacies in London, reimagined landscapes in Liverpool, small Sculptures in Bath and Degas in Glasgow.
British monarchs have grappled with issues of representation, accuracy and flattery in portraits since the Middle Ages.
This is a rare opportunity to see works by female artists that depict the landscape in a multitude of ways.
As a war artist, Henry Moore’s work was influenced by the Blitz, separated families and the threat of nuclear escalation.
The Mona Lisa has traditionally been associated with Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant. But there’s plenty of evidence pointing to a different identity.
Phone cameras are an example of what’s called computational photography. Digital tools built into these cameras can enhance your images in real time.
The Met Gala explored fashion’s complex relationship with nature and the passing of time.
A comprehensive show foregrounding the work of mostly lesser-known female artists.
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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