Later this month, Christie’s will be auctioning its first piece of AI art – a portrait created via machine learning.
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They’re silly, but the singer’s statement pants are an important comment on female storytelling.
If we’re going to grasp what makes Eakins’ art so tragically powerful, we should be honest about the man who made them – and the impulses that drove him.
Charles I’s belief that art was a way of projecting power bankrupted England and alienated his people. The rest is history.
Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.
For centuries, women with dwarfism were depicted in art as comic or grotesque fairytale beings. But artists are challenging these portrayals and notions of beauty and physical difference.
Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
Was setting fire to all that money immoral waste, ritual sacrifice or artistic statement?
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different. But a trip through history – from an Islamic palace to Pollock’s paintings – proves the parallels between the two can be uncanny.
Rose Skinner opened her Perth gallery in 1958. But her contribution to the art world has been skimmed in Christopher Heathcote’s recent look at Australia’s early art market.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
War got the futurists noticed and earned them new respect.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
It took cutting edge technology and a collaboration between the Australian Synchrotron and the CSIRO to reveal the mysterious hidden lady in Degas’s famous painting.
How expert opinion can out-trump the artist’s own word.
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
A new field of research aims to deepen, and even quantify, our understanding of artistic style. We use mathematical techniques to help discover novel insights, even in well-studied paintings.
As the longest-running avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Surrealism’s scope and richness is perhaps unparalleled in its influence of modern art and culture.
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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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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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
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Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University College Dublin
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash 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