We tend to think of recycling, repair and reuse as part of an environmentally responsible way of life. But they are also key to many artists’ work.
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Showing now at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Not a Souvenir forces us to confront Australia’s colonial kitsch culture.
The retrospective showcases her groundbreaking talent, fusing her DIY-rebellion roots with a more recent passion for the natural world.
Leon Paroissien, who died last week, was one of the great enablers of Australian art. He imagined a better future, then made it happen.
This audiovisual installation feels like being in the middle of a science fiction film.
In the Absence is a meditative exhibition of large-scale installations created by the Wajukuu Art Project.
Jane Harris eschewed the fashionable 1990s London art scene and retreated to rural France where she experimented quietly with shape and colour.
Glasgow welcomes the world’s most famous graffiti artist, drawn to the city by the much-loved ‘Coneheid’ Duke of Wellington statue outside his exhibition.
Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.
In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
From plane stairs that lead nowhere to paintings of empty towns, these artists depict the experience of Albanian immigrants.
Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
The senior artist works across genres, much of her art reading like a stream of consciousness thoughts about contemporary life.
Harare aims to join a growing list of African cities hosting high profile events to sell local art and bolster artists.
Wilam Biik (Home Country) at TarraWarra offers a different way to look at Country. Not by the roads we travel, but by the relationships embedded in it.
A Rotterdam art centre removed its colonial-era name and is renaming itself ‘The Kunstinstituut Melly,’ to honour the city’s 30-year love affair with Ken Lum’s iconic work.
Works by eight artists in the Dobell Drawing Biennial draw on dreams, history and reality. But drawing has escaped the gallery and will scribe on despite less government support for the arts.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum has acquired Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian but how can you value and own a banana and some tape?
Ten artists and collectives are on display in this exhibition, questioning ‘If the future is to be worth anything.’
Asking Australians about their favourite art and artists reveals divides between those who like traditional versus contemporary forms. But Indigenous art transcends such categories.
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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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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Kenyatta University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in contemporary art, University of Sydney
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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BALTIC Professor of Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Researcher of Contemporary Art and Art of Vietnam, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Head, Time Based Art, School of Media Arts, UNSW
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Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pretoria
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney