Artists have always created monsters to embody human fears. In this year’s Adelaide Biennial, Australian contemporary artists bring our past demons and current fears to life.
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Jim Dine and other pop artists like Andy Warhol took everyday things and transformed them into magical objects. In his prints a robe could become a self-portrait, a president, or a hero.
The 1990s was once the forgotten decade of the 20th century but no longer.
LGBT rights are a work in progress in Vietnam. But artists are in the vanguard of the movement, pushing for public acceptance.
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection presents 64 works by European artists. Its best moments are both intimate and inquisitive.
Western media continues to sell Muslims as perpetrators of savagery, deprivation and torture. But a new exhibit by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia challenges us to see beyond these depictions.
Cate Blanchett howls and contorts in RED, del kathryn barton’s ferocious exploration of female power.
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
New York’s Met just announced more job cuts to balance its books as the shifting tastes and demographics make it harder to make a museum’s ends meet.
Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti used his music as an art form that provoked. This wasn’t only through politics, but also sex.
The NGV’s summer exhibition is curated to create a dialogue between Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol, and this conversation operates on multiple levels on a variety of themes, and across time and space.
Despite rhetoric positioning Australia as a clever and creative country, its artists, particularly in the visual arts, are doing it tough, and things are progressing from bad to worse. Why is that?
Many voices have united in claiming the toy giant Lego is censoring the provocative Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. There are so many things wrong with those arguments it’s hard to know where to begin.
Shortlisted for the Turner in 1997, Christine Borland discusses the suffocating nature of the prize and its shortsighted attempts to branch out.
Bondi’s highly popular Sculpture by the Sea has set up shop in Denmark – and the Aarhus event has proved to be an astonishing and very different success to its predecessor.
Vivid Sydney draws larger crowds each year and when it opens this weekend, the streets will be packed. Are events like Vivid Sydney and Paris’ Nuit Blanche artistically valuable – or just a lot of fun?
Japanese artist On Kawara worked closely with the Guggenheim Museum on a major retrospective of his work – the fact he died just before it opened lends even greater poignancy to his art.
There are about 30,000 professional practicing visual artists in Australia today (see note). By professional, I mean exhibiting regularly in recognised commercial or public galleries and represented in…
Paul McCarthy, the granddaddy of shock conceptual art, has gone and done it again. In a globally reported move, part-installation and part promotional-stunt to mark the imminent opening of Paris’s Foire…
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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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Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney