As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will reveal the deadly consequences of ‘othering’.
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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.
Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
On International Women’s Day, two women writers discuss feminism, writing in the age of Trump and Covid – and being ‘flabbergasted’ by the absence of birth from Western art and philosophy.
Of all the places to be right now, picking your way between sculptures in the French countryside, with a glass of wine to finish, sounds ideal.
In this instalment of our fantasy art travel series, Jen Webb yearns to revisit London, a special aunt and a very big arachnid.
The Art Gallery of NSW’s summer blockbuster sparkles with famous names, including Picasso, Matisse, Turner and Rodin. But for all of its trumpeting of risk and daring, it remains essentially a rather puritanical exercise.
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Medieval History and Co-Ordinator, Exploring the Past Pathway, Cardiff University
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Reader in Early Modern History, History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University