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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.
Hockney insisted that art is an experiment in seeing, never treating the act of looking as passive, continually adopting whatever helped him see.
Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.
Depp’s film is an enjoyable romp, but it does the artist a disservice in favouring the more sensational aspects of his life.
Together, the works on display form an evolving self-portrait of the artist.
Contemporary and folk art traditions collide in this whimsical and thoughtful exhibition
Britain’s most famous iconoclast presents a show of humour, beauty, and irreverence that reflects the complexities and contradictions in being human.
Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.
Margel Hinder was responsible for some of Australia’s most significant public sculptures in the 1960s and 70s. A major exhibition now examines the totality of her career.
When artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work Comedian sold for $120,000, the art world went bananas. Little did we know it wasn’t the end of the story.
A London exhibition of the French post-impressionist painter is an opportunity to examine what it is that fascinates us about art itself.
The Spanish artist was a master self-publicist and one of the most important thinkers in 20th-century art.
All of the big names are present in this show – from Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo to Roy Lichtenstein and Cindy Sherman – and represented by some of their best-known work.
Some classic tales about the way artists can mess with your mind.
The artist’s figures are alone and vulnerable.
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.
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Professor in the Philosophy and History of Art, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Art Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln
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Bridget Riley Art Foundation Fellow, University of Leeds, University of Leeds
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