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In A Woman’s Eye, Her Art, Drusilla Modjeska unpacks how the once-forgotten women artists of the early 20th century continue to inspire today.
A new biography shows how Gertrude Stein has been celebrated, sidelined and criticised over the decades – as a revolutionary genius, charlatan and Nazi collaborator.
Reading Guernica as a comic positions the painting not as a lofty work of fine art, but as a public narrative of violence.
Modern art is big business, but some artists endure throughout the ages thanks to a combination of skill, style, and context.
Breathless headlines of artificial intelligence discovering or restoring lost works of art ignore the fact that these machines rarely, if ever, reveal one secret or solve a single mystery.
In the early 20th century, two families of collectors brought the best of modern French art to Russia. Many of their paintings - including works by Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne - can now be seen in Sydney.
Spain has specific laws on protecting historical memory, and yet some would rather forget about them altogether.
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.
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.
Could Picasso’s sculptures become the most sought-after pieces of the artist’s oeuvre?
Humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
Now that the painting is probably to disappear from public view, hopefully we won’t remember it in pixellated format.
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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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Professor of Linguistics and Art History, Sam Houston State University
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Subject Leader for Fine Art, Bangor University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Medieval Art, UMass Amherst
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Director Departamento de Artes y Director Instituto Nebrija de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad Nebrija
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Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, Swansea University
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Chair in Culture Media and Visual Arts, University of the West of Scotland