This ancient myth, in which a nymph transforms herself into a tree to escape the lustful attention of the god Apollo, has inspired countless retellings in art. Its themes resonate today.
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It takes time and money to create large scale sculptures. A new exhibition of works in cast concrete is testament to a remarkable philanthropic project.
Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars and the advent of photography all played a role.
One scholar spent a decade studying the ways everyday people drew, carved, glued, sewed and baked their own pornography.
It might have many critics but the statue tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft succeeds in its abstract commemoration of the feminist. Public sculptures could learn from it
Is the statue a fitting tribute to the fierce feminist writer?
‘Homeless Jesus’ exemplifies how faith-based organizations can use public art to communicate religious ideas in a respectful and accessible way.
Trees seeded after the end of the last ice age, which survived the ruptures of invasion and industry, have re-emerged as art.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
In a system that treats people as objects to be counted, chained, searched and assigned a number, art is a way for prisoners to reassert their agency – and reclaim their lives.
After years of inaction by authorities, protesters have forced the point – opening a new chapter in this monument’s history.
Hailing Christo as a ‘genius’ misses the point and diminishes the work of his wife and co-creature Jeanne-Claude.
Christo’s first major project was Wrapped Coast at Sydney’s Little Bay. His fabric sculptures would become a major symbol in land art.
His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present.
In 1918, in Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, a German sculptor created a bust of Indigenous soldier Douglas Grant. For decades, the whereabouts of this nationally significant sculpture were unknown - until now.
Engineer, artist, mathematician, thinker: Leonardo da Vinci was all these and more.
A new exhibition charting Alexander Calder’s atypical path into the modernist art canon is elegant, dramatic and great fun.
Should unfinished art remain so?
Alex Seton’s sculpture A Durable Solution? dominates the protest exhibition at the forthcoming ALP national conference. He has also created an official memorial to Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
A bioengineer collaborates with artists, clinicians and patients to come up with an art exhibition with heart.
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
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Professor in the Philosophy and History of Art, University of Leeds
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Professor and Architect, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Kent
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Director of Museum Studies, Boston University
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Mathematics Subject Group Leader, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University