Fairy tales continue to nourish artistic invention because their characters embrace continual metamorphosis, discovering yet another possibility within an old story.
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Nearly 43% of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe are now highly vulnerable to climate-related risks.
Research on how heading to a museum could be good for the brain and general wellbeing suggests that culture fixes are an important resource for public health and social cohesion.
A version of ‘Fountain’ is part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and will appear in the Duchamp retrospective, which opens Oct. 10, 2026.
This exhibition is not so much about the middle ages, more about the aesthetic tropes we associate with it.
An MRI study zeroes in on the brain networks that underline collective appreciation of art.
Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time.
There is something apocalyptic in this performance.
The challenge now is not simply helping people live longer, but ensuring they age well.
Georgian artists depicted the scenes they witnessed with creative license, that influenced Great Britain’s self-image as an imperial power.
In the exhibition, wood carving, metal casting, weaving and knotting are reimagined as tools for experimentation and personal expression.
Playing improv music activates the reward system of the brain.
A walk along the Kent coast after a storm inspired one of my early works. The shoreline was covered in seaweed, shells, jellyfish – and plastic.
Frida: The Making of an Icon is not really an exhibition of Kahlo’s work. It is a cataloguing of her legacy.
The two artists have very different, yet curiously complimentary, responses to nature.
I followed the course of the river as closely as I could over a continuous period of 14 days.
An Earth scientist reviews Julian Charrière’s new exhibition spanning volcanoes, glacial rocks, and humans’ short yet impactful role in geological time.
Social change made leisure gardens accessible to all – not just kings and aristocrats – at the same time as ‘the great horticultural movement’.
This exhibition is not about British, or even English landscapes, but about how a broad range of British artists responded to the landscapes they chose to depict.
Although sexual content is an important aspect of the book, queer expression goes far beyond this.
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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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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice, University of the West of Scotland
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra