The National Gallery of Australia exhibition showcases the late British artist’s mastery of intimate detail and talent for connection.
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This exhibition is not driven by aesthetics alone. It is a coming together of rich individual identities voicing their history, knowledge and lived experiences.
The earliest works in the Geelong exhibition include a layered charcoal drawing of Lewer’s childhood church. It was here he made his first confession.
This Scottish exhibition is an ethereal, hypnotic showcase of artists who share a commitment to pursuing a more compassionate way of looking and being in a place.
A Kenyan exhibition working with communities in conflict zones offers insights into how Côte d'Ivoire could use the drum for reconciliation.
What if Mary hated soft play? What if Eve had hot flushes?
A historian of artistic censorship sees chilling similarities to 19th-century anti-obscenity crusades.
Come too close to Bacon’s portraits and everything dissolves into a powdery splat.
Surrealists artists serve as a reminder that us humans are – and always have been – complex creatures.
All the artists displayed in the exhibition use choreography in their work.
The artist’s current exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Birds in Far Pavilions, delicately weaves together art and memory.
Textiles have a deceptive simplicity that conceals their potential for subversion and political dissent.
The show is divided into sections which all valiantly attempt to define “cute”. But the word is resistant to definition.
An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
Guston’s complex engagement with racialised evil caused a contentious three-year delay in the exhibition opening.
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
The Missing Thread is a careful and honest curation of black identity and displacement.
Using found materials from dump sites, the large scale works examine the residues of colonialism.
Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.
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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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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Honorary Lecturer, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (iGLAM), UNSW
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Head of Media, Leeds Beckett University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher Soupport Manager, Adelaide University
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Professor of Art History, Columbus State University
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Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW
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Professor of Fine Art and Dean, RMIT School of Art, RMIT University
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PhD candidate in Art History, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney