The Barcelona architect was a devout Catholic, but his work was heavily influenced by Moorish techniques.
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Although sexual content is an important aspect of the book, queer expression goes far beyond this.
Nudity can express everything from innocence to sexual desire, from triumph to defeat.
Jeanne Duval fascinates many feminist and postcolonial scholars, partly because of how little is known about her.
Art and the body are often linked in Kahlo’s life, which was short and traumatic.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
Cave paintings are often called the first art ever made. But can we really call these early cave people artists?
Swift’s cover transforms the corpse-like Ophelia into a striking image, with her eyes open and staring, as though a dead woman has come back to life to accuse us.
The work is about the artist’s power of immortality, his features frozen in time forever.
NG Citizens is a new initiative by the National Gallery inviting people from across the UK to be ‘at the heart of its decision-making’.
The image you hold in your head of a cherub is completely unlike the cherubs of the biblical and medieval traditions.
Painters across the centuries have turned this most intimate of transgressions into art, inviting viewers to become voyeurs of passion, guilt and desire.
The major retrospective – the first to be held since Eric Smith’s death in 2017 – includes his earlier religious works, as well as later abstract masterpieces.
This process of looking and asking questions about what you are looking at is needed at all levels of science, and science students can learn through arts-inspired visual analysis.
Zimbabwe is named after an ancient stone city and its stone sculpture is world famous.
In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
When women were portrayed cycling, they were often eroticised and undressed.
A lot of how we experience art comes down to reading between the lines. But is it okay to just bring your own meaning to the table, or is understanding the artist and other perspectives important?
The artist’s current exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Birds in Far Pavilions, delicately weaves together art and memory.
Unlike other great modern structures, The Capitol is imbued with symbolism and a sense of mystique.
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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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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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
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Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University College Dublin
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash 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