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.
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A thriving arts scene generates more money than it costs to run. But cutbacks, restructuring and stagnant budgets risk pushing many practitioners to the brink.
Adding the word ‘arts’ to the Amusement, Recreation, Events and Arts Award will give the arts sector a safety net – but the details will determine its robustness.
Since 2019, a number of workshops have been held in the Darwin Correctional Precinct, as part of an ongoing prison education project.
There was space and money for him to explore and try things out, luxuries that today’s students don’t have.
With little revelation, it’s an indictment of the film’s inability to discover dramatic life in these potentially rich scenes.
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.
New York City played a starring role in the golden age of comics. And like Kirby, many of the genre’s most famous artists were Jewish.
The artist population has fallen in all areas of Sydney, becoming less diverse, both racially and economically.
This is a book that takes the complex needs of older artists seriously.
A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief that drawing and design – not painting – were the wellspring of all great art.
Conversations with Black, Indigenous and racialized artists in Western Canada point to key ways to protect and deepen equity-driven practices across cultural sectors.
Instead of treating creative work as a legitimate field, US labor policy, copyright law and the tax code have failed to offer artists stability or protection.
The comic paid Tove Jansson enough to be financially stable but it put pressure on her creative work
Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
Hip-hop and youth culture have long been intertwined, creating an awkward situation for rappers who want to continue practicing their craft into their 50s, 60s and beyond.
People don’t lose their expertise when they cross borders. But they often face structural barriers due to language, precarious immigration status and decreased access to support from academia.
Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
Acts of Creation is an incisive look at over 100 women artists who have created art representing their lived experiences of mothering and care-giving, from joy and grief to ambivalence.
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Global Studies Associate Fellow, University of Sussex
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Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, University of York
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Associate Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, McMaster University
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