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MoMA at NGV is a landmark exhibition – rich, dazzling and profoundly visually exciting

  • Written by: Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
MoMA at NGV is a landmark exhibition – rich, dazzling and profoundly visually excitingSalvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989), The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously © 2016 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The 15th Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the...

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Incarceration and time's passing are eloquently explored at Dark Mofo

  • Written by: Julie Shiels, Lecturer - School of Art, RMIT University
Incarceration and time's passing are eloquently explored at Dark MofoGianni Colombo, Spazio Elastico / Elastic Space, 1966-7. Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).

Review: A Journey to Freedom, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery/Zero at MONA.

The gig that drew the big crowds on the opening weekend of Hobart’s 2018 Dark Mofo festival was a free party to launch Zero, the new exhibition at MONA. More than...

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Why methane should be treated differently compared to long-lived greenhouse gases

  • Written by: Dave Frame, Professor of Climate Change, Victoria University of Wellington
Why methane should be treated differently compared to long-lived greenhouse gasesLivestock is a significant source of methane, a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

New research provides a way out of a longstanding quandary in climate policy: how best to account for the warming effects of greenhouse gases that have different atmospheric lifetimes.

Carbon dioxide is a long-lived greenhouse...

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From plagues to obesity: how epidemics have evolved

  • Written by: Hassan Vally, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, La Trobe University

The word “epidemic” immediately brings to mind a highly infectious and deadly disease of the kind found in Hollywood films. In Contagion, for instance, a lethal infection with frightening symptoms spreads like wildfire, threatening humanity as we know it.

The scary thing is that infectious disease epidemics in real life have the...

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