Month: July 2012

News and Writing on Art History | July 16th

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News and Writing on Art History | July 16th Katrina Grant News The case of the broken wax banana - article on  art conservation at the Getty. The Caravaggio saga continues with news last week that Amazon had withdrawn the Caravaggio e-book from sale amid concerns over its reliability. Then another article fleshed out claims by museum officials in Milan that the two scholars may not have viewed the actual drawings (article here in Italian in the Corriere della Sera and a similar article in English in the Independent). The issue continues to raise interesting questions about possible future issues…

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Exhibition | Controversy: the Power of Art

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Controversy: the Power of Art 21 June-12 August 2012, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery The exhibition includes over 100 works from major and regional galleries and explores the social and cultural impact of art through examples that have provoked intense response and controversy. Beginning with key works by Duchamp and Pollock that redefined the nature of art itself, the exhibition includes examples from the Archibald Prize. It charts the involvement of art with salient social and political issues including social injustice, violence, refugees and the homeless. Controversies over lifestyles and critiques of bourgeois values are represented, along with volatile representations of the human…

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Bastille Day at the NGV

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Bastille Day at the NGV To celebrate Bastille Day this Saturday, July 14th, the NGV International will be open until midnight with all tickets to the current winter masterpiece exhibition Napoleon: Revolution to Empire only $10 each from 5pm till midnight (until sold out more details here). As well as the Napoleon exhibition there are a range of programs. Some highlights include: Tours of the NGV Heroes and Legends Volunteer Guided Tours at 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.30pm & 8.30pm - Free, Meet Foyer, Ground Level NGV Collection Highlights Volunteer Guided Tour 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm & 7.30pm - Free, Meet Foyer,…

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Symposium | Circumnavigating Napoleon, National Gallery of Victoria

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Circumnavigating Napoleon Symposium at NGV International, 21st July Leading international and local speakers will address key themes of the exhibition Napoleon: Revolution to Empire. Josephine and Malmaison - Dr Bernard Chevallier, leading Napoleon scholar Napoleon’s Propaganda, Artists and Horses - Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, author of Marengo, the Myth of Napoleon’s Horse Making Sense of Napoléon - Prof Peter McPhee, The University of Melbourne Napoleon’s Bad Behaviour - Assoc Prof Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle Francois Péron and Terre Napoleon - Edward Duyker, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University Napoleon’s Artists in Egypt and the Art of the Description - Dr Antoni Jach, author and…

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EVCS | A newly discovered late work by Artemisia Gentileschi: Susanna and the Elders (1652)

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European Visual Culture Seminar A newly discovered late work by Artemisia Gentileschi: Susanna and the Elders (1652) Adelina Modesti In 1652 Artemisia Gentileschi painted Susanna and the Elders, considered her last documented work, and believed lost. The painting has recently reappeared in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna with an attribution to the Baroque Bolognese artist Elisabetta Sirani, but identified as a work of Artemisia Gentileschi by the present speaker. This paper will explore the circumstances of the rediscovery, placing the work within the context of Gentileschi’s oeuvre, tracing its provenance and proposing a possible patron, based on recently discovered documents…

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News and Writing on Art and Art History | July 9

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News and Writing on Art and Art History | July 9 Katrina Grant The art news buzzing around the internet late last week was that two Italian art historians had announced that they had identified ‘100 new Caravaggio’s’ in the form of drawings (there are some images on the La Repubblica site). The claim has been met with scepticism, with scholars such as Keith Christiansen, who described it as ‘sensationalism’, and John T. Spike both suggesting the drawings are more likely to simply be ‘studio of Peterzano’, or similar. Spike has also pointed out that many of the drawings are in more technically adept…

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Save Art History at La Trobe! Sign the petition.

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AAANZ has set up a petition to save the Art History department at La Trobe, which is threatened under a round of cuts being imposed on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. For more detail on the cuts and the art history department see our previous post. Please take a moment to sign the petition and forward it on to your friends and colleagues. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/art_history_la_trobe/ Save Art History! Disclaimer: Lisa Beaven is one of the directors of the Melbourne Art Network and also a lecturer in the Art History department at La Trobe. Her partner David Marshall is also…

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Short Course | Preserving Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments

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Preserving Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments Presented by the AICCM Objects Special Interest Group with the generous support of the Gordon Darling Foundation Melbourne, 8-9 November 2012 The objective of the workshop is to learn preservation strategies for outdoor sculpture and monuments. Participation is open to individuals responsible for the care of outdoor sculpture and monuments. The workshop is designed primarily for collections managers, public art administrators, and individuals responsible for commissioning, maintaining and administering public art collections. Artists, fabricators, conservators and other individuals who work with public sculpture and monuments are also welcome to attend on a space available basis.…

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Exhibition Review | The Masters of Chaos / Les Maîtres du Desordre. Reviewed by Victoria Hobday.

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The Masters of Chaos / Les Maîtres du Desordre Review by Victoria Hobday The Masters of Chaos / Les Maîtres du Desordre at Quai Branly, Paris, 11 April — 29 July 2020 Europe is engulfed in financial chaos and existential crisis, so this is the perfect time for an exhibition about controlling chaos by appealing to the gods — all of them. Quai Branly opened in 2006 and is the central ethnographic museum in Paris. Apart from an extensive permanent collection it has a temporary exhibition program that is worth exploring when in Paris. The major Spring exhibition this year is Les Maîtres…

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