Monthly Archives: April 2014

Conversations | Balancing development and urban heritage in Melbourne - Gerard Vaughan and Ray Tonkin | Newman College

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old and new melb

This public ‘conversation’ will be the first of a trio to be held at Newman College over the next few months on the theme of ‘conserving the past, ensuring the future’. In this first event in the series, Professor Gerard Vaughan discusses with Ray Tonkin, former executive director of Heritage Victoria, some of the prospects and problems that confront us. Date: Wednesday 9th April, 5pm Venue: The Oratory, Newman College (University of Melbourne), 887 Swanston Street, Parkville, VIC 3052 Free. Bookings can be made via this website. Future events in this series: Monday 5 May, 5pm, a conversation about The History of the National Trust of Victoria: Victories and Defeats, led by Shane Carmody Tuesday 3 June, 5pm, a conversation about The Story…

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Conversation | Stuart Ringholt in conversation with Charlotte Day | MUMA

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Image credit: Stuart Ringholt, Club Purple (detail) 2014. Photo: Andrew Curtis. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Stuart Ringholt in conversation with Charlotte Day Stuart Ringholt is one of Australia’s most fearless contemporary artists. His practice has involved leading audiences in naturist gallery tours, anger workshops, and performances that place the artist in embarrassing situations. Here Ringholt will discuss the two major new commissions for his exhibition Kraft – a monumentally scaled and temporally askew clock and Club Purple, a nude daytime disco – in the context of his expansive practice. Date: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 12.30 – 1.30pm Venue: Building G, G1.04, Faculty of Art Design & Architecture Lecture Theatre Free Stuart Ringholt: Kraft | Club Purple As part of Stuart Ringholt: Kraft MUMA presents Club Purple, a nude disco within the museum. The disco is…

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Lunchtime Talk | Marketing and Dürer connecting business and the arts - Louise Box | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Durer Woodcut

Marketing and Dürer connecting business and the arts Louise Box Louise will share some of her recent research on the Albrecht Dürer woodcuts held in the University of Melbourne’s print collection. Linking book and print history, she will also discuss how these sixteenth-century art objects can be compelling learning and teaching tools for business students. Louise Box has combined a corporate career with arts research and arts board roles and currently works in executive education at Melbourne Business School. Her research interests include prints, illustrated books, links between business and the arts, and collecting and display practices. Louis Box  is an alumna of the Attingham Trust Study Programme (historic houses and collections, UK) and the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the…

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Lecture | William Blake in the 21st century - Peter Otto | NGV International

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William Blake illustration 'Dante running from Three Beasts'

Keynote Lecture: William Blake in the 21st century        This lecture introduces Blake as artist, poet, and prophet by mapping his attempts radically to transform traditional understandings of the book, from the Songs of Innocence (1789) to the Laocoön engraving (c.1815). The interactive, open-ended, multi-media forms he created are a radical response to the modern, commercial culture of Romantic-era London; yet, as I will suggest, these same forms also seem at home in the early 21st century, where they gesture towards ideals often promised but rarely realised in our now digitally connected world. Speaker Prof Peter Otto, The University of Melbourne                                                             Date: Saturday 5th April, 2pm Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, Ground Level Free. More details here. There will also be two ‘Curator’s Perspective’  floor talks in the exhibition…

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