Month: April 2015

News | Proposed plan to make image archives of major art libraries available online

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The Art Newspaper has a report about a plan to make the image archives of major art libraries in the US and Europe available online in the one place. (This was reported yesterday and for a moment I thought it might be an April Fool’s joke because it seemed like such an impossibly useful thing for these libraries to do!) The group is called the The International Digital Photo Archive Consortium and includes the Frick Art Reference Library in New York, the National Gallery of Art library in Washington, DC, London’s Witt Library (the Courtauld Institute of Art), the Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg in Germany and seven other institutions. From The Art Newspaper (full story here): More than 30 million images of…

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Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | April 2nd 2015

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Jobs Australia Senior Public Programmer, National Gallery of Victoria – deadline 10th April 2015 Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Practice – Global, National Gallery of Australia – deadline 17th April 2015 Guest Project Curator – Touring exhibition, State Library Victoria (scroll down to see job) – deadline 17th April 2015 Assistant Curator, Latrobe City Council – deadline 19th April 2015 Senior Curator, Latrobe City Council – deadline 19th April 2015 International Lecturer in Art History, Newcastle University – deadline 22nd April 2015 Lecturer in History of Art (History, Theory and Practice of Curating Art for Display and Exhibition), University of Birmingham – deadline 24th April 2015 Lecturer in South East Asian Art, SOAS, University of London – deadline 20th April 2015 Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Newcastle University – deadline 22nd April 2015 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer – Fine Art and Design, University of Worcester – deadline 12th April…

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Exhibition | From the Collection: Gertrude Contemporary Regional Residencies | Chapter One at Warnambool Art Gallery

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A new exhibition will open this Saturday at Warrnambool Art Gallery (WAG), which is a collaboration between WAG and Gertrude Contemporary: From the Collection: Chapter One. About From the Collection: Chapter One This collaborative exhibition will place the WAG collection in the hands of four leading contemporary artists: Patrick Pound, Richard Lewer, The Telepathy Project and Noriko Nakamura. Each artist has been invited to create a new commission in response to the gallery’s collection. Curated by Emily Cormack, this exhibition is the first of three exhibitions Gertrude Contemporary will be presenting across Victoria under the aegis of From The Collection: Gertrude Regional Residencies in 2015. Delving into the wealth of strangeness and wonder that can be found in Victoria’s regional art gallery storerooms, From The Collection is a platform for contemporary artists to imagine new possibilities for museum objects. This…

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Exhibition | The Politics of Perception | Latrobe Regional Gallery

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As part of the statewide festival Art + Climate = Change 2015 Latrobe Regional Gallery has a new exhibition on now until the 24th May 2015. About the Exhibition The Politics of Perception presents works by artists Symons and Targett that map critical issues surrounding our environment; poetically and potently charting landmarks of anthropocentric disaster that cannot be found on any atlas or world map. This body of work raises critical issues surrounding the subtleties and complexities associated with humanity and its relationship to environmental change. Latrobe is Victoria’s largest electricity supplier and is home to a substantial forestry industry. The juxtaposition of exhibiting works that communicate deforestation, ozone hole depletion and species loss in this region is a conscious move on the part of the artists. They endeavour to raise awareness, create discourse and reflect on industry impacts. This…

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