Month: March 2016

Exhibitions | Richard Bell – Elizabeth Gower – Mithu Sen and Pushpa Rawat | RMIT Gallery

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Richard Bell | Imagining Victory Opening Night: Thursday 10 March | 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: 11 March – 23 April Opening Speaker | Professor Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice President, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Vice-President, RMIT University Drawing heavily upon the mechanisms of activism, this significant solo exhibition by leading Australian artist Richard Bell is centred on a trilogy of recent video projects that attempts to dig beneath the veneer of cultural integration to expose how racism can be deeply embedded and passed on to future generations. An Artspace exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. Curator: Alexie Glass-Kantor | Artist: Richard Bell Public Program – Wednesday 16 March, 1-2 pm Discussion | Dr Greg Creek RMIT: The use of narrative and satire in video art Dr Greg Creek is…

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Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | March 4th 2016

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Jobs Australia Manager, Pacific Collections, Australian Museum – deadline 20th March 2016 Curator, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – deadline 20th March 2016 International Exhibitions Manager, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand – deadline 21st March 2016 IPERION Research Fellow – Conservation and Heritage Science digital documentation and data processing management, The National Gallery – deadline 28th March 2016 CROSSCULT Research Fellow – Defining, mapping and using cultural heritage data/User testing and evaluation of mobile applications, The National Gallery – deadline 28th March 2016 Lecturer in Art Histories of Asia, Broadly Defined, University of Leeds – deadline 21st March 2016 Lectureship in Contemporary Art History, Theory and Gallery Studies, University College Cork – deadline 22nd March 2016 Professor of Contemporary Art, Liverpool John Moores University – deadline 13th March 2016 Funding and Short Term Opportunities Summer Institute in Technical Art History 2016, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts,…

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Threats to funding of the National Library of Australia’s ‘Trove’

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Disturbing news came out last week that proposed cuts to the budget of the National Library of Australia may threaten the future of Trove. While there are no threats to service as a whole, one effect of the cuts may be tat Trove will stop “aggregating content in Trove from museums and universities unless it is fully funded to do so.” There is also the possibility that digitisation of collections will slow down. These cuts follow years of funding cuts to our cultural institutions by both sides of government. This is seriously bad news for humanities researchers (among others), who rely on Trove as an easily accessible and very user-friendly ‘collection of collections’. Trove is free and available to anyone, anywhere in the world, making it an important tool that drives research both inside and outside of academia. Moreover, Trove is recognised…

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New website Art UK

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The very successful Your Paintings website begun by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation back in 2011 has been succeeded by a new website called ArtUK, now run by the Public Catalogue Foundation with support from the BBC. It is great to see such a useful website growing and expanding. Digital spaces that aggregate information from a  variety of collections are really important, gallery and museum databases are invaluable, but often as a researcher you aren’t sure what is held where, and your chances of knowing that there is, say, a small portrait by your artist held in a regional town hall might be pretty well zero. These aggregate websites are also especially important for image researchers as web search tools like Google still often fall short, a google search on a specific artist is often flooded with the same well-known image…

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Lecture | Art from the Front – panel discussion chaired Alison Inglis | State Library of Victoria

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Several Australian artists enlisted during WWI, both to serve in military roles and also to use art to capture the experiences at the front line. Hear historian Ross McMullin, author and illustrator Jo Oliver, print scholar Dr Colin Holden and curator Ann Carew discuss some of our most notable war artists, including cartoonist and official war artist Will Dyson; painter and military hospital nurse Jessie Traill; and Norman Lindsay, whose wartime work included producing recruitment posters and cartoons. The panel will be chaired by academic and art historian Professor Alison Inglis. Date: 8th March 2016, 6:00pm–7:15pm Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette (Accessibility Has wheelchair access) Free. Bookings on the State Library of Victoria website. Email: inquiries@slv.vic.gov.au

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Exhibition | Photography goes Poof! Mathew Jones’ lost photoworks 1989-94 and Rennie Ellis: Gay Pride | Monash Gallery of Art

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Two new exhibitions opening today at the Monash Gallery of Art. Photography goes Poof! Mathew Jones’ lost photoworks 1989-94 3 March 2016 to 10 April 2016 Between 1989 and 1994 the Australian artist Mathew Jones made a number of photographic works about gay identity. For both political and artistic reasons, these works were ephemeral, strategic interventions. Some photographs were only circulated as photobooks or as artist’s pages in magazines. Others took the form of site-specific installations that depended on a live audience. As a consequence, these works were like Molotov cocktails of contemporary art, exploding in the face of specific problems and then evaporating into the ether. MGA has worked with Mathew Jones to re-create these important historical artworks a quarter of a century later. These works capture the pathos and desperation of Queer politics at the height of the AIDS…

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Sydney Art History Lecture and Seminar | Alexander Nagel

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Professor Alexander Nagel from New York University is giving a lecture and a special research workshop in Sydney next week. Lecture | The Renaissance Elsewhere 10 March, 2016, 6-7.30pm Co-presented by the Power Institute and Sydney Ideas Italian art in the period between ca. 1300 and ca. 1500 – what is called the Renaissance – is characterized by its extraordinary openness to the world. The Renaissance represented items and ideas not only in direct proximity to artists of the time, but also distant peoples and places known to artists only through textual accounts, oral reports, drawings, imported objects and other images. Western Christian art was oriented elsewhere due to its unique position at a distinct remove from the origins of its religion, and far to the west of the centres of culture as Latin Christians understood it. It is difficult…

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Lecture | Patricia Simons at the University of Sydney

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Image: Tintoretto, Susanna and the Elders. Circa 1555. Vienna, Kunsthistorsiches Museum.

Professor Patricia Simons will also be presenting her lecture on Susannah and the Elders at the University of Sydney. See the information for her Melbourne lecture here. 21 March, 2016, 6-7.30pm Jacopo Tintoretto’s ‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This lecture moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect. Patricia Simons is Professor of Art History, University of Michigan. Her field of study includes the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality. This is a free public lecture open to all with online registrations required. Register on the University of Sydney website. Venue: Mills Lecture Theatre 209, RC Mills Building, the University of Sydney Contact: Ira…

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Symposium | Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe | University of Melbourne

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Greek and Roman classics became increasingly central to the European literary imagination, being referenced, translated, adopted and reshaped by a huge range of authors. In turn, current criticism of early modern literature is ever more concerned with the period’s reception and appropriation of the classical past. Greek and Roman myths held a two­fold appeal for authors: they were ‘known’ stories, culturally iconic and comfortingly familiar to the educated reader, but readerly knowledge could also be manipulated, and the myths reshaped in emotionally provocative and iconoclastic ways. This one day symposium at The University of Melbourne will be an investigation into early modern use of classical myths, asking how myth was used both ‘privately’, to excite emotional effect, and ‘publicly’, to respond to political, religious, or social events. This symposium will focus on how…

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Lecture | The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ – Patricia Simons | University of Melbourne

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Image: Tintoretto, Susanna and the Elders. Circa 1555. Vienna, Kunsthistorsiches Museum.

‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This lecture moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect. Professor Patricia Simons is Professor of Art History, University of Michigan. Her field of study includes the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality Date: Wednesday 9th March, 5:30–6:45PM Venue: Theatre 1, Alan Gilbert Building, University of Melbourne Free to attend. Registrations can be made on the university website.  

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