Short Talks Afternoon: Behind the photograph Fred Kruger Join Dr Jane Lydon (Monash Indigenous Centre (MIC)) Dr Isobel Crombie (NGV), Bill Nicholson (Wurundjeri Tribe Land & Compensation Cultural Heritage Council) and Leigh Astbury (writer and art consultant). Uncover the complex political and social content underpinning Fred Kruger’s compelling photographs and gain historical insights into the...
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Guercino: A Passion for Drawing – The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, 11th February 2012 to 15th April 2012 Reviewed by David Packwood Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino (1591-1666) because of his squint, was one of the most prolific draughtsmen of the seicento. Many of his...
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College Art Association Conference 2013 New York, February 13-16, 2013 The 101st Annual Conference in New York takes place February 13–16, 2013. The more than one hundred sessions, can be viewed on the CAA website here (pdf) The 2013 Call for Participation describes many of next year’s panels and presentations. CAA and session chairs invite your participation:...
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Mark Shepheard ‘Pompeo Batoni and his Roman Sitters: Portraits of the Sforza Cesarini.’ This paper examines Pompeo Batoni’s two portraits of members of the Sforza Cesarini family: the portrait of Duke Gaetano II in Melbourne and that of a woman traditionally identified as Gaetano’s wife, which hangs today in Birmingham. It readdresses the...
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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History Photos in colour from early twentieth-century Russia by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who took thousands of vividly coloured photographs of the last days of the Russian Empire. In a move that is both bizarre and a sign of the times in particular for galleries the...
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Jill Orr ‘Space, Place and Recurring History’ Monash University Faculty Gallery Space, Place and Recurring History is an analysis, through art practice, of relationships to place that overlap, intermingle, collaborate and question. Vision, imagination and possibility sit side by side the challenges faced in the psycho-social environment, that goes hand in hand with the...
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In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy A symposium series convened by Dr Elizabeth Presa and Dr Louise Burchill in three parts with leading artists, writers and philosophers, focusing on animals in philosophy and art. The keynote speaker for the first symposium is Professor Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at...
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AusArt Fellowship for Fine Arts The American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc., in conjunction with the American Australian Association, is offering a US$30,000 scholarship for an Australian MA or Graduate student of the Fine Arts or Curatorial Studies wishing to further their studies in the United States. Eligibility Study Level: Research/study...
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![Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Italian, 1452 - 1519, c. 1474/1478, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](http://199.238.187.99/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leonardo-ginevra-150x150.jpg "A14623.tif")
News and Writing about Art and Art History Architect Corbett Lyon and his family get the go ahead from the City of Boroondara to develop a small public museum in Cotham Road, Kew. The Guardian looks at Damien Hirst, the world’s richest artist on the eve of his Tate retrospective. The Artintheblood blog raises questions about...
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Call for Papers Society of Architectural Historians 66th Annual Conference Buffalo, NY, April 10-14, 2013 The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for papers for its 66th Annual Conference in Buffalo, NY, April 10-14, 2013. Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due on June 1st. There are themed sessions and...
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