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Art and Art History events in Australia and internationally. We welcome submissions in this category. If you are organising an event or know of an event that would be of interest to our readers please see ‘Contact Us’ on details for how to submit it.

Symposium | The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Sydney, November 2012

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The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Sydney, November 2012 Bernard Smith could rightly be called the founder of Australian art history, and his presence and influence in Australian cultural life was immense from the publication of Place, Taste and Tradition in 1945 until his death in September 2011. To explore and celebrate his work and its legacy, the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, together with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, are convening this important two city symposium. This collaborative symposium will take place over four days in two locations, during which Australian and international scholars, curators and artists will discuss all aspects of Bernard Smith’s wide-ranging work. The Melbourne leg will take place on September 20 and 21, 2012 and the Sydney leg on November 9 and 10, 2012. The symposium is to be convened by Jaynie Anderson, Herald Professor of Fine…

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Exhibition and Discussion | Made to last: the conservation of art

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Made to last: the conservation of art Ever wondered how to conserve your works of art? What’s involved with keeping your precious paintings free from wear and tear? How do you restore works after damage by flood or fire? Conservators from the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne will be visiting the Latrobe Regional Gallery to discuss all aspects of conservation in a series of special activities on Saturday 22 September 2012. Visitors are invited to bring along small works of art and objects for the conservators to view. During the day the conservators will demonstrate some basic cleaning techniques and will discuss issues of conservation as well as hosting a conservator’s clinic for patrons to bring along their small to medium sized artworks (paintings, artworks on paper and objects), and archival material (documents, photographs and books)…

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Symposium | Controversy: When Art Touches a Nerve, MPRG Symposium 2012

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Controversy: When Art Touches a Nerve Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Symposium 2012 Speakers include Julian Burnside AO QC, human rights advocate Professor Alison Young, University of Melbourne, expert on law, crime and culture Jane Clark, Senior Research Curator at MONA, Tasmania Dr Mark Nicholls, Film critic and Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Melbourne Ivan Durrant, artist Dr Vivien Gaston, curator and art historian Immerse yourself in a day of informative and lively debate about controversy in art in the grounds of the historic villa Beleura. Well known artists, historians, critics and lawyers will discuss how art continues to provoke intense reactions. In a media driven world, are artists too concerned with shock tactics? What subjects provoke strong reactions today? Is it the role of art to promote debate and how can confronting art lead to reflection and change?…

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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 body, including interpretations of sexuality, gender and the representation of children in recent art. This visually rich and spectacular exhibition surveys past, present and future controversies in works from the 19th century to the present day and represents major works…

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Public Lectures | Taylor and Sangster Lectures on two German Gardens

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Andrew Lowth on the Berlin Botanic Garden and David Marshall on the Garden Realm of Woerlitz The Garden Realm of Woerlitz is a group of ‘palaces’ and gardens in Anhalt Saxony whose origins lie in the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century. This massive and fascinating cultural environment features extensive waterways, follies (including an erupting Vesuvius) and gardens based on the English landscape style. Woerlitz was established by Duke Leopold III for the pleasure and education of the public and has always welcomed visitors.  David Marshall Constructed between 1887 and 1910, the Botanic Garden Berlin-Dahlem comprises an area of 126 acres. Beckoning like an oasis from the southwest of Berlin, it is is the city’s ‘green jewel’. Together with the Botanical Museum, it is one of the three largest and most important botanical gardens in the world and one that can, in…

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AAANZ 2012 conference online registration now open

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AAANZ conference ‘Together <> Apart’ online registration now open July 12-14, Sydney The 2012 AANZ conference will be held in the third week of the Biennale of Sydney, Together <> Apart and will address major debates and issues raised by this year’s biennale theme ‘all our relations’. It will focus on how networks of artists, curators, critics, museums, and publics structure art. It will ask: what are the stakes, outcomes, and tensions of collaborations and partnerships between artists and art institutions? This question concerns historians and critics of art of all periods as well as being a live issue for art now and offers a coherent point of intersection for the AAANZ”s diverse constituencies. Keynote Speakers Professor Thierry de Duve, author of Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx, Revamping Kant, Pictorial Nominalism, Kant After Duchamp, and Clement Greenberg Between the Lines. Dr Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, Institute…

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Symposium | A Battery of Ideas: Reading Beuys Today, University of Sydney Art Gallery

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Symposium – A Battery of Ideas: Reading Beuys Today University of Sydney, May 5th This symposium will present various ways of reading Beuys today, from performance art to relational aesthetics. Speakers include Thomas Berghuis, Anthony Bond, Donna West Brett, Janet Laurence, Bernice Murphy and Tom Nicholson. The symposium will be followed at 4.30pm by the opening of the exhibition Joseph Beuys and the ‘Energy Plan’ in the University Art Gallery. Date: Saturday 5 May 2012, 2–4.30PM Venue: Philosophy Room S249, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney Free Event Symposium program 2:00 Dr Ann Stephen, Senior Curator, University Art Gallery Welcome 2:05 Donna West Brett (Curator/Art Historian) – ‘Joseph Beuys and Werner Kruger’ 2:15 Anthony Bond (Director, Curatorial, The Art Gallery of NSW) – ‘Beuys and his practice’ 2:45 Bernice Murphy (Curator and founding director of the MCA) – ‘Beuys in the Power collection’ 3:15 Janet Laurence (Artist) – ‘The influence of Beuys on artistic practice’ Dr Thomas Berguis…

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Exhibition | ‘Southbank’ at Horsham Regional Art Gallery

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Horsham Regional Gallery Exhibiton | ‘Southbank’ The Horsham Regional Art Gallery invites you to the opening of our new exhibition Southbank. Southbank investigates the ever bourgeoning Australian suburb and its forms of domestic architecture through documentary photography and photo based practices that question, illustrate and celebrate the life of our suburbs. Participating artists: Rebecca Dagnall, Tim Handfield, Andrew Merry, Simone Slee, Nick Stephenson Opening: Join HRAG as they celebrate this new exhibition and welcome participating artist Simone Slee home to Horsham on Friday 20th April, 6pm Venue: Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Jubilee Hall 21 Roberts Avenue Horsham Contact: Telephone 5362 2888 Email hrag@hrcc.vic.gov.au Website www.horshamartgallery.com.au Opening Hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Weekends 1 – 4.30pm

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Event | Open Day at Wombat Park in Daylesford

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Wombat Park Daylesford Open Day A rare opportunity to view one of Australia’s most impressive and historic private gardens. Experience the vivid autumn colour, historic plantings, National Trust Register listed trees and the sweeping scale of the Sangster and Taylor designed Wombat Park. All proceeds from the opening will support the restoration of the historic fern gully and cascade at Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens in Daylesford. The story of Wombat Park begins in 1854 when grazier William Stanbridge built a modest, timber homestead and began planting a magnificent garden. His collection of exotic trees was to be described as ‘superior to any that can be seen in any private or public garden in Victoria.’ (Daylesford Advocate 26th May, 1885). The extensive and varied garden is one of the jewels in the crown of Victoria’s garden heritage. At the turn of the…

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Shepparton Art Museum reopens after refurbishment

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Shepparton Art Museum reopens after refurbishment The Shepparton ARt Museum (SAM) will reopen on Friday 17th February after a $1.98 million redevelopment. The Art Museum now features international standard climate control, state of the art LED lighting, six new upstairs galleries and a new public programs workshop. SAM will reopen with two major new exhibitions. Sir John Longstaff: Portrait of a Lady (more info) will be a major exhibition of work by Shepparton’s most famous artist, and will feature paintings on loan from major public and private collections. The Indigenous Ceramic Art Award (more info) will showcase the best Indigenous ceramic artists working across Australia, from Echuca to the Torres Strait. In addition, the Art Museum’s permanent collection will be displayed on the first floor, which includes a special new ceramics gallery. SAM will be officially reopened by The Hon. Simon…

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Open Gardens in Daylesford – Restoration of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens

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Gardens around the Gardens Open Gardens in Daylesford to support the Restoration of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens Ray Robinson – 3 Camp Street, Daylesford A small, densely planted woodland style of garden. Also includes an intensively cultivated vegetable garden. Daylesford House – 8 Smith Street, Daylesford One of the great gardens planted by the prosperous burghers of the town after the Gold Rush, recently renovated with classical features. Holly Lodge – 19 Grenville Street, Daylesford. A recently restored large stroll garden featuring both traditional and contemporary plantings. A seasonal delight. Kilmaley – 25 Stanbridge Street, Daylesford Walnuts and chestnuts frame magical walks, berries, hedges and ve getables. Ticino style planting recalls Daylesford’s Swiss Italian heritage. Villa Castagna – 12A Stanhope Street, Daylesford One and a quarter acre Neo-Baroque garden with intricate rooms and significant trees. Concert 5.00 pm – At…

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Masterclass – Medievalism and Youth Culture

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Medievalism and Youth Culture Limited places are available for a Masterclass sponsored  by the Australian Research Council and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Participation in this all-day Masterclass is invited from postgraduate and early career researchers in fields related to medievalism and youth culture, such as children’s and young adult literature, fantasy literature, graphic arts, computer gaming, role-playing games, fandom, creative and re-enactment community groups, theatre, television and cinema. The Masterclass will be led by: Clare Bradford, Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University, former President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2007–2011), and the first international winner of the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship (2009). Stephen Knight, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in English at Cardiff University and Honorary Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. Chantal Bourgault du Coudray, Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at UWA, scholar, screenwriter and occasional filmmaker. The Masterclass will consist of: An overview…

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Stuart Rattle Open Garden Garden, Musk, Victoria and Restoration of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens

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Stuart Rattle Open Garden, Musk, Victoria and Restoration of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens About the Garden Stuart Rattle’s garden in Musk, Victoria is inspired by the English Arts and Crafts movement and the romantic tradition of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. The garden is divided into fourteen distinct garden rooms joined by interconnecting walkways. A love of individual plants has been indulged alongside architectural features, extensive use of hedging and other garden ornamentation. On the day there will be a BBQ, boutique wines, coffee and other local produce as well as a sale of rare and exotic plants from Lambley nursery, Ascot. Date: 10am-4pm,  Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th november, 2011. Address: 11 School Rd, Musk (Look for sign between Bullarto and Daylesford). Tickets: $10 (children 12 and under free). On December 4th 2011 other gardens in Daylesford will be open as part…

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Symposium: Reprogramming the Art Museum – Curatorial & Education Strategies for the 21st Century

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Reprogramming the Art Museum – Curatorial & Education Strategies for the 21st Century This symposium will provide a forum to debate new models of program and audience development for the 21st century at two critical points: program generation and delivery and to explore the implications of these ideas on contemporary art practice. All presenters, (international and local), have been invited to respond to the following broad themes: The evolving role of the contemporary art museum in the construction and distribution of knowledge. The civic role of the contemporary art museum in the community. Engagement through audience responsive exhibitions and programming Keynote addresses: Adam Lerner, Director, MCA Denver. Justine McLisky Head of Young People, National Portrait Gallery, London. Lawrence Rinder, Director, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California Berkeley Dominic Willsdon, Leanne & George Roberts Curator of Education and Public…

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Symposium – Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space, ANU School of Art, Canberra, 20 July – 23 July 2011

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Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space ANU School of Art, Canberra, 20 July – 23 July 2011 The Australian National University School of Art presents Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space, an international symposium to be held in Canberra from the 20th to the 23rd of July 2011. International and local artists, architects, designers and public intellectuals will converge to explore the role of art in the public spaces of the contemporary community. Diverse practices will be revealed across digital, relational, guerrilla, ephemeral, heritage, commemorative and architectural spaces. Participants will discover Canberra’s vibrant public art scene, as well as glimpsing the failed dreams of those projects that might have been. Canberra, Australia’s capital, was planned at a time when faith in the role of art and design in perfecting inhabited space was at its zenith. A remnant…

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