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Lecture | What is Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? Claire Bishop

December 14, 2020
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Lecture: What is Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? Claire Bishop, The City University of New York Attempts to define the contemporary are suddenly everywhere – in museums, in art history, in theory. But what would be an appropriately ‘contemporary’ reading of contemporaneity? This paper discusses the contemporary as a discursive category, and two...
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Exhibition Opening | just sing what you feel at NGV Australia

November 29, 2020
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Click to watch video invite on NGV website

Free special event – everyone’s invited! just sing what you feel is an exciting new installation by Melbourne artist Jon Campbell, encouraging people of all ages to contribute to, and play with, contemporary art and music. Drawing inspiration from suburban life, everyday language, and rock ‘n’ roll, Jon Campbell takes motifs from Australian culture and...
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Floor Talks for Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists

November 28, 2020
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Fig. 4. Georges Seurat (French 1859–91), Study for The Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp 1885 (Étude pour Le Bec du Hoc. Grandcamp). Oil on wood panel, 15.6 x 24.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased from proceeds of The Great Impressionists exhibition 1984 (84.1933).

The NGV is holding a series of 30 minute lunchtime floor talks on the art of the Neo-Impressionists and the cultural life of the period as part of its programs for the exhibition Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists. Program Thursday 6th December, 12.30pm: Music in the Age of Neo-Impressionism Speaker John Weretka, musicologist and art historian...
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Floor Talk | Witchcraft and the Scapegoating of Disaster - Charles Zika

November 26, 2020
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Albrecht Durer, The Four Witches, 1497. National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest.

Floor Talk: Witchcraft and the Scapegoating of Disaster Professor Charles Zika will speak on the images of witches and witchcraft in the NGV exhibition The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster. The exhibition presents images of death and disaster in prints, illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books and paintings from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries....
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Lecture | John Swindells - Film in Service of the Sacred

November 16, 2020
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Barbara Blackman Temenos Foundation 16th Annual Lecture Tour Film in service of the sacred John Swindells John Swindells is an acclaimed writer, producer and director of documentary films and new media projects. This lecture explores the potential of film to serve the sacred. Swindells observes that although many filmmakers have tried to represent the...
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Symposium | Colonial Art Exhibitions: Past, Present Future

November 13, 2020
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Robert Havell and Robert Dale Panoramic view of King Georges Sound, part of the colony of Swan River (detail) 1834 Steel engraving, aquatint and watercolour on three sheets 18 x 271.4 cm The University of Melbourne Art Collection

Colonial Art Exhibitions: Past, Present Future The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Australian colonial art, with an unprecedented number of important exhibitions being held in our major art galleries (national, state and regional) and libraries. This symposium brings together many of Australia’s leading directors, senior librarians, curators, conservators and academics...
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Lecture | Sasha Grishin - The Book and the Hand: Canberra Books 1972-92

November 13, 2020
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The Codex Bolton Lecture Sasha Grishin : The Book and the Hand : Canberra Books 1972-92 This is the first of an annual series of public lectures on the handmade book in Australia, held in honour of the late Alec Bolton of the Brindabella Press, Canberra 1972-1996. Each lecture is intended to reflect on...
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Artist Talk | Jeff Wall and Thomas Demand

November 12, 2020
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Jeff Wall, 'A sudden gust of wind (after Hokusai)', 1993  transparency in light box, unique state  229.0 x 377.0 cm  Tate, London  Purchased with the assistance from the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and from the National Art Collections Fund, 1995 (T06951) © Jeff Wall

In Conversation: Jeff Wall and Thomas Demand Join us for this rare opportunity to hear these leading international photographers discuss their forthcoming exhibitions and reflect on their careers as two of the most influential and outstanding contemporary artists. Pay bar open from 6pm. Date: Wednesday 28 November, 6 for 7pm Venue: Great Hall, NGV International...
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Symposium | Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography, Melbourne 29-30 November

November 8, 2020
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J. W. Lindt J.W. Lindt's studio "Ethelred" Hawthorn Melbourne c.1899 Albumen silver photograph

Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography This symposium explores itinerant and sporadic image making in Australia (including those parts of the Pacific that Australia administered and that Australian photographers travelled to) in order to understand the effects of photographic transformation and exchange. It begins with images recruited to lend authority to colonial...
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Journal Launch | EMAJ: online journal of art, Issue 6

November 8, 2020
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Launch EMAJ: online journal of art EMAJ: online journal of art Issue 6 2011-2012 will be launched November 15th at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. EMAJ is the only online, refereed art history journal published in Australia and provides an international forum for the publication of original academic research in...
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