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Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Magazine Emerging Writers Program

February 8, 2021
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Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Magazine Emerging Writers Program 2012 Applications are now open – http://www.gertrude.org.au/news Deadline: 5pm Monday 19th March 2012 In 2005 the Gertrude Contemporary and Art and Australia Emerging Writers Program was established to provide a unique opportunity for emerging visual arts writers to contribute to the critical discussion of Australian…
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Recent writing about Art and Art History – January 27

January 27, 2021
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Recent writing about Art and Art History The other Vitruvian man – Smithsonian magazine article on a recently discovered 15th century version of Vitruvius’s Universal Man JISC digitisation – the problem of studying art history and images on the web and why words are the answer. Academics warn of damage to Aboriginal rock art, including…
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Recent writing about Art and Art History – January 13

January 13, 2021
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A round up of art and art history in the news over the past week: The Art Newspaper reports on the debate over whether to ‘conserve’ or repaint the Keith Haring mural in Collingwood. Stuart Kelly takes aim at scientists study of at art appreciation  – Art and Science don’t mix The Met in New York hires…
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Recent writing on Art and Art History News

January 6, 2021
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Recent writing on Art and Art History News  Links of interest from the past two weeks: The debate over the Louvre’s cleaning of Leonardo’s ‘Virgin and Child With Saint Anne’ has generated a number of articles – the most in depth from the New York Times with others from The Guardian and the BBC….
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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2020
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Barocci, The Nativity, 1597, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Merry Christmas To all our regular visitors and subscribers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. MAN will be having a short break over Christmas, but will be back in the New Year. Our subscriber base has grown considerably over the past year – we now have 500 email subscribers (you can…
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JOB: Lecturer in Art History – University of Manchester, UK

December 6, 2020
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Lecturer in Art History – University of Manchester, UK The University of Manchester, UK, are seeking to appoint a specialist in European or non-European art in the period from 1700 to the present. Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS) at Manchester maintains close ties with the Whitworth Art Gallery, which this appointment is expected…
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JOB: Pilkington Chair in History of Art – University of Manchester, UK

December 6, 2020
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Pilkington Chair in History of Art – University of Manchester, UK The University of Manchester are looking to appoint a leading art historian to this prestigious Chair. A beacon for History of Art at Manchester for nearly fifty years, in the recent past the Pilkington Chair has been held by distinguished art historians at…
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News: NGV announces new member of the Council of Trustees

November 29, 2020
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NGV announces  new member of the Council of Trustees From the NGV: Mr Allan Meyers, President of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Council of Trustees, today announced that the Victorian Government has appointed a new Council member, Mr Michael Ullmer. Mr Ullmer’s appointment commenced on 22 November 2011. Mr Ullmer has more than thirty years’…
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News: Hou Hanru named curator of the 5th Auckland Triennial

November 24, 2020
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Hou Hanru named curator of the 5th Auckland Triennial In 2013, the 5th Auckland Triennial will be led by the San Francisco-based, Guangzhou-born Hou, Hou Hanru. The organisers state that: Hou has an extensive record curating triennials, biennials and exhibitions internationally, from exhibitions in San Francisco and Madrid to the top biennales of Istanbul, Venice…
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News: JSTOR early journal content publicly available to anyone

September 15, 2020
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JSTOR early journal content publicly available to anyone JSTOR has announced that they are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics…
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