Interdiscipline AAANZ 2013, Melbourne, December 7-9 The 2013 AAANZ annual conference will take place in Melbourne, December 7-9. It is being hosted by the University of Melbourne (VCA and Art History), National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT. It will include sessions on the history of art and other visual disciplines, art theory, and practice-based...
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The AAANZ conference committee is calling for submissions from design students or other designers to create a logo for the 2013 conference, to be held in Melbourne in December. All applicants are required to follow the logo design brief and submission guidelines below. Logo design brief The purpose of the competition is to design...
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Jobs Museum Collection Officer, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney – deadline 24th April 2013 Collections & Exhibitions Project Registrar, Arts Centre, Melbourne – deadline 24th April 2013 Curatorial fellowship at Artspace, Sydney – deadline 8th May 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow for African American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Curatorial Department – deadline 17th...
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Invasion or integration? Public art in urban spaces Vivien Lovell, Vanessa Walker Vivien Lovell is the founder of Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit curating and producing site-specific artistic interventions. Based in London, Modus Operandi has delivered more than 110 projects over the past 12 years throughout Britain, Europe and Japan. In this presentaion,...
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Possessions and sacred signs in the art of Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) Paul Hills, Courtauld Institute of Art Active in northern Italy in a period when the function of sacred images was challenged by reformers, Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480-1556/7) was a painter who was inventive in recasting religious imagery. This lecture will argue that Lotto’s career...
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Lecture: The Jacobite Court in exile, in France and Italy Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, International Decorative Arts and Antiquities Please note that this event was originally advertised as starting at 11:30am but in fact starts at 11am at the NGV – this Sunday Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Stuart kings James II and...
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Varieties of Venetian Colour: Titian and Veronese Professor Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art Venetian painters of the Renaissance are celebrated above all others for their colour and for their handling of the medium of oil paint. This lecture explores how Titian embodied this aesthetic both in his religious images and in his...
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Jobs Lecturer in Fine Arts, Tasmanian School of Art (Hobart) – deadline 15th April 2013 Exhibition Assistant, RMIT Design Hub – deadline 19th April 2013 Aboriginal Emerging Curator and Artist Liaison, Sydney Biennale – deadline 26th April 2013 Lecturer in Art and Visual History, Plymouth University, School of Humanities and Performing Arts – deadline...
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Robert Rooney: A Night of Talks As part of the
Centre for Contemporary Photography’s new exhibition Robert Rooney: The Box Brownie Years 1956-58 CCP is holding a night of talks. Artist Philip Brophy, writer and curator David Homewood and Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts, ANU School of Art, will speak on and...
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Northern Lights Friday 1 March – Sunday 5 May, 2013 In a search for the sublime, subliminal and seminal, Northern Lights celebrates the creative wealth of women artists in the northern suburbs of Melbourne whose diverse backgrounds and experiences are connected by location. The majestic landscape and its human intervention are seen in the...
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Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart, Paintings 1940-2011 Chris van Rompaey Jeffrey Smart’s work has long been notable for its hard-edged representation of urban wastelands in a manner that is at once poetically resonant and uncompromisingly classical. A recent retrospective, originally shown at two Adelaide venues and subsequently, in part, at the TarraWarra Museum of...
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Space, Memory, Narrative: The Oratorians and the Memorialization of San Filippo Neri in Rome, Florence and Naples Glenys L. Adams, University of Melbourne PhD Completion Seminar, Art History, School of Culture and Communication The Rooms of San Filippo Neri at the Roman Oratory in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) Rome...
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Jobs Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (link to general NGV jobs page, scroll down for job) – deadline 15th April 2013 Postdoctoral research collaborator, The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – deadline 10th May 2013 Research Fellow, University of Warwick -History of Art – deadline 30th April 2013 Lecturer in Philosophy of Art and...
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Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival: Pacific Arts and Culture Forum The CPAF forum series brings together critical thinkers, creative practitioners, academics and arts industry professionals whose work engages with the contemporary Pacific. The program will include three discussion panels around the following themes: Addressing the Archive – Pacific collections in Australian museums and galleries Who...
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Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian Rex Butler It might seem strange to argue it, but Boris Groys, who made his name with The Total Art of Stalinism (1992), a brilliant analysis of the complicity between the Russian avant-garde and Stalinism, might be our greatest Communist art historian. How? Groys’s critical writing — pursued primarily...
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Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations A roundtable to celebrate the launch of the new book, Mapping South, and to discuss the importance of southern cultures for reimagining the global. What is the South? Is it a place, a voice or a perspective? A specific site or a mobile culture? Edited by a...
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Jobs Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies – no deadline applications accepted until all positions filled Chancellors Fellowship Opportunities, University of Edinburgh (Art History department has stated they are interested in attracting fellows under this scheme) – deadline 18th April 2013 Program Leader for Art History (Full time), The American University of Rome...
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Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series Gertrude Contemporary and the art-journal Discipline are joining forces to present year long program of lectures on key concerns, artists and theories of contemporary art. The guest lecturers will speak from the perspective of a variety of different disciplines — including philosophy, cultural studies, art history...
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If you were to live here…a conversation with internationally renowned biennial curator Hou Hanru This free event is a prelude to Hou Hanru’s 5th Auckland Triennial as he joins Natalie King for a candid conversation about exhibition modalities that are concerned with locality and place. Hou will provide insights into exhibition modalities that interact...
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