Recent jobs, funding and calls for papers relevant to art historians and those working in art galleries and art museums.
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Recent jobs, funding and calls for papers relevant to art historians and those working in art galleries and art museums.
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The NGV is holding three floortalks around the theme of love for Valentines Day this Thursday (February 14th). For further information see the website. 11.30am Love, lust and desire | Speaker Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, International Art 12.30pm Sex in ceramics: Soft porn in hard paste | Speaker Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, Decorative...
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Since public art’s emergence as a distinct form of art practice in the late 1960s, the subsequent explosion in its varieties of medium, form and location has prompted multi-disciplinary research into its conception, production and reception.
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The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania’s much-hyped art museum of sex and death, has just turned two. Built to house the personal collection of gambling millionaire David Walsh, MONA was opened to much fanfare and speculation in 2011. Two years on, has the gallery grown into a contrary toddler peddling the smutty...
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News and Writing on Art and Art History Katrina Grant The Art Gallery of New South Wales has chosen not to replace Senior Curator of Asian Art Jackie Menzies after she retires, a decision that has surprised many, considering the gallery’s large collection of Asian Art (there will continue to be two curators of...
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Recent jobs, funding and calls for papers relevant to art historians and those working in art galleries and art museums.
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The significance of printmaking in the context of contemporary art and design will be explored at an exhibition in Melbourne this month. From February 6th the Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA) Gallery will present Community & Context, an exhibition featuring the work of twenty four Australian artists. eX de Medici and Rosalind Atkins’s...
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The Power institute is proud to present in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney, the forthcoming free symposium titled 'Of Loves and Ladies, Knights and Arms': The Renaissance Effect.
When we think of Renaissance art, we may think of individual examples of great painting and sculpture, but these works were often planned within complex...
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Symposium The Power of Luxury: Art and Culture at the Italian Courts in Machiavelli’s Lifetime This symposium argues that the real Renaissance took place in the realms of politics, fashion and the refinement of everyday living, rather than in the commissioning of paintings by Botticelli and Bellini. The symposium has been arranged in partnership...
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Richard Bell is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities; he was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, and lives and works in Brisbane. Lessons on Etiquette and Manners is the artist’s first in-depth presentation in Melbourne.
Working with humour and agit-prop activism, Bell’s writings, paintings and videos instruct his audience...
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Magical Transparencies: Seeing the Divine in Glass Peter French This seminar examines key elements of the religious iconography of Australian contemporary glass artist, David Wright (b.1948). Following a brief introduction to the artist and the context in which the artist is working, especially concerning Australian religiosity in the latter part of the twentieth century,...
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There are many reasons to celebrate the work of Louise Bourgeois at this particular time and in this specific place. Her powerfully moving works have cemented her place in the canon of significant twentieth and twenty-first century artists, not least of all in Australia because of the strong affinities between the artist’s work and...
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'Don't mock China's Eiffel Tower' | What is the deadweight loss of museums? | Australian businesses should recognise the skills of arts and humanities graduates | 'Pompous paradoxes, plagues of adverbs, endless sentences and strained rebellious poses' | Why a fake Rembrandt can sometimes be a good thing
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To advertise a job, funding opportunity or call for papers in these posts please email Katrina Grant webmaster@melbourneartnetwork.com.au and include title of job/conference etc, deadline and website details or contact email if no website available. Posts usually go out on Thursday and items need to be received by Wednesday to be included. Jobs Jacobite Studies Trust Fellowships, University...
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Art and Art History News and Writing | Jan 25 2013 Katrina Grant Ben Eltham in Crikey with good news for people in, or aspiring to, the creative industries. ‘New census data on Australia’s cultural and creative industries allows us to peer inside a dynamic sector for the first time in five years. And...
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In anticipation of the Melbourne Now exhibition later this year, the NGV is holding a series of free forums about the latest art, design, architecture, music and film in Melbourne . Each Sunday in February, a range of speakers including Phip Murray, Simone LeAmon, Gideon Obarzanek, Melissa Loughman, Jon Campbell and others will explore...
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Jobs Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Art for NYU in Sydney: Intensive Winter Session (6 weeks) – deadline February 6th 2013. Lectureship (Eighteenth Century), University of York, Department of History of Art – deadline February 20th 2013. 2 Postdoctoral fellows in Studies in Early Modern Europe, McGill University: Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas...
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Francis Bacon symposium: Bacon’s bodies Perspectives on the continuing significance of the art of Francis Bacon to coincide with the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ current exhibition Francis Bacon: five decades. This symposium considers the body as subject, the physicality of painting and the continuing significance of Francis Bacon’s body of work. Speakers...
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Jeffrey Smart: A voyage around stillness Barry Pearce SOLD OUT but tickets available for lecture on March 10th by Leon van Schaik Exhibition on until March 31st 2013. Lecture by Barry Pearce, Curator of Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940-2011 and Emeritus Curator, Art Gallery of NSW. This special lecture by the exhibition curator...
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