ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY May Mo(u)rn: A Site-Writing Professor Jane Rendell Time: 6.30pm, Thursday June 10th Venue: RMIT 8.11.68 (Building 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right of the lifts) May Mo(u)rn is a site-writing which takes a collection of abandoned black and white photographs of modernist architectural icons found...
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Felix Krämer Head of the Städel Museum’s Collection of Nineteenth Century, Modern Painting and Sculpture The 2010 Duldig Lecture on Sculpture: Städel Sculpture The annual lecture of Sculpture is presented jointly by the Duldig Studio and the National Gallery of Victoria. This lecture will be presented by Felix Kramer head of the Städel Museum’s...
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Italian Studies – New Directions The Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Sixth Biennial Conference The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, 13 - 16 July 2011. The 2011 ACIS conference explores the most recent directions taken by the multifarious and interdisciplinary research areas within ‘Italian Studies’ (including Italian literature, history, art history, linguistics, translation...
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The Johnston Collection, Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts in East Melbourne is inviting applications from anyone interested in becoming a voluntary guide. Successful applicants will be required to take part in an intensive 12 session training programme to be held on 12 successive Mondays commencing 19 July 2010. For further information and an...
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Last week the Chairman of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Michael Abbott QC, announced that Nick Mitzevich would be the new Director of the Gallery. The previous director, Christopher Menz, resigned from the post in January this year. Nick Mitzevich is currently the Director of the University of Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane...
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DAVID SAUNDERS FOUNDER’S GRANT The aim of the David Saunders Founders Grant is to foster new research in architectural history and theory. Applications can be made to apply for funds to assist in field-work, archival assistance, printing and reproduction costs in preparation for publication. The award cannot be used to fund conference travel or...
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Call for Papers New Directions in Neo-Impressionism Richmond, the American International University in London, UK Saturday 20 November 2020 Proposals of approx. 250 words due by 1 July to: woloshyn.tania@gmail.com 2010 marks the centenary of the death of Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910) as well as the release of a new book of collected essays...
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Call for Papers IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University 27-30 September, 2011 The conference addresses practitioners, writers, critics, artists, theorists, and others working in the broad fields of print-related research. It aims to provide a platform in which practitioners and researchers can engage in a mutually productive exchange....
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The Friends of the Gallery Library ‘Drawing a Long Bow? Boccherini and the Madrid Visit’ Sophie Matthiesson Curator, International Art, National Gallery of Victoria Thursday 27 May, 2010, 6pm for 6.30pm This lecture follows the young virtuoso composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini to the Spanish court, where he arrived in 1768, aged twenty-four. The...
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ARCHITECTURE+PHILOSOPHY Listening and silence in the built environment Lauren Brown Time: 6:30pm Thursday, 27 May 2020 in Venue: RMIT 8.11.68 (Building 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right of the lifts). Following her Masters research into sound in the public realm, Lauren will be discussing the act of listening,...
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The Fifth International Conference on Arts in Society, Sydney July 2010 Deadline: 15 June 2020 The 2010 Conference will be held at the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia from 22-25 July 2010 alongside the 17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. The...
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The New British Sculpture: Reviewing the persistence of an idea, c.1850-present Henry Moore Institute 18 February 2021 Deadline: 30 June 2010. British sculpture has been frequently singled out as an area of outstanding cultural expertise. Numerous major exhibitions and accompanying catalogues, including British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century (1981), Un Siècle de Sculpture Anglaise...
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Restoring our Icons National Archaeology Week 2010 Lecture Series Tuesday 18 May 2010, 6-7pm Peter Lovell and Fraser Brown talk about work on Australia’s first built World Heritage Listed site. Major conservation and restoration work has been undertaken on the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens over the past four decades. Architecture and heritage...
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Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Call for Applications, 2011-12 Topic: Adaptions Five (5) one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2011-2012 academic year for untenured scholars in the humanities (including art and architectural history) who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2002 and...
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Call for Papers: Art on the Street The Korean Society of Art Theories, Seoul, KOREA October 24, 2020 We seek to build upon the recent discussion on public art and community by investigating specific examples of the practices of contemporary art inparticular contexts. We pay attention to the way in which the process of...
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Art History’s History in Australia and New Zealand A joint symposium organised by the University of Melbourne and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Art Historians (AAANZ) The symposium is conceived in conjunction with the residency of Professor Richard Woodfield (University of Glasgow) who will be a visiting international fellow in the Faculty...
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Genevieve Tyack (Australian Academy of Design) will give a floor talk in the Decorative Arts galleries, which addresses how beauty dominates over function in the nineteenth-century furniture designs of Bugatti, Adnet & Koppel. All Welcome Date: Friday 21st May, 12:30pm Venue: NGV International – meet at Information Desk, Ground Level, NGV International, 180 St...
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The Fine Arts Network in collaboration with Art History, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, present: The Joseph Burke Lecture 2010 Dr Lucy-Anne Hunt Professor and Head of Art, Faculty of Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, England ‘Eastern Christian Art and Culture: Convergence between Jerusalem, Greater Syria and Egypt between...
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Vincent Alessi Postgraduate candidate at La Trobe University ‘It’s a Kind of Bible: A Thematic and Stylistic Analysis of Vincent Van Gogh’s Collection of English Black-and-White illustrations’ La Trobe University, School of Historical Studies Research Seminars Date: Thursday 13 May, 12:05 to 1:45 pm Venue: History Meeting Room, David Myers Building East 125, Bundoora...
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