Every Sunday in January the NGV is holding public drawing sessions. Particpants will be able to work with guidance from Australian artists Louise Hearman, Juan Ford, and John Wolseley. Materials are provided and your own grey-lead pencils and sketch pads are welcome (no larger than A3). Come and go as you like between each session....
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Please note this will be the last Opportunities post for 2012. I will start them up again in January. Also a reminder that I often list calls for papers and jobs on the MAN twitter account as I receive them and will continue to do so over the next few weeks, so follow me...
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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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Jobs H.D.T. Williamson Foundation Painting Conservation Fellow (2 positions), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne – deadline January 4th, 2013 Assistant Curator, Asian Art (part time), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra – deadline 20th December 2012 Director, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier – deadline 4th January 2013 Director, Monash University Museum of Art - deadline...
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J.W. Power: Abstraction – Création Paris 1934 Reviewed by Sheridan Palmer J.W. Power: Abstraction – Création Paris 1934, Sydney University Art Gallery, open now until January 26th, 2013. On the fiftieth anniversary of the J. W. Power bequest to the University of Sydney, an exhibition and catalogue produced by the University Art Gallery and Power Institute...
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Jobs Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, Political Theory and Internet Research at University of Cambridge – Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities – deadline 7th December 2012 Chair of Art History Department at The American University of Rome -Department of Art History, Rome – no deadline specified. Andrew W Mellon Foundation/Research...
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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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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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Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land Reviewed by Caroline Jordan Only at the National Gallery of Australia, 17 August—11 November, 2012, with a catalogue by Anne Gray and Roger Butler. Exhibition is closed but the website and image galleries are still available on the NGA website here. Sydney Long is one of the painters...
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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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Jobs Curator, Special Collection, University Library at The University of Melbourne – deadline 6 December 2012. Sydney Biennale Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow - deadline 7th December 2012. Assistant of Assoc. Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art, University of Toronto Scarborough – deadline December 11 2012. Terra Fellowships and Professorships in American Art at...
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Radiance. The Neo-Impressionists Reviewed by David R. Marshall Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists. National Gallery of Victoria, 16 November 2012 – 17 March 2013 Impressionism was killed by theory, the theory that gave the Neo-impressionists their identity. Neo-Impressionist theory picked up on Impressionism’s naturalism and acute observation of outdoor light effects (coloured shadows and so forth)...
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Revealed: Highlights from the FM Courtis Collection 5 November 2012 – 8 February 2013 A selection of works from the FM Courtis Collection will travel from La Trobe University Bendigo Campus to be exhibited at LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art, on the Melbourne campus. The exhibition celebrates the scope of the...
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The editors are pleased to announce the publication of EMAJ: online journal of art Issue 6, 2011-2012. The journal also has a new website at http://emajartjournal.com EMAJ publishes emerging and established scholars from around Australian and internationally. The journal is fully refereed and open access. You can read the abstracts below and visit the website here...
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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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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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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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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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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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