Dean’s Lecture | Thomas Demand’s Pacific Sun Professor Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore In 2011 the German artist Thomas Demand made a two-minute stop-motion film called “Pacific Sun.” Michael Fried will show this film and analyse it in detail, with a view to explaining what he regards as its particular significance in and...
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Art Talks: Free Lunchtime Lecture Pamela Irving Pamela Irving is a prominent Australian artist who specializes in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings. Pamela’s exuberant work is held in public and private collections throughout the world. Part of her most recent mosaic commission was unveiled last year at...
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International touring animation exhibition, 971 horses and 4 zebras, has made its way to Melbourne and will be presented at Monash University this month.
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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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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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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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Dr Amelia Barkin discusses Thomas Demand's photographic work in relation to theories of historiography and archival practice in contemporary art.
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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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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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