The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents Long Play Eames: The Architect & The Painter Friday 1 June 2020 to Sunday 17 June 2020 Australian Premiere and Exclusive to ACMI As part of its Long Play program, the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) presents the Australian premiere of Eames: The Architect & The Painter which will screen from 1 to 17 June. James Franco narrates the story of 40 years of creativity from powerhouse couple Charles and Ray Eames. Film makers Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey cleverly…
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Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity
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Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity Vienna: Art & Design Speakers William M. Johnston, academic; Prof Jennifer Shaw, Pro Vice-Cancellor & Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New England; Assoc Prof Alison Inglis, Art History, The University of Melbourne; Dr John Carmody, School of Medical Sciences, Physiology, Convenor: ‘ Medicine and Music’, University of Sydney; Dr Edwin Harari, Assoc Prof Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne; Dr Vivien Gaston, Guest Curator, NGV & Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne; Amanda Dunsmore, Curator Arts & Antiquities, NGV;…
NGV Talk: Nineteenth Century Furniture – Bugatti, Adnet and Koppel
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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 Kilda Rd.
West 86th: New Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
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New Journal: University of Chicago Press and Bard Graduate Center Announce West 86th The University of Chicago Press and the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) have announced a partnership to publish West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. The new biannual journal, which takes its name from the BGC’s New York City address, will be an international forum for research exploring the content, meaning, and significance of objects in their cultural and historical frameworks. It replaces Studies in the Decorative Arts, which the BGC had published…