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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Possessions and sacred signs in the art of Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) Paul Hills, Courtauld Institute of Art Active in northern Italy in a period when the function of sacred images was challenged by reformers, Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480-1556/7) was a painter who was inventive in recasting religious imagery. This lecture will argue that Lotto’s career...
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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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If you were to live here…a conversation with internationally renowned biennial curator Hou Hanru This free event is a prelude to Hou Hanru’s 5th Auckland Triennial as he joins Natalie King for a candid conversation about exhibition modalities that are concerned with locality and place. Hou will provide insights into exhibition modalities that interact...
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Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Stuart kings James II and James III maintained a royal government in exile, first in France and later in Italy. This court-in-exile formed the political and diplomatic centre of efforts to return the Stuart monarchs to their thrones in Britain culminating in the nearly-successful 1745 military uprising...
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This lecture will examine a group of significant art collections formed in London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Australian millionaires.
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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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Collecting and displaying decorative arts and design is a core function of many leading art museums around the world. Christopher Menz looks at how and why these collections have evolved, how they can be interpreted to new audiences, and what their place is in the art museum of the 21st century.
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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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‘Broken Pastoral and the English Folk’ Professor Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of Art History, Yale University This paper examines the revived interest in folk culture in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, exploring the relationships between ethnography, musicology and the study of historical arts and crafts. It places within this matrix the work of photographers, painters...
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