Subscribers to the EVCS may be interested in following sessions at the forthcoming AAANZ Conference, to be held in Melbourne from the 7th to the 9th of December. The sessions below are particularly relevant to anyone working on early modern European art history. For the full call-for-papers and details on submitting a proposal see http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2013-conference/inter-discipline-2013-call-for-papers/ Art, science and German travellers: inter-disciplinary and transnational exchanges in nineteenth-century Australia and New Zealand Dr Kathleen Davidson | University of Sydney | k.davidson@ozemail.com.au Dr Ruth Pullin |Fellow, State Library of Victoria 2013 | ruth.pullin@gmail.com German-speaking émigrés and visitors were a significant presence in Australian and New Zealand arts and sciences throughout the nineteenth century. From the embrace of Romanticism to their favorable reception of…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | August 16th 2013
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Jobs Head Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales - deadline 30th August 2013 Assistant Curator, Boroondara - deadline 1st September 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan Society of Fellows - deadline 1st October 2013 2014 John David Stout Research Fellowship (on any aspect of New Zealand culture), Victoria University of Wellington -Stout Research Centre - dedline 1st October 2013 Tenured Faculty Positions in Cultural Heritage (art history focus), IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca - deadline 16th October 2013 Head of Programme, Curating Contemporary Art (0.6), Royal College of Art, London - deadline 22nd August 2013 Conservator-Objects, Australian National Maritime Museum - deadline 18th August 2013 McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships, University of Melbourne (open, must work on…
Symposium | The TWMA Animate/Inanimate Symposium
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The TWMA Animate/Inanimate Symposium TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) will present a unique public program to accompany the Animate/Inanimate exhibition at TWMA in conjunction with Healesville Sanctuary, its neighbour in the Yarra Valley, just four kilometres away as the bird flies. This symposium will present a day of lively discussions about the meanings, histories and vulnerabilities of the natural world through the eyes of artists, cultural theorists and environmental scientists, and coincides with Animate/Inanimate which presents the work of contemporary artists who explore the impact of global economic and climatic change on our natural environments and ask; can we find a ‘spirit’ in the inanimate? Animate/Inanimate is the first exhibition to launch the inaugural TarraWarra International and features 6 leading…
News | The Getty makes images of their collection freely available
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Yesterday the Getty announced that it would make available all images of public domain works of art in the Getty’s collections. The initial release includes “making roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.” This is not just the release of images of the museum’s collection, it is apparently the beginning of the Getty’s ‘Open Content Program‘. This will share not only images from the collection, but also images from the collections of the Getty Research Institute such as documentation from field projects, publications and the Getty Vocabularies. The Getty joins other US institutions such as the Walters Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Harvard University, along…
AAANZ 2013 call for papers update
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Please note the following panels were left off or incomplete on the previous CFP. Also please note that the session Art’s Histories as Interdisciplinary Practice convened by Peter Stupples has been cancelled. Deadline is August 30th - see http://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/2013/08/06/call-for-papers-aaanz-2013-inter-discipline-melbourne-dec-7-9/ for the full CFP Art, science and German travellers: inter-disciplinary and transnational exchanges in nineteenth-century Australia and New Zealand Dr Kathleen Davidson | University of Sydney | k.davidson@ozemail.com.au Dr Ruth Pullin |Fellow, State Library of Victoria 2013 | ruth.pullin@gmail.com German-speaking émigrés and visitors were a significant presence in Australian and New Zealand arts and sciences throughout the nineteenth century. From the embrace of Romanticism to their favorable reception of Darwin’s theory of evolution, German travellers arrived in the Antipodes with a sophisticated understanding of the…
Tuesday 13th August | Artists in Conversation: Susan Jacobs & Nicholas Mangan @ MUMA
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Susan Jacobs and Nicholas Mangan respond to Simon Starling: In Speculum, discussing their own research-based practices with a focus on their shared concerns and engagement with materiality, scientific enquiry, site-specificity, the studio/workshop, research, scale, technology, and sculptural process. Susan Jacobs’s art encompasses drawing, sculpture, video and sitespecific installations. Whatever the media, she has a consistent focus on the properties of materials and spaces, directed by the processes involved in drawing. Jacobs works with a diverse array of materials, referencing the invisible and often indecipherable ‘stuff’ of the world that surrounds us – atomic and sub-atomic particles, metals, physical forces and environments. She is also fascinated by ‘the latent potential of sites’ and the metaphorical possibilities inherent in them. Jacobs’s practice…
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | August 9th
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Jobs Community Heritage Officer based at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum - deadline 26th August 2013 Online Content Producer, National Gallery of Australia (background in museums, curatorship preferred) - deadline 18th August 2013 Program Coordinator, Collection Discoverability, National Gallery of Australia - deadline 18th August 2013 Professorship in Classical (Greek and Roman) Art History and Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy - deadline 30th August 2013 Lecturer in Art History, Plymouth University - deadline 13th September 2013 Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies at The University of Tokyo - deadline 20th September 2013 Solmsen Fellowships, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison - deadline 15th November 2013 General Funding Summer Research Scholarships for students, University of…
Lecture | MUMA Boiler Room Series: Biljiana Ciric
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From a history of exhibitions towards a future of exhibition making Biljana Ciric MUMA Boiler Room Series Convened by Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice at Monash University Shanghai-based independent curator Biljana Ciric presents her research initiative ‘From a history of exhibitions towards a future of exhibition making’ – a series of seminars that revisit the importance of the exhibition as a key factor in relating art to its wider social context. The seminars, taking place in New Zealand, Singapore and China over 2013-2014, focus specifically on the history of exhibitions in China, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Ciric will discuss this line of enquiry in relation to her recent curatorial projects that have aimed to…
Masterclasses | Looking at Greek Vases with Melbourne University and the Ian Potter Museum of Art
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Two masterclasses presented by the University of Melbourne and the Ian Potter Museum of Art. The Mysteries of Thera: Pompeii of the Bronze Age Aegean, Saturday August 24 Sometimes referred to as the mythical Atlantis, Thera (modern day Santorini) was buried by a volcanic eruption over 1600 years before Pompeii, preserving some of the most startling and exquisite artworks of the ancient world. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne presents an afternoon of masterclasses on the religion, art and culture of this bronze age Aegean site with prominent experts Associate Professor Louise Hitchcock, and Dr Brent Davis. For bookings and to pay online click here. Looking at Greek Vases, Sunday August 25 The Faculty of Arts at…
Reminder | Entries for 2013 AAANZ book prizes closing soon
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AAANZ as announced that the 2013 Book and Catalogue prizes are now open for nominations. To be eligible books, catalogues and articles must have been published within the year 2012 by members and/or staff of institutional members. All entrants must be current members of AAANZ, this includes affiliated staff of small or large museums with an institutional membership. Download entry form here 2013 AAANZ Prize Entry Form Please email admin@aaanz.info for any enquiries. We require two copies of the relevant publication with each entry by August 30th 2013, postal details are on the entry form. Winners will be announced at the 2013 AAANZ Conference Interdiscipline in Melbourne 7–9 December 2013. Prize Categories Best book ($500 supported by The University of Sydney) Best anthology ($500 supported by The University of…
NGV Lecture | Nefertiti – The Real Story Speaker Marc Gabolde, Egyptologist
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Nefertiti – The Real Story Marc Gabolde, Egyptologist In anticipation of the NGV’s Ancient World gallery opening in October, this lecture will look at one of the most famous queens in ancient Egypt – Nefertiti. Marc Gabolde is one of the world’s leading scholars on Nefertiti and in recent years has been excavating in the Royal Wadi at Amarna, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s capital city. Based on cutting edge research, this lecture will look at Nefertiti’s life and role as royal consort to Akhenaten. What is her parentage? Did she rule Egypt in her own right? Is she the mother of Tutankhamun and was she buried at Amarna before being moved to the Valley of the Kings? Date: 6pm, 15 Aug 2013Venue: NGV…
UPDATED | Call for Papers | AAANZ 2013 ‘Inter-discipline’ (Melbourne, Dec 7-9)
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The call for papers for the 2013 AAANZ conference is now open - closes 30th August 2013 The 2013 conference will be held in Melbourne, December 7-9. Keynote speakers are Professor Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths) and Professor David Joselit (Yale University). The conference will be held across venues at the VCA Southbank, University of Melbourne Parkville, Ian Potter Museum of Art, and the NGV. Sessions are scheduled for two and a half hours. Conveners develop sessions in a manner that is appropriate to the topics and participants of their sessions. A characteristic, though certainly not standard, format includes four presentations of twenty minutes each, amplified by 10 minutes of questions, audience participation, or by a discussant’s commentary. Other forms of presentation are…
NGV Lecture | Monet and Rodin: Separate Artists, Similar Paths, Laurie Benson
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Monet and Rodin: Separate Artists, Similar Paths Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art This lecture is presented in association with the 2013 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. Born within two days of one another and ultimately achieving success, fame and recognition, both artists trod intriguing and very bumpy paths to attain their status in the art world. They were both revolutionaries who transformed art in their respective media. They were also good friends and they exhibited together in a landmark joint show in 1889. This talk will explore the synergies between these two giants of French art, and keen gardeners. The Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture commemorates the life and work of the internationally recognised…
Symposium | Minimal, Conceptual, Pop: A symposium on American Art 1960–80
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The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is joining with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to mount an international symposium on the Gallery’s American art collections of the 60s and 70s. This period of radical experiment gave rise to many practices and aesthetics underpinning contemporary art. Enriched by the John Kaldor gift of 2009, the Gallery boasts the world’s finest museum collection of Sol Lewitt. Major pieces by Lewitt, Carl Andre, Christo, Donald Judd, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Frank Stella and Laurence Weiner are on display during the symposium. Three leading American experts, Alexander Alberro (Columbia), Charles W. Haxthausen (Williams) and Robert Slifkin (NYU) will travel to Sydney for the event. They will be joined by…
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | August 2nd 2013
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Jobs Post-doctoral researcher – Curatorial Department, Geffrye Museum, London - deadline 19th August 2013 Junior Research Fellowship, University of Cambridge -Jesus College - deadline 4th September 2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on Religious Culture and the Arts: Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Krieger University - deadline 14th November 2013 Funding Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Washington, fellowships - various deadlines Herrenhausen Research Fellowship on international history of garden culture and garden art in an interdisciplinary context - deadline 15th November 2013 ARIAH Prize for Online Publishing - deadline 1st November 2013 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships (inc. Humanities) for travel between 1 June 2020 and 30 November 2020 - deadline 27 September 2020 Calls…