Arts Mildura, La Trobe University and LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art partner to bring to Melbourne three leading international curators all with a long standing interest and commitment to site-specific contemporary art practice. All three speakers are taking part in Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #9, 4-7 October, a biennial visual arts event...
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Jobs Exhibition Designer, Museum of Brisbane - deadline 3rd October 2013 Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section at the British Library - deadline 20th October 2013 Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Rock Art, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University - deadline Faculty Position/ Postdoctoral Fellowship, Exchanges and Temporalities...
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Sugar to Porcelain | The story of the famous Meissen Monkey Band (Die Affenkapelle) An illustrated lecture by Patricia Begg OAM Patricia Begg is an internationally renowned scholar and collector of porcelain and glass who has studied many of the large collections in England, Europe and North America first hand. She has curated a number...
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Arguably the most influential artistic development of the twentieth century, the readymade was set in motion one hundred years ago when Marcel Duchamp mounted an upturned bicycle wheel on a stool. Duchamp’s conversion of unadorned, everyday objects into fine art completely inverted how artistic practice was considered. Suddenly, art was capable of being everywhere...
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LECTURE #6: On Friendship ‘How do we know what we like when it comes to art?’ Professor Nikos Papastergiadis The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with Pip Wallis The sixth lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Melbourne academic and writer Professor Nikos Papastergiadis. In this lecture, On...
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How do we know our neighbourhood is getting better? Creative and participatory research in North Central Regina, ‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ Dr. Marnie Badham, Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Partnerships Communities like North Central are challenged to develop a long-term coordinated planning vision when they are burdened by stigma, complex social issues, and the crisis...
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Monash Art and Design is launching a new book ‘Thought Into Form’. The book celebrates the rich diversity of practice in the MADA community. The launch at ACCA will include talks on the future of collaborative creative practice from: John Warwicker, Professor of Design at MADA, Editor and Designer of ‘Though into Form’ Juliana...
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Art and Art History News Katrina Grant The Atlantic asked its readers to tell them why Humanities PhD programs (in the US) haven’t collapsed (and in some cases are growing) if there is no job market? They elicited an interesting range of responses, I think my favourite is ‘Perhaps there is simply an inverse...
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Jobs Director, Gertrude Contemporary - deadline 7th October Lecturer in Art (Drawing an Printmedia), VCA, University of Melbourne - deadline 6th October 2013 Australian War Memorial, Curator of Art - deadline 10th October 2013 Curator, Museum of Brisbane - deadline 30th September 2013 Research Fellowships, University of Nottingham -Faculty of Arts - deadline 28th...
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When Computers Look at Art David G. Stork New computer methods have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, computer fractal analysis has been used in authentication studies of paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock recently discovered by Alex Matter. Computer wavelet analysis has been...
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