Jobs Senior Lecturer in Art History, Australian Catholic University - deadline 24th October 2013 Professor of Visual Arts, Deakin University (pdf link) - deadline 20th October 2013 Research Fellowships at the National Maritime Museum (UK) long term and short term - deadline 28th October Assistant Professor in Modern European Art of the Interwar Period (1914-1939), Stony Brook University -Art History and Criticism - deadline 1st December 2013 Post-Doctoral Researcher ‘The Project: Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS)’ , University of London -The Warburg Institute (Three Years, 0.5 Time Fixed-Term) - deadline 21st October 2013 Curator, Territory History, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Darwin) (scroll down for advert) - deadline Funding Joint Fellowship between Villa…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Exhibition Review | Australian Impressionists in France. Reviewed by Caroline Jordan
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Australian Impressionists in France Caroline Jordan The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has offered a number of Impressionist blockbusters over 2012-13: Monet’s Garden, Radiance: the Neo-Impressionists and now Australian Impressionists in France. Given its present ubiquity in our state gallery, it is well to remember that when Impressionism debuted in France in the 1870s and 1880s it was considered to be beyond the pale of official patronage. Impressionism offended by rejecting the mythological, classical or historical subject matter of academic painting, replacing it with such unimportant things as dance halls, picnics, cabbage patches, haystacks, stretches of beach and random scenes of the street. Spurning the studio, the Impressionists ventured outdoors to paint direct from the motif, daubing slashes and spots…
Lecture | An Intriguing Gregorian Manuscript - John Martyn
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2013 Margaret Manion Lecture by Associate Professor John Martyn This free public lecture will focus on an extraordinary illuminated manuscript - made up of forty one letters by Pope Gregory the Great - which is one of a significant group of Latin manuscripts held in the collection of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. Associate Professor John Martyn has recently published a book on this exciting find. In this lecture, he will analyse this Gregorian manuscript in some detail - including his suggestions as to its most likely place and date of production, as well as an examination of the manuscript’s highly unusual capital letters. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Martyn was appointed to…
Reminder | Art History Seminar ‘The Intentionality of Spectatorship: Emotions in Art Galleries, Emotions in the Wild
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The Intentionality of Spectatorship: Emotions in Art Galleries, Emotions in the Wild Dr Penelope Woods, Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Dr Penelope Woods works on theatre audience research and early modern performance history. She is collaborating with UK and Australian theatres on research into audience emotion in theatre spectatorship today and developing our understanding of audience emotion in theatres in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Penelope collaborated with Shakespeare’s Globe and Queen Mary, University of London on a PhD on spectatorship, reconstruction and audiences. She has a forthcoming chapter on seventeenth century audiences: “The Indoor Theatre Audience: Pity and Wonder” in Moving Shakespeare Indoors by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper and a forthcoming chapter on young…
Music of the Stuart court in exile
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Despite their long exile in France and Italy, the Stuarts - ousted from Britian in 1688 - remained leading patrons of the arts, particularly music. Both James II and his son James III made music an important part of court ceremonial: James II and his entourage played a major role in introducing a taste for Italian music to the French court, while James III and his musically talented sons were among the leading patrons of opera in Rome. To coincide with Kings over the Water, an exhibition of Jacobite glassware at the National Gallery of Victoria, Matthew Martin (the NGV’s Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts) joins Mark Shepheard on 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne to discuss the music of the…
Lecture | Tony Ellwood ‘The NGV and the 21st Century Art Museum Experience’
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The La Trobe University Art History Alumni, with the National Gallery of Victoria, presents the sixteenth annual Rae Alexander Lecture, which is to be delivered by La Trobe distinguished alumnus Tony Ellwood. The lecture will encompass a range of subjects looking at the approaches of the 21st century art museum. The lecture will include a discussion of the NGV’s major summer exhibition, Melbourne Now; an exhibition that will include up to 200 artists and a team of over 30 curators, resulting in the largest exhibition in the NGV’s history. Tony Ellwood is the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria and was previously Director of the Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). He has served on…
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | October 4th 2013
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Jobs Registrar, Exhibitions and Loans, State LIbrary of NSW - deadline 20th October 2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut - deadline 1st November 2013 Research Associate University of Edinburgh (part time), Edinburgh College of Art, College of Humanities and Social Science - deadline 22nd October 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art - deadline 15th October 2013 Bishop White Postdoctoral Fellowship of Japanese Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada - deadline 15th November 2013 Public Art Program Manager, City of Melbourne - deadline 18th October 2013 Calls for Papers You were not expected to do this (Düsseldorf, 2-4 Apr 14) - deadline October 31st, 2013 El Greco…
Book Launch | Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton & John Armstrong
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Book Launch: Art as Therapy The book Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton & John Armstrong will be launched at the NGV on Wednesday 16th October. About the Book A critique, a call to action and a practical guide, in Art as Therapy renowned philosopher and best-selling author Alain de Botton tackles the too often-ignored question, ‘what is art for?’ Alain de Botton and co-author, art historian John Armstrong, propose a provocative new methodology for engaging with art, one that encourages us to look to art for guidance on living better lives. de Botton and Armstrong argue that we need to approach art armed with the question, ‘how can this cater to my inner needs?’ Putting forward the radical proposition that…