Dissect Journal is a new contemporary art publication that presents a range of longer essays, shorter reviews and artist pages. If it is true that contemporary art both reflects and refracts an image of the world, as it is both of it and provides more of it, then attempts to address contemporary art must themselves be varied and complex. In the variety of material published within its pages, Dissect Journal seeks to reflect the manifold interconnections between contemporary art and the world. Featuring both emerging and established contributors, the publication strives for a sustained and intelligent engagement with contemporary art. It aims to analyse and interrogate the work of contemporary artists from various vantage points, sculpting and refining multiple histories…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
NGV Forum | How to look good naked - From Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Forum: How to look good naked- From Antiquity to the Renaissance Sat 9 Nov, 1-3.30pm Ancient Greeks Looking Good: Nudity, Clothing and Antiquities at the NGV The ancient Greeks celebrated the body beautiful – which, for males at least, also meant the naked body. Men exercised and competed at athletic games in the nude, and their victories in both sport and war were commemorated with statues of idealised, perfectly formed nude bodies. Women in contrast were depicted clothed, until famously and scandalously the 4th century BC sculptor Praxiteles created the Aphrodite of Knidos, the first completely naked female sculpture. Painted vases show a similar obsession with idealised bodies, but also reveal a diversity of approaches to nudity: the comical side to…
Lecture | Rethinking Russell Drysdale: TarraWarra Museum of Art Lecture by Dr Christopher Heathcote
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Rethinking Russell Drysdale: TarraWarra Museum of Art Lecture Dr Christopher Heathcote TWMA presents a special lecture by exhibition curator Dr Christopher Heathcote in which he explores TWMA’s ground-breaking new exhibition Russell Drysdale: Defining the Modern Australian Landscape. Heathcote will reveal that Drysdale, one of the most highly regarded artists of his generation both in Australia and internationally, was a man ahead of his time who not only shaped perceptions of the national landscape but used visual art to pose questions about the environment - disturbing questions that society is only now confronting. He will show how the artist highlighted over 50 years ago what he saw as urgent issues facing this country, in many works which soon became an iconic…
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | November 1st 2013
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Jobs Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies (2014-15), University of Cambridge - deadline 22nd November 2013 Lecturer and Course Convenor, Visual Communication Design, Queensland College of Art - deadline 2nd December 2013 Curator, The University of Queensland Art Museum (UQAM) - deadline 8th November 2013 Art Collections Curator, Library Research and Information Services, University of Canterbury - deadline 3rd November 2013 PhD project at the Kunsthistorisches in Florence (range of study areas) - deadline 30th November 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut - deadline 30th November 2013 Kress Foundation: Institutional Fellowships in the History of European Art at various universities - deadline 30th November 2013 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellowship 2014-16 (New York)- deadline January…