To all our regular visitors and subscribers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. MAN will be having a short break over Christmas, but will be back in mid-January. Our subscriber base has grown considerably over the past year - we now have almost 1000 email subscribers (you can subscribe by popping your...
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In February 2014 two exhibitions on the eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi will open in Melbourne. The State Library of Victoria will host ‘Rome: Piranesi’s Vision’ - an exhibition of Piranesi’s prints, with a particular focus on his Vedute di Roma. This exhibition will draw on the collections of the State Library of...
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America: Painting a Nation Diane Kirkby America: Painting a Nation is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 8th November 2013 - 9th February 2014. At a time when historians are increasingly displacing nation-building as the purpose for knowing the past, it could seem a retrograde step to make this the foundation principle through...
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Floortalks | Melbourne Now - Mark Hilton, Penny Byrne, Nick Braun-Sibling Designer Floor Talk- Nick Braun, Sibling SIBLING is a Melbourne design collective that works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, cultural analysis and graphic communication to produce new and unexpected spatial outcomes. SIBLING’s approach insists on intelligent forms developed from a positive, socially...
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The Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, invites you to Feral, an evening of live performance and artistic presentations. This is the inaugural live event for the Centre’s new peer-reviewed journal Unlikely Event Details Date: Thursday December 12th 2013, Doors open at 6:15pm for light refreshments, Live Performances to start at 7pm Venue:...
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The Crone, the Witch and the Library in Renaissance Italy Professor Pat Simons, University of Michigan This paper examines ways in which renewed attention to antiquity during the Renaissance re-invigorated misogynist stereotypes of old women as well as bringing new evidence to the emerging discourse about witches, hence shaping for the hag a vivid...
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The Darebin Art Show is a biennial showcase of contemporary art produced by artists who live, work or learn in the City of Darebin. Presented at the historic Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, this year’s Darebin Art Show features a record number of 134 entries. Through a myriad of media, the artists have conveyed their...
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Issue 7.2 of un Magazine will be launched this Friday. Date: 6 – 9pm Friday 6th December 2013 Venue: Magic Johnston, 27-29 Johnston St, Collingwood Issue 7.2 of un Magazine explores relationship between contemporary art and anachronisms. The launch will feature live performances from Armour Group and Tom Ellard! un Magazine 7.2 is edited by Jarrod Rawlins, sub-edited...
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The Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne & Footscray Community Arts Centre jointly present the conference ‘Spectres of Evaluation’, to be held on the banks of the Maribyrnong River at Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia, February 6-7, 2014. About the Conference Today, the making of art is haunted by spectres...
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Recurating: When Exhibitions Become Reified Terry Smith, Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh with Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director, Curatorial Practice, MADA and Rebecca Coates, Independent curator and lecturer, Art History, University of Melbourne This talk examines the recent phenomenon of restaging historical exhibitions, culminating in...
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