Benjamin West and ‘The Venetian Secret’: Art and fraud in late Eighteenth-century London Angus Trumble, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art In this lecture, Angus Trumble will discuss the late eighteenth-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and sheds light on a number of intriguing technical and historical issues. In 1796...
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Susan Scollay - Guest co-curator, Love and Devotion: from Persia and Beyond, March - June, 2010 ‘Gardens of Love: Persian Poetry and its Admirers’ Transcending place and time, classic love stories found in Persian poetry have been reflected in western culture, with parallels in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare and in the lyrics...
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Call for Papers Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Detroit, 2012 Members and friends of the Society of Architectural Historians are invited to submit abstracts by 1 June 2011, for the thematic sessions listed below. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted online. Only one abstract per author or co-author may be submitted. Please do not send your...
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Angus Trumble The Finger Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings for the Yale Centre for British Art, provides some pointers on the finger, in a collision between art and science, history and pop culture. From Guernica to the Sistine Chapel, Trumble offers a witty and perverse look at matters digital. - In conversation with David...
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FACE À L’HISTOIRE A Lecture by Victor Burgin Venue: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy (404 George St, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia) Tel. + 61 3 9417 1549 E info@ccp.org.au W www.ccp.org.au Date: Wednesday 16th March, 2011, 6:16pm No bookings. Seats strictly limited. Gold coin donations gratefully accepted. Centre for Contemporary Photography, in association with the...
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Photography & place symposium Subject and object in 21st century photography What do subject and object mean (or what can they mean) in photography in the 21st century? Photography is a constantly mutating medium, reacting to (and sometime precipitating) changes in art, society, politics and technology. In the 21st century, photographic practice has come...
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Lectures Deanna Petherbridge - The Primacy of Drawing Deanna Petherbridge is an artist, writer and curator primarily concerned with drawing. Her recent book The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice is about the direct experience of artists, the historical role of drawing and its relationship to the sciences. From the publisher’s website: This...
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Call for Papers Second Annual Feminist Art History Conference American University, Washington D.C., 4-5 November 2011 Proposals due by 15 May 2020 Keynote: Mary Sheriff, Professor, Art History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Please submit one-page single-spaced proposals on any topic of feminist interest in art history and/or visual studies with a 2-page curriculum...
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Stop(the)Gap curator and artist talks Stop(the)Gap curator Brenda L Croft and international Indigenous curatorial advisors Kathleen Ash-Milby (USA), David Garneau (Canada) and Megan Tamati-Quennell (Aotearoa/NZ) are joined by participating Stop(the)Gap artists including Genevieve Grieves, Alan Michelson, Lisa Reihana, r e a and Warwiick Thornton. To be chaired by Hetti Perkins. For further information 08 8302 0870,...
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