To advertise a job, funding opportunity or call for papers in these posts please email Katrina Grant webmaster@melbourneartnetwork.com.au and include title of job/conference etc, deadline and website details or contact email if no website available. Posts usually go out on Thursday and items need to be received by Wednesday to be included. Jobs Jacobite Studies Trust Fellowships, University...
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Art and Art History News and Writing | Jan 25 2013 Katrina Grant Ben Eltham in Crikey with good news for people in, or aspiring to, the creative industries. ‘New census data on Australia’s cultural and creative industries allows us to peer inside a dynamic sector for the first time in five years. And...
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In anticipation of the Melbourne Now exhibition later this year, the NGV is holding a series of free forums about the latest art, design, architecture, music and film in Melbourne . Each Sunday in February, a range of speakers including Phip Murray, Simone LeAmon, Gideon Obarzanek, Melissa Loughman, Jon Campbell and others will explore...
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Jobs Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Art for NYU in Sydney: Intensive Winter Session (6 weeks) - deadline February 6th 2013. Lectureship (Eighteenth Century), University of York, Department of History of Art - deadline February 20th 2013. 2 Postdoctoral fellows in Studies in Early Modern Europe, McGill University: Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas...
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Francis Bacon symposium: Bacon’s bodies Perspectives on the continuing significance of the art of Francis Bacon to coincide with the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ current exhibition Francis Bacon: five decades. This symposium considers the body as subject, the physicality of painting and the continuing significance of Francis Bacon’s body of work. Speakers...
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Jeffrey Smart: A voyage around stillness Barry Pearce SOLD OUT but tickets available for lecture on March 10th by Leon van Schaik Exhibition on until March 31st 2013. Lecture by Barry Pearce, Curator of Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940-2011 and Emeritus Curator, Art Gallery of NSW. This special lecture by the exhibition curator...
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The ‘Four Horsemen’ exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria draws together a rich, varied and evocative selection of images of death: the horseman crushing rich and poor alike beneath the hooves of his skeletal horse; the shadowy figure stalking the young and the beautiful; the horrors of war; the terrors of the final...
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‘Broken Pastoral and the English Folk’ Professor Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of Art History, Yale University This paper examines the revived interest in folk culture in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, exploring the relationships between ethnography, musicology and the study of historical arts and crafts. It places within this matrix the work of photographers, painters...
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To advertise a job, funding opportunity or call for papers in these posts please email Katrina Grant webmaster@melbourneartnetwork.com.au and include title of job/conference etc, deadline and website details or contact email if no website available. Posts usually go out on Thursday and items need to be received by Wednesday to be included. Jobs Curator, Photographs, Australian...
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Every Sunday in January the NGV is holding public drawing sessions. Particpants will be able to work with guidance from Australian artists Louise Hearman, Juan Ford, and John Wolseley. Materials are provided and your own grey-lead pencils and sketch pads are welcome (no larger than A3). Come and go as you like between each session....
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