Archive for February, 2013

Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 28th 2013

February 28, 2021
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Lecture | Terrain Vague in the work of Jeffrey Smart: lessons for urban design by Leon van Schaik

February 27, 2021
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Jeffrey Smart Holiday 1971 oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Private collection © the artist

Terrain Vague (undesigned space) plays a vital role in the make up of great cities. Smart’s urban pictures capture the qualities of this condition, one that eludes urban designers and policy makers. What might we learn about this elusive condition from these eerily perceptive paintings?
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Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 22nd 2013

February 22, 2021
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Jobs West Space Gallery Manager - deadline 8th March 2013 Lecturer in Museum & Gallery Studies & the History of Art or Design, University of St Andrews - deadline 4th March 2013 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Asian Art (1000-1750), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - deadline 18th March 2013 Assistant Professor, Medieval Art...
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Art History Seminar Series at Melbourne University | Semester 1 Program

February 19, 2021
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Art History Seminars at the School of Culture and Communication, Melbourne University Semester 1, 2013 Wednesdays 1-2 pm Venue: ‘The Linkway‘, John Medley Building, 4th Floor All Welcome 6 March | Robert Gunn, George Chaloupka Fellow, Museums & Art Galleries of NT | The Jawoyn rock art project 13 March | Susan Russell | Former Assistant Director, British School...
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Art History Lectures and Discussion at Melbourne Free Uni

February 18, 2021
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Raphael, The Engagement of Virgin Mary, 1504 Oil on panel, 170 x 117 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The Melbourne Free University is running a series of free lectures and discussions on art history as part of its 2013 program. These will run on Tuesdays from February 19th until March 26th. Details of some of the sessions are below, see the MFU website for further updates. Dates: Tuesdays from 19th February, 6:30-8pm...
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Lecture | ‘Living Up To One’s Teapot: Decorative Arts and Design in the Art Museum Today’ Christopher Menz

February 15, 2021
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Worcester Royal Porcelain co., Worcester (manufacturer) Aesthetic teapot 1882 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Robert Wilson, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2002

Collecting and displaying decorative arts and design is a core function of many leading art museums around the world. Christopher Menz looks at how and why these collections have evolved, how they can be interpreted to new audiences, and what their place is in the art museum of the 21st century.
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Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 14

February 14, 2021
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Floortalks on Love for Valentines Day at NGV International

February 13, 2021
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CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer) English c.1744-1769 Joseph WILLEMS (modeller) Flemish/English c.1715-1766 Masqueraders, pair of figures c.1758-60 porcelain (soft-paste) (a) 19.1 x 8.2 x 7.4 cm (b) 19.6 x 7.4 x 61. cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Collection of Mr Kenneth Reed

The NGV is holding three floortalks around the theme of love for Valentines Day this Thursday (February 14th). For further information see the website. 11.30am Love, lust and desire | Speaker Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, International Art 12.30pm Sex in ceramics: Soft porn in hard paste | Speaker Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, Decorative...
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Symposium | The Uses of Art in Public Space

February 12, 2021
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Since public art’s emergence as a distinct form of art practice in the late 1960s, the subsequent explosion in its varieties of medium, form and location has prompted multi-disciplinary research into its conception, production and reception.
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Review | Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. Reviewed by Anna Drummond

February 11, 2021
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Julius Popp, Bit.Fall, MONA. Image via flickr.

The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania’s much-hyped art museum of sex and death, has just turned two. Built to house the personal collection of gambling millionaire David Walsh, MONA was opened to much fanfare and speculation in 2011. Two years on, has the gallery grown into a contrary toddler peddling the smutty...
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