Art and Art History related events in Melbourne. We welcome submissions in this category. If you are organising or know of an event that would be of interest to our readers please see ‘Contact Us’ for detail on how to submit an item.
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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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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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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Tags: Decorative Arts, Lecture, NGV International, NGV Lectures
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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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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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Symposium The Power of Luxury: Art and Culture at the Italian Courts in Machiavelli’s Lifetime This symposium argues that the real Renaissance took place in the realms of politics, fashion and the refinement of everyday living, rather than in the commissioning of paintings by Botticelli and Bellini. The symposium has been arranged in partnership...
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Magical Transparencies: Seeing the Divine in Glass Peter French This seminar examines key elements of the religious iconography of Australian contemporary glass artist, David Wright (b.1948). Following a brief introduction to the artist and the context in which the artist is working, especially concerning Australian religiosity in the latter part of the twentieth century,...
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Tags: Art and Religion, Art History, Seminar, University of Melbourne
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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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‘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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Tags: 19th century art, Lecture, University of Melbourne, Victorian Art
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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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Tags: Australian Artists, Drawing, NGV
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