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Short Talks Afternoon: Private lives / public spaces - Photography, art and the law

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Thomas Structh, 'Pergamon Museum 1V', Berlin 2001, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with the assistance of The Bowness Family Fund for Contemporary Photography, 2008 2008.518 © 2011 Thomas Struth

Short Talks Afternoon: Private lives / public spaces - Photography, art and the law The NGV is holding an afternoon of discussion about photography, privacy and the public space in association with the present NGV exhibition Looking at Looking: the Photographic Gaze (exhibition website). The cutting look: Art, photography and public space Dr Melissa Miles, Lecturer, Theory of Art & Design, Monash University Melissa Miles will discuss the affects that increasing restrictions on photography are having on artists and on the types of photographs that they are making. The legal…

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Book launch: Grace McQuilten ‘Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design’

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Book launch Grace McQuilten ‘Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design‘ Anthony White, Senior Lecturer, Art History, School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne will launch Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design. In this book, McQuilten asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of co modification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of ‘art’ and ‘design’ in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Date: Thursday 15th September, 6:30pm Venue: Readings Bookshop,…

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Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity

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osef HOFFMANN (designer), J. & J. KOHN, Vienna (manufacturer) Adjustable-back chair (c. 1905) Sitzmachine ebonised beech, plywood, steel (a-b) 110.8 x 68.1 x 83.7 cm (overall) Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Jardine Matheson Australia, Fellow, 1983

Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity Vienna: Art & Design Speakers William M. Johnston, academic; Prof Jennifer Shaw, Pro Vice-Cancellor & Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New England; Assoc Prof Alison Inglis, Art History, The University of Melbourne; Dr John Carmody, School of Medical Sciences, Physiology, Convenor: ‘ Medicine and Music’, University of Sydney; Dr Edwin Harari, Assoc Prof Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne; Dr Vivien Gaston, Guest Curator, NGV & Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne; Amanda Dunsmore, Curator Arts & Antiquities, NGV;…

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Sir John Monash Lecture 2011: Whose Art Is It? Cultivating a Creative Community.

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Sir John Monash Lecture 2011 Whose Art Is It? Cultivating a Creative Community Join the 2011 Sir John Monash Lecture panellists Bryan Dawe, artist and political satirist, Prof. Ruth Rentschler, Arts & Entertainment management, Deakin University, Julie Shiels, artist, and Stephen Zagala, MGA Curator, to have your say about creativity in Monash. The 2011 Sir John Monash Lecture is brought to you by the City of Monash Arts & Cultural Development Unit. Date: 10 August, 2011, 6.30PM at Venue: Monash Gallery of Art, 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, 3150…

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Lecture: Bill Henson ‘The Light and the Dark and the Shades of Grey’

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Bill Henson

The Melbourne Art Foundation 2010 Lecture Bill Henson ‘The Light and the Dark and the Shades of Grey’ BMW Edge, Federation Square Monday 2 August, 6.00pm - 7.30pm Update: If you missed the lecture you can download an abridged version of the talk from Radio National’s Artworks website here - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2010/2981304.htm Or you can watch it at The Monthly website here - http://www.themonthly.com.au/bill-henson-light-and-dark-and-shades-grey-2659 Presented by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Art Foundation and the City of Melbourne’s Melbourne Conversations Program. This lecture is part of the program for the…

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