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Book Launch | Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981–1984

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Monash University Museum of Art and Surpllus are pleased to present Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981–1984. This new publication focuses on Paul Taylor, the Australian editor, writer, curator and impresario. In particular, the book analyses Taylor’s important and influential early years in Melbourne, which included the founding of Art & Text, the curatorship of the exhibitions ‘POPISM’ (National Gallery of Victoria) and ‘Tall Poppies’ (Melbourne University Art Gallery), and the editing and publishing of an anthology of Australian art of the 1970s, Anything Goes: Art in Australia 1970–1980.…

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Launch | un Magazine 7.1

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un Projects is launching issue 7.1 of un Magazine tomorrow Issue 7.1 of un Magazine explores concepts of knowledge and research and the role they play in the production of contemporary art. With live performances from Michael Famularo and Solvent Cage, Edited by Jarrod Rawlins, sub-edited by Harriet Morgan, designed by Brad Haylock and packed full of goodness! Join us and the writers for an evening of music, art and text. Tuesday 30th July, 6-8pm at The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East. un Magazine website Facebook event    

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Symposium | The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Sydney, November 2012

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The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Sydney, November 2012 Bernard Smith could rightly be called the founder of Australian art history, and his presence and influence in Australian cultural life was immense from the publication of Place, Taste and Tradition in 1945 until his death in September 2011. To explore and celebrate his work and its legacy, the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, together with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, are convening this important two city symposium. This collaborative symposium will take place over four days in two locations, during which…

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Prize | ARIAH Prize for Online Publishing

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ARIAH looks for new initiatives to promote art historical research throughout the world, and invites nominations and self-nominations for the ARIAH Prize for Online Publishing. This award, which carries a $1,000 prize, seeks to encourage and promote high scholarly standards in online publishing in all fields of art history. The prize will be awarded annually to the author(s) of a distinguished article or essay published online in the past three years in the form of an e-journal or other short-form e-publication which advances the study of art history and visual…

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Symposium | Impresario: Paul Taylor - Art & Text - POPISM

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Impresario: Paul Taylor | Art & Text | POPISM Paul Taylor (1957-1992) was the founding editor and publisher of the internationally renowned art journal Art & Text. He was also an influential critic and curator who had a dynamic impact on the discourse and practice of visual arts. This symposium celebrates and reflects upon his life and achievements. It explores Taylor’s legacy and example by investigating his impact and enduring influence on Australian visual culture through the many aspects of his work: as a publisher, curator and critic, and advocate of post-structuralist…

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Launch | Discipline Contemporary Art Journal Issue 2

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Discipline is a completely independent, Melbourne-based contemporary art journal edited by Nick Croggon and Helen Hughes. The issue is unlike any other art publication currently available in Australia. It presents longer, research-based essays alongside artist pages to present a snapshot of Australia’s best young artists and writers. Discipline places such art within a global context: issue 2 features a guest-edited section by Maria Fusco, editor of The Happy Hypocrite, author of The Mechanical Copula (Sternberg Press, 2010) and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, UK. It is also features the first…

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News and Writing about Art and Art History | March 16th 2012

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News and Writing about Art and Art History | March 16th 2012 Katrina Grant The big art history news this week has been Maurizio Seracini’s announcement that his team drilling through a Vasari (BBC with video) in search of Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’ fresco have found some flecks of paint (Guardian). The news has excited media outlets with some simply announcing ‘Lost Leonardo Found’, which is pretty far from the truth. A more measured tone was taken by a report in the Telegraph where Mark Hudson suggests that ‘the idea of Leonardo’s painting…

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News and Writing and Art and Art History | March 9th

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News and Writing and Art and Art History | March 9th  Katrina Grant An exhibition of the work of Johann Zoffany has opened in London reviews here and here. After the British people and various organisations stump up 45 million pounds to keep Titian’s Diana and Callisto in the UK Catherine Bennet asks whether the British people should (or would be willing to) pay to go into their public museums - relevant also here in Australia where most of our public collections are similarly free. Martin Kemp writes in his…

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Recent Writing and News on Art and Art History | March 2nd

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Recent Writing and News on Art and Art History | March 2nd Katrina Grant Tony Ellwood returns to the NGV as director. Various news and interviews here, here and here. Works of art once owned by Adolf Hitler have been uncovered in a Czech convent. The University of Western Australia receives a major philanthropic gift toward the study of rock art. Disturbing news that both the Tate and the V&A have disposed of their photographic archives, apparently without consultation with curators at their own institutions. The Tate’s was luckily rescued…

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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History | February 10

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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History | February 10 News and Opinion The Art Gallery of New South Wales appoints Dr Michael Brand as director to replace Edmund Capon who left last year - our post, in The Sydney Morning Herald and audio of an interview on Radio National “Let the conservators do their job and turn down the volume. And to the conservators: back off a little” The conservator weighs in on the debate over Collingwood’s deterioating Keith Haring mural in The Art Newspaper. Interesting though not…

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Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Magazine Emerging Writers Program

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Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Magazine Emerging Writers Program 2012 Applications are now open - http://www.gertrude.org.au/news Deadline: 5pm Monday 19th March 2012 In 2005 the Gertrude Contemporary and Art and Australia Emerging Writers Program was established to provide a unique opportunity for emerging visual arts writers to contribute to the critical discussion of Australian contemporary art. Run in partnership with Australia’s leading art magazine Art and Australia, this program offers four emerging writers the opportunity to develop their writing practice, publish their work and gain further insight into the field…

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Call for Papers: Ways of Seeing - John Berger

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Call for Papers Ways of Seeing John Berger 6-8 September 2012, London The Centre for Life-Writing Research and the Department of English & Drama at the British Library are presenting a conference in 2012 to mark the 40th Anniversary of two of John Berger’s major works: the novel G, winner of the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, and the collaborative, BAFTA-winning BBC TV series and book Ways of Seeing. In celebration, the Centre for Life-writing Research at King’s College London, and the Department of English and Drama at the British Library -…

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Burlington Magazine Contemporary Writing Prize

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The Burlington Contemporary Writing Prize 2012 The Burlington Contemporary Writing Prize, to be awarded annually, seeks to discover talented young writers on contemporary art, with the winner receiving £1000 and the opportunity to publish a review of a contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. Since its founding in 1903, The Burlington Magazine has always considered the art of the present to be just as worthy of study as the art of the past. The Burlington Contemporary Writing Prize advances the Magazine’s commitment to the study of contemporary art by…

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Art Forums at the Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank

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Art Forums at the Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank The Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank is holding weekly Art Forums with speakers including artists, writers and curators. See the program of speakers below. All talks are free admission and open to the public. Venue: Art Auditorium, School of Art, Gate 4, Dodds Street, Southbank Further enquiries: 03 9685 9400 or email Scott Miles Free admission and all welcome Website - http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/events/category/Public%20Talks March 31st, 2011 12:30-1:30pm - Alex Baker ‘THINGS THAT I LIKE THAT MAKE ME WHO I AM’ Alex…

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Launch: Australian Book Review ‘Art Issue’

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Unveiling ABR’s Art issue Australian Book Review invites you to the launch of the Art Issue  by Brian Johns AO (Board Member and former Chair, Copyright Agency Limited, former Publishing Director at Penguin Books and Managing Director of the ABC.) Special Feature: Celebrated artist Bill Henson writes for the Art issue. ABR will publish an edited version of his 2010 Melbourne Art Foundation lecture. One of his photographs also appears on the cover. Christopher Menz, a former Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia is co-editor of the Art…

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