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Save the Date | AAANZ 2014 Conference | December 5-8

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AAANZ Conference | 5-8 December 2014 | Tasmania The AAANZ 2014 Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Tasmania (Tasmanian College of the Arts (TCotA, Launceston & Hobart) and the School of Architecture and Design) in partnership with the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston. The conference will focus on the intersections between architecture and art with a particular interest on how artists, architects, curators, writers and historians have and can navigate the social politics and histories of sites and landscapes. Keep an eye on AAANZ website and newsletter for more news…

Review | Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. Reviewed by Anna Drummond

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 and macabre, or a robust and confident youth cementing its place in the Australian cultural landscape?

CFP: SAHANZ 2012 ‘Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage’

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Call for Papers SAHANZ XXIX 2012 - Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, 5-8 July 2012 “Gould says of his Book of Fish, ‘what I write, & what here I paint are Experiment & Prophecy.’” Ronald Bogue writes this in Deleuzian Fabulations (2010) on Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish (2002), which is based on The Book of Fish (around 1832-33) by William Buelow Gould with paintings of flora and fauna (with narratives) of the…