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WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2023 AWAPAS

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2023 BEST BOOK From an exceptionally strong field of scholarly art historical book publishing, the judges decided to award the prize to: WINNER: Penelope Jackson, The art of copying art. (Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Copying art for purposes of training or replicating artwork for collections, filmsets or as forgeries is an ancient practice. Jackson, with wit, scholarship and investigative brilliance, brings together the different traditions of copying art in this engaging and very readable volume. This is an original and pioneering piece of research that opens a field […]

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AAANZ END OF YEAR 2023 NEWSLETTER

Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2023 Advocacy This year was dominated by debate in the lead up to the October referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. AAANZ issued a statement in support of the Voice acknowledging it as an important step towards Treaty. Following the referendum we released a follow-up statement recognising the deep pain many people were experiencing and reaffirming our commitment to Treaty, truth-telling and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Thank you to the Indigenous Advocacy Working Group: Dr Ali Gumillya Baker, Dr Fiona Foley, Rebecca Holborn and Dr Jessyca Hutchens for crafting these statements. Consultation for the […]

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AAANZ letter of response to the proposal to close Griffith University Art Museum

12 December 2023 Re: Feedback on Proposal to Close Griffith University Art Museum I am writing to you as President of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), a national membership association and peak advocacy body, representing art historians, writers, curators and artists from around Australasia. The Association is strongly opposed to the University’s proposal to close the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM), a decision that puts economics before student interests and ignores the vital role university art museums play in teaching, learning and research. University art museums enrich the cultural and intellectual life on campus. They are […]

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Symposium | Faith, Emotion & The Body in the Baroque

“Emerging From Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque” is an internationally significant exhibition featuring world-renowned baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola, and contemporary artists working in the Baroque style. Showcasing rare, historically important works, Emerging From Darkness is an unprecedented first for Hamilton Gallery and regional Australia. Drawn from partnerships with and loans from the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, the exhibition brings together powerful, emotive and unapologetic works that changed the course of art at the beginning of the 17th century. https://darkness.hamiltongallery.org/ Faith, Emotion & […]

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Publication | Letters to a Critic

Melbourne University Press is about to release Letters to a Critic by Rodney James To celebrate, MUP are offering the below discounts on orders made by 12th December 2023 2+ copies: 15% off RRP 30+ copies: 25% off RRP 70+ copies: 35% off RRP Delivery is free on orders of $50+ To pre-order, please email dominika.greinert@unimelb.edu.au  Your full delivery details. Number of copies you wish to order. A pre-order invoice will be sent. RRP $60 hardback format Described as ‘arguably the most influential Australian art critic of the last half of the twentieth century’, Alan McCulloch’s work-as illustrator, critic, gallery director and author-reflected […]

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Publication | Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being

In early February Melbourne University Press is set to release, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns. This will be available in limited print run, so we welcome preorders now. Admired by those who knew her distinctive life, her agency in managing and promoting the legacy of Albert Tucker, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being sheds new light on Barbara Tucker’s advocacy of Albert Tucker’s art, her gift for friendship, her love of the Australian bush and her spiritual impulse. It provides the reader with witness accounts of Barbara’s life lived alongside Albert Tucker, one of the greatest Australian artists of the twentieth […]

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Publication | Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History, Discipline and Third Text

Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History, Discipline and Third Text (Melbourne/Naarm and London, 2023) Available from: http://www.discipline.net.au Future Souths, initiated and introduced by Verónica Tello, is the culmination of an online dialogical project that began in 2017. Future Souths is written by eighteen authors from the Americas, Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe, radically reconsidering the geo-spatial bases and biases of contemporary art history and discourse. It proposes a fluid, collective, contingent re-consideration of key art concepts from embodied and geo-located vantage points, perspectives, and experiences of the south. The dialogues explore methods, concepts, and theories grounded in the materialities of archives, histories, borders, […]

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Event | Perceiving life beyond the colonial Anthropocene: A Dialogue | Art Gallery of New South Wales

Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University) in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wednesday 13  December, 6.30pm Perceiving life beyond the colonial Anthropocene: A Dialogue   Presented at the AGNSW with UNSW Art & Design and the Power Institute In this event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, writer and theorist Macarena Gómez-Barris will offer a short reading and then join filmmaker Juan Francisco Salazar in conversation. Gómez-Barris will discuss what is at stake in grappling with the colonial gaze, land and environmental extraction in relation to art and media.  She will speak to various examples in the […]

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AAANZ statement on the result of the Voice Referendum

AAANZ expresses disappointment at the outcome of the Referendum on the Voice to Parliament. We acknowledge that the result is a devastating outcome for many members and their families across the country. It was a lost opportunity to begin the process of creating a fairer and more structurally equitable democracy. However, while this particular battle has been lost, the fight continues. AAANZ is committed to the importance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and calls for Treaty, truth-telling and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. While the discussion in the lead up to the Referendum vote exposed […]

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Publication | Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art

Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art (Routledge 2023) edited by Sarah Scott (ANU), Helen McDonald (Melbourne) and Caroline Jordan (Latrobe) is a collection of essays that examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from British invasion up to now. Terry Smith, Emeritus Professor of Art History (Sydney) writes: Truth-telling and reconciliation between First Nations and those who have since arrived has become the priority for all Australians, in all aspects of our lives and work. Awareness of this fact has been two centuries, and more, in the making. Indigenous art has been crucial to […]

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