Monthly Archives: June 2016

Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship

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The Cité Internationale des Arts in the Rue de L’Hotel de Ville, in the Marais quarter of Paris, was opened in the early 1960s. It provides studio accommodation for foreign and provincial art students, including musicians, painters, sculptors and graphic artists. One of the first decisions of the Power Institute was the purchase of a studio for the use of Australian artists. Each year the Institute offers residencies in its studio to artists, art scholars and art writers. Information for applicants Selection Criteria and Categories of Awards Category A: Power Institute Award for Artists Applicants may be from any of […]

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UniSA Vacancy – Head of School: Art, Architecture and Design

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Head of School: Art, Architecture and Design The University of South Australia is an enterprising and dynamic, outward-looking institution established in 1991, built on more than 150 years of teaching, learning and research excellence of our antecedent institutions.  We are South Australia’s largest university, and continue to enjoy a strong upward trajectory across a number of key indicators and global rankings – we are ranked amongst the top 3% of universities worldwide and in the top 50 international universities under 50 years of age. The School of Art, Architecture and Design is the oldest and most well-established school of its […]

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Sheridan Palmer – Hegel’s Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith

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From Power Publications: Sheridan Palmer’s landmark biography of Bernard Smith launches at the Victorian Artists’ Society, site of ‘The Antipodeans’ exhibition of 1959. ‘Better to make history than to write about it. What is needed is a brotherhood of some kind, compact, devoted, with a colourful title . . .’ Bernard Smith, letter to Robin Boyd, 1957   Key dates: Thursday 16 June 2016 National Library of Australia, Canberra book launch & public talk by Sheridan Palmer Wednesday 20 July 2016 Art Gallery of NSW Sydney joint book launch with The Legacies of Bernard Smith (Power Publications, 2016) & public […]

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University of Melbourne – Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History

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School of Culture & Communication Faculty of Arts Salary: $181,308 p.a.plus 17% superannuation The Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History is a professorship within the Faculty of Arts and the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. This position has been created by a visionary endowment from Faculty of Arts alumna Patricia Fullerton, the grand-niece of the Australian artist Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906); now memorialised in this important, endowed chair that will be based in the University’s Art History Program. The School is seeking to appoint a leading scholar in the area of Australian art history, with […]

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Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts – New PhD Scholarships 2016 & 2017

Brisbane, News

Three new PhD Scholarships offered by the Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts The Brisbane Consortium for the Visual Arts (BCVA) facilitates scholarly collaboration between the art history-theory programs of Griffith University (GU), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ) working in conjunction with the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The BCVA’s key areas of focus include: contemporary Asian art; art of the Asia-Pacific; Australian and Australian Indigenous art; the global contemporary; curatorial education and training; new approaches to art history and theory. The BCVA is now offering three PhD scholarships for research in the […]

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