Monthly Archives: March 2018

emaj 10 now online

News

emaj | online journal of art https://emajartjournal.com/ Issue 10 – 2017-2018 features articles by Anna Parlane, Simon Pierse, Alice-Anne Psaltis, Kate Warren, and book reviews by Una Rey and Grace Blakeley-Carroll. This issue focusses on contemporary Australian art and its precursors, with essays on Lynette Wallworth’s immersive media environments, Richard Bell and Emory Douglas’s Burnett Lane mural, a 2012 work by Michael Stevenson, and Alannah Coleman at Bonython’s in 1970. Reviews of Sheridan Palmer’s recent book on Bernard Smith, and David Brooks and Darren Jorgenson’s book on the Wanarn painters are also included in this issue. emaj is a refereed […]

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Australian Academy of the Humanities – Grants and Awards deadlines closing soon

Funding

From the Australian Academy of the Humanities: 2018 Grants and Awards closing soon Every year, we offer a series of prestigious grants and awards that promote excellence in the humanities and support the next generation of scholars and practitioners. Applications close at 5:00pm AEST on 4 April 2018 for the Medal for Excellence in Translation, Max Crawford Medal, Humanities Travelling Fellowships and Publication Subsidy Scheme.

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‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April

Conference, Events

Dear friends & colleagues,   I’m pleased to invite you to attend a one-day interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April.   This symposium brings together papers exploring risk, women and modernist culture, especially research dedicated to women who have traversed the ‘risky’ division between centres of modernism – Britain, Europe, and the United States – and so-called ‘peripheries’.    The event will conclude with a public keynote lecture from Associate Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Sydney): ‘From Sexual Abstinence to Hymenectomy: Risk and Failure in Modernist Radical Feminism’.   The event is free, but please register […]

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Graphic Encounters PhD Stipend, La Trobe University

Jobs

Graphic Encounters PhD Stipend, La Trobe University The School of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University is offering a PhD Scholarship to an Indigenous student in the area of prints of Aboriginal Australians. The position is funded by La Trobe University as part of the Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality project, receiving ARC Future Fellowship funding. The PhD is a three year full time scholarship, also offered part time. The mid-year scholarship round at La Trobe University (for commencement in October) closes on 1 July 2018. The link is here: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/archaeology-and-history/research/graphic-encounters/phd-scholarship

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Gallery Curator: Bus Projects, Melbourne

Jobs

Gallery Curator | Bus Projects Applications due midnight (AEDT) 26 March 2018. The Gallery Curator (0.6 FTE) works collaboratively with the Director and Program Coordinator to develop and implement the annual program of exhibitions, public programs and publishing projects. The Gallery Curator will confidently liaise with a variety of stakeholders, including the general public, emerging and established artists, curators and writers, on the planning and realisation of a broad range of exhibitions and creative projects. More information: https://busprojects.org.au/footer/positions-vacant Position Description (PDF): https://busprojects.org.au/content/footer/1-positions-vacant/2018_curator_pd_bus_projects.pdf Applicants must provide the following via email (PDF): 2-page letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and a current curriculum vitae […]

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Art in Conflict PhD Stipend, Curtin University

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The School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) at Curtin University is offering a PhD Scholarship in the area of art and war. The position is funded by MCASI and is part of the Art in Conflict research project, receiving Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding. Art in Conflict is a three-year project examining contemporary war art at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The project is led by Curtin University in partnership with the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the National Trust (NSW), including researchers from the University of Melbourne, UNSW and University of Manchester. The PhD candidate […]

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Fashion Studies: An International Exploration, UTS 6-7 April 2018

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Fashion Studies: An International Exploration will be the first of a series of Symposia in Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Studies to be hosted at UTS from 6-7 April 2018. Led by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA, it coincides with the launch of a new Sydney Foundation, Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, which takes as its first theme a focus on critical fashion.   The UTS Workshop is generously supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and ‘Design Cultures’ at UTS.   The inter-disciplinary event brings together art historians, historians, literary theorists, Asian Studies specialists, designers, material culture anthropologists […]

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University of Auckland – Marti Friedlander Lecturship in Photographic Practices and History

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Marti Friedlander Lectureship in Photographic Practices and History The University of Auckland is home to the leading and most comprehensive Arts Faculty in New Zealand, ranked 28 in the QS World University Rankings by Faculty for 2018. At the heart of the Faculty of Arts is its commitment to preparing young New Zealanders to be global citizens and influencers, making it a hub of intellectual leadership. The University of Auckland is the largest provider of art historical scholarship in New Zealand. The Art History programme sits within the School of Humanities and offers a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate […]

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Judith Stein – Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy – Lecture, University of Melbourne

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During the early 1960s in New York, the Chinese-American art dealer Richard Bellamy (d. 1998) ran the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty- Seventh Street where he launched the careers of many of today’s iconic Pop, minimalist and maverick artists. In an illustrated talk based on her engrossing biography, Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), Stein brings alive this beatnik with a legendary eye who was the first to show Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Mark di Suvero and George Segal, as well as Yayoi […]

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