Monthly Archives: July 2020

Job | Head of Visual Arts – Australia Council for the Arts

July 31, 2020Jobs

A key leadership position that provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with the visual arts sector to inform the Australia Council’s advocacy, development and investment to effect positive change. What’s in it for you? 2-year full-time contract Paid leave between Christmas and New Year Work in a positive environment that embraces diversity and supports your development Salary package negotiable depending on experience What does success look like? Deep and ongoing engagement with the Australian visual arts sector to stay abreast of and influence emerging and long-term opportunities and issues […]

Online Lecture Series | IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States

July 31, 2020Events

The Power Institute and Discipline journal are pleased to present IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States, an online lecture series on the history of the visual infrastructures that have shaped the United States, and the practices that resist them. Jolene Rickard | On visual sovereignty Associate Professor, Department of The History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University September 2020 Lisa Lowe | On migration, materiality and memory Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Yale University October 2020 Jennifer González | On fearless speech: radical feminist art and war Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz March 2021 Nicole Fleetwood | On […]

PhD Scholarship | Visual Medical Humanities | Centre for Art History and Art Theory | ANU

July 31, 2020General

The Australian National University is offering a PhD Scholarship in Visual Medical Humanities This opportunity is for a candidate interested in Art History, Visual and Material Culture, Medical History, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies or, preferably, a combination of the above. The successful candidate will work with Dr Keren Hammerschlag, with funding from the ANU Futures Scheme, on a topic. Apply now $28,092 p/a, 3 years Applications close 31 August cass.anu.edu.au

Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS) | 2020 Theme: Ephemera in Digital Art History

July 17, 2020Conference, EventsDigital Art History

We are pleased to announce that the International Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS), a joint initiative of the University of Málaga and the University of Berkeley, with the collaboration of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Fundación General de la Universidad de Málaga, and the HDH, will celebrate the fifth edition from September 1st to 5th (2020). Due to the covid-19 situation, this year the Summer School will be all online. The DAHSS team is convinced that we have an unprecedented opportunity to explore new ways of working together in a real global scenario and at the […]

Reminder | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPA) close July 31

July 16, 2020AWAPA, Prizes

The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. AWAPA categories include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing, and an award for recently completed PhD graduates. The Awards are sponsored by a […]

Virtual Lecture | Mavis Ngallametta’s Emotional Ecology – Sally Butler | QAGOMA

July 16, 2020Events

VIRTUAL LECTURE: MAVIS NGALLAMETTA’S EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY 10.30am, Sat 18 July | Online via Zoom | FREE | BOOK NOW Hear from Sally Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland, as she discusses Mavis Ngallametta’s later large canvas paintings through the lens of emotional ecology. Discover how Mavis Ngallametta’s paintings reflect an intimate, emotional knowledge of her country, functioning more as spiritual portraits of place rather than landscapes, through the unique methods she used to personalise the locations she portrayed. Free / Bookings Required / This event is a webinar. Participant’s webcam and microphone will be disabled. Proudly presented by HSBC. Check out […]

New Book | Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age – Natalia Grincheva

July 10, 2020Publication

New book from Natalia Grincheva . It explores online museum spaces as sites of contemporary diplomacy across the largest museums in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In the time of the post(pandemic) “digital lockdown” this book offers timely, useful and illuminating insights on how museums can retain their global visibility, engage their local and international audiences and offer meaningful interactive learning experiences. You can read a teaser here. The book is currently on discount sale at Routledge. Please, share this link with your library to order a hard copy. Book reviews are very welcome! Please request an inspection copy by following the link or email the author.

Call for Papers | Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

July 7, 2020Call for Papers

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art Forum: Blind Spots Guest-edited by Isabel Taube and Anne Monahan Inspired by current efforts to reckon with ongoing, systemic racism, we invite proposals for a forum in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (Fall 2020) focused on blind spots, especially but not only related to race, that condition and constrain our research and writing. How might unexamined assumptions at the heart of our work in the academy and museum inadvertently perpetuate biases, stereotypes, and generalizations we mean to dismantle in and well beyond art history? We […]

Advocacy | Letter to The Hon Paul Fletcher MP to reverse the decision to cut 10% of staff at the National Gallery of Australia

July 6, 2020Advocacy, News

On Monday 6 July, the Executive Committee of the Art Association of Australia New Zealand wrote to The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety, and the Arts outlining their concerns with the proposed decision to cut staff by 10% at the National Gallery of Australia and what the ramifications would be with such a decision on the sector. Dear Minister, The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), the peak professional body representing art historians, artists, and art curators in Australasia and the Pacific, objects strongly to the decision to cut 10% of staff at the […]

AAANZ Prizes | Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020

July 3, 2020Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020. The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Following a review of the Awards earlier this year, AAANZ is pleased to announce a new category, Best Medium Exhibition […]