Monthly Archives: December 2020

AAANZ End of Year Newsletter

News

      Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2020 As the end of the year quickly approaches I think most of us will be pleased to say farewell to a year more akin to a dystopian science fiction novel. It is a year that has changed everyone. A year that art historians, writers and artists are likely to interrogate for decades into the future. And unfortunately it has been a year that has seen our discipline, and the arts sector as a whole, come under threat. At first this was from the lack of government support through the JobKeeper and […]

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AAANZ 2020 Prizes │AWAPAs │ Research In Focus │ AIAH Research Grants

AWAPA, Prizes

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to announce the winners, highly commended and grant recipients for 2020. Congratulations to all recipients for the 2020 Prizes and Grants and those who were highly commended. AWAPAs The 2020 AWAPAs acknowledge the best in art writing, publishing and research across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. This year entries were received from over 25 institutions and organisations from 11 cities and regions. The Awards are generously supported by our sponsors and we thank Professor Terry Smith FAHA, CIHA; Art Monthly Australia; Australian Institute of Art History; Christchurch Art Gallery Te […]

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Essay Competition | Feminist Art in an International Art Curriculum

Prizes

Essay competition  Feminist Art in an International Art Curriculum Deadline for submissions 1 March 2021 This competition will be awarding 4 prizes of £230 (to 4 individual authors) Judges Katy Deepwell (Middlesex University), Alexandra Kokoli (Middlesex University), Anne Swartz (Savannah College of Art and Design), Kathleen Wentrack (Queensborough, CUNY), Catherine Harrington (Tokyo University of the Arts). This essay competition is open to anyone working, or recently working (i.e. last two years), in Higher Education, whether or not they are members of Advance HE Connect. This is an international competition, inviting contributions from anywhere in the world. This essay competition is […]

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Call for Papers | Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, Habiter // Inhabiting, vol. 2021-2

Call for Papers

Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art devotes its no. 2021 – 2 to the ways in which artists, art historians, and their colleagues from neighboring disciplines examine the multiple ways in which one can inhabit or be inhabited, and take on these interrogations in a time when, across the globe, entire populations are confined to their homes. This invitation to revisit the visual and imaginary plasticity of inhabiting calls for a wide variety of approaches, both in terms of thematic and fields of study. All proposals will be studied as long as submissions remain in line with the journal’s editorial policy. Investigations into the fields of history of architecture, urbanism, landscaping, visual arts, […]

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Review | ‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians

Book

‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians The Conversation 10 December, 2020 Editors Misha Ketchell Review Daniel Thomas, recent past: writing Australian art (Thames & Hudson Australia) In 1958, when the young Daniel Thomas was first appointed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the word “curator” was not in the Public Service Board lexicon. He felt his official title of “professional assistant” was inaccurate so he signed his letters “curatorial assistant”. read more     Image Robert Walker, Daniel Thomas in his apartment at Elizabeth. Bay, from the Robert Walker archive 1965 black […]

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Advocacy | AAANZ support for the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University

Advocacy,

AAANZ president Wendy Garden has written to the Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University to express our concerns over proposed changes to the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University. AAANZ has expressed its concerns stating that: The Art Association of Australia New Zealand (AAANZ) offers its strong support to the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University. Now facing major challenges due to the University’s restructuring plans, Visual Arts and Visual Cultures are successful and distinctive units which make an important contribution to research and education in this region. It […]

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