Monthly Archives: February 2024

Call for Proposals | Islands: 40th Annual SAHANZ Conference | Deadline 5 April

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Islands The 40th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Brisbane, Australia 2-4 December 2024 Hosted by The University of Queensland (UQ) and The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) https://www.sahanz.net/events/islands/ Call for Proposals From spaces of isolation and independence, to archipelagos of connection and knowledge exchange, islands occupy a complex and evocative place in our terrestrial and imaginary worlds. At once utopian and dystopian—places of refuge and exile, extravagance and exploitation, paradises and prisons—islands contain contradictions and contested spatial histories. They provide distance from which to look back and reflect on one’s place in the world and the journeys that have […]

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Job | Editor Art Monthly Australasia | Deadline Wednesday 21 February

Art Monthly Australasia is Australasia’s flagship visual arts publication, providing a critical platform for its artists. Published since 1987, it is Australasia’s only visual arts magazine placing visual arts in a contemporary, historical, and regional context. In 2024, Art Monthly seeks to undertake a focused revision of the magazine, with intent to relaunch with a new vision grounded in local and global Indigenous visual arts and design practices by early 2025. The 2024 print schedule will remain unchanged. Art Monthly is seeking an outstanding Editor to help shape the future of the publication in its fourth decade of publication. The […]

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Call for Papers | see/saw | Deadline 29 February

see/saw is an undergraduate print journal devoted to publishing original research in art history and art criticism. Founded at the University of California, Berkeley, our publication shares innovative critical work biannually to foster intellectual discussion among an international network of students. As art historians, we are committed to diversifying the field and developing intersectional critical analyses of the artistic canon. see/saw is especially open to considerations of art and artists that have been historically erased and underemphasized. see/saw welcomes English-language submissions pertaining to all art historical genres and time periods from undergraduate students studying at any institution. To submit, please […]

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ANZJA | Vol 23 Issue 2 (2023) | Te Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All

ANZJA | Vol 23 Issue 2 (2023) | Te Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte Link to Vol. 23.2 at Taylor and Francis  Introduction Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wāhi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All Ngarino Ellis & Heather Igloliorte Exhibition AWA—Building pā tauremu Fish Weirs in the Waiapu River Natalie Robertson Article ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Affirmation, Defiance, and Kānaka ʻŌiwi Visual Culture Today Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick & Josh Tengan Exhibition Review: The Visiting Curators Léuli Eshrāghi, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Tarah Hogue, Lana Lopesi & Freja Carmichael Article Groundswell in the Gallery: North and […]

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Call for Papers | NZ Art Crime Research Trust Annual Symposium | Deadline 1 March 2024

Annual Symposium 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS Theme: Art Crime Research Today. [We are specifically looking for papers that are relevant, or can be related to, New Zealand]. Date: Saturday 18 May 2024 Location: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Wellington. If you’re keen to present a 25 minute paper please send your abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography, by 1 March 2024, to: artcrimenz@gmail.com Abstracts will not be accepted beyond this date. We will select and inform all those who offer abstracts of our decision within two weeks of the closing date. Expenses incurred cannot be covered by […]

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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 25.1 SPECIAL ISSUE: TARRANG | DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2024

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.1 | Special Issue: Tarrang Submissions due: Papers due Monday 1 March, 2024 Editors: Brian Martin and Jessica Neath Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early and Dr Verónica Tello The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Special Issue (25.1) Tarrang. The Special Issue builds on the 2023 exhibition More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency, curated by Brian Martin, Jessica Neath, Kimberley Moulton and Brook Andrew for Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum. We invite […]

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UPDATE OR ADD YOUR PROFILE TO THE DIRECTORY OF ART HISTORIANS AND ART RESEARCHERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

Art historians and art researchers practicing in the Asia Pacific Region region are producing significant and innovative research which is of great interest to scholars and to relevant industry sectors including museums and galleries. The Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region enables research, expertise, and contact details for these historians and researchers to be found quickly and easily. The Directory is a searchable database of experts – academics, researchers, teachers, writers, editors, curators, and museum professionals – specialising in art, architecture, and visual culture from all periods and geographic regions. Browse the directory. Update or add your profile

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Article │‘The First Homosexuals’: Connecting Australian art and design to the world

There is little written about queer Australian art before 1930. Peter McNeil FAHA shares his contribution to the groundbreaking global art exhibition, The First Homosexuals, and discusses the fragmented, solitary and quiet history of queer Australian artists pre-1930. Read the article here https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/australian-queer-art-and-design-pre-1930/

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Prize │ The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of $1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

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