Author Archives: Giles Fielke

Funded Opportunities for Emerging Scholars – connecting Art Histories at DAS 2020 and AAA in 2019

News

Dhaka Art Summit are looking for academics from Australia to participate in a scholars weekend at the 2020 Dhaka Art Summit (DAS). After a 2 year process and a successful inaugural DAS scholar’s weekend in 2018, Dhaka Art Summit are expanding the academic focus of Dhaka Art Summit through a grant from the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative in partnership with Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities and the Asia Art Archive. Entitled “Modern Art Histories In and Across Africa, South, and Southeast Asia,” this program will support 20 emerging scholars to join a team of leading international faculty […]

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DONALD BROOK MEMORIAL GATHERING

News

Join us to celebrate the life of Donald Brook, Emeritus Professor Flinders University, much loved and celebrated art writer, theorist, teacher and mentor. Friends and colleagues will speak and there will be a limited edition lithographic print by Lucas Ihlein offering a sidelight on this Australian cultural treasure whose philosophical writings and projects have influenced generations of creative thinkers. WHERE: RON RADFORD AUDITORIUM, Art Gallery of South Australia DATE: Thurs 7 March 2019 TIME: 6pm Kindly hosted by the Art Gallery of South Australia All welcome Stephanie Britton with Janet Maughan, ‘Donald Brook 1927-2018,’ Artlink

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M.A. in Art History at the University of Hong Kong

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The University of Hong Kong will admit its first class to the new M.A. in Art History in September 2019. Hong Kong’s first M.A. devoted to art history, the MAAH has the dual aim of preparing students for further academic study in art history or professional work in the art world. It is a full-time, one-year programme taught entirely in English, composed of six M.A. courses and a dissertation, with instruction in both Asian and western art from early to contemporary periods. Teaching is conducted by art historians trained in top international Ph.D. programmes, along with experts from the museum […]

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International Woodcarving Symposium – St. Blasien, Germany

News

The well known International Woodcarving Symposium in St. Blasien, Germany, invites artists to apply for this years event. St. Blasien is a small city in the beautiful region of the Black Forest. For 24 years we have held our cultural highlight, which is fixed in the planning of the year, and we have lots of public and a wonderful accompaniment with all kinds of press. We have had lots of artists from all over the world, but we are interested in encouraging representation from more countries. The rules are: Each artist will get a tree trunk in a length and […]

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AAANZ Conference, Prizes, Journal: Thank You

AAANZ Conference, ANZJA, Conference

Last Friday saw the conclusion of a successful and rewarding Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference at the RMIT University School of Art in Melbourne. The Association would like to thank the RMIT Conference Co-convenors Marnie Badham and Daniel Palmer; Grace McQuilten; and Amy Spiers, the Conference Producer, for producing such an excellent and stimulating event. Gratitude is also due to the entire Conference Committee, and the many Conference Volunteers who worked tirelessly to ensure the smooth running of the event. The sheer number of speakers and delegates (the highest for any conference in the Association’s history), the […]

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ARC Discovery Projects and the National Interest Test

Advocacy, General, News

Congratulations to the following colleagues working in the Research Fields of Art History, Theory and Criticism who were successful in the latest round of ARC applications:   Anne Dunlop Discovery Project The University of Melbourne This project aims to bring European and Chinese art history into dialogue. It explores the early Italian Renaissance in the larger geopolitical context of Mongol Eurasia and the Yuan Empire, to address the questions of influence, contact, and exchange. In reframing the development of early European art as a fundamentally cross-cultural phenomenon, this project aims to offer a better understanding of the roots of our […]

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Book Launch: An Act of Showing – West Space – December 4, 6pm

Events

Please join the editors for the launch of their new book An Act of Showing: rethinking artist-run initiatives through place co-edited by Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix.  The book will be launched by Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).   Tuesday 4 December at 6pm West Space Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne The book features newly commissioned essays by Paola Balla, Kirsten Lyttle and Dominic Redfern, and includes Chris Kraus’s essay “Kelly Lake Store” as well as creative contributions by ARIs in Australia and the Asia-Pacific on their relationship to place, and more…   The book is designed by […]

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RMIT University and Arts at CERN: PhD Scholarship in curatorial practice

Funding, News

RMIT University School of Art and the Arts at CERN program at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have announced a PhD curatorial research program and scholarship in trans-disciplinary curatorial practice. This features a full research tuition fee scholarship for 3 years (with possible extension to 3.5 years) with a stipend valued at a minimum of AUD $31,000 per year. To be considered for this PhD program and scholarship you must be an Australian citizen, and prepared to relocate to Geneva, Switzerland from April 2019 for 6 months. Curating art and physics The PhD program is run by RMIT University […]

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