Author Archives: Katrina Grant

The Art of Attribution: The Catalogue Raisonne in the 21st Century

June 14, 2017NewsNational Gallery of Australia

Date: Saturday, 15th July 2017 Venue: National Gallery of Australia FREE | Registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-art-of-attribution-the-catalogue-raisonne-in-the-21st-century-tickets-34786859433 The NGA and the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne are co-hosting a one-day symposium on the significance and challenges of compiling a catalogue raisonné. The catalogue raisonné is a comprehensive listing of the known works by an artist or group, and may be limited in its scope to a particular medium or date range. In Australia, a number of key catalogues raisonnés have been published on artists such as Tom Roberts, George Lambert, Margaret Preston, Bea Maddock, John Brack, and […]

Thomas Crow talks in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland | Launch of Power Polemics ‘ No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art’

March 1, 2017NewsAuckland, Events, Melbourne, Publications, Sydney

Thomas Crow will be giving a series of talks in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland to mark the launch of his contribution to the Power Polemics series. In this new series, arguments cut against the grain, sides are taken. Thomas Crow challenges us to acknowledge the theology of abstract art. This flagship series puts art hard up against political and personal viewpoints from the field’s leading writers. See more about the book here. Melbourne Book launch and discussion Friday 10 March | 6-8pm The Ian Potter Museum of Art Thomas Crow in conversation with Anne Dunlop and Charles Green:Theological Originality in […]

Registrations now open | Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles (NGA, Canberra, March 2017)

February 21, 2017ConferenceConference, National Gallery of Australia

Conference: 17–18 March 2017 Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Registrations now open Registrations are now open for the Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles conference, to coincide with the major NGA summer exhibition Versailles: Treasures from the Palace. For more information and program updates, visit the Conference website

Call for Papers | Women in the Creative Arts (ANU, August 2017)

February 21, 2017Call for PapersAustralian National University, Call for Papers

The School of Music at the Australian National University, is pleased to announce a call for papers and submissions for an innovative research conference on “Women in the Creative Arts” to be held at the school from 10-12 August, 2017. Papers and proposals are invited from scholars and industry practitioners from the creative arts. The topical focus for this conference is the creative work of artists who identify as women. Delegates of all gender identities are invited to submit proposals for papers. Research papers will receive 30 minutes of presentation time – papers should be presented within 20 minutes, allowing […]

Book Launch at MUMA – Ian McLean

August 18, 2016NewsBook Launch

Book Launch Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art Wednesday 24 August 6pm Location: MADA Faculty Gallery Ground floor, Building G Monash University, Caulfield campus Join MUMA for the launch of Ian McLean’s latest book,Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art. As Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Wollongong and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, McLean is an internationally recognised scholar. His previous books include Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Art (2014), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art (2011) and White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art (2009). He […]

AAANZ letter on Closure of Sydney College of the Arts

July 22, 2016Advocacy, NewsSydney College of the Arts

Closure of the Sydney College of the Arts Anthony White, President of the AAANZ, has written to Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, to express our concerns over the proposed closure of the Sydney College of the Arts. You can read more about the proposed closure and merger with UNSW here in a statement from NAVA Executive Director Tamara Winikoff: https://visualarts.net.au/news-opinion/2016/SCA-mediarelease-12July16/ We encourage all our members to write to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Dr Michael Spence, to state their position on what we believe is a very concerning development for arts education in the region. Letters can be emailed […]

Dr Melissa Chiu announced as Keynote Speaker for 2016 AAANZ Conference

July 21, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsKeynote

The conference committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. AAANZ 2016 Conference | The Work of Art Dr Melissa Chiu How has the work of art changed in the 21st century? Keynote Speaker for AAANZ 2016 December 1, National Gallery of Australia Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern art, a Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She was previously Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Art Programs at Asia Society […]

Call for Papers | ART AND FUTURE: Energy, Climate, Cultures | Dunedin October 2016

February 5, 2016Call for PapersCall for Papers, Dunedin

ART AND FUTURE: Energy, Climate, Cultures A SYMPOSIUM at the DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, 14-15 October 2016 Following seven successful symposia held at the Dunedin School of Art, from ‘Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science’ (2009) to ‘Art and Design’ (2015), the Dunedin School of Art, together with the Centre for Sustainability, the Centre for Science Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Otago, is organising an eighth symposium entitled ‘Art and Future: Energy, Climate, Cultures.’ Art has always had to do with identity—with kin and class, with gods and demons, with past and present, and also with […]

Call for Papers | Conference: ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits, 1700-1914’

January 14, 2016NewsCall for Papers, Melbourne, Portraits, Portraiture

Inspired by the outstanding collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, this interdisciplinary conference will be the largest gathering of international and Australian scholars to focus on portraits. It will provide a unique opportunity to explore both British and Australian portraits through a dynamic interchange between academics and curators. September 8-11 2016, University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria Call for papers Papers are invited that focus on British or Australian portraits between 1700 and 1914, which can be interpreted as separate fields or as overlapping or comparative studies. The portraits may be in any public or private collection […]

2015 President’s Report – Anthony White

December 22, 2015ReportsPresidents Report

President’s Report – Art Association of Australia New Zealand – 2015 This is my first report as President of the AAANZ and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing president Ann Stephen and her executive who left the Association in such robust health earlier this year. During her term, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art came to be published in partnership with Taylor and Francis and the Power Institute, an arrangement which has been in place for almost 2 years. This has created a level of visibility for the Journal which is unprecedented and […]