Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | Available online

September 2, 2022ANZJA

ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | The foreign and the out-of-place in Melbourne’s early modern collections Editors: Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr Link to Vol. 22.1 at Taylor and Francis About this issue Edited by Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr the issue takes eleven objects in Melbourne collections to examine the concepts of foreignness and the out-of-place in the early modern world. The objects were made over a span of almost four centuries, from the 1400s into the 1700s, and in regions as far apart as England and the Philippines. They include manuscripts and sculptures, textiles, drawings, and prints. Some […]

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2022

August 26, 2022Grants

The AIAH Art History Research Grants are now open for 2022. There will be four grants offered of $5,000. Institutional art historian (i.e. working in an academic or cultural institution such as a university, art museum, public library) Independent art historian Emerging art historian (PhD student or Early Career Researcher in Art History i.e. PhD granted no earlier than 1 January 2016) Indigenous Australian, New Zealand Maori or Pasifika art historian Deadline: Friday 23 September 2022 For more information and to apply visit https://aaanz.info/aiah-art-history-research-grants/ Please contact the AAANZ Business Manager with any queries admin@aaanz.info The AIAH Art History Research Grants are funded by the Australian Institute of […]

Performance | Magic Lantern Show for Light: Works from Tate’s Collection | ACMI

August 26, 2022Events

Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy will be re-imagining an historical magic lantern show, based on the shows popular in Australia in the late nineteenth century, at ACMI from 9 to 11 September. Using a pair of authentic ‘dissolving view’ magic lanterns they will project original chromatropes and the thrilling story Jane Conquest, not seen in Melbourne since 1894, all accompanied by special effects and live original music. The show is relevant to people interested in the history of photography, animation, media, projection and performance. For more information about the performance, dates, times and tickets go to https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/light-works-from-tates-collection-exhibition/magic-lantern-show/ Image: Hand coloured […]

Vale Professor Virginia Spate

August 22, 2022News

AAANZ is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Professor Virginia Spate AC FAHA, one of Australia’s most distinguished art historians. Her legacy to the nation includes the Museum of Contemporary Art. She played an important role advocating for the museum during her career as Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney. Her scholarship received critical acclaim and in addition to significant monographs on Tom Roberts and John Olsen are award winning publications such as her book on Monet which won the prestigious Mitchell Prize. She will be greatly missed. You can read a full obituary […]

Podcast | Paint it black | Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ series

August 22, 2022Book

Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ podcast series focuses on Australian biographers. In the recent episode titled ‘Paint it black’, ABC presenter Daniel Browning interviews Alec O’Halloran about his authorised biography of Pintupi artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, ‘The master from Marnpi’. You can listen to the podcast at this link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/paint-it-black/id1559400094?i=1000571460968

Book | European Vision and the South Pacific Third Edition | Bernard Smith, Sheridan Palmer (editor)

August 22, 2022Book

From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia’s greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity-both for Europeans and the Indigenous peoples with whom they came in […]

Call for Applications | Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art History | Fordham University, New York

August 22, 2022Jobs

The department of Art History and Music at Fordham University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of global contemporary art history, to begin in Fall 2023. We welcome candidates who examine contemporary art since 1945 from a global and transnational perspective and understand the effects of globalization, migration, and racism on contemporary artistic practices. We anticipate that our new colleague will further strengthen course offerings on non-Western art in our department and develop elements of our curriculum focused on curatorial studies, a key area of students’ interest. Commitment to anti-racist pedagogy, diversity, equity, and inclusion […]

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2022

August 22, 2022Funding

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST ADVOCACY REPRESENTATIVE | AAANZ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

August 15, 2022Opportunity

AAANZ is looking for a passionate member to join our executive team as the Advocacy Representative to assist with promoting and supporting visual arts research and art history across Australia and New Zealand. The Advocacy Representative will work with the President, the Advocacy Committee and other working groups to address critical issues, Indigenisation, make submissions and provide support on current concerns for the sector as they arise. The Association aims to address these matters in the public domain, ensuring the concerns of its members are heard. In pursuit of this goal AAANZ seeks to foster productive working relationships between members, […]

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2022

August 15, 2022Grants