Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Public Lecture | A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art | Thursday, 3 October, 4pm | Buxton Contemporary

Join Dr Amy Tobin, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard; Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK for a public lecture A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art at Buxton Contemporary, Thursday, 3 October, 4pm. This talk is an introduction to Kettle’s Yard and its curator H.S. Jim Ede (1896-1990). It considers Ede’s life and his relationship to Modern Art, particularly his unique understanding of the imbrication of art and life. Ede described himself as a ‘friend to artists’. Dr Tobin will discuss Ede in relation to the world he created for […]

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Subscription Offer | Join or renew your AAANZ membership to receive a 10% discount on an Art Monthly subscription

          To coincide with the 2019 AAANZ Conference, Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies, Art Monthly Australasia is offering a 10% discount on a new one-year print subscription. This offer is valid until registrations close on Sunday 17 November.  To take advantage of this offer join or renew your membership here About Art Monthly Australasia Art Monthly Australasia has provided a critical platform for art writers and artists across Australia and New Zealand since 1987 and has been based at the Australian National University’s School of Art & Design since 1992. As such, it […]

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Job | Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor in Art History | Victoria University of Wellington

Applications are invited for the position of Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor in Art History Associate Professor in Art History is within the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. This is a permanent full-time position available from 2020. The successful applicant for the Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor position will have a PhD in Art History or a related discipline, an excellent research profile and extensive teaching experience at tertiary level. The appointee will also be expected to contribute to academic leadership in the Art History Program. The successful applicant will be expected to develop […]

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Opportunity | EXTENDED DEADLINE | Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at University of Tokyo

EXTENDED DEADLINE Applications open for a visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo in 2020-21 and 2021-22 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications close at 5pm on 1 November 2019 The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo, to promote a deeper understanding of Australia and its regional engagement. The position is supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation. Applications are invited from highly qualified Australians with significant academic or public achievement […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue Edited by Ian McLean Michaela Bear explores the complex production processes, historical precedents and cross-cultural perspectives informing Lisa Reihana’s moving image work in Pursuit of Venus [infected]; Stefan Popescu and Aleksandr Andrews Wansbrough analyse the various media and familial transgressions enacted in Huck Botko’s abject Dessertumentary series; Catherine De Lorenzo situates the art historical importance of Ar_atjara, an exhibition held in Düsseldorf in 1993 of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander art, predominantly initiated and directed by Aboriginal people; Tara McDowell undertakes a spatial and temporal […]

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Job | Head of Collections | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Head of Collections, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Applications close 11 September 2019 For more information click here This is an outstanding opportunity for a specialist to lead the effective management of art collections. Established in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a leading visual arts institution in New Zealand with more than 17,500 artworks and over 150 archival collections. The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the home of art for Auckland, its people and visitors, and a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Gallery’s purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering […]

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Event | Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities | 12 September, 1pm | Black Box | UNSW Art & Design Box

  Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities 12 September, 1 – 7.30pm Black Box, UNSW Art & Design Box D106, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW Harnessing Energies symposium, 1-5pm Energies in the Arts book launch and performance, 6 – 7.30pm   Energies in the Arts, the new collection edited by Professor Douglas Kahn (UNSW Art & Design) and published by MIT Press, explores the pluralistic concepts of energies—scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological – as they occur in the arts, history and theory. The book will be launched by Joyce Hinterding (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and […]

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Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Brisbane Launch Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Brisbane on  Saturday 24 and Saturday 31 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue—Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’)—represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer […]

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Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Melbourne Launch Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance […]

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