Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

News | Frances Hodgkins goes digital

August 2, 2019NewsPublication, Resource

Frances Hodgkins goes digital: new website gives access to more than 2,600 of Frances Hodgkins’ artworks, letters and related photographs The Complete Frances Hodgkins, an innovative and highly searchable online catalogue of the work of New Zealand’s leading expatriate modernist artist is now online at www.completefranceshodgkins.com. Produced by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the new website documents all known artworks by Hodgkins, with more than 1,200 paintings, watercolours and drawings, as well as photographs, letters and other ephemera. The Complete Frances Hodgkins also includes details of exhibition and publication references of many individual artworks. Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten […]

Job | Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

August 2, 2019News

Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Enhance, innovate, deliver, inspire Play a pivotal role at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Summary Share your passion for historical and modern international art with the community through exhibitions, events and publishing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich communities. The Gallery’s vision is to be the home of art […]

Job | Research Library and Archives Manager | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

August 2, 2019Jobs

Research Library and Archives Manager | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Join in the arts and learning precinct of Auckland’s central city Enhance and evolve the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s research collections. Play a leading role in one of New Zealand’s finest art libraries He angitūtanga: The opportunity 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. This is an opportunity for a qualified senior librarian and archives manager to work in the Auckland Art Gallery’s E. H. […]

Book | 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder

August 2, 2019Book

100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder is a multi-authored, many-voiced book published by Open Humanities Press in their new Seed Book series. The authors are all members of the MECO Network: Susan Ballard, Louise Boscacci, David Carlin, Anne Collett, Eva Hampel, Lucas Ihlein, Jo Law, Joshua Lobb, Jade Kennedy, Teodor Mitew, Catherine McKinnon, Jo Stirling, and Kim Williams. To think differently, we need to practice differently. At a time when climate panic obscures clear thought, 100 Atmospheres is an invitation to think differently. Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships […]

Book | Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy

July 28, 2019BookMuseums, Publication

Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy by Natalia Grincheva Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy features several case studies from the US, Russia and China to explore alternative avenues of contemporary museum diplomacy that no longer depends on government commissions to serve immediate geo-political interests. Drawing on eclectic methodological approaches from traditional desk research to immersive autoethnography, this book shares global research journeys over the last ten years. Starting with revolutionary global expansion activities of the Guggenheim Museum, transformations have been traced, such as, cultural franchising and global corporatization in the context K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong and the International Network of Foundations […]

Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize

July 26, 2019Funding

A new Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Museum and La Trobe University is focussing on the strengthening of their relationship and the expansion of the Australian Muslim Artists exhibition. This will include an inaugural Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize, awarded with $15,000 and the addition of a new category, Future Australian Muslim Artists. This new category is for high school art students in years 10-12, with the winner receiving $250. For more information visit http://bit.ly/2MY1iNJ

Geoffrey Batchen appointed Professorship of the History of Art, Oxford University

May 24, 2019Funding

Geoffrey Batchen, currently Professor of Art History, Victoria University, Wellington has been appointed to the Professorship of the History of Art at Oxford University from 1 January 2020. Batchen is planning to undertake several research projects focusing on the photographic collections at Oxford University. He is encouraging applications from ambitious students wanting to write theses on the history of photography. For more information contact geoffrey.batchen@vuw.ac.nz

Symposium: Towards a flexible future

May 24, 2019Events

Managing time-based media artworks in collections Today digital technologies are so embedded in our daily lives that the rapid rate in which they develop often goes unnoticed. What does such intense and ongoing technological change mean for artists and art museums, where the notions of permanence and perpetuity have long reigned supreme? Featuring presentations from conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate, London, as well as Australian artists, this symposium sets out to explore what it means to collect, display, preserve and make time-based media artworks. This symposium brings attention to the significant risk […]

Assistant Curator, Kenneth E Tyler Collection National Gallery of Australia

May 24, 2019Jobs

The National Gallery of Australia is looking for an Assistant Curator to assist the Senior Curator and Curator, International Art Department, in the preparation of exhibitions and publications related to the Kenneth E Tyler Collection. An important focus of the role will be to assist with the development of web-based material and online access. The Tyler Collection comprises of over 7,400 edition prints, proofs, drawings, paper-works, screens, multiples and illustrated books as well as a collection of rare candid photography, film and audio and reference material. To download the position description and how to apply click here Applications close Sunday, 26 May […]

Index Journal: Identity Call for papers

May 24, 2019Call for Papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for its inaugural issue IDENTITY. Submissions are encouraged from art historians of all specialisations. IDENTITY POLITICS DISSOLVES THE IDENTITY OF THE ARTWORK INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL will invite a guest editor to raise a polemic – in the form of a single proposition – that calls for pressing art historical attention. Submit […]