The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust presents a one day symposium ‘The Cost of Art Crime’ Date: Sat 19 September 2026 Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm Venue: Auditorium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Cost: Student $70. Early bird (until 31 July) $120 Full price (from 1 August) $135. For more information and first speakers announcements and to register: https://artcrime.nz/
Time feels slippery and beyond our control. But through this issue an array of incredible artists, writers and thinkers are offering ways to rethink its framing and stretch its limitations, a pivotal act for those of us who work in the arts. Announcing Volume Two Guest Editors Blue Art Journal is pleased to welcome Timmah Ball and Zali Morgan as guest editors of the next Volume. Two Noongar women whose practices cross curatorial, visual art and text-based practices, their Volume features writers, artists and perspectives that span between coasts of so-called Australia. Meet them below. Selected contributors include: Dominic Guerrera with James Tylor, […]
Prompted by the exhibition Pasar Malam | Night Market, and staged in association with Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Enquiry, this half-day seminar explores the relationships between Australia and Indonesia around contemporary art. Starting with a focus on the Artists’ Regional Exchange (ARX) series of events in Perth from 1987 to 1999, it will go on to explore current engagements between the two countries and opportunities to develop the relationship in the future. Featuring speakers from Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the […]
Anthony White has been appointed to the position of Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. Anthony is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Melbourne, and he’s an internationally recognized specialist of modern and contemporary art, especially Italian modernism. But he’s also worked on art and disability and outsider art, and his most recent books are Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism (2020) and Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art, co-authored with Tristen Harwood and Grace McQuilten (2023). Anthony has a very distinguished cv, including previous appointments as Curator of International Painting and Sculpture […]
The Australian Institute of Art History and Newman College invite you to a presentation by Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia: From Sir George Grey to the Kerry Stokes Collection 5.00 – 6.30pm, Tuesday 12 May 2026 Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre Newman Academic Centre via Newman College, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was responsible for all sales of illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s for 25 years and was later librarian of the Parker Library in Cambridge. His first of very many books on manuscripts […]
Rehearsing the City opens Thursday 21 May 2026, 5-7pm. Victorian Archives Centre Gallery, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne Through archival and contemporary photography we examine how public space is not just shaped by architects and urban planners, but also by protest, improvisation, and even neglect. Communities and individuals constantly use the built environment in creative or unexpected ways, reinterpreting or subverting its intended design. These acts of resistance show that urban environments are not static, they grow and adapt with their inhabitants. Featuring: Chris Bekos, Melanie Cobham, Michael Currie, Mark Forbes, Sande Harsa, Adrian Leung, Hashem McAdam, Suzanne Phoenix, Ted Richards, […]
Blue Art Journal is holding a free event in Sydney on Thursay 23 April to launch Volume One. The Indigenous Turn we are living through is not a temporary wave: it is a deep tide, carried by the waters and skies that have always connected our nations. The work ahead is to ensure that these connections are not merely symbolic, but sustained. – Gerald McMaster To celebrate the launch of Blue Art Journal Volume 01: Rise of the Global Indigenous there will be a free panel discussion in Sydney. Speakers include Jocelyn Flynn (Volume One Contributor), Warraba Weatherall (Blue Art Journal Board member […]
2026-2027 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of art history university teaching in Australia. AIAH is planning a major conference in 2027 to celebrate; in 2026, as AIAH builds toward the conference, there will be a whole series of international and national speakers to give lectures and talks. To begin with, on 18 March a lecture on the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), given by Dr Holly Trusted, Curator of Sculpture (emeritus) from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr Trusted’s lecture, ‘Who was Luisa Roldán?’ will discuss Roldán’s work as […]
She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History brings together Dr Scarlette Nhi Do, Professor Zoë Laidlaw and PhD candidate Kacey Sinclair for a timely conversation about women’s influence in shaping Victoria’s past. From Lady Gladys Nicholls’ overlooked Indian-Australian heritage and activism, to Janet Biddlecombe’s pastoral wealth and philanthropic power rooted in colonial dispossession, to Fanny Finch’s resistance as a woman of colour in gold-rush Victoria, this event interrogates how women’s labour, leadership and legacies are remembered. Together, these historians ask: whose histories endure, whose are erased and how should we reckon with them today? When: 6:00pm -7:15pm Wednesday […]
ILLUMINATING MINDS: A Symposium Celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO FAHA (1935-2024) Invitation to attend the forthcoming symposium and concert celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO (1935-2024), who pioneered the study of Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in Australia. The symposium brings together many of Professor Manion’s former students and colleagues, who will be presenting papers on aspects of their research and reflecting on her influence. The symposium will be followed by a concert at Newman College’s Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Date: Saturday 14th February 2026 Symposium venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, The […]
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