Category Archives: Events

AIAH Event Series in October with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith

October 5, 2026Events

You are invited to two special lectures with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith in early October, co-presented by the University of Melbourne and the NGV, and as part of the AIAH event series. The Parkville lecture on Wednesday 7 October at 6.30 pm will examine the influence of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave on art from the pre-modern to the contemporary period. The NGV lecture on Saturday 10 October at 3 pm will look at visual frameworks that contemporary artists deploy to intervene critically against authoritarianism. Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney and Andrew […]

Event | Textiles and Modernist Architecture: A Proximate Relation

August 17, 2026Events

Textiles and Modernist Architecture: A Proximate Relation Lecture by Dr Lynne Cooke, curator and art historian Monday, 31 August, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Forum Theatre, rm 153, lvl 1 Arts West North Wing (Building 148A, next to Baillieu Library), The University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic Lynne is a curator and art historian based in New York. Her lecture will focus on a selection of tapestries by artists including Le Corbusier, Josef Albers, Mona Hessing and Helen Frankenthaler, all collected by renowned Modernist architect Harry Seidler. events.humanitix.com/textiles-and-modernist-architecture-a-proximate-relation Image: Australia Square plaza with Le Corbusier UNESCO tapestry, March 1968, photograph: Max Dupain © Penelope Seidler

Publication Launch | Follow the Plants

August 10, 2026Book, Events, Publication

Food Art Research Network and Bioart Society invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee. Discipline discipline.net.au Follow the Plants onomatopee.net Follow the Plants is an expanded invitation to follow plants through histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives, and collective ritual. Bringing together artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays, and scores, the publication offers both examples of and prompts for collective research, tracing the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning. The book’s contributions invite us into […]

Symposium | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind

August 3, 2026Events

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture Wednesday 30 September & Thursday 1 October 2026 Registration now open This free two-day online symposium features research and reflections by Australian and international art historians, curators and artists on the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. Speakers particularly foreground how women creatives, working across image-based practices, mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. More information, full programme and registration available here: https://www.thesurrealbodysymposium.com/

Exhibition | Graphic Days in Turin_15–25 October

August 3, 2026Events, Exhibition, News

The eleventh edition of Graphic Days, the first festival dedicated to Italian and international visual and social design, is coming to Turin from 15 to 25 October and will be held for the first time it the Gruppo Building Construction Site An annual event that highlights visual communication, highlighting the latest trends in international visual and social design and showcasing the most cutting-edge creative practices. Over 60 international guests, 12 exhibitions, 7 talks, 6 workshops for adults, 3 tips & tricks, 8 workshops for children, performances, DJ sets, a market show, live printing, portfolio reviews, and activities for schools and families aim to disseminate the value of […]

Symposium | The Cost of Crime

July 20, 2026Events

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/

Event | Blue Art Journal Volume Two Launch

July 20, 2026Events, Journal

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, […]

Event | Looking both ways: Art exchanges between Australia and Indonesia | John Curtin Gallery

July 13, 2026Events

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 […]

New Deputy Director of AIAH and a conversation with curator Carolyn Christov Bakargiev

June 1, 2026Events, News

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 […]

Event | Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia

April 27, 2026Events

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 […]