Category Archives: Events

Lecture | Timothy McCall – Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsEuropean Art History, Lecture, Renaissance Art, University of Melbourne

The Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne invites you to a lecture by Dr. Timothy McCall (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) ‘Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity’ Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019, Lecture 6.00 pm-7.00 pm Venue: North Theatre, Old Arts Building (149), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010. The ruling men of Renaissance Italy wrapped themselves in silks and jewels, feathers and pearls. To dazzle the eye, they wore cloth-of-gold and cloth-of-silver, but also sometime gems made of paste, intended to deceive observers. What glittered was not necessarily gold, and luxury materials were not always what they […]

Lecture | Dr Stefano Carboni | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsIslamic Art History, Lecture, University of Melbourne

Macgeorge Fellowship Lecture Dr Stefano Carboni Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Western Australia This lecture explores one of the most intriguing books of the medieval Islamic world. The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things is an encyclopedia of the natural world written by the legal scholar Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazvini (1202-83), who worked under the late Abbasids and the early Mongol Ilkhanids in Iraq. The book was extremely popular and is known in many surviving manuscripts, virtually all of them heavily illustrated. The text describes such things as survival from shipwrecks, encounters with giant whales, people […]

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 […]

Statement on Christchurch Massacre

March 28, 2019Advocacy, Events, General

The AAANZ expresses its complete and utter abhorrence towards the events of March 15, 2019 in Christchurch which saw 50 people murdered and a similar number wounded. As an organisation dedicated to fostering understanding about the art and visual culture of the widest possible range of cultures, peoples, and histories, the Association is fundamentally opposed to the racist and hate-filled ideologies which gave rise to this attack on the Muslim community. On behalf of all members of the Association, in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, I would like to offer my heartfelt condolences to those colleagues, friends, and families who […]

Book Launch: An Act of Showing – West Space – December 4, 6pm

November 19, 2018Events

Please join the editors for the launch of their new book An Act of Showing: rethinking artist-run initiatives through place co-edited by Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix. The book will be launched by Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). Tuesday 4 December at 6pm West Space Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne The book features newly commissioned essays by Paola Balla, Kirsten Lyttle and Dominic Redfern, and includes Chris Kraus’s essay “Kelly Lake Store” as well as creative contributions by ARIs in Australia and the Asia-Pacific on their relationship to place, and more… The book is designed by […]

Duldig Lecture 2018 – Charlotte Day ‘Public Art: Out and About’

October 18, 2018Events

Annual Duldig Lecture 2018: Public Art: Out and About Address: Charlotte Day, Director, Monash University Museum of Art In 2014 Monash University unveiled a new public art master plan and began an ambitious program of public art commissions. The University has experimented with a range of models of commissioning and roles for artists in relationship to architectural and landscaping projects. This lecture provides a great opportunity to discuss the commissions undertaken so far, review what has worked well and also the challenges, along with future plans. Public art is a reinvented genre that can be many things – both […]

Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018 – University of Melbourne

October 18, 2018Events

The Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018 ‘I Can Connect” – the Power of Curating to Share Experiences Speaker: Professor Michael Tooby, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University Ursula Hoff’s career is a vivid example of dedication to curatorial expertise. At the same time, her extraordinary life story warrants retelling and sharing, not least as a warning from history of the need to challenge racism and prejudice towards migrants. In his lecture, Professor Michael Tooby will explore how testimony has played a key role in his recent curatorial projects. His starting point will be the use […]

Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University

October 12, 2018Events

Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University The upcoming lecture, The Double: Return and Reenactment, presented by U.S.-based curator James Meyer is the inaugural Monash University Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History. Tuesday 23 October 2018 @ 6.30pm The Pavilion, Building H, Level 8 Monash University, Caulfield campus 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East, VIC In his talk, Meyer will draw from his forthcoming book, The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture (University of Chicago Press) and discuss how movements of the “long Sixties” (1955-1979) – including […]

Love from Damascus – Art Gallery of South Australia and the University of Adelaide

October 11, 2018Events

LOVE FROM DAMASCUS FRI 9 & SAT 10 NOV ART EXHIBITION II BOOK LAUNCH II SYMPOSIUM ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Link: https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/Love_From_Damascus_Symposium Link: https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/events/love-from-damascus/ Love from Damascus is a half day symposium looking at conceptions of love by an eminent 18th-century Syrian mystic and related stories of art and culture. Hosted by Samer Akkach and James Bennett, the event features invited experts and panels covering Sufism and the evolving nature of Islamic arts and culture across the vast continent of Asia over many centuries. The symposium coincides with a launch for the new book ʿIlm: Science, Religion, […]

Symposia: Minimalist/Maximalist, National Gallery of Australia, 19-20 October

September 27, 2018Conference, Events

This symposium explores a key period in American art to focus on two tendencies generally regarded as polar opposites—minimalism and photo-realism. Minimalism’s impact is traced in works using light, land and installation art, as well as through feminist practice and in architecture, to examine resonances today. The importance of realism, a much-neglected aspect of the period, is also considered. Building on from two highly successful past events—Action. Painting. Now. (NGA 2012) and Minimal. Conceptual. Pop. (AGNSW 2013)—this symposium seeks to expand the dialogue between American and Australian artists, art historians and cultural critics. Keynote speaker James Meyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington […]