Category Archives: Events

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

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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 […]

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

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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, […]

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

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  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 […]

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Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

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Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongo­ing lec­ture series, His­to­ries and The­o­ries of Sound, Dis­ci­pline and Liquid Archi­tec­ture present Dr Sheri­dan Palmer’s ​‘Dis­e­qui­lib­rium: Presence/​absence in the art of Tony Woods’, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tas­man­ian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Aus­tralian art scene. An advo­cate of modernism’s plu­ral­ism, his bold fig­u­ra­tion, vig­or­ous abstract for­mal­ism, irreg­u­lar shaped can­vases that often incor­po­rated col­lage and the ready­made, was a syn­the­sis of Amer­i­can […]

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Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

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September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect.   Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

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Booklaunch – What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives – Buxton Contemporary, August 16, 6-8pm

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From Power Publications: Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly LAUNCH AND RECEPTION 6-8pm, Thursday 16 August 2018 Buxton Contemporary Dodds St &, Southbank Blvd Southbank VIC 3006 The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion.   Register to preorder your copy to pick up at […]

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‘Antipodean Early Modern’ – Launch – Ian Potter Museum of Art, July 19th 6pm

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Join us for the launch Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600, edited by Anne Dunlop. Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Date: 19th July, 6pm. In 2015 Margaret Manion curated an exhibition An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 here at The Potter. An extensive series of lectures accompanied the show. Antipodean Early Modern is a publication of the case studies presented in this series of talks. A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by […]

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From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representations of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts

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The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation presents: A Free Lecture by Dr Stefano Carboni, director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia: From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representation of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts 6pm-7pm Wednesday 27 June at the University of Melbourne The common perception about Persian miniature painting – better described as book illustration because almost invariably it has a textual, literary or oral context – is that it is elegant, colourful, rather formal in composition, and overall restrained in the way the characters are emotionally involved in a particular moment of the story. Persian […]

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“Talk, The Talk” Lecture – University of Melbourne – Friday 27th April, 5-6.30pm

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The “Talk, The Talk” lecture series and Art Curatorship Partnership (ACP) PROJECTS invites you to join Dr. Anthony White, Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne and Ms. Sim Luttin, Curator and Gallery Manager at Arts Project, in a discussion on some of the myths and stereotypes that have been applied to the work of Outsider artists. Entitled ‘Outsider Art: Contemporary Considerations’ this topic will include artists who have experienced disability, mental issues and other forms of marginalization over the last 100 years. It will also entail a presentation reflecting on the role of supported studios, focusing on Arts Projects […]

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