Category Archives: News

Announcement│Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research 2026 – Winner

October 12, 2026News

The Len Lye Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research: Shannon Novak Novak is a New Zealand artist of Croatian descent based in Auckland. He trained at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and held an artist residency at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in 2023. His practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, and digital work, with abstract compositions of colour, shape, and sound at its core – creating works that draw people into direct engagement with space. Roger Horrocks, a Trustee of the Len […]

ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE 2026: Our Forests in Danger | Winners Announced

October 5, 2026News, Prizes

Culture Plus presents the 2026 winners of the: ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE Mohamed Khadra, National art School AAANZ PRIZE Hamish Adams, University of Melbourne AUDIENCE PRIZE Henry Wolff, University of New South Wales VAULT PRIZE Tina Agic, University of Queensland ISFAR PRIZE Lilah Gillam, University of Western Australia DISCOVER THEIR TALKS all videos and summary papers Cultureplus.com.au DISCOVER THE STORY behind THE ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE SBS FRENCH PODCAST

Video Podcast | ARTEMISIA, IRREPRESSIBLE: A conversation with Christopher Marshall, Melbourne University

September 14, 2026News

ARTEMISIA, IRREPRESSIBLE a new illustrated video podcast with art historian Christopher Marshall, Melbourne University, about Artemisia Gentileschi and an accompanying piece on our Exploring Art History Substack about Artemisia. YouTube: https://youtu.be/RdFpolS_J_0 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vrZQA7dqnUyoYr6boKtrA?si=nsf-apFbQVa1bOQHSX7vdA Substack: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/irrepressible-artemisia.

Job | Curator Contemporary Art | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

September 7, 2026Jobs, News

Curator Contemporary Art Collections, Knowledge and Communities – Te Papa Tongarewa This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join Te Papa’s art curatorial team as Curator Contemporary Art (1980 to present). We are seeking an experienced, collaborative and creative colleague with deep understanding of contemporary art in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. As Curator Contemporary Art you will provide leadership for contemporary art research and exhibition concept development, interpretation and delivery. You will hold and maintain strong relationships with key contemporary art stakeholders, including artists, curators, dealers, collectors and benefactors. You will also have the unique responsibility […]

Symposium | Blur Analysis: Research, visual culture, and the digital, University of Sydney

August 6, 2026News

Friday, 14 August 2026 10:00AM – 5:00PM (AEST) Schaeffer Seminar Room, RC Mills Building How are new digital technologies changing research in art and visual culture? How might these changes productively blur ossified patterns of thought, or disciplinary limits? And how might we use these technologies to analyse the blur itself? These questions are central to the Power Institute’s new digital publishing initiative, and its two new digital publications, The Womanifesto Way and Site and Space in Southeast Asia. To launch this new initiative, the Power Institute has assembled a group of scholars to investigate these questions from a range of perspectives–from the history […]

Lecture | Art History and the Cultural Character of War, University of Sydney

August 6, 2026News

Thursday, 13 August 2026 6:30PM – 7:45PM (AEST) Old Geology Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney Professor Paul B. Jaskot Register here: https://www.powerinstitute.org.au/events/art-history-and-cultural-character-war Architecture is essential to the waging of war. To understand why, this talk considers the dynamic relationship between materials, labour, and construction, looking particularly at World War II and the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. In the 19th and 20th centuries, European architects and engineers experimented with new technologies like cement, which they carried into the Nazi period and developed further during World War II. Exploring this history helps to distil which cultural ideas and values influenced the […]

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 […]

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 | 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History | Thursday 30 April

April 13, 2026News

2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History Medieval Art of the Eastern Mediterranean: Global Networks in a Pre-Global World? Trinity College, University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Art History, invites you to the Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History. Returning in the anniversary year of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of university teaching in art history at the University of Melbourne, the 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture will be delivered by Alicia Walker, Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Date: Thursday 30 April 2026 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Craig Auditorium, […]

Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind | DEADLINE EXTENDED 15 April

April 1, 2026Call for Papers, News

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: Wednesday 15 April 2026* Call for Papers Abstracts due by Wednesday, 15 April 2026 The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday, 1 October 2026 This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds 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. We […]