Category Archives: News

Queen’s Birthday Honours

June 14, 2018Member News, News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is delighted to report that two significant members of the art and art history community were recognised on the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Both recipients have had an enormous and significant impact on their respective fields and the awards are an indication of the esteem in which members of the art-related professions are held in this country and internationally. Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate received the Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for eminent service to higher education, particularly to art history and theory and to the advanced […]

Update: Elam Fine Arts Library – University of Auckland

June 14, 2018Advocacy, News

I recently wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland regarding the proposal to shut down their Elam Fine Arts Library. You can view my letter here: https://aaanz.info/letter-from-aaanz-on-the-elam-fine-arts-library/ The response I received from the Vice-Chancellor, Stuart McCutcheon, argued that the University’s review and restructure process “does not provide for submissions from external parties.” In my view this unsatisfactory response shows how short-sighted the University administration is, particularly given the historic and contemporary significance of the Library to the local and broader art communities. A sense of the institution’s current priorities can be gained from the significant amounts of money […]

AAANZ Conference 2018 – Gabi Ngcobo to keynote plus 3 weeks left to submit panel proposals

May 22, 2018News

The RMIT University School of Art and AAANZ are delighted to confirm that in addition to the exceptional keynotes already announced for this year’s AAANZ Conference – Griselda Pollock, Ema Tavola and Genevieve Grieves – curator, Gabi Ngcobo (South Africa), will also be joining us as a keynote at the conference, fresh from curating the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: We Don’t Need Another Hero. Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is […]

AAANZ Conference 2018 – Third Keynote Speaker Announced

May 8, 2018News

AAANZ and RMIT University School of Art, hosts of the 2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, are pleased to announced that the third keynote speaker for the conference will be Genevieve Grieves (AU), Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria. She will be joining two other keynotes, eminent art historian Griselda Pollock (UK) and curator Ema Tavola (Fiji). The conference will be held 5-8th December, 2018. Genevieve Grieves is Worimi – traditionally from mid north coast New South Wales – and has lived on Kulin country in Melbourne for many years. She is an educator, […]

Australian National RIdIM Centre

April 30, 2018News

Dear Colleagues, It’s with great pleasure that we announce the formation of a National RIdIM centre in Australia and invite contact from all those who are interested. Established in 2017, the Australian Music and Art Research Group is based at the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania. It fosters scholarly and practical research into the intersections between music and visual culture, including – but not limited to – the study of music iconography and the development of new creative work. Association RIdIM officially recognized the group as the Australian National RIdIM Centre in December 2017. Last week, the Australian […]

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

April 20, 2018Events, News

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 […]

New Journal – CONTENTION

April 9, 2018Call for Papers, News

Contention is dedicated to research on and about social protest and political behaviour. The journal advances essential knowledge on of collective action, social movements, and other forms of social and political contention. By providing a multidisciplinary forum to scholars within and across the social sciences and humanities, it seeks to promote scholarly exchange and knowledge sharing among them. Please visit our website for more information about the journal, and previous issues: www.berghahnjournals.com/contention Contention welcomes all submissions of high quality, including: research articles with novel findings, theoretical and methodological essays, and movement writing, as well as critical reviews, commentaries and book reviews. Contention aims to present original […]

emaj 10 now online

March 29, 2018News

emaj | online journal of art https://emajartjournal.com/ Issue 10 – 2017-2018 features articles by Anna Parlane, Simon Pierse, Alice-Anne Psaltis, Kate Warren, and book reviews by Una Rey and Grace Blakeley-Carroll. This issue focusses on contemporary Australian art and its precursors, with essays on Lynette Wallworth’s immersive media environments, Richard Bell and Emory Douglas’s Burnett Lane mural, a 2012 work by Michael Stevenson, and Alannah Coleman at Bonython’s in 1970. Reviews of Sheridan Palmer’s recent book on Bernard Smith, and David Brooks and Darren Jorgenson’s book on the Wanarn painters are also included in this issue. emaj is a refereed […]

Fashion Studies: An International Exploration, UTS 6-7 April 2018

March 19, 2018News

Fashion Studies: An International Exploration will be the first of a series of Symposia in Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Studies to be hosted at UTS from 6-7 April 2018. Led by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA, it coincides with the launch of a new Sydney Foundation, Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, which takes as its first theme a focus on critical fashion. The UTS Workshop is generously supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and ‘Design Cultures’ at UTS. The inter-disciplinary event brings together art historians, historians, literary theorists, Asian Studies specialists, designers, material culture anthropologists […]

Judith Stein – Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy – Lecture, University of Melbourne

March 12, 2018News

During the early 1960s in New York, the Chinese-American art dealer Richard Bellamy (d. 1998) ran the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty- Seventh Street where he launched the careers of many of today’s iconic Pop, minimalist and maverick artists. In an illustrated talk based on her engrossing biography, Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), Stein brings alive this beatnik with a legendary eye who was the first to show Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Mark di Suvero and George Segal, as well as Yayoi […]