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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 […]

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin’s Girls, University of Melbourne, March 8 2018

February 19, 2018General, News

Free Public Lecture Keir Lectures on Art: Chardin’s Girls: The Ethics of Painting will be held Thursday, 8 March 2018. Lecture: Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. What did it mean to be a girl in the 18th century? Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth examines 18th-century French painter Jean- Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s intriguing depictions of young adults as images of emergent subjectivity. Lajer-Burcharth’s lecture considers the complex ethics of these representations of a nascent gendered self. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the […]

A Baroque Bishop in Colonial Australia: The cultural patronage of Bishop James Goold (1812-1886) – University of Melbourne

February 2, 2018News

Free Public Symposium A Baroque Bishop in Colonial Australia: The cultural patronage of Bishop James Goold (1812-1886). This international symposium (15 to 16 February 2018, with keynote opening evening on 14 February) examines the patronage of Melbourne’s first Catholic Bishop, James Goold and his contribution to the cultural life of colonial Melbourne, especially through his art collection, library and patronage of architecture. To be held at The University of Melbourne and the University of Divinity (East Melbourne), this international conference is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project examining the patronage of Melbourne’s first Catholic Archbishop James Goold. Investigating […]

2017 AAANZ Book Prize and PhD Prize Announcement

December 15, 20171 commentNews

The AAANZ would like to congratulate the following award winners: 2017 AAANZ Best Book Prize Joint winners Susan Best, Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016. Ian McLean, Rattling Spears. A History of Indigenous Australian Art, Reaktion Books, London, 2016. 2017 AAANZ Best Anthology Prize The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher Marshall and Andrew Yip, Power Publications, Sydney, 2016. 2017 AAANZ Best Small Exhibition Catalogue Prize Black White & Restive: Cross-Cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art, Newcastle Art […]

University of Melbourne Seminar: Anthony Gardner – The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.

December 11, 2017News

Seminar: Anthony Gardner, The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography. You are invited to a research seminar delivered by MacGeorge Visiting Speaker, Associate Professor Anthony Gardner, “The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.” Wednesday 13 December 2017 6pm. Anthony Gardner is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory and Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. He writes extensively on postcolonialism, postsocialism, and exhibition and curatorial histories, and he is one of the editors of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins. Among his books are Mapping South: Journeys […]

University of Melbourne Ursula Hoff Lecture 2017 – Joan Kerr: the making of a feminist art historian

December 11, 2017News

Ursula Hoff Lecture 2017: Joan Kerr: the making of a feminist art historian will be held Monday, 11 December 2017. Keynote: Associate Professor Joanna Mendelssohn, art historian, University of New South Wales. When Professor Joan Kerr was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the year before her death in 2004, her friends were determined that her intellectual legacy should continue. The reason for this was not just friendship, nor a determination that a great feminist scholar should survive the strange machismo of Australian art historiography. Rather it was a recognition that Kerr’s inclusive approach was especially rewarding as a way of mapping […]

TOWARDS AN IDEA OF THE ‘WEST,’ SALLY QUIN, ART MONTHLY No. 303

November 22, 2017AAANZ Conference, News

If you would like to read more about the upcoming conference in Perth, please see Sally Quin’s piece in the November issue of Art Monthly. http://www.artmonthly.org.au/current/ image: SUSANNA CASTLEDEN, GLOBE BALL, 2013, MAPS, EXERCISE BALL, VARNISH, 65 X 65 X 65CM; IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST; PHOTO: ROBERT FRITH AT ACORN

Hangs podcast – UQ Art Museum

November 20, 2017News

Hangs podcast, by the UQ Art Museum Episode 3: Wildebeests, joyful sinning & the cult of nothing. JUST RELEASED! Listen and subscribe Join Bri Lee (Founding Editor, Hot Chicks with Big Brains) and Matt Ford (Aboriginal Comedy Allstars and ABC Comedy Up Late) as they hang out and chat wildebeests, joyful sinning and the cult of nothing. Bri and Matt tour UQ Art Museum’s exhibition, ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’. In each episode of Hangs we’re joined by two different personalities who share their ideas and stories as they wander through our current exhibition. Episode 3 produced by Amani Vassiliou. More information: https://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au

Susan Best and Catherine Speck elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

November 20, 2017Member News, News

Congratulations to Susan Best and Catherine Speck on their election to the Australian Academy of the Humanities From the AAH: Leading experts in arts and culture are among 23 leading figures in the humanities to be elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities – the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia. “I am delighted to welcome our new Fellows, elected in recognition of their outstanding scholarship and practice in the humanities disciplines,” said newly elected President of the Academy, Professor Joy Damousi FASSA FAHA. “Their expertise is central to our capacity to understand and engage with […]