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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 […]

Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) – ARC Centres of Excellence Workshop – ARC Majura Theatre – December 11, 2017

November 14, 2017General, News

The Australian Academy of Humanities, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and Australian Research Council are convening a one-day workshop for potential HASS applicants for the forthcoming ARC Centres of Excellence rounds. The workshop will feature presentations and roundtable sessions with the ARC and Centre Directors, who will share insights on the application and assessment process, advice on developing bids and strategies for success. We would like to invite researchers and research teams applying in the 2018 round and those preparing for 2023 to attend. The workshop is also open […]

The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies, UWA – Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism

November 14, 2017Conference, News

The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies is proud to announce Associate Professor Sean Redmond as the keynote speaker for our 6th international conference “Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism“ in Perth, Australia this December. Guest registration and program for the conference are now available at http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/2017perth/. Details of the conference are below. Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism University of Western Australia Perth, Western Australia December 8-10, 2017With the rise of Web 2.0, people brand themselves through social media as a singular person. The online visibility of their brand often takes precedence over social contributions. Their online presentation, […]

Art of nation: Australia’s official art and photography of the First World War

November 14, 2017General, News

The Australian War Memorial has launched Art of nation: Australia’s official art and photography of the First World War, a digital interpretation of the earliest plans for the Memorial. Australian official war historian and Memorial founder Charles Bean sketched the design for this building in 1919 as he returned home to Australia following the First World War. During the war, artists and photographers were deployed to the front to witness and record the war first hand. Bean’s imagined building contains separate galleries housing the official war art and photography collections. The large paintings are exhibited in a dedicated art gallery for the […]