Category Archives: News

Diana Dethlof lecture: ‘Re-visiting Peter Lely’ – Melbourne University July 12 2017

July 10, 2017General, News

Diana Dethlof, ‘ Revisiting Peter Lely’ a Dutch Painter in seventeenth-century London History of Art, University College, London The Dutch-born artist Peter Lely was an important figure in seventeenth-century British portrait painting. His position as Principal Painter at the court of Charles II, and his portraits of royal mistresses and privileged courtiers have, for many, come to define the Restoration period, as well as earning Lely the reputation of being nothing more than a fashionable face painter. This lecture aims to present a more balanced assessment of an artist who enjoyed a working life of almost forty years, only half […]

One day event at the VCA – Some artists and philosophers walked into a room

July 3, 2017News

Tuesday 11 July, 2017 – 9.30am-5.30pm Theme: A work might be experienced in numerous ways—in person, online, across multiple versions, as a record, diagram, report, description, witness account, podcast, video, plan, remix, or even as a scalable aggregate of elements. Perhaps, once we consider the world of a work of art as a constellation of elements, the indeterminacy of art is given a more conspicuous materiality. Where is a work of art? Is there an optimum or primary point of entry into a work of art? Chairs: Sean Lowry (VCA) and Jenny McMahon (Philosophy, Adelaide) Presenters: Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Burns […]

Upcoming Events at the Art Gallery of NSW

July 3, 2017NewsArt Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Philosophy and Art Symposium: Where is the Artwork? Register for a one-day event at the AGNSW taking place this Saturday, July 15 from 9.30-4.30. Five philosophers will each give a short floor talk on a particular artwork in the AGNSW collection. It is then opened up for discussion. There will be some commentators on hand to prompt the discussion. Registration and more details are here: http://artgalleryofnsw.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/103346D45AF673302540EF23F30FEDED Cynthia Freeland is giving a talk: “Do Portraits require posing?” Wednesday July 12th at 6.00pm at the AGNSW. In the lead up to this year’s Archibald Prize, Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART, ISSUE 1, 2018

July 3, 2017Call for Papers, News

Issue 1, 2018 Open Issue Issue editors: Professor Deborah Ascher Barnstone, (University of Technology, Sydney), and Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney). Journal aims and scope The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. ANZJA is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, theory and exhibition. The editors […]

Call for Applications/Nominations | Field Director, Hue – Site and Space in Southeast Asia

June 29, 2017Jobs, NewsJobs

The organisers of Site and Space in Southeast Asia are seeking applications and nominations for the role of Field Director, Hue, for a multi-year research initiative led by the Power Institute and its partners. ABOUT THE INITIATIVESite and Space in Southeast Asia is a new research initiative exploring intersections of urban space and artistic cultures through site-based, collaborative research. Engaging with cities as sites that generate social and cultural narratives, research teams will explore spaces of memory, interaction, and cultural production across national and regional boundaries, from the early modern to the contemporary. Running from 2018-2020, the project will support teams […]

CFP: The Transnational in Asian Art, Graduate Workshop, September 28 2017, ANU

June 19, 2017News

Call for Papers: Intensive Graduate PhD students Workshop The Transnational in Asian Art: Historical and Contemporary Contexts around Migration, Diaspora, Mobility and Cultural Flows Date: 28 September 2017 Location: Centre for European Studies, Australian National University and National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Conveners: Caroline Turner, Jacqueline Lo, Elly Kent, Alex Burchmore (ANU) Lead speaker: Emeritus Professor Margo Machida (University of Connecticut) The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University Canberra is issuing a call to PhD scholars who would like to participate and present short papers on their thesis research, in an intensive one day Workshop on 28 September 2017 […]

Residency for NZ artist to work in Rome for 3 months

June 18, 2017NewsArtist Award

The BSR Wallace New Zealand Residence Award will be made as part of the 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2017 and be granted to an outstanding New Zealand visual artist to undertake a three month residency at The British School at Rome [BSR]. Deadline: 25th July 2017 This Award is valued at 26,000 Euro and includes: 1. Three Months Residency at The British School at Rome – January 2018 – March 2018 The residency includes accommodation in a residential studio, board (except dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday), group exhibition, inclusion in the annual Fine Arts catalogue, staff support […]

Academia and Bohemia: New Perspectives on the National Gallery School – Wednesday June 21 – VCA

June 15, 2017News

*updated The full program for the free one-day symposium Academia and Bohemia: new perspectives on the National Gallery School, including abstracts and biographies, is now available on the VCA events website: http://vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=1486 Date: Wednesday 21 June 2017 Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Grant Street, Southbank. Registration: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/details?event=8791 Enquiries: Alison Inglis: asi@unimelb.edu.au Summary of Symposium Program 10.15 am Registration 10.30 am-12.15 pm Session One Professor Su Baker (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne) Introduction Assoc. Professor Alison Inglis (University of Melbourne) and Fiona Moore (University of Melbourne) The National Gallery School from 1867 to World War One – collection, creativity […]

The Art of Attribution: The Catalogue Raisonne in the 21st Century

June 14, 2017NewsNational Gallery of Australia

Date: Saturday, 15th July 2017 Venue: National Gallery of Australia FREE | Registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-art-of-attribution-the-catalogue-raisonne-in-the-21st-century-tickets-34786859433 The NGA and the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne are co-hosting a one-day symposium on the significance and challenges of compiling a catalogue raisonné. The catalogue raisonné is a comprehensive listing of the known works by an artist or group, and may be limited in its scope to a particular medium or date range. In Australia, a number of key catalogues raisonnés have been published on artists such as Tom Roberts, George Lambert, Margaret Preston, Bea Maddock, John Brack, and […]

A Letter from the Sydney College of the Arts

June 5, 2017Advocacy, News

An update on the Sydney College of the Arts situation from Professor Stephen Garton, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Dear Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Thank you for your previous interest in SCA. As a representative of the Visual Arts community who provided feedback on the developments at SCA, we wanted to share key details of the final change plan with you. Today we released the Final Change Plan (FCP) to staff. In this document we outline the following changes: The high-level plan for relocation in 2019 to the Camperdown/Darlington Campus (the Old Teachers […]