Category Archives: News

Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference, ANU, September 2017

April 3, 2017Call for Papers, Conference, News

ACUADS Conference Australian National University School of Art & Design 28 & 29 September 2017 Conference theme: Value Australian university art and design schools are facing increasing economic and political challenges. The visible impact of these pressures on the sector is already evident and has been widely discussed. Inevitably, the careers of younger and emerging academics will unfold in a very different environment to their older and more established colleagues. Against the backdrop of this profound change it is important to establish and declare the continuing value to Australia of art and design, and therefore the continuing value of university […]

Graphic Encounters PhD Scholarship – La Trobe, History Program

March 20, 2017News

Please find below the information regarding a new PhD scholarship being offered as part of Dr Liz Conor’s ARC Future Fellowship in History at La Trobe University. The scholarship: We seek applications from innovative Indigenous scholars in any discipline relevant to visual and/or print history to join the research team of the newly established Graphic Encounters research project based in the history department at La Trobe University. The project is dedicated to the study of Australian print-making depicting Aboriginal Australians from ‘discovery’ to federation (1770-1901). This historical period encompasses an era of intercultural encounters imagined within the graphic medium […]

University of Melbourne – Lecturer in Art History (circa 500-1600), Level B Position

March 13, 2017Jobs, News

This position is advertised through the link below, submissions close 28th of March, 2017 http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/890203/lecturer-in-art-history-circa-5001600

Booklaunch – Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing

March 13, 2017News

Daniel Palmer, Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing (Bloomsbury 2017) To be launched by Professor Charles Green (University of Melbourne) as part of the NGV Art Book Fair, Great Hall, Saturday 18 March, 1.30-2pm. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/photography-and-collaboration-book-launch/

The Japan Art Catalogue Project – University of Sydney Library

March 13, 2017News

The Japan Art Catalogue Project University of Sydney Library The Japan Art Catalogue (JAC) project was established in 1996 to support art researchers across the globe by collecting publications related to Japanese exhibitions. These include both major exhibitions of Japanese art of all periods but also important exhibitions of Western art shown in Japan, including in particular modern and contemporary art. These include some of the most comprehensive exhibitions of such art world-wide, and the catalogues are very well illustrated and of the highest standards of production. In addition to the Japanese texts they often include texts in European […]

Colonization and Wilderness in Nineteenth-century American and Australian Landscape Painting

March 13, 2017News

Podcasts of the symposium Colonization and Wilderness in Nineteenth-century American and Australian Landscape Painting, held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in September 2016, are now available under ‘Related Videos’ on the Terra Foundation for American Art website page. The exhibition has now moved to the The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, with new Australian paintings, under the title: Not As The Songs of Other Lands: 19th Century Australian and American Landscape Painting. Some of the same paintings are discussed in three blogs by Richard Read: ‘Continental Shift 1: Colonization and Wilderness’, blog 1, Histories of […]

Visual Art and Design Curator – Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery – City of Launceston

March 6, 2017Jobs, News

The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is a regional gallery with a highly significant collection, particularly strong in colonial art, and a diverse twentieth century, contemporary and decorative arts collection. The application deadline is 10 March. http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/Jobs-Listing/Visual-Arts-and-Design-Curator

Call for Submissions – Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, Issue 3

March 6, 2017Call for Papers, News

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Thomas Crow talks in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland | Launch of Power Polemics ‘ No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art’

March 1, 2017NewsAuckland, Events, Melbourne, Publications, Sydney

Thomas Crow will be giving a series of talks in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland to mark the launch of his contribution to the Power Polemics series. In this new series, arguments cut against the grain, sides are taken. Thomas Crow challenges us to acknowledge the theology of abstract art. This flagship series puts art hard up against political and personal viewpoints from the field’s leading writers. See more about the book here. Melbourne Book launch and discussion Friday 10 March | 6-8pm The Ian Potter Museum of Art Thomas Crow in conversation with Anne Dunlop and Charles Green:Theological Originality in […]

Opportunities – Early Career Development, Graduate Internship, and the Judith Neilson Chair in Contemporary Art

February 27, 2017Jobs, News

Early Career Development Fellow in Art History at Sydney University The Early Career Development Fellow in Art History position (in the School of Literature, Arts and Media) is part of a broader recruitment program to appoint a number of Fellows across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Each Fellow will be appointed on the basis of specific disciplinary expertise and be located in a department. All Fellows will also work across departments and disciplines to design, develop and deliver a whole-of-faculty approach to the interdisciplinary requirement that will be a distinctive component of our transformed undergraduate curriculum, the Sydney […]