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Art + Australia Presents – Turning On Burn: A Reflective Conversation, Wednesday 4th May, VCA Art School Auditorium

May 2, 2016News

Turning on Burn: A Reflective Conversation This symposium explores and speculates upon the work and legacy of Australian conceptual artist Ian Burn (1939–1993). After graduating from the National Gallery of Art School (now the VCA School of Art), Burn spent much of his career working in the avant-garde scenes of London and New York. He was a key member of Art & Language, a collaborative group who produced the ground-breaking publication Art–Language and included artists Roger Cutforth, Joseph Kosuth and Mel Ramsden. Returning to Australia in 1977, Burn became involved in the Art Workers Union (AWU), a political and social […]

Booklaunch: Thirty Six Views by Stephen Whiteman and Richard Strassberg

April 28, 2016News

STEPHEN WHITEMAN & RICHARD STRASSBERG Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints The Power Institute is pleased to invite you to the launch of departmental colleague Stephen Whiteman’s new book Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints, co-authored with Richard Strassberg, to be formally launched by Professor Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University In 1712, the Kangxi emperor published Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat (Yuzhi Bishu shanzhuang shi). His views from his summer palace, captured in poems and descriptions, reflect […]

ANZJA Call for Papers: Open Issue 1, 2017

April 22, 2016ANZJA, Call for Papers, News

CALL FOR PAPERS Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art Issue 1, 2017 Open Issue Closing: 15 August 2016 Issue editors: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, and Rachel Kent, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. 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. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, […]

Modern Art: The Politics of the New – Sessional Lecturer position at the University of Melbourne

April 18, 2016News

The Art History program at The University of Melbourne is seeking a sessional lecturer to teach AHIS10002 Modern Art: The Politics of the New in second semester 2016. The opportunity arises as a result of a staff member being on leave for the semester. The appointee will be expected to have a PhD in a relevant area and will be required to deliver two lectures per week and co-ordinate a group of tutorial staff and take at least one tutorial. Payment will be at the sessional lecturer rates in the University of Melbourne Enterprise Agreement. Please email an expression […]

Adaptation: ACUADS Conference 2016, QUT Brisbane

April 11, 2016Call for Papers, News

2016 ACUADS Conference: Adaptation 29 – 30 September 2016 QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment create one set of pressures that art schools need to adapt to – along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints. External industry structures and commercial aims create another set of compulsions. The art and design school is continually asked to define itself against and adapt to the conditions of its environment, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and […]

Photographic.Ontology.Symposium – University of Sydney

April 4, 2016News

Photography.Ontology.Symposium. engages in critical debate with international scholars and specialists on the photographic medium. It will explore the relationship between photography’s ontology, the camera as a human perceptual apparatus and the unconscious through themes of evidence, the archive, photographic practice and theory. 2-3 JUNE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH & ANDRÉS ZERVIGÓN PLENARY ADDRESS: MELISSA MILES WITH SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS, KATHERINE BIBER, DONNA WEST BRETT, HELEN GRACE, JOHN DI STEFANO, DANIE MELLOR AND TONI ROSS.

Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Professor Alexander Nagel, Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient”

March 2, 2016News

Free Public Lecture: Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient” will be held Monday 14 March 5.45pm-7.15pm. Keynote Speaker: Professor Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York City. The topic draws on art historian Professor Nagel’s recent research on ideas of Asia and America in Renaissance Europe. The decades after 1492 brought Asia closer to Europe than it had ever been. The art, cartography, and literature of the period we call the High Renaissance expanded to imagine a new convergence of worlds where East rejoined West and New neighboured Old. Alexander Nagel is a […]

Professor Patricia Simons, Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ – University of Melbourne – 5.30pm, 9th of March 2019

February 29, 2016NewsLecture, Melbourne, Renaissance Art

Public Lecture: The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ will be held Wednesday 9 March 5.30pm-6.45pm. Keynote: Professor Patricia Simons, Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This paper moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect. Patricia Simons works on the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and on interdisciplinary approaches to materiality, visuality and material culture. In groundbreaking publications in both books and major […]

Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Ara H. Merjian, The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital

February 29, 2016NewsItalian Art, Lecture, Melbourne

Public Lecture: The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital will be held Thurday 10 March 6.30pm-7.45pm. Keynote: Ara H. Merjian Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. From the forthcoming book, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Post-War Art and Politics, 1960-1975 by Ara H. Merjian. Why did Italy’s most prominent counter-cultural figure abjure the post-war avant-garde, even as his work helped to dynamize its activity? Why, for all his own iconoclasm, did Pier Paolo Pasolini – director, poet, critic, and painter – specifically reject the ethos of abstraction? Along with his intermittent critical writings, the films La Rabbia (1963) and Teorema (1968) provide […]

Power Lecture – Professor Alexander Nagel: The Renaissance Elsewhere

February 22, 2016News

The Renaissance Elsewhere Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Thursday, 10 March 2016 6 – 7.30pm Co-presented with Sydney Ideas The Power Institute is proud to present a lecture by Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. For his lecture, Professor Nagel turns his attention to Italian art between c. 1300 and c. 1500 – the Renaissance – a period characterised by its extraordinary openness to the world. The Renaissance represented items and ideas not only in direct proximity to artists of the time, but also distant peoples and places known to artists only through […]