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curator of global Indigenous art

May 28, 2012News

The Spencer Museum of Art seeks an innovative, team-oriented, and highly motivated Curator of Global Indigenous Art. The Spencer Museum of Art (SMA) forms a vital part of academic life at the University of Kansas (KU). The Museum supports research and promotes education across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences through the growth and preservation of its collections, the development of a community of scholars, publications and creative presentations as well as the display and interpretation of its extraordinary resources to the public. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

AusArt Fellowship for the Fine Arts

March 27, 2012News

Up to $30,000 – applications close 15 April 2012 The American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc., in conjunction with the American Australian Association, is offering a scholarship for an Australian graduate or post graduate student of the Fine Arts or Curatorial Studies wishing to further their studies in the United States. The AusArt Fellowship is for up to US$30,000 a year. Applications for the AusArt Fellowship close on April 15th 2012. Guidelines and application form are available at – http://www.americanaustralian.org/education/AusArt/ Criteria Study Level: Research/study must be at the graduate or post graduate level. US Enrolment: Acceptance into […]

bernard smith symposium

February 28, 2012News

Call for papers for the symposium The Legacies of Bernard Smith: A Symposium at the University of Melbourne and Sydney, deadline 15 April 2012.

renaissance symposium

February 28, 2012News

Renaissance lecture and symposium in Melbourne, 9-10 March 2012.

a wonderful range of mind: John Gage has died at the age of 73

February 15, 2012News

On Friday, 10th February 2012, the great art historian, John Gage, passed away. The title of his 1987 book on Turner, A Wonderful Range of Mind, might describe his own intellectual personality. He was a pioneer of many themes that would become prominent in Art History towards the end of the twentieth century – exploring the relationship between art and science, the material conditions that determine artistic creation as well as the history of perception. His first major publication, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth (1969) already raised all of these issues. Yet he resolutely refused to be fashionable. It […]

emeritus professor John House 1945-2012

February 15, 2012News

It is with great sadness that the Courtauld Institute of Art announces the sudden death on Tuesday 7 February of John House, Emeritus Professor of the Courtauld Institute of Art, at the age of 66. One of the pre-eminent scholars of nineteenth-century French art of his generation, John served The Courtauld with great distinction from his appointment in 1980 up until his retirement as the Walter H. Annenberg Professor in 2010; we cannot think of anyone with a deeper attachment to all aspects of our community, with which his close and richly productive involvement has now been cruelly cut short. […]

n.paradoxa call for papers

February 14, 2012News

n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (published by KT press, since 1998). Website: www.ktpress.co.uk n.paradoxa publishes the work of women authors, scholars and artists working anywhere in the world. The journal is published in print and electronic format and has now reached its 15th year of publication. The focus of n.paradoxa is articles on contemporary women’s art practices (visual arts only, women artists working post-1970) or an aspect of feminist art theory which relates to their practices; as well as interviews with woman artists. Each volume is thematic. Do not send finished articles. Articles are commissioned through negotiation with the editor: […]

CIHA postgraduate program

January 10, 2012News

It is now possible to apply for the postgraduate program “Get in Touch – Objects, Places, People” at the 33rd Congress of the International Comittee of the History of Art (CIHA2012) in Nuremberg. Postgraduates are invited to submit their researches concerning the topic “object” in form of a poster. The best 100 entries will be exhibited during the entire congress in the entrance hall of the Nuremberg Convention Center (NCC). See the Postgraduate Program. For more information, please see: http://www.ciha2012.de/programm/postgraduierten-programm.html. Sincerely The CIHA2012 Congress Bureau (Petra Krutisch, Almuth Klein, Anna Pawlik, Marian Wild)

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Western Australia

July 6, 2011News

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Art (FALVA), University of Western Australia has established a new major in Art History within the Bachelor of Arts degree as part of New Courses 2012 throughout the university. The discipline of art history there bids farewell to former Deputy Dean and Winthrop Professor Ian McLean who is leaving FALVA to take up a position at the University of Wollongong in October. During current sabbatical he has presented papers on Aboriginal art at various institutions in the US. A replacement in art history will be appointed later this year after closure of applications […]

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