Category Archives: News

new zealand – member news

University of Otago: Art History & Theory Programme Update Judith Collard will shortly be taking over from Mark Stocker as Programme Co-ordinator for the duration of Mark’s study leave.  Judith spent December and January examining manuscripts relating to her project ‘Matthew Paris and His Books’, and making discoveries. She is presenting a paper on ‘Matthew Paris as a Natural Philosopher’ at the Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium in July. Mark Stocker is presenting a paper on Queen Victoria statuary and its Maori and Pakeha contexts in the ‘Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World’ conference at Kensington Palace, London, in […]

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northern territory – member news

 It has been several years since news from the Northern Territory has been posted.  As the recently appointed regional representative on the Executive Committee, an overview of who’s who in the visual arts, beginning with Darwin and the Top End, is well overdue.  I have also included a few preliminary links and contacts for Alice Springs and the Desert regions, and will provide further information as the year progresses.  It’s a big Territory!  The focus of this report will be on recent and existing visual arts appointments, research, teaching and learning through publications, exhibitions, projects, artists’ residencies and new arts […]

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studies in material thinking

Volume 8 – Experimental Arts The term “Experimental Arts” designates a field of research and practice characterised by innovative transdisciplinary thinking, boundary crossing and collaborative investigation. This issue of SMT profiles a range of creative projects in this field, along with analysis of experimental arts as a site of discovery, generating insights and practical strategies in relation to current technological, social and environmental issues. Edited by Jill Bennett, Ross Harley, Douglas Kahn and Paul Thomas of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in association with Nancy de Freitas, School of Art […]

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curator of global Indigenous art

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

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AusArt Fellowship for the Fine Arts

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 […]

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

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 […]

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emeritus professor John House 1945-2012

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. […]

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n.paradoxa call for papers

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: […]

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