Category Archives: News

Opportunity | EXTENDED DEADLINE | Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at University of Tokyo

September 6, 2019Jobs, News

EXTENDED DEADLINE Applications open for a visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo in 2020-21 and 2021-22 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications close at 5pm on 1 November 2019 The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo, to promote a deeper understanding of Australia and its regional engagement. The position is supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation. Applications are invited from highly qualified Australians with significant academic or public achievement […]

News | Frances Hodgkins goes digital

August 2, 2019NewsPublication, Resource

Frances Hodgkins goes digital: new website gives access to more than 2,600 of Frances Hodgkins’ artworks, letters and related photographs The Complete Frances Hodgkins, an innovative and highly searchable online catalogue of the work of New Zealand’s leading expatriate modernist artist is now online at www.completefranceshodgkins.com. Produced by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the new website documents all known artworks by Hodgkins, with more than 1,200 paintings, watercolours and drawings, as well as photographs, letters and other ephemera. The Complete Frances Hodgkins also includes details of exhibition and publication references of many individual artworks. Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten […]

Job | Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

August 2, 2019News

Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Enhance, innovate, deliver, inspire Play a pivotal role at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Summary Share your passion for historical and modern international art with the community through exhibitions, events and publishing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich communities. The Gallery’s vision is to be the home of art […]

Remembering Roger Blackley (1953–2019)

June 17, 2019NewsNews

This piece by Rebecca Rice first appeared on the Te Papa website. Read it in full here: https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2019/06/11/remembering-roger-blackley-1953-2019/ Our thanks to Rebecca for allowing us to repost it here in memory of the art historian and curator Roger Blackley. ‘Roger was many things to many of us: a scholar, mentor, colleague, teacher, and friend. He was, like his artist-hero Goldie, a national taonga, and he will be greatly missed.’ New Zealand art historian and curator, Roger Blackley, passed away on the 15 May 2019. Here, Rebecca Rice acknowledges his legacy. Roger Blackley, 2018 Roger and I both began our careers […]

EU Copyright Directive, Article 14

April 1, 2019Advocacy, News

An interesting post about incoming copyright policies concerning image reproduction fees for Art Historians: The end of museum image fees?

Support the Redevelopment Project by Artefact Church Square

March 15, 2019News

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/114 The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that cultural visitors to Victoria in 2017 injected almost $2 billion into our economy, an 88 per cent increase since 2013. Yet, from 2008 to 2015, the income of art practitioners across all art forms decreased by 4.2 per cent. After six years of study for basic qualifications, 60 per cent of professional artists earn less than $10,000 per year from creative work and 42 per cent commit to four more years for higher qualifications and earn the same. With supplemented […]

CFP: ‘Belonging and Detachment’ the 19th Conference of Association RIdIM – Hobart, Tasmania – 13-15 November 2019

March 11, 2019News

CALL FOR PAPERS Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture The 19th Conference of Association RIdIM Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 13-15 November 2019 Musicians and artists rarely operate in complete isolation. Throughout history they have negotiated power structures and geographical circumstances, and these factors remain influential in the digital age. The 19th International Conference of Association RIdIM seeks to examine the ways in which musicians and artists experience ‘belonging’ and ‘detachment’ – be it socially, politically, geographically, artistically, aesthetically and/or philosophically. The primary concern of the conference is how such experiences impact upon the representation of musical identity in visual culture. The […]

CFP – ANZJA “War, Art and Visual Culture” Special Issue – EOI due March 31, 2019

March 5, 2019NewsANZJA

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: 31 MARCH 2019Final Submissions will be due 10 July 2019 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 20, Issue 1 War, Art and Visual Culture The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1 for 2020, War, Art and Visual Culture will be edited by Professor Charles Green, School of Culture and communication, University of Melbourne; Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester; Associate Professor Kit Messham-Muir, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University; and Dr. Uros Cvoro, senior lecturer UNSW Art & Design. The editors are […]

Professor Jonathan Bloom – 2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture – 6.30pm, 14th of March 2019

February 25, 2019News

A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia Professor Jonathan Bloom – Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, emeritus, Boston College and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe is only the best known case. Yet the broader history of this humble and every-day item as a transformative medium has been less discussed. From its origins in China, and especially as […]

Killing Today. Killing Yesterday: A Genealogy of Corpse Magic – Michael Taussig – 5.30pm, 28 Feb. 2019

February 25, 2019News

The Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) are delighted to host an upcoming public lecture by Professor Michael Taussig from Columbia University, City of New York. Professor Su Baker will introduce this lecture. Killing of humans or animals creates a bond between killer and killed which in some instances amounts to the victim inhabiting the body and being of the slayer. What to think, then, of the killing by US police of three people per day (disproportionately Native American and black), let alone school shootings, gang shootings and other massacres in that fair […]