Category Archives: News

EVENT | 2019 RAE Alexander Lecture Trace: touching time | Rosslynd Piggott | Thursday 24 October, 6.30PM

October 17, 2019News

La Trobe University Art History Alumni Chapter, with the National Gallery of Victoria presents 22nd annual Rae Alexander lecture. Australian artist Rosslynd Piggott will examine a selection of her artworks through the lense of her interactions with the history of art and its practices. National Gallery of Victoria Thursday 24 October, 6.30 pm This is a ticketed event. To find out more go to 2019 Rae Alexander Lecture Invitation

Petition | Stand with Tess

October 11, 2019News

After a meeting that was held 8 October, colleagues of Tess Allas were informed that the reason for the cessation of Tess’ employment is due to a restructuring issue, rather than a budget issue. As a result, they would like to ask that you petition MEGAN DAVIS (Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous of UNSW) and IAN JACOBS (President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW) against the removal of Tess, and petition ROSS HARLEY (Dean of UNSW Art and Design) to advocate on Tess’ behalf. Stand with Tess petition Why is this important? The proposed redundancy of Tess comes at a time when she is […]

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 […]