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CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | WEDNESDAY DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 15, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN The 2024 AAANZ Conference coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. This year the conference encourages participants to explore the past, present, possible futures of art history, curating, and creative practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We now have 35 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 15 panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region. If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

July 15, 2024Opportunity, Prizes, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is calling for proposals for book publications from recently completed doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. The series has been divided into two rounds, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | DEADLINE 20 December

July 15, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 8, 2024News

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

July 8, 2024Funding, Prizes, Publication

Prize │ The 2024 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize │ Deadline 15 July

July 8, 2024Prizes

Submissions to the 2024 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize closes in two weeks. The Prize aims to support writers in their early career and promote new writing and research in contemporary art, and we are grateful for all your support. If appropriate, it would be most helpful if you could circulate a reminder for the closure of the Prize. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. This year’s judges are the scholar and author Julia Bryan-Wilson and the artist Trevor […]

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | ANNOUNCEMENT OF KEYNOTE DAVID J.GETSY

June 26, 2024AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce international keynote David J. Getsy. David J. Getsy is a historian of art and performance whose research focuses on queer and transgender themes in modern and contemporary art. His books have charted modern sculpture’s relationship to the human body: Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (Yale University Press, 2004); Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2010); Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015/2023); and Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE

June 24, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies […]

Keynote address for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association | Franchesca Cubillo

June 17, 2024Conference, Events

Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, to present the keynote address for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association at the University of Melbourne Multiple Art Markets in an Expanding World: Artists, Agents, Networks, Exchange Wednesday 10 July 2024 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm AEST, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 is delighted to announce Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, as the 2024 keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Conference of the International Art Market Studies Association at […]

VALE IAN NORTH AM (1945-2024)

June 17, 2024Obituary

Ian North AM, a widely esteemed artist, curator, academic and writer, sadly passed away on 14 May 2024 after a long illness. Ian had a special relationship with AAANZ. He was an inaugural member of the Art Association of Australia (1974) and as President (1997-99) and New Zealander, he reached across the ditch to bring his fellow New Zealanders into the fold. He rewrote the constitution and thus a rebranded Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) was born in 2000. Ian North touched many as Curator of Paintings at the Art Gallery of South Australia (1971-1980) and Founding […]