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Slade Lectures 2026 | Terry Smith – Frames of Vision

Events

Terry Smith has been appointed Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge, 2025-2026. During Lent Term, January 27 to March 17, 2026, he will present a public lecture series entitled FRAMES OF VISION: THE INTELLIGENCE OF ARTISTS Flyer attached here The Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge was founded in 1869 as the result of a bequest from the art collector Felix Slade (1788-1868). At the same time, similar chairs were founded in the Universities of Oxford and London. Holders of the Chair usually deliver eight public lectures and four classes for students in the department of the […]

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‘Unruly Objects’ AAANZ Conference program available

AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference ‘Unruly Objects’, December 3-5th  We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to this year’s conference is hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies.The theme unruly objects looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | REGISTRATIONS CLOSE Wednesday 26 November

AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline 31 December

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025.  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 Jaye Early, Dr Shuxia Chen, and Dr Kasia Jezowska. The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 […]

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Congratulations to new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

News

Congratulations to AAANZ members and colleagues in art history and art who have recently been appointed as new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. You can see the full list here: https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/30-new-fellows-elected-to-humanities-academy/ Professor Jennifer Biddle FAHA, UNSW A visual anthropologist of Aboriginal art, language, emotion and culture. Professor Mark Ledbury FAHA, the University of Sydney, A distinguished scholars of art and theatre studies who has deepened our understanding of 18th and 19th-century European painting and theatre.  Associate Professor Christopher Roy Marshall FAHA, the University of Melbourne, A prolific researcher of Italian Baroque Art and contemporary museology who specialises in socio-economic questions of […]

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Book launch | Unseen by Penelope Jackson

Book

Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia Penelope Jackson A riveting look at art thefts, fakes, forgeries, vandalism, ‘disappeared works’ and more The Australian art world is often host to crime, including theft, fraud and forgeries. Unseen offers a unique insight into art crime in Australia from colonisation to today, focusing on those stories that have often escaped mainstream attention. From the many offences committed against William Dobell’s work (including a painting listed on the FBI’s National Stolen Art File since 1949) to the mysterious re-emergence of Rupert Bunny’s Girl in Sunlight twenty-three years after it disappeared, from fraudulently sold Aboriginal art to climate activists […]

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Book launch | From Berlin to the Bush to Brighton: Leonhard Adam’s Journey

Publication

About Of the 2,500 men aboard the Dunera when it sailed in 1940, Leonhard Adam was probably the best known. He was a man of rare brilliance, a polymath who spoke numerous languages and had expertise in several fields. At the time he was deported on the Dunera, Penguin had recently published his book Primitive Art to considerable acclaim. Later, in his role at the University of Melbourne, Adam helped to pioneer interest in Australian Aboriginal art, and became the first person to teach Mandarin Chinese at an Australian university. His achievements and interests were diverse and many. In this special LJLA event, Mary-Clare Adam, […]

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Call for expressions of interest | Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else

Call for Writers

Call for expressions of interest (open to 10 January 2026): Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else Kia ora everyone, I am planning an edited book – Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else (working title). I have a couple of international publishers interested and I am looking for contributions from a wide array disciplines and across a diversity of societies and fields – Global South, Global North, Transnational, Global. The book will be a response to Mary Douglas’ ground-breaking work Constructive Drinking (1987). Published nearly 40 years ago, Constructive Drinking continues to be a touchstone for research that foundationally […]

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Job | Curatorial Assistant at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Jobs

Curatorial Assistant | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Description:  Gain experience working in Aotearoa’s leading visual arts organisation Play a support role in Auckland Art Gallery’s dynamic and talented Curatorial team Candidate will start work in mid to late January 2026 Part-time administrative support role to the Head of Curatorial and Learning 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. Our purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich our communities. The […]

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