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Support Art History at VUW

June 18, 2018Advocacy

Support Art History at VUW Art History at Victoria University of Wellington is under threat. As the result of a recent Change Proposal, the department is facing the imminent loss of a Senior Lecturer, along with its Administrator – with further staff cuts threatened in a year’s time. In order to maintain the collective excellence of the department we must strongly resist such cuts. Submissions are open on all aspects of this proposal. In order to make explicitly clear the vital role played by this department in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, we encourage you to make a […]

From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representations of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts

June 18, 2018Events

The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation presents: A Free Lecture by Dr Stefano Carboni, director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia: From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representation of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts 6pm-7pm Wednesday 27 June at the University of Melbourne The common perception about Persian miniature painting – better described as book illustration because almost invariably it has a textual, literary or oral context – is that it is elegant, colourful, rather formal in composition, and overall restrained in the way the characters are emotionally involved in a particular moment of the story. Persian […]

Queen’s Birthday Honours

June 14, 2018Member News, News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is delighted to report that two significant members of the art and art history community were recognised on the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Both recipients have had an enormous and significant impact on their respective fields and the awards are an indication of the esteem in which members of the art-related professions are held in this country and internationally. Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate received the Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for eminent service to higher education, particularly to art history and theory and to the advanced […]

Update: Elam Fine Arts Library – University of Auckland

June 14, 2018Advocacy, News

I recently wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland regarding the proposal to shut down their Elam Fine Arts Library. You can view my letter here: https://aaanz.info/letter-from-aaanz-on-the-elam-fine-arts-library/ The response I received from the Vice-Chancellor, Stuart McCutcheon, argued that the University’s review and restructure process “does not provide for submissions from external parties.” In my view this unsatisfactory response shows how short-sighted the University administration is, particularly given the historic and contemporary significance of the Library to the local and broader art communities. A sense of the institution’s current priorities can be gained from the significant amounts of money […]

AAANZ Conference 2018 – Call for Panels extended to COB June 25 2018

June 12, 2018AAANZ Conference

Submission Process Submit panel proposals via the google form here: https://goo.gl/forms/TijiQiVZY4M7u1fB3. Please include: name and email address of the session convenor(s); institutional affiliation; session title; a brief abstract (250 word limit) that describes the session and how it fits with the conference theme. The deadline for session proposals has been extended to COB Monday 25 June 2018. Session convenors are required to be active members of AAANZ at the time of the conference and will be asked to renew or register for membership upon acceptance of their panel proposal. Session convenors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposed session on […]

Call For Panels – AAANZ Conference 2018 – due 12 June 2018

June 4, 2018AAANZ Conference

A Message from Marnie Badham, co-convenor of the AAANZ conference for 2018: On behalf of the 2018 AAANZ conference committee, my co-convenor Professor Daniel Palmer and myself, I would like to invite you to submit a panel proposal for our upcoming conference Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, December 5-8, at the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The conference will open critical dialogue on the histories of art by examining the social contexts of aesthetics and politics. Bringing together art historians, theorists, curators, critics, and artists from across the region, we will offer a four-day program of panels and papers, publication […]

AAANZ Conference 2018 – Gabi Ngcobo to keynote plus 3 weeks left to submit panel proposals

May 22, 2018News

The RMIT University School of Art and AAANZ are delighted to confirm that in addition to the exceptional keynotes already announced for this year’s AAANZ Conference – Griselda Pollock, Ema Tavola and Genevieve Grieves – curator, Gabi Ngcobo (South Africa), will also be joining us as a keynote at the conference, fresh from curating the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: We Don’t Need Another Hero. Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is […]

AAANZ Conference 2018 – Third Keynote Speaker Announced

May 8, 2018News

AAANZ and RMIT University School of Art, hosts of the 2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, are pleased to announced that the third keynote speaker for the conference will be Genevieve Grieves (AU), Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria. She will be joining two other keynotes, eminent art historian Griselda Pollock (UK) and curator Ema Tavola (Fiji). The conference will be held 5-8th December, 2018. Genevieve Grieves is Worimi – traditionally from mid north coast New South Wales – and has lived on Kulin country in Melbourne for many years. She is an educator, […]

Applications Open: Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris Residency Fellowship

May 1, 2018Funding

Applications are now open for the Power Institute 2019 Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowships. We are accepting applications online via submittable. All information including criteria, eligibility and residency details can be found on the submittable form. Applications are open in the following categories: a) Participating artists / craftspeople b) Art critics, art writers, art curators, art historians or art administrators c) Staff of the University of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and PhD research students of the Department of Art History & Film Studies and Sydney College of the Arts A three or six-month residency […]

Australian National RIdIM Centre

April 30, 2018News

Dear Colleagues, It’s with great pleasure that we announce the formation of a National RIdIM centre in Australia and invite contact from all those who are interested. Established in 2017, the Australian Music and Art Research Group is based at the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania. It fosters scholarly and practical research into the intersections between music and visual culture, including – but not limited to – the study of music iconography and the development of new creative work. Association RIdIM officially recognized the group as the Australian National RIdIM Centre in December 2017. Last week, the Australian […]