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2012 AAANZ annual conference report

August 13, 2012News

It was great to see so many members and students at this year’s conference in Sydney. It was held earlier than usual to coincide with this year’s Sydney Biennale , and was also linked to it thematically by the title TOGETHER<>APART. APT etc Many papers focused on the network of relations that structure art and its practices, between artists, curators, critics, art museums and their publics. The two key notes invited to Australia, Thierry de Duve and Helen Molesworth, both renowned art historians and curators were most generous in also conducting master classes for some 60 postgraduate students in Sydney. […]

Save art history at La Trobe

July 4, 2012Advocacy, News

Sign the petition to save Art History at La Trobe. Art History at La Trobe University has been axed in the first round of savage job cuts in the Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe, amounting to the loss of two permanent lecturing positions, as well as casual teaching staff. This is despite the fact that the Art History program has healthy numbers, is cost-effective and is being taught by staff with high research outputs. La Trobe’s scholarly art historians have made a significant contribution to the intellectual life of this country and overseas since the 1970s. Students have […]

new zealand – member news

July 4, 2012News

University of Otago: Art History & Theory Programme Update Judith Collard will shortly be taking over from Mark Stocker as Programme Co-ordinator for the duration of Mark’s study leave. Judith spent December and January examining manuscripts relating to her project ‘Matthew Paris and His Books’, and making discoveries. She is presenting a paper on ‘Matthew Paris as a Natural Philosopher’ at the Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium in July. Mark Stocker is presenting a paper on Queen Victoria statuary and its Maori and Pakeha contexts in the ‘Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World’ conference at Kensington Palace, London, in […]

northern territory – member news

July 4, 2012News

It has been several years since news from the Northern Territory has been posted. As the recently appointed regional representative on the Executive Committee, an overview of who’s who in the visual arts, beginning with Darwin and the Top End, is well overdue. I have also included a few preliminary links and contacts for Alice Springs and the Desert regions, and will provide further information as the year progresses. It’s a big Territory! The focus of this report will be on recent and existing visual arts appointments, research, teaching and learning through publications, exhibitions, projects, artists’ residencies and new arts […]

studies in material thinking

May 28, 2012News

Volume 8 – Experimental Arts The term “Experimental Arts” designates a field of research and practice characterised by innovative transdisciplinary thinking, boundary crossing and collaborative investigation. This issue of SMT profiles a range of creative projects in this field, along with analysis of experimental arts as a site of discovery, generating insights and practical strategies in relation to current technological, social and environmental issues. Edited by Jill Bennett, Ross Harley, Douglas Kahn and Paul Thomas of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in association with Nancy de Freitas, School of Art […]

curator of global Indigenous art

May 28, 2012News

The Spencer Museum of Art seeks an innovative, team-oriented, and highly motivated Curator of Global Indigenous Art. The Spencer Museum of Art (SMA) forms a vital part of academic life at the University of Kansas (KU). The Museum supports research and promotes education across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences through the growth and preservation of its collections, the development of a community of scholars, publications and creative presentations as well as the display and interpretation of its extraordinary resources to the public. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

AusArt Fellowship for the Fine Arts

March 27, 2012News

Up to $30,000 – applications close 15 April 2012 The American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc., in conjunction with the American Australian Association, is offering a scholarship for an Australian graduate or post graduate student of the Fine Arts or Curatorial Studies wishing to further their studies in the United States. The AusArt Fellowship is for up to US$30,000 a year. Applications for the AusArt Fellowship close on April 15th 2012. Guidelines and application form are available at – http://www.americanaustralian.org/education/AusArt/ Criteria Study Level: Research/study must be at the graduate or post graduate level. US Enrolment: Acceptance into […]

bernard smith symposium

February 28, 2012News

Call for papers for the symposium The Legacies of Bernard Smith: A Symposium at the University of Melbourne and Sydney, deadline 15 April 2012.

renaissance symposium

February 28, 2012News

Renaissance lecture and symposium in Melbourne, 9-10 March 2012.

a wonderful range of mind: John Gage has died at the age of 73

February 15, 2012News

On Friday, 10th February 2012, the great art historian, John Gage, passed away. The title of his 1987 book on Turner, A Wonderful Range of Mind, might describe his own intellectual personality. He was a pioneer of many themes that would become prominent in Art History towards the end of the twentieth century – exploring the relationship between art and science, the material conditions that determine artistic creation as well as the history of perception. His first major publication, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth (1969) already raised all of these issues. Yet he resolutely refused to be fashionable. It […]

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