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Call for Papers | see/saw | Deadline 29 February

February 12, 2024News

see/saw is an undergraduate print journal devoted to publishing original research in art history and art criticism. Founded at the University of California, Berkeley, our publication shares innovative critical work biannually to foster intellectual discussion among an international network of students. As art historians, we are committed to diversifying the field and developing intersectional critical analyses of the artistic canon. see/saw is especially open to considerations of art and artists that have been historically erased and underemphasized. see/saw welcomes English-language submissions pertaining to all art historical genres and time periods from undergraduate students studying at any institution. To submit, please […]

ANZJA | Vol 23 Issue 2 (2023) | Te Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All

February 12, 2024ANZJA

ANZJA | Vol 23 Issue 2 (2023) | Te Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte Link to Vol. 23.2 at Taylor and Francis Introduction Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wāhi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All Ngarino Ellis & Heather Igloliorte Exhibition AWA—Building pā tauremu Fish Weirs in the Waiapu River Natalie Robertson Article ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Affirmation, Defiance, and Kānaka ʻŌiwi Visual Culture Today Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick & Josh Tengan Exhibition Review: The Visiting Curators Léuli Eshrāghi, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Tarah Hogue, Lana Lopesi & Freja Carmichael Article Groundswell in the Gallery: North and […]

Call for Papers | NZ Art Crime Research Trust Annual Symposium | Deadline 1 March 2024

February 9, 2024Call for Papers

Annual Symposium 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS Theme: Art Crime Research Today. [We are specifically looking for papers that are relevant, or can be related to, New Zealand]. Date: Saturday 18 May 2024 Location: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Wellington. If you’re keen to present a 25 minute paper please send your abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography, by 1 March 2024, to: artcrimenz@gmail.com Abstracts will not be accepted beyond this date. We will select and inform all those who offer abstracts of our decision within two weeks of the closing date. Expenses incurred cannot be covered by […]

CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 25.1 SPECIAL ISSUE: TARRANG | DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2024

February 9, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.1 | Special Issue: Tarrang Submissions due: Papers due Monday 1 March, 2024 Editors: Brian Martin and Jessica Neath Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early and Dr Verónica Tello The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Special Issue (25.1) Tarrang. The Special Issue builds on the 2023 exhibition More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency, curated by Brian Martin, Jessica Neath, Kimberley Moulton and Brook Andrew for Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum. We invite […]

UPDATE OR ADD YOUR PROFILE TO THE DIRECTORY OF ART HISTORIANS AND ART RESEARCHERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

February 9, 2024General, Resources

Art historians and art researchers practicing in the Asia Pacific Region region are producing significant and innovative research which is of great interest to scholars and to relevant industry sectors including museums and galleries. The Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region enables research, expertise, and contact details for these historians and researchers to be found quickly and easily. The Directory is a searchable database of experts – academics, researchers, teachers, writers, editors, curators, and museum professionals – specialising in art, architecture, and visual culture from all periods and geographic regions. Browse the directory. Update or add your profile

Article │‘The First Homosexuals’: Connecting Australian art and design to the world

February 5, 2024Publication

There is little written about queer Australian art before 1930. Peter McNeil FAHA shares his contribution to the groundbreaking global art exhibition, The First Homosexuals, and discusses the fragmented, solitary and quiet history of queer Australian artists pre-1930. Read the article here https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/australian-queer-art-and-design-pre-1930/

Prize │ The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

February 5, 2024Prizes

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of $1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

Call for Papers │Avant-Garde and War │ Deadline 1 March 2024

February 5, 2024Call for Papers

Call for Papers │Avant-Garde and War 9th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) Cracow, Jagiellonian University 17-19 September 2024 Please see the EAM website for details in English, French and German: EAM | European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (eam-europe.be) Deadline 1 March 2024

PUBLICATION│CHRISTIAN WALLER STAINED GLASS: TOWARDS THE LIGHT

January 22, 2024Book

CHRISTIAN WALLER STAINED GLASS: TOWARDS THE LIGHT Caroline Miley Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2022 ISBN 9781922669476 Paperback 400 pp 251 ill. with slipcase $150 without $110 www.christianwallerstainedglass.com Born in 1895 to a tradesman father in a provincial gold-mining town in Victoria, Christian Waller’s rare talent was recognised as a girl. She studied at the National Gallery School and at the British centres of the Arts and Crafts stained glass revival. On her return she built a career patronised by architects, attracting more commissions than even her dedicated labour could manage. Her choice of medium, later illness and reclusive tendencies […]

REBUILDING THE NOH STAGE Thursday 1 – Sun 4 February 2024

January 15, 2024Events

The Cowra Japanese Garden currently holds the only authentic Japanese noh stage that exists in Australasia. The stage was originally built for the 1988 Adelaide Festival, used in performances by the Kanze theatre troupe from Japan. Thereafter, it was kept and occasionally used by the University of Sydney drama department for student performances, before its transfer to Cowra in 2016. Supported by The Japan Foundation’s Sydney office, Dr Tets Kimura (Flinders University, Adelaide) and Associate Professor Richard Bullen (University of Canterbury, NZ) will visit the Cowra Japanese Garden to rebuild the noh stage from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 February […]