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

Call 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 […]

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

ANZJA, 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 […]

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

General, 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

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

Publication

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/

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Prize │ The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

Prizes

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 […]

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PUBLICATION│CHRISTIAN WALLER STAINED GLASS: TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Book

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 […]

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REBUILDING THE NOH STAGE Thursday 1 – Sun 4 February 2024

Events

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 […]

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WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2023 AWAPAS

AWAPA

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2023 BEST BOOK From an exceptionally strong field of scholarly art historical book publishing, the judges decided to award the prize to: WINNER: Penelope Jackson, The art of copying art. (Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Copying art for purposes of training or replicating artwork for collections, filmsets or as forgeries is an ancient practice. Jackson, with wit, scholarship and investigative brilliance, brings together the different traditions of copying art in this engaging and very readable volume. This is an original and pioneering piece of research that opens a field […]

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AAANZ END OF YEAR 2023 NEWSLETTER

News

Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2023 Advocacy This year was dominated by debate in the lead up to the October referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. AAANZ issued a statement in support of the Voice acknowledging it as an important step towards Treaty. Following the referendum we released a follow-up statement recognising the deep pain many people were experiencing and reaffirming our commitment to Treaty, truth-telling and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Thank you to the Indigenous Advocacy Working Group: Dr Ali Gumillya Baker, Dr Fiona Foley, Rebecca Holborn and Dr Jessyca Hutchens for crafting these statements. Consultation for the […]

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