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Early Bird Registrations Open │ AAANZ 2022 Conference │DEMONSTRATIONS

September 26, 2022AAANZ Conference

We are delighted to announce the program for the AAANZ Conference, DEMONSTRATIONS, to be held from 1 to 3 December that will bring together art historians, curators and artists from across the regions and also the release of early-bird registrations. Panel schedule is now available. You can view the complete schedule of panels and speakers here aaanz22.live Early bird registrations have now opened. For more information on costs and to register go to AAANZ conference fees and bursaries Early bird discounts finish 31 October. The 2022 AAANZ Conference ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ is co-hosted by the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne and the Faculty […]

AAANZ NEWSLETTER 1 │ 2022

September 12, 2022News

The AAANZ Newsletter 1 │ 2022 is available to read here The Newsletter opens with the Presidents Report and contains updates regarding the Association. This includes the conference, awards and prizes and the journal. Updates from the Australian Indigenous Representative and regional representatives from Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Queensland include publication news, appointments, seminars and acknowledgements.

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS CLOSE FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

September 12, 2022Grants

The AIAH Art History Research Grants are now open for 2022. There will be four grants offered of $5,000. Institutional art historian (i.e. working in an academic or cultural institution such as a university, art museum, public library) Independent art historian Emerging art historian (PhD student or Early Career Researcher in Art History i.e. PhD granted no earlier than 1 January 2016) Indigenous Australian, New Zealand Maori or Pasifika art historian Deadline: Friday 23 September 2022 For more information and to apply visit https://aaanz.info/aiah-art-history-research-grants/ Please contact the AAANZ Business Manager with any queries admin@aaanz.info The AIAH Art History Research Grants are funded by the Australian Institute of […]

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS Close Friday 23 September

September 2, 2022Grants

ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | Available online

September 2, 2022ANZJA

ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | The foreign and the out-of-place in Melbourne’s early modern collections Editors: Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr Link to Vol. 22.1 at Taylor and Francis About this issue Edited by Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr the issue takes eleven objects in Melbourne collections to examine the concepts of foreignness and the out-of-place in the early modern world. The objects were made over a span of almost four centuries, from the 1400s into the 1700s, and in regions as far apart as England and the Philippines. They include manuscripts and sculptures, textiles, drawings, and prints. Some […]

AAANZ / AIAH ART HISTORY RESEARCH GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2022

August 26, 2022Grants

Performance | Magic Lantern Show for Light: Works from Tate’s Collection | ACMI

August 26, 2022Events

Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy will be re-imagining an historical magic lantern show, based on the shows popular in Australia in the late nineteenth century, at ACMI from 9 to 11 September. Using a pair of authentic ‘dissolving view’ magic lanterns they will project original chromatropes and the thrilling story Jane Conquest, not seen in Melbourne since 1894, all accompanied by special effects and live original music. The show is relevant to people interested in the history of photography, animation, media, projection and performance. For more information about the performance, dates, times and tickets go to https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/light-works-from-tates-collection-exhibition/magic-lantern-show/ Image: Hand coloured […]

Vale Professor Virginia Spate

August 22, 2022News

AAANZ is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Professor Virginia Spate AC FAHA, one of Australia’s most distinguished art historians. Her legacy to the nation includes the Museum of Contemporary Art. She played an important role advocating for the museum during her career as Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney. Her scholarship received critical acclaim and in addition to significant monographs on Tom Roberts and John Olsen are award winning publications such as her book on Monet which won the prestigious Mitchell Prize. She will be greatly missed. You can read a full obituary […]

Podcast | Paint it black | Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ series

August 22, 2022Book

Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ podcast series focuses on Australian biographers. In the recent episode titled ‘Paint it black’, ABC presenter Daniel Browning interviews Alec O’Halloran about his authorised biography of Pintupi artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, ‘The master from Marnpi’. You can listen to the podcast at this link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/paint-it-black/id1559400094?i=1000571460968

Book | European Vision and the South Pacific Third Edition | Bernard Smith, Sheridan Palmer (editor)

August 22, 2022Book

From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia’s greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity-both for Europeans and the Indigenous peoples with whom they came in […]