The State Library of New South Wales is offering $216,000 in paid Fellowships for 2022. Applications for a suite of prestigious Fellowships, many of which are supported by private benefactors, are open now. Applications close on 16 July 2021 at 5pm. For more information, or to apply, you can visit the Library’s website: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library/fellowships
In a period of declining government support for the visual arts, it is always welcome when a colleague receives official recognition for their contribution to art history. This year Associate Professor Tina Barton was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to art history and curation. Tina is currently the director of the Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and continues to supervise in the Art History honours and postgraduate programmes. Tina commenced her career at the Auckland Art Gallery (1988‒92) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa […]
Space Practising Tools by Gail Hastings with an introduction by Jon Roffe Space Practising Tools is much like a storybook. The main character is space. In the beginning, we fear it. As life goes on, we learn to ignore our fear and, as a consequence, we learn to ignore space. This makes it difficult to see space in three-dimensional art in which it is central. In Space Practising Tools, the artist Gail Hastings records a practical way to see and to work with ‘actual’ space in art. Her book documents spatial interactions through photographs, watercolours and diagrams of five space practising tools […]
The journal Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art will devote its n ° 2022 – 1 to the question of the transport of objects and works of art If the study of the transport of heritage goods has given rise to a substantial specialized literature and remains a major issue for the institutions that preserve them, a historiography of the development and standardization of its practices remains to be considered. Conversely, the history of art, in which the phenomena of artistic circulation and transfers constitute a well-established field of research, too often neglects the most pragmatic aspects of the physical transport of objects. In addition […]
A panel discussion to celebrate the publication of The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, afterlives of the Domaine (Bloomsbury, 2020) This is an online event—a Zoom link will be sent to those who have registered one day prior. PLease register here via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/enduring-versailles-a-panel-discussion-and-book-launch-hosted-by-hecaa-tickets-151153731881?ref=estw To celebrate the launch of the new book edited by Mark Ledbury and Robert Wellington, The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), we invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the place of the château de Versailles, the Trianons and the domaine in the history of art today. As symbol, […]
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 20.1, Special Issue: War, Art and Visual Culture Edited by Professor Kit Messham-Muir and Dr Uroš Čvoro This Special Issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art follows a year after the symposium titled War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney (2019). The project aims to consider the politics of addressing war in contemporary art and visual culture, particularly the potential for conflicts, compromises and complicity. This weeks article in focus is: Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict, Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai consider how different institutional contexts affect the creation and […]
AAANZ Conference Theme: Impact The Sydney Conference Committee invites proposals for panels for the AAANZ conference, to be held at University of Sydney, from 8-10 December 2021. Panel proposals are being sought that examine the vexed term ‘impact’ in its relation to art, design, film, culture, society and politics. This includes the impact of history, colonialism, politics, technology, capital, nature, migration, and markets on art, design, film, and visual culture. The consequences of impact may be: aesthetic, sensory, social, epistemological, environmental, economic, material, institutional and/or bodily, and may involve consideration of human-animal-plant relations, as well as intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender […]
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