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Review | ‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians

December 11, 2020Book

‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians The Conversation 10 December, 2020 Editors Misha Ketchell Review Daniel Thomas, recent past: writing Australian art (Thames & Hudson Australia) In 1958, when the young Daniel Thomas was first appointed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the word “curator” was not in the Public Service Board lexicon. He felt his official title of “professional assistant” was inaccurate so he signed his letters “curatorial assistant”. read more Image Robert Walker, Daniel Thomas in his apartment at Elizabeth. Bay, from the Robert Walker archive 1965 black […]

Advocacy | AAANZ support for the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University

December 2, 2020AdvocacyAdvocacy, La Trobe University

AAANZ president Wendy Garden has written to the Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University to express our concerns over proposed changes to the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University. AAANZ has expressed its concerns stating that: The Art Association of Australia New Zealand (AAANZ) offers its strong support to the Visual Arts program and the Visual Cultures major at La Trobe University. Now facing major challenges due to the University’s restructuring plans, Visual Arts and Visual Cultures are successful and distinctive units which make an important contribution to research and education in this region. It […]

Database of Experts | Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region

November 27, 2020Resources

The Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region is now live and accessible through the AAANZ website. This is an important resource that provides 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. A joint initiative of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), the Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH), and the International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA), the Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific […]

Event | Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath | Sir William Dobell Lecture 2020

November 13, 2020Events

Annual Sir William Dobell lecture Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath Wednesday 25 November 2020 Prof. Adrian Franklin, Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Policy, University of South Australia Prof. Franklin is known for his work on MONA and the development of para- and anti-museums. His most recent book, Anti-Museum (Routledge 2020) is an analysis of alternative museum practices in Australia, Europe and the USA. Franklin’s presentation reflects on how both he and his research field have been directly and rapidly transformed by the COVID-19 crisis. What was, in Anti-Museum, a challenge to reassess exhibitions, audiences and engagement has […]

PRIZE | AAANZ RESEARCH IN FOCUS ONLINE PRIZE 2020 | ENTRIES CLOSE 12 NOVEMBER

November 6, 2020Prizes

AAANZ RESEARCH IN FOCUS ONLINE PRIZE 2020 Due to Covid-19 the 2020 AAANZ Conference is not proceeding this December. The AAANZ Executive Committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in an alternative mode. With consideration regarding feedback received around the prize format from previous years, the 2020 prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhD candidates and recent graduates. Early career researchers are invited to prepare a short video that focuses on their research. They can talk to their entire PhD project, or choose a sub topic. Videos […]

Register | ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead | November 2020

October 30, 2020Events

ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead 5, 12, 19 & 26 November 2020 In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the devastation of recent Australian bushfires, the 2020 ACUADS Conference will explore the theme of crisis and resilience. With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic yet to be realised and a recent Australian defence report warning of Australia’s vulnerabilities to overlapping ‘crises as diverse as cyberwar, climate-induced catastrophe and a pandemic,’ is our sector prepared for an unpredictable future? In this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, what can be learned from the impacts of […]

Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

October 23, 2020EventsTalk

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Queen’s University

October 23, 2020Call for Papers, Conference

Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Graduate Visual Culture Association | Queen’s University Extended submission deadline | 1 November 2020 The Graduate Visual Culture Association (GVCA) at Queen’s University is seeking submissions for a graduate research conference exploring the intersections of art and crime. Hosted by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation and the GVCA, this year’s conference will take place from 22 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Details about format and keynote speaker will be announced in the coming weeks. Call for papers and further details about the conference themes […]

Call for Papers | INDEX Journal Issue No. 3 ‘Monument’

October 12, 2020Call for Papers

~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~ ISSUE No. 3 MONUMENT If colonial monuments can be understood as ruins, in the sense that they symbolise the destructive force of conquest, what can be salvaged from the framework of monumentalism? INDEX JOURNAL invites papers that contemplate the relation between public monuments and ruin. Papers addressing monuments in the context of materiality, environment, image, emotion, revenge, authority, colonial expansion, white supremacy, and state propaganda are all encouraged and considered. Issue No. 3 MONUMENT is guest edited by Tristen Harwood, a Darwin-based Indigenous writer and critic. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and […]

AAANZ 2020 ECR and PhD Prize – Research in Focus

October 12, 2020AWAPA, News

As the 2020 AAANZ conference is not running this year, the AAANZ executive committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in a different mode. This is also in response to feedback on the prize format in previous years. This year’s prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhDs and recent graduates. The winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Deadline – Thursday November 12th, 2020. AAANZ Research in Focus – Online Online format – entrants submit a video (see website for details). Videos should be based […]