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Reminder | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPA) close July 31

July 16, 2020AWAPA, Prizes

The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. AWAPA categories include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing, and an award for recently completed PhD graduates. The Awards are sponsored by a […]

Virtual Lecture | Mavis Ngallametta’s Emotional Ecology – Sally Butler | QAGOMA

July 16, 2020Events

VIRTUAL LECTURE: MAVIS NGALLAMETTA’S EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY 10.30am, Sat 18 July | Online via Zoom | FREE | BOOK NOW Hear from Sally Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland, as she discusses Mavis Ngallametta’s later large canvas paintings through the lens of emotional ecology. Discover how Mavis Ngallametta’s paintings reflect an intimate, emotional knowledge of her country, functioning more as spiritual portraits of place rather than landscapes, through the unique methods she used to personalise the locations she portrayed. Free / Bookings Required / This event is a webinar. Participant’s webcam and microphone will be disabled. Proudly presented by HSBC. Check out […]

New Book | Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age – Natalia Grincheva

July 10, 2020Publication

New book from Natalia Grincheva . It explores online museum spaces as sites of contemporary diplomacy across the largest museums in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In the time of the post(pandemic) “digital lockdown” this book offers timely, useful and illuminating insights on how museums can retain their global visibility, engage their local and international audiences and offer meaningful interactive learning experiences. You can read a teaser here. The book is currently on discount sale at Routledge. Please, share this link with your library to order a hard copy. Book reviews are very welcome! Please request an inspection copy by following the link or email the author.

Call for Papers | Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

July 7, 2020Call for Papers

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art Forum: Blind Spots Guest-edited by Isabel Taube and Anne Monahan Inspired by current efforts to reckon with ongoing, systemic racism, we invite proposals for a forum in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (Fall 2020) focused on blind spots, especially but not only related to race, that condition and constrain our research and writing. How might unexamined assumptions at the heart of our work in the academy and museum inadvertently perpetuate biases, stereotypes, and generalizations we mean to dismantle in and well beyond art history? We […]

Advocacy | Letter to The Hon Paul Fletcher MP to reverse the decision to cut 10% of staff at the National Gallery of Australia

July 6, 2020Advocacy, News

On Monday 6 July, the Executive Committee of the Art Association of Australia New Zealand wrote to The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety, and the Arts outlining their concerns with the proposed decision to cut staff by 10% at the National Gallery of Australia and what the ramifications would be with such a decision on the sector. Dear Minister, The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), the peak professional body representing art historians, artists, and art curators in Australasia and the Pacific, objects strongly to the decision to cut 10% of staff at the […]

AAANZ Prizes | Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020

July 3, 2020Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020. The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Following a review of the Awards earlier this year, AAANZ is pleased to announce a new category, Best Medium Exhibition […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art | Open Issue: 21.2

July 3, 2020ANZJA, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Open Issue: 21.2 Submissions Due: 23 October, 2020 Editors: Dr Anita Archer, Dr David Challis and Associate Professor Christopher Marshall The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2021. The issue will be edited by Dr Anita Archer, Research Coordinator of the ERCC (Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture), Dr David Challis and Associate Professor Christopher Marshall, each are from the School of Culture and Communication an the University of Melbourne. The editors seek research papers that engage […]

Online exhibition from University of Tasmania creative arts and media students

June 29, 2020Exhibition, Teaching and LearningDigital Exhibition, Exhibition, University of Tasmania

During lockdown, 30 creative arts and media students from the University of Tasmania produced a virtual art for a virtual exhibition at Domain House in Hobart. View the exhibition here: https://www.utas.edu.au/creative-arts-media/events/domain From the UTAS DOMAIN website: During the course of Semester One, 2020, students in Making the Event were invited to respond to the historical, material, social and educational legacies of Domain House and its surrounds. Some students have interpreted this through dramatic and musical representations of the various eras that have been experienced within the walls of the building, while others have evoked a parallel history for the site. Of interest […]

PhD Scholarship: Visual Medical Humanities | Australian National University

June 29, 2020FundingArt and Medicine, Funding, PhD Scholarship

The Australian National University is offering a PhD scholarship for a candidate interested in Art History, Visual and Material Culture, Medical History, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies or, preferably, a combination of the above. The candidate will work with Dr. Keren Hammerschlag, with funding from the ANU Futures Scheme, on a topic related to the Visual Medical Humanities. The Visual Medical Humanities, which encompasses museum studies, art history and art practice, has been recognised as a major area for research and teaching innovation in the new critical Medical Humanities. In the Medical Humanities, medicine engages with the humanities, social sciences, and […]

Joanna Mendelssohn | Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently

June 25, 2020Advocacy, News

Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently Thennicke/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne On September 10 1965, Sir Robert Menzies commissioned the National Art Gallery Committee of Inquiry to consider the establishment of a national gallery for Australia. The resulting Lindsay Report, published in 1966, is an ambitious document, describing an art gallery to serve the nation through the quality and range of its collections and exhibitions. It emphasised the need to have an all encompassing collection of Australian art. The report recognised, […]