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Event | 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History | Thursday 30 April

April 13, 2026News

2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History Medieval Art of the Eastern Mediterranean: Global Networks in a Pre-Global World? Trinity College, University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Art History, invites you to the Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History. Returning in the anniversary year of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of university teaching in art history at the University of Melbourne, the 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture will be delivered by Alicia Walker, Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Date: Thursday 30 April 2026 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Craig Auditorium, […]

Exploring Art History Video Podcast

April 1, 2026Film

Exploring Art History video podcast on YouTube and Spotify. This is a biweekly video podcast featuring in-depth conversations between author and documentary filmmaker Howard Burton and professional art historians. Each episode takes viewers on a captivating journey through the story of art across different times and cultures. The videos are enhanced with visuals throughout to illuminate the captivating mysteries, intriguing discoveries and compelling new interpretations that are under discussion. The first episode features a conversation with print specialist Susan Dackerman, UCLA, talking about her readings of Dürer’s most enigmatic print projects – The Sea Monster, The Knots, and Landscape with […]

Prize | Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize – The Role of Art History | Entries open 6 April

April 1, 2026Prizes

Every year Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki runs the Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize. It seeks to foster debate and encourage participation in an evolving conversation about the visual arts. In 2026 the theme is The Role of Art History. Last year the New Zealand Government announced that from 2028 art history would no longer be taught as a dedicated subject at secondary schools. Art history’s removal from the New Zealand Curriculum follows the axing of the subject from the University of Otago in 2020 and reduced course offerings at other tertiary institutions. This year’s Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize […]

Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind | DEADLINE EXTENDED 15 April

April 1, 2026Call for Papers, News

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: Wednesday 15 April 2026* Call for Papers Abstracts due by Wednesday, 15 April 2026 The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday, 1 October 2026 This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds how women creatives working across image-based practices mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. We […]

Writing opportunity | Garland

March 30, 2026Call for Writers

Write for Garland Garland welcomes submissions. Stories are published monthly on the website, newsletter and social channels. You can send your story proposal using the form here. Garland also publish news, such as exhibitions, events and calls for papers in In the Loop section, which appears on the website and ion the newsletter. Here are some things to keep in mind: The Garland reader Garland readers enjoy learning about objects made by hand. While thoughtful people, our readers are not exclusively academic. They are seeking an authentic voice, grounded in the writer’s personal knowledge and experience. They are particularly interested in learning something new […]

Applications open | 2027 Scholarships at the National Library of Australia

March 30, 2026Scholarship

Applications are now open for 2027 Scholarships offered by the National Library of Australia. PhD students who require access to the Library’s collections to assist their postgraduate research are encouraged to apply for eight philanthropically funded Scholarships offered by the Library in 2027. Successful applicants will each receive $10,000 to support four weeks of on-site research at the National Library in Canberra, as well as supported access to the Library’s collections, increased borrowing privileges, a dedicated desk in the Library’s Petherick Reading Room, and an allowance for high resolution digital copies of collection materials. Learn more about the National Library of Australia Scholarships here, […]

Call for submissions | Garland Magazine

March 23, 2026Call for Writers

In the Loop: Story Submission Garland is the world’s leading platform for stories about makers. We’re grounded in an inclusive community that believes in the power of human-made objects to tell stories of meaning and value. So far, we have published more than 2,000 stories from more than 1,000 writers in nearly 100 countries. In the Loop shares timely stories from the world of craft and making. We’re looking for short, well-crafted pieces about what’s happening now, including new publications, ground-breaking exhibitions, policies shifting, makers being recognised, communities gathering, obituaries, organisational changes and issues affecting makers. These stories appear on our […]

EVENTS | AIAH upcoming events

March 16, 2026Events

2026-2027 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of art history university teaching in Australia. AIAH is planning a major conference in 2027 to celebrate; in 2026, as AIAH builds toward the conference, there will be a whole series of international and national speakers to give lectures and talks. To begin with, on 18 March a lecture on the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), given by Dr Holly Trusted, Curator of Sculpture (emeritus) from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr Trusted’s lecture, ‘Who was Luisa Roldán?’ will discuss Roldán’s work as […]

ANZJA | Vol 25 Issue 2 (2025)

March 11, 2026ANZJA

ANZJA | Vol 25 Issue 2 (2025) Link to Vol. 25.2 at Taylor and Francis Articles Post-pandemic Presence Melinda Reid Why have there been no great Asian-Australian artists? Towards an alternative (Asian-) Australian art history Michelle Antoinette Two Laws; One Big Spirit: Painting the Space Between Mary Alice Lee Essay Modern and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia: A Comparison John Clark Articles 65,000 Years Later: Ideas of Australian Art Terry Smith A New German Subjectivity: Charlotte Posenenske’s Abstraction, 1956–1965 Amelia Winata Virginia Cuppaidge: A Jacaranda in Hell’s Kitchen Una Rey A Contemplation of the Cross: Michael Lee’s Mystical Rose […]

Call for Papers: ‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland June 25-26, 2026 Recent years have seen growing scholarly and public interest in the role of colonial conflict (e.g. ‘the New Zealand Wars’) in defining New Zealand settler society and underpinning the social and economic disenfranchisement of iwi Māori. As part of this shift, collecting institutions have initiated projects that have begun to reckon with their colonial inheritance, notably A Different Light: Early Colonial Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand based on the collections of the Auckland Museum, Alexander Turnbull […]