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Job | Head of Collections | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

September 6, 2019Jobs

Head of Collections, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Applications close 11 September 2019 For more information click here This is an outstanding opportunity for a specialist to lead the effective management of art collections. Established in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a leading visual arts institution in New Zealand with more than 17,500 artworks and over 150 archival collections. The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the home of art for Auckland, its people and visitors, and a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Gallery’s purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering […]

Event | Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities | 12 September, 1pm | Black Box | UNSW Art & Design Box

September 6, 2019Events

Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities 12 September, 1 – 7.30pm Black Box, UNSW Art & Design Box D106, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW Harnessing Energies symposium, 1-5pm Energies in the Arts book launch and performance, 6 – 7.30pm Energies in the Arts, the new collection edited by Professor Douglas Kahn (UNSW Art & Design) and published by MIT Press, explores the pluralistic concepts of energies—scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological – as they occur in the arts, history and theory. The book will be launched by Joyce Hinterding (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and […]

Event | … in Trouble opens Tuesday 8 October, 5pm, The Boom Gate Gallery

September 6, 2019Events, Exhibition

… in Trouble, an exhibition in partnership with the University of New South Wales, The Big Anxiety Festival opens Tuesday 8th October, 5pm. The exhibition will run until 20 October at The Boom Gate Gallery. For more information click here

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Brisbane Launch Events

August 23, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Brisbane on Saturday 24 and Saturday 31 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue—Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’)—represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer […]

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Melbourne Launch Events

August 16, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance […]

News | Frances Hodgkins goes digital

August 2, 2019NewsPublication, Resource

Frances Hodgkins goes digital: new website gives access to more than 2,600 of Frances Hodgkins’ artworks, letters and related photographs The Complete Frances Hodgkins, an innovative and highly searchable online catalogue of the work of New Zealand’s leading expatriate modernist artist is now online at www.completefranceshodgkins.com. Produced by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the new website documents all known artworks by Hodgkins, with more than 1,200 paintings, watercolours and drawings, as well as photographs, letters and other ephemera. The Complete Frances Hodgkins also includes details of exhibition and publication references of many individual artworks. Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten […]

Job | Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

August 2, 2019News

Senior Curator – International Art | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Enhance, innovate, deliver, inspire Play a pivotal role at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Summary Share your passion for historical and modern international art with the community through exhibitions, events and publishing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich communities. The Gallery’s vision is to be the home of art […]

Job | Research Library and Archives Manager | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

August 2, 2019Jobs

Research Library and Archives Manager | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Join in the arts and learning precinct of Auckland’s central city Enhance and evolve the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s research collections. Play a leading role in one of New Zealand’s finest art libraries He angitūtanga: The opportunity Established in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a leading visual arts institution in New Zealand with more than 17,500 artworks and over 150 archival collections. This is an opportunity for a qualified senior librarian and archives manager to work in the Auckland Art Gallery’s E. H. […]

Book | 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder

August 2, 2019Book

100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder is a multi-authored, many-voiced book published by Open Humanities Press in their new Seed Book series. The authors are all members of the MECO Network: Susan Ballard, Louise Boscacci, David Carlin, Anne Collett, Eva Hampel, Lucas Ihlein, Jo Law, Joshua Lobb, Jade Kennedy, Teodor Mitew, Catherine McKinnon, Jo Stirling, and Kim Williams. To think differently, we need to practice differently. At a time when climate panic obscures clear thought, 100 Atmospheres is an invitation to think differently. Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships […]

Public Lecture | Lynne Cooke – Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art | University of Melbourne

August 1, 2019EventsAmerican Art, Modernist Art

Professor Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art Modernist art history routinely situates the work of self-taught artists, along with that of various other unschooled creators — so-called “primitives,” visionaries, children and the insane — on the margins, a source and stimulus to the avant-gardes who plundered it at will. In recent years, challenges to that canonical model of a privileged center and dependent periphery have come from many quarters. By examining key intersections between credentialed American artists and their disenfranchised peers over the past century, this lecture will bring into focus […]