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Exhibition | bookworks | Monash University Museum of Art

July 22, 2019Events, Exhibition

24 July – 21 September 2019 Participants: Adam Cruickshank (AU), Will Holder (UK/BE), Olaf Nicolai (DE), Roma Publications (NL), Batia Suter (NL), Ella Sutherland (NZ/AU) Guest curator: Warren Taylor (Program Coordinator, Communication Design at Monash Art Design & Architecture) bookworks is an exhibition of contemporary artists’ book publishing. Organised by guest curator, designer and educator, Warren Taylor, it brings six leading artists, graphic designers, book-makers and publishers together to explore the materials, procedures, ambitions, economies and critiques around art publishing. The term ‘bookworks’ was first used in the 1960s to refer to inexpensive, mass-produced books conceived and designed by artists and […]

Book – Exhibition – Events | Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

July 19, 2019Book, Events20th century art, Bauhaus, Book Launch, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modernism

Melbourne Launch next week 25 July, details below. The anthology Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond, soon to be launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane alongside a series of talks and exhibitions, is a major contribution to the centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019. The book, exhibitions and accompanying public events are the culmination of a three-year research project that brought together the region’s leading experts in modern art, design and architecture and has uncovered untold stories of how European modernism’s revolutionary ideas on art, design and architecture came to Australia and New Zealand. Bauhaus Diaspora starts with the Australian reception of […]

Lecture | Timothy McCall – Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsEuropean Art History, Lecture, Renaissance Art, University of Melbourne

The Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne invites you to a lecture by Dr. Timothy McCall (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) ‘Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity’ Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019, Lecture 6.00 pm-7.00 pm Venue: North Theatre, Old Arts Building (149), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010. The ruling men of Renaissance Italy wrapped themselves in silks and jewels, feathers and pearls. To dazzle the eye, they wore cloth-of-gold and cloth-of-silver, but also sometime gems made of paste, intended to deceive observers. What glittered was not necessarily gold, and luxury materials were not always what they […]

Lecture | Dr Stefano Carboni | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsIslamic Art History, Lecture, University of Melbourne

Macgeorge Fellowship Lecture Dr Stefano Carboni Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Western Australia This lecture explores one of the most intriguing books of the medieval Islamic world. The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things is an encyclopedia of the natural world written by the legal scholar Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazvini (1202-83), who worked under the late Abbasids and the early Mongol Ilkhanids in Iraq. The book was extremely popular and is known in many surviving manuscripts, virtually all of them heavily illustrated. The text describes such things as survival from shipwrecks, encounters with giant whales, people […]

Job | Professorial Opportunities at Monash including School of Media, Film and Journalism

July 17, 2019JobsJobs

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 24th July 2019 at 5.00 pm (AEST) As part of an ambitious new vision and growth strategy, the Faculty of Arts at Monash University now seeks to appoint a number of outstanding Professors to join the Faculty. Our goal is to continue positioning the Faculty of Arts as a global leader and innovator in the Asia-Pacific region. We invite applicants who share a passion for research, teaching, and engagement to play an active leadership role in building a greater Monash Arts Faculty and implementing our Faculty Strategy. We are currently seeking applicants with […]

Call for Papers | CRiSiS 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (

July 10, 2019Call for PapersAvant-Garde, Call for Papers, Europe, Modernism

CRiSiS | 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies University of Leuven, Belgium, 17-19 Sept. 2020 Conference website: http://www.eam-europe.be/2020-conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism. Throughout their history, avant-gardists and modernists have faced crises, be they economic or political, scientific or technological, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. Modernists and avant-gardists have in turn continually stood accused of instigating crises, whether artistic or cultural, sensorial or conceptual, incidental or intentional, far-reaching or negligible, representational or other. The very concepts […]

Job | Lecturer Art History and Theory – Monash University

July 10, 2019Jobs

Lecturer – Art History and Theory Closing Date: Saturday 3 August 2019, 11:55 pm AEST Location: Caulfield campus Employment Type: Full-time Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment Remuneration: $97,203 – $115,429 pa Level B (plus 9.5% employer superannuation) The Opportunity Join us at Monash Art Design and Architecture, a creative community of artists, designers, architects and critical thinkers who integrate diverse knowledge on social, economic and human issues to create a world we want to live in. You will work as a Lecturer for our Art History program, as part of a faculty which prides itself on achieving high standards of education […]

Third keynote speaker announced for #AAANZ19 – Geoffrey Batchen

June 21, 2019AAANZ ConferenceConference, Keynote

Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an expert in the general theory and historiography of photography who has helped to pioneer the study of vernacular photography. Batchen has published extensively, in twenty-three languages to date, and has curated numerous exhibitions around the world, the most recent being Still Looking: Peter McLeavey and the Last Photograph (Adam Art Gallery, 2018) and Live from the Moon ({Suite}, 2019). He is the author of Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (MIT Press, 1997); Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (MIT Press, 2001); Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004); William Henry Fox Talbot (Phaidon, […]

Remembering Roger Blackley (1953–2019)

June 17, 2019NewsNews

This piece by Rebecca Rice first appeared on the Te Papa website. Read it in full here: https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2019/06/11/remembering-roger-blackley-1953-2019/ Our thanks to Rebecca for allowing us to repost it here in memory of the art historian and curator Roger Blackley. ‘Roger was many things to many of us: a scholar, mentor, colleague, teacher, and friend. He was, like his artist-hero Goldie, a national taonga, and he will be greatly missed.’ New Zealand art historian and curator, Roger Blackley, passed away on the 15 May 2019. Here, Rebecca Rice acknowledges his legacy. Roger Blackley, 2018 Roger and I both began our careers […]

Geoffrey Batchen appointed Professorship of the History of Art, Oxford University

May 24, 2019Funding

Geoffrey Batchen, currently Professor of Art History, Victoria University, Wellington has been appointed to the Professorship of the History of Art at Oxford University from 1 January 2020. Batchen is planning to undertake several research projects focusing on the photographic collections at Oxford University. He is encouraging applications from ambitious students wanting to write theses on the history of photography. For more information contact geoffrey.batchen@vuw.ac.nz