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Publication │ Protecting Indigenous Art

July 15, 2024Book

Protecting Indigenous Art: From t-shirts to the flag by Colin Golvan Discover how copyright law is empowering Indigenous creatives There is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Indigenous people see that the rest of us can barely comprehend, but glimpse through the vivid colours, shapes and imagery of their artworks, and their visual recounting of ancient stories and settings. The unauthorised use of Indigenous artworks is a global industry that damages cultural integrity and harms the livelihoods of artists and their communities. While the western idea of private or individual ownership can be at […]

FORUM │ VISIONS: THE ART, SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF SEEING │15 – 17 AUGUST

July 15, 2024Events

Visions: The art, science and politics of seeing Co-presented by the Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Visual Research Program 15 – 17 August at the Museum Contemporary Art Tickets How do our visions shape the world, and how does the visual world shape us? Over the course of three days, this public forum will bring together a group of international and local experts to share their thoughts on the art, science and politics of vision. How do scientists and engineers understand vision today? What is its history? And what utopian or dystopian visual […]

PRIZE │ THE EVAN WEBB AWARD FOR LEN LYE RESEARCH │ DEADLINE AUGUST

July 15, 2024Prizes

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of $1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | WEDNESDAY DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 15, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN The 2024 AAANZ Conference coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. This year the conference encourages participants to explore the past, present, possible futures of art history, curating, and creative practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We now have 35 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 15 panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region. If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

July 15, 2024Opportunity, Prizes, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is calling for proposals for book publications from recently completed doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. The series has been divided into two rounds, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | DEADLINE 20 December

July 15, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 8, 2024News

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

July 8, 2024Funding, Prizes, Publication

Prize │ The 2024 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize │ Deadline 15 July

July 8, 2024Prizes

Submissions to the 2024 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize closes in two weeks. The Prize aims to support writers in their early career and promote new writing and research in contemporary art, and we are grateful for all your support. If appropriate, it would be most helpful if you could circulate a reminder for the closure of the Prize. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. This year’s judges are the scholar and author Julia Bryan-Wilson and the artist Trevor […]

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | ANNOUNCEMENT OF KEYNOTE DAVID J.GETSY

June 26, 2024AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce international keynote David J. Getsy. David J. Getsy is a historian of art and performance whose research focuses on queer and transgender themes in modern and contemporary art. His books have charted modern sculpture’s relationship to the human body: Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (Yale University Press, 2004); Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2010); Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015/2023); and Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in […]