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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | THE GARAGE JOURNAL: STUDIES IN ART, MUSEUMS & CULTURE

May 29, 2020Call for Papers

To coincide with the International Museum Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art launched a research platform called The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture. An independent interdisciplinary academic journal that publishes original empirical, theoretical, and speculative research in a variety of genres, celebrating innovative ways of presentation. Fully peer reviewed, The Garage Journal conforms to international standards of ethical research. The journal’s editor-in-chief is Vlad Strukov, an associate professor at the University of Leeds (UK). The editorial board comprises world-leading researchers, curators and authors. On the site of the journal call for submissions for four planned issues is available. Issue […]

Awards | First Nations Arts Awards

May 22, 2020Prizes

First Nations Arts Awards 2020 Wednesday 27 May 2020, 6.00pm AEST – LIVE online Formerly the National Indigenous Arts Awards, the First Nations Arts Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding creativity and lifetime achievements of First Nations artists. The awards are held annually on 27 May marking the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the recipients of this year’s awards will be revealed during a live streamed event, hosted by Deputy Chair Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Chair of the First Nations Arts Strategy Panel and Sydney Festival Artistic Director Wesley Enoch, with a guest performance from the Stiff Gins. On […]

News | NCCA first public gallery to reopen its doors

May 15, 2020News

The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin was the first public gallery to reopen its doors following the start of Covid-19 restrictions being lifted in the Northern Territory. Audiences could see the exhibition priNT 2020 from 12pm, Friday 15 May. Curated by Mats Unden, the exhibition showcases local and national printmakers Winsome Jobling, Anna Russell, Anne McMaster and Namminnapu Mayuru-White. Image: Winsome Jobling, ‘Look #1’, 2019, handmade paper, abaca and cotton with pigmented cotton

Awards | Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 15, 2020Book, Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) are now open. 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 Catalogue. This […]

Residency | TOP 5 Arts | with the ABC and University of Melbourne

May 15, 2020News

ABC is partnering with the University of Melbourne to present TOP 5 Arts, giving a voice to Australia’s next generation of Arts practitioners and researchers. TOP 5 Arts is media residency for graduate early-career practitioners and PhD researchers working in visual arts, performance, design, architecture and screen. The scheme seeks to equip early-career graduate Arts practitioners and PhD Arts scholars with media and communication skills to share their ideas and specialist knowledge widely through expert commentary and analysis. Winners will work alongside some of Australia’s best journalists and broadcasters to train in the craft of radio and TV interviews and […]

Videos online from The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context symposium

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context October 3-4 2019 National Art School, Darlinghurst This two-day symposium presented new scholarly research on the material culture of Australia. It addresses the rich diversity of objects and the processes, knowledge, and meanings embedded therein. Our purpose is to revitalise the discourse on marginalised media and quotidian culture and bring sc holars, artists, curators and collectors into productive dialogue. Focusing on making meaning through materials, this symposium reinforces the National Art School’s core emphasis on object-led art practices and histories. Despite renewed interest in material culture, the conversation about objects often remains siloed […]

ANJZA Throwback | John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

May 1, 2020ANZJA

John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece Tara McDowell Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2019, Open Issue, vol.19, no.1, 53-69 Despite being one of the most canonical artworks of this period, Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art has never received any extensive art historical attention, let alone any good old-fashioned formal analysis.iv In what follows, I aim to do just that, restoring the context and material processes of this work and looking closely at its afterlives in order to make it vivid, but also to allow its many permutations and reversals to emerge as attributes of an artwork that is deeply dialectical in […]

Online panel discussion | The Art Newspaper – The future of museums, exhibitions and the objects they display

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

“NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE an online panel organised by The Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation With Il Giornale Dell’Arte. The panels can be watched on YouTube at 17.00 BST (so not great for Aus/NZ but hopefully the recordings may be made available). Friday 1st May: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects They Display. (Chaired by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE) Saturday 2nd May: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing. (Chaired by Simon Schaffer) Sunday 3rd May: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge. (Chaired by […]

Research Continuity Grants from the Paul Mellon Centre – Open to international applicants

May 1, 2020Funding

Editor’s note – we have checked with the Paul Mellona nd these are definitely open to Australian researchers with relevant projects. The Paul Mellon Centre has made £200,000 available in a special programme of funding designed to support the field of British art studies during the COVID-19 crisis. Website: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/announcing-a-new-programme-of-fellowships-and-grants/page/1 The programme will provide quickly released funding for both individuals and institutions, and is intended to sustain research, writing and thinking on British art and architecture during a period of unprecedented disruption for the scholarly and curatorial communities. Research Continuity Grants Research Continuity Grants are awards of £10,000 intended for institutions […]

ADVOCACY | ARTS DAY ON THE HILL | NAVA

April 17, 2020Advocacy

Every Wednesday evening from 22 April, NAVA will join Australia’s leading advocacy thinkers and practitioners online at 4pm (AEST). Let’s talk arts, policy, media, political and public engagement. What works? What doesn’t? What can we achieve together? Results from the online workshops will culminate in Arts Day on the Hill – Australia’s national day of advocacy for the arts. This year’s Arts Day on the Hill is Wednesday, 12 August, during the first Parliamentary sitting week after the winter break. Last year’s Arts Day on the Hill training was an intensive two-day set of workshops presented at the National Gallery of […]