renaissance symposium
Renaissance lecture and symposium in Melbourne, 9-10 March 2012.
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a wonderful range of mind: John Gage has died at the age of 73
On Friday, 10th February 2012, the great art historian, John Gage, passed away. The title of his 1987 book on Turner, A Wonderful Range of Mind, might describe his own intellectual personality. He was a pioneer of many themes that would become prominent in Art History towards the end of the twentieth century – exploring the relationship between art and science, the material conditions that determine artistic creation as well as the history of perception. His first major publication, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth (1969) already raised all of these issues. Yet he resolutely refused to be fashionable. It […]
emeritus professor John House 1945-2012
It is with great sadness that the Courtauld Institute of Art announces the sudden death on Tuesday 7 February of John House, Emeritus Professor of the Courtauld Institute of Art, at the age of 66. One of the pre-eminent scholars of nineteenth-century French art of his generation, John served The Courtauld with great distinction from his appointment in 1980 up until his retirement as the Walter H. Annenberg Professor in 2010; we cannot think of anyone with a deeper attachment to all aspects of our community, with which his close and richly productive involvement has now been cruelly cut short. […]
n.paradoxa call for papers
n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (published by KT press, since 1998). Website: www.ktpress.co.uk n.paradoxa publishes the work of women authors, scholars and artists working anywhere in the world. The journal is published in print and electronic format and has now reached its 15th year of publication. The focus of n.paradoxa is articles on contemporary women’s art practices (visual arts only, women artists working post-1970) or an aspect of feminist art theory which relates to their practices; as well as interviews with woman artists. Each volume is thematic. Do not send finished articles. Articles are commissioned through negotiation with the editor: […]
CIHA postgraduate program
It is now possible to apply for the postgraduate program “Get in Touch – Objects, Places, People” at the 33rd Congress of the International Comittee of the History of Art (CIHA2012) in Nuremberg. Postgraduates are invited to submit their researches concerning the topic “object” in form of a poster. The best 100 entries will be exhibited during the entire congress in the entrance hall of the Nuremberg Convention Center (NCC). See the Postgraduate Program. For more information, please see: http://www.ciha2012.de/programm/postgraduierten-programm.html. Sincerely The CIHA2012 Congress Bureau (Petra Krutisch, Almuth Klein, Anna Pawlik, Marian Wild)
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Western Australia
The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Art (FALVA), University of Western Australia has established a new major in Art History within the Bachelor of Arts degree as part of New Courses 2012 throughout the university. The discipline of art history there bids farewell to former Deputy Dean and Winthrop Professor Ian McLean who is leaving FALVA to take up a position at the University of Wollongong in October. During current sabbatical he has presented papers on Aboriginal art at various institutions in the US. A replacement in art history will be appointed later this year after closure of applications […]
Victoria
Birthdays and anniversaries are a theme of this year’s Victorian State Report. On the 24th May 2011, the National Gallery of Victoria celebrated its150th year, with late night parties, lavish dinners, and an entertaining cabaret. The celebration continues throughout the year with new spaces for art, commissioned works and the fabulous Felton Bequest Gift exhibition, ‘Living Water’, showcasing 107 paintings by 94 Indigenous contemporary artists from Far Western Desert. A star feature of the NGV’s 150th anniversary year is the exhibition, ‘Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed’, guest curated by Dr Ruth Pullin. Current Director, Dr Gerard Vaughan, said: “This fascinating […]
Tasmania
The highlight this year was the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in January. MONA is the largest private museum in Australia and showcases the collection of David Walsh who owns the Moorilla vineyard in Berriedale, Tasmania. It contains an impressive selection of contemporary art works including a major installation by Anselm Kiefer as well as works by internationally renowned artists such as Wim Delvoye, Marina Abramovic, Jenny Holzer, Jannis Kounellis, AES+F and many prominent contemporary Australian artists including Fiona Hall, Callum Morton and Ah Xian. Brigita Ozolins, who lectures in Art Theory at the Tasmanian […]
South Australia
The 2010 AAANZ National Conference, which ran from 1-3 December, was hosted by the University of Adelaide, the Art Gallery of South Australia and UniSA around the theme of Tradition and Transformation. Professor James McWha, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, launched the conference, and the three keynote speakers were Professor Evelyn Welch, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at Queen Mary College, University of London; Professor John Paoletti of Wesleyan College, USA, and Dr Philip Jones of the South Australian Museum. 170 papers were delivered in 23 streams ranging from Renaissance art to Indigenous and new media art, and […]