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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 […]

Book | Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy

July 28, 2019BookMuseums, Publication

Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy by Natalia Grincheva Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy features several case studies from the US, Russia and China to explore alternative avenues of contemporary museum diplomacy that no longer depends on government commissions to serve immediate geo-political interests. Drawing on eclectic methodological approaches from traditional desk research to immersive autoethnography, this book shares global research journeys over the last ten years. Starting with revolutionary global expansion activities of the Guggenheim Museum, transformations have been traced, such as, cultural franchising and global corporatization in the context K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong and the International Network of Foundations […]

Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize

July 26, 2019Funding

A new Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Museum and La Trobe University is focussing on the strengthening of their relationship and the expansion of the Australian Muslim Artists exhibition. This will include an inaugural Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize, awarded with $15,000 and the addition of a new category, Future Australian Muslim Artists. This new category is for high school art students in years 10-12, with the winner receiving $250. For more information visit http://bit.ly/2MY1iNJ

Job | Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowships at RMIT

July 24, 2019JobsDesign, Job

18 August 2019 Registration closes 25 August 2019 Fellowship applications close The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowships are open for applications. There are four categories of awards/employment: Indigenous Research Fellowship, Senior Research Fellowship, Research Fellowship, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Areas of interest include: Design and Creative Practice | Ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. We ask how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to re-imagine a world that […]

Symposium | Intersections: New Work on Islamic and Southeast Asian Art | University of Melbourne

July 24, 2019Events

Speakers include Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sam Bowker, Stefano Carboni, Wulan Dirgantoro, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Susan Scollay, Nur Shkembi, Manu P. Sobti, Sadra Zekrgoo This public event brings together curators, art historians and artists from all over Australia to look at the state of the field both here and our larger region. It is a day for exchange and debate, with series of papers, some case-studies, some explorations of specific issues or problems, to culminate in a final round-table discussion. Among the questions we hope to address: how can historical art production be understood in contemporary context? How […]

Funding | Asia Study Grants | National Library of Australia

July 22, 2019FundingAsian studies, Funding

Applications for 2020 Asia Study Grants are open Deadline 30th August 2019. The Library offers annual Asia Study Grants to assist scholars in Australia to undertake research relating to Asia through a four week period of intensive access to our Asian language and Asia-related collections. With the support of the Harold S. Williams Trust Fund and private donors, the Library provides researchers and PhD students the opportunity to engage with the National Library of Australia’s Asian language and Asia-related collections. The grants are available for a period of four weeks at a negotiated time during 2020. Scholars have privileged access […]

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 […]