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Power Lecture – Professor Alexander Nagel: The Renaissance Elsewhere

February 22, 2016News

The Renaissance Elsewhere Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Thursday, 10 March 2016 6 – 7.30pm Co-presented with Sydney Ideas The Power Institute is proud to present a lecture by Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. For his lecture, Professor Nagel turns his attention to Italian art between c. 1300 and c. 1500 – the Renaissance – a period characterised by its extraordinary openness to the world. The Renaissance represented items and ideas not only in direct proximity to artists of the time, but also distant peoples and places known to artists only through […]

Flinders University Special Seminar – Keiji Sawada (Waseda University – Japan)

February 15, 2016News

A special seminar titled ‘Others’ Perspectives of Wars: Perceptions of Japanese Translations of Australian Plays’ Room 154 Social Sciences Room South, Flinders University, Friday 11 March 2016 at 11.15am. From AAANZ Member Tets Kimura Contact: David Lockwood (david.lockwood@flinders.edu.au, 08 8201 3852) Special Seminar – Prof Sawada PDF Flinders University – Event Website and Details

Call for Papers | ART AND FUTURE: Energy, Climate, Cultures | Dunedin October 2016

February 5, 2016Call for PapersCall for Papers, Dunedin

ART AND FUTURE: Energy, Climate, Cultures A SYMPOSIUM at the DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, 14-15 October 2016 Following seven successful symposia held at the Dunedin School of Art, from ‘Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science’ (2009) to ‘Art and Design’ (2015), the Dunedin School of Art, together with the Centre for Sustainability, the Centre for Science Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Otago, is organising an eighth symposium entitled ‘Art and Future: Energy, Climate, Cultures.’ Art has always had to do with identity—with kin and class, with gods and demons, with past and present, and also with […]

Call for Papers | Conference: ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits, 1700-1914’

January 14, 2016NewsCall for Papers, Melbourne, Portraits, Portraiture

Inspired by the outstanding collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, this interdisciplinary conference will be the largest gathering of international and Australian scholars to focus on portraits. It will provide a unique opportunity to explore both British and Australian portraits through a dynamic interchange between academics and curators. September 8-11 2016, University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria Call for papers Papers are invited that focus on British or Australian portraits between 1700 and 1914, which can be interpreted as separate fields or as overlapping or comparative studies. The portraits may be in any public or private collection […]

2015 President’s Report – Anthony White

December 22, 2015ReportsPresidents Report

President’s Report – Art Association of Australia New Zealand – 2015 This is my first report as President of the AAANZ and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing president Ann Stephen and her executive who left the Association in such robust health earlier this year. During her term, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art came to be published in partnership with Taylor and Francis and the Power Institute, an arrangement which has been in place for almost 2 years. This has created a level of visibility for the Journal which is unprecedented and […]

Report | AAANZ 2015 Conference ‘Image, Space, Body’ Brisbane

December 22, 2015AAANZ Conference, News

The AAANZ 2015 conference was recently held in Brisbane. The conference was a great success and from a participants point-of-view it all ran very smoothly, our thanks to the organisers for doing such a great job. Sessions ranged from Artist’s choreography of the Body en masse to Early Modern Art and Design to Revisionism in Australian art history. The range of topics and speakers (drawn from universities, museums and galleries as well as independent artists and researchers) was an indication of the diverse range of art history, theory and curatorial research being carried out across Australia and New Zealand. You […]

Renew your AAANZ membership for 2016

December 15, 2015MembershipMembership

Greetings, After a successful and rewarding conference at QAGOMA, we look forward to the annual AAANZ conference to be held next year in Canberra, hosted by the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, School of Art, Australian National University. Please note that from next year all AAANZ memberships will fall due in November. Join now to enjoy the full membership benefits for 2016, including access to 2 issues of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) as well as regular updates concerning events and news relating to art and art history in the region. Wishing you all […]

Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 | Call for Papers

July 3, 2015AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers, NewsAAANZ conference 2015, Call for Papers

Deadline: 28th August 2015 The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Brisbane, Queensland, 24-25 November 2015. The conference venue will be Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and is hosted by The Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts (a collaboration between art history/theory departments at The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and QAGOMA). Sessions will run for one and a half hours, and will generally include three twenty-minute papers, each followed by ten minutes of questions and discussion. Session convenors will tailor the session to best address the concerns set out in the session […]

Call for Panels | Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 Brisbane

March 30, 2015AAANZ Conference, Brisbane, NewsAAANZ conference, AAANZ conference 2015, Brisbane, Call for Sessions

The Call for Panels for the AAANZ 2015 Conference in Brisbane is now open. For details of the conference see the conference webpage. Image Space Body After the many ends of art history, we begin again. The conjunction of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s 8th Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT 8) and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand annual conference presents opportunities to re-examine art history and generate innovative perspectives on histories and cultural traditions. APT 8 prompts us to challenge assumptions and reconsider the relations between images, bodies, and spaces. We invite discussion on traditions and legacies of art practices and of art histories. We […]

lecturer in art curatorship

December 4, 2014News

Closing date 7 January 2015 Click here for further details.