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daao

May 6, 2013News

Design and Art of Australia Online (www.daao.org.au) is the next generation of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, which in turn had its origins in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists. Despite its incomplete state, the DAAO is already the most comprehensive data base on Australian visual culture, and as such is proving to be a valuable research tool. freely available to all. Its new iteration enables researchers to modify existing incomplete entries, and also to write on exhibitions and associated events, as well as writing on curators. There is however one category of entry that cannot be altered: those entries that […]

joan kerr biography

February 24, 2013News

Dr Susan Steggall’s biography of art historian Joan Kerr – ‘A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian’, has just been published by LhR Press. A MOST GENEROUS SCHOLAR: JOAN KERR, ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN is an important record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art history students but also a scholar whose work changed the way Australians view their visual cultural heritage. The book is a comprehensive record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art […]

bacon symposium

February 7, 2013News

Saturday 9 February – click here for details

save art in TAFE

December 16, 2012Advocacy, News

Address by Ann Stephen, President, AAANZ 19 November 2012 There is widespread concern at the closure of TAFE art training across all sectors of the arts. The Art Association of Australia & NZ (AAANZ) calls on the government to restore public funding for TAFE arts courses across Australia. Last weekend the Arts Section of the Australian Academy of Humanities also expressed concern at the proposed closure in the TAFE sector. Since all education is a continuum that leads potentially into tertiary studies every sector needs to support potential. Both AAANZ and the Academy are particularly concerned at how the closure […]

colonial art exhibitions: past, present, future

November 11, 2012News

Two Day Symposium Dates: Friday 23 November and Saturday 24 November Venue: Sunderland Theatre, Medicine (Building 181), The University of Melbourne Date: Friday 23 November 2012, evening session 6.15 – 8.00 pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012, day session 10.00am – 4.15pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Overview: The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Australian colonial art, with an unprecedented number of important exhibitions being held in our major art galleries (national, state and regional) and libraries. This symposium […]

the modern french interior and mass media

November 5, 2012News

Call for papers – read more…

interstices 2012

November 5, 2012News

Join national and international architects, curators, historians, and artists in a three-day symposium – read more…

challenging the humanities

August 15, 2012News

AAH 43rd Annual Symposium 15-16 November University of Western Sydney, Parramatta campus Convened by Professor Tony Bennett FAHA and hosted by the Institute for Culture and Society, the theme for this year’s symposium is Challenging (the) Humanities. more information, programme and registration is available on the Symposium website: http://www.humanities.org.au/Events/AnnualSymposium.aspx The humanities are currently presented with a rare combination of intellectual challenges: changing policy environments and priorities necessitate new styles of thought and intervention; the still-unfolding financial crises urges a rethink of the economy and the interdisciplinary issues at stake in its investigation; there is increasing emphasis on the role played […]

action. painting. now

August 13, 2012News

A Symposium on Abstract Expressionism 24-25 August National Gallery of Australia Single day: $90 full; $80 student / member / concession Both days: $160 full; $150 student / member / concession The remarkable impact of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis and their contemporaries is still felt today. Leading American scholars Branden Joseph, Ellen Landau, Michael Leja and Richard Shiff join Australian experts to explore the development, reach and influence of Abstract Expressionism. Presented in association with the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art . To register email: eventbookings@nga.gov.au

sense of planet: the arts and ecology at earth magnitude

August 13, 2012News

A NIEA Symposium 25 August 2012 Saturday UNSW CBD Campus, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Standard $80, Student $60, Flat rate w/o lunch $40 Speakers: Ursula Heise (Stanford University), Jennifer Gabrys (University of London),Timothy Morton (Rice University), Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Marko Peljhan (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, University of California at Santa Barbara) The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars […]

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