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Western Australia

July 6, 2011News

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

July 6, 2011News

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

July 6, 2011News

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

July 6, 2011News

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 […]

Queensland

July 6, 2011News

As the result of a faculty reorganization at Queensland University of Technology, the School of Design will join the Creative Industries faculty. Visual Arts will revert once again to a stand-alone discipline. In other news from QUT, Mark Pennings has conducted a series of very successful seminars at GOMA to coincide with the exhibition, C21st. A new research grouping, Urban Modernities, has commenced at QUT combining design, social theory and arts research. A former version of this research group will soon publish its first research project, “Sweat: The Subtropical Imaginary.” At the University of Queensland Professor Anne Marsh, Director, Art […]

Dunedin

July 6, 2011News

Professor Hilary Radner has joined the Department to develop the Visual Culture major, which has recently moved from the Department of Media, Film and Communication to the Department of History & Art History. She has published two monographs, and five co-edited volumes as well as numerous articles and book chapters on topics ranging from film melodrama, through makeup, fashion photography and women’s magazines to, more recently, topics about New Zealand cinema and culture, and the history of French cinema. Her 2011 books include Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture (Routledge) as author and New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting […]

Christchurch

July 6, 2011News

While the University of Canterbury has had a shaky start to the year, we are extremely proud to announce the launch of Issue No. 3 of Oculus: Postgraduate Journal for Visual Arts Research. Oculus showcases the exceptional quality of postgraduate research throughout New Zealand and Australia and is now peer-reviewed by an outstanding international board of scholars. We’re also looking forward to an end-of-year exhibition on the Campus Gallery, jointly organised by the students of the Postgraduate Diploma in Art Curatorship, Honours Art History and Design students. Lost: an exhibition of destroyed and stolen artworks and its accompanying catalogue promises […]

Wellington

July 6, 2011News

Since the last regional report, Victoria University of Wellington has appointed Geoffrey Batchen to the newly established Professorship in Art History. Geoffrey is widely known as one of the world’s leading scholars in the critical history of photography. The Art History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington looks forward to welcoming colleagues from throughout Australia and New Zealand to this year’s annual conference which is scheduled for 7-9 December 2011. The theme of the conference is ‘CONTACT’ and the call for papers is now open. Details of conference strands, paper proposal forms and registration can be found on the AAANZ […]

Auckland

July 6, 2011News

As Head of Department for Art History at the University of Auckland since 2010, Caroline Vercoe has found new ways to foster postgraduate study, and a very successful postgraduate conference was held in November 2010. There has been a substantial rise in postgraduate numbers this year, many students attracted by the new Honours course on Art Curating and Writing run in collaboration with the Auckland Art Gallery, and coordinated by Ian Wedde. The Department was pleased to welcome Greg Minissale to the staff at the beginning of 2010, and he has already made his presence felt with courses in contemporary […]

New South Wales

July 5, 2011News

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