Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 28th 2013
Jobs, funding and calls for papers relevant to art historians and those working in art galleries and art museums.
Lecture | Terrain Vague in the work of Jeffrey Smart: lessons for urban design by Leon van Schaik
Terrain Vague (undesigned space) plays a vital role in the make up of great cities. Smart’s urban pictures capture the qualities of this condition, one that eludes urban designers and policy makers. What might we learn about this elusive condition from these eerily perceptive paintings?
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 22nd 2013
Jobs West Space Gallery Manager – deadline 8th March 2013 Lecturer in Museum & Gallery Studies & the History of Art or Design, University of St Andrews – deadline 4th March 2013 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in […]
Art History Seminar Series at Melbourne University | Semester 1 Program
Art History Seminars at the School of Culture and Communication, Melbourne University Semester 1, 2013 Wednesdays 1-2 pm Venue: ‘The Linkway‘, John Medley Building, 4th Floor All Welcome 6 March | Robert Gunn, George Chaloupka Fellow, Museums […]
Art History Lectures and Discussion at Melbourne Free Uni
The Melbourne Free University is running a series of free lectures and discussions on art history as part of its 2013 program. These will run on Tuesdays from February 19th until March 26th. Details of […]
Lecture | ‘Living Up To One’s Teapot: Decorative Arts and Design in the Art Museum Today’ Christopher Menz
Collecting and displaying decorative arts and design is a core function of many leading art museums around the world. Christopher Menz looks at how and why these collections have evolved, how they can be interpreted to new audiences, and what their place is in the art museum of the 21st century.
Opportunities | Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | February 14
Recent jobs, funding and calls for papers relevant to art historians and those working in art galleries and art museums.
Floortalks on Love for Valentines Day at NGV International
The NGV is holding three floortalks around the theme of love for Valentines Day this Thursday (February 14th). For further information see the website. 11.30am Love, lust and desire | Speaker Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, […]
Symposium | The Uses of Art in Public Space
Since public art’s emergence as a distinct form of art practice in the late 1960s, the subsequent explosion in its varieties of medium, form and location has prompted multi-disciplinary research into its conception, production and reception.
Review | Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. Reviewed by Anna Drummond
The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania’s much-hyped art museum of sex and death, has just turned two. Built to house the personal collection of gambling millionaire David Walsh, MONA was opened to much fanfare and speculation in 2011. Two years on, has the gallery grown into a contrary toddler peddling the smutty and macabre, or a robust and confident youth cementing its place in the Australian cultural landscape?
