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Posted: 11/08/09
Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones
A two-day international symposium and live art event for PhD students and early career researchers.
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th December 2009.
University of Leicester, UK.
Join us at the internationally-renowned School of Museum Studies this December for an exciting event organised and run by PhD students, Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones.
Museums and galleries are all about the material world; the preservation and display, presentation and interpretation of things to their audiences, which can include everything from everyday objects to works of art and human remains. Yet, often it is the 'intangible' elements of things - those elements that may be hidden or left unsaid - from which we draw our meanings and understandings about things. A division is often made between the obvious (the 'material') and the less obvious (the 'intangible'), a division which we believe is controversial and which often prevents the full value of material culture from being understood.
Through a series of thought-provoking presentations, specially selected for their unique and creative approach to the theme, Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones will challenge this fixed division between the surface and the hidden. Throughout the event, invited artists will be producing artworks in response to the theme of the Symposium and participants will be encouraged to interact and engage with presenters and artists. The event will provide an informal and supportive environment for creative thinking and opportunities for debate and the shaping of new ideas as well as dialogue between academia and the art environment.
Confirmed key note speakers: Emeritus Professor Susan Pearce, Dr Sandra Dudley and Dr Kostas Arvanitis.
The symposium and live art event costs just 20 for both days, including lunch and refreshments.
BOOKING FORM: http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com/2009/09/symposium-announcement-materialiry.html
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com/2009/10/materiality-intangibility-provisional.html
Please refer any queries to Amy Barnes (ajb108@le.ac.uk).
Posted: 11/08/09
Open Seats - LYRASIS Upcoming Classes
Introduction to Grants for Preservation (Live Online)
12/1/2009; 2:00 - 4:00pm
This class introduces grant funding and the process of writing a grant proposal.
Preservation of Photographic Materials (Live Online)
12/2/2009 - 12/3/2009; 10am - 12pm
This four-hour online introductory class is designed to help cultural institutions develop strategies for preserving photographs: photographic identification, handling guidelines, and storage conditions for photographic collections that provide protection, security, and access.
Preservation Management (Live Online)
12/3/2009 with mandatory follow-up 12/10 and 12/17; 2 - 4pm
This three-part online session will outline the manager's role in organizing and planning preservation activities in a library or archives.
LYRASIS also has a selection of On Demand classes which may be purchased for download at any time: http://www.lyrasis.org/Products%20and%20Services/Catalog.aspx?Department=On%20Demand%20Class&Tab=2
Please contact LYRASIS at 1-800-999-8558 if you have any questions. Thanks!
Posted: 11/01/09
Art and Its Audiences Lecture Series
Princeton University
The Department of Art & Archaeology
105 McCormick Hall
Princeton NJ 08544
http://www.princeton.edu/artandarchaeology/events/
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
5:00PM 101 McCormick Hall
Okwui Enwezor
San Francisco Art Institute
Photography after the End of Documentary Realism: Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Color Photographs
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
5:00PM Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study
Stephen Bann, emeritus
University of Bristol
Landscapes and their Users: From Romantic to Modern in the Representation of Normandy
Thursday, 4 February 2010
5:00PM 101 McCormick Hall
Michael Leja
University of Pennsylvania
Reception Issues in Early Mass Visual Culture
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
5:00PM Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study
Horst Bredekamp
Humboldt University, Berlin
The Audience as Prisoner: Reflections on the Activity of the Object
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study
Finbarr Barry Flood
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
All That Glitters: Image and Ornament in Early Islam
Thursday, 22 April 2010
5:00PM 101 McCormick Hall
Alina Payne
Harvard University
Materiality and Kleinarchitektur: the Economy of Scale in Renaissance Architecture
Posted: 10/18/09
Where Art Meets Money
Artists have long depended on connoisseurs and patrons for support – and often the patrons are as fascinating and singular as the art they support. Uncover the world's top art patrons and collectors with seminars offered this fall by UCLA Extension.
The Art World's Power Players takes a look at the world's most important and powerful artists, architects, dealers, collectors, curators, philanthropists, art advisors, auctioneers and museum directors, as listed in the 2009 Power 100 list published annually by the international contemporary art magazine ArtReview. Want to be a part of the contemporary art world – or just follow along? This is the course for you! The seminar is led by Rebecca Taylor, communications specialist with the J. Paul Getty Trust.
The Art World's Power Players takes place Saturdays, Nov. 7-21, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at the UCLA Extension 1010 Westwood Center, 1010 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles. The enrollment fee is $125. For more information, call 310-206-1422, visit www.uclaextension.edu/visualarts or email visualarts@uclaextension.edu.
Posted: 10/18/09
International conference
THE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART HISTORY IN THE BALTIC REGION
27-28 November 2009
Estonian Academy of Art
Tartu mnt. 1, Tallinn
Day 1
Friday, 27 Nov
9:009:30 Registration
9:309:45 Katrin Kivimaa. Opening address
Keynote presentation
9:4510:30 Stella Pele. Creating the discipline: Facts, stories and sources of Latvian art history
10:3011:00 Coffee break
Session I: National Art History and Its Discontents
Moderator: Katrin Kivimaa
11:0011:30 Jolita Muleviciute. New aims, old means:
Rewriting Lithuanian art history of the National Revival period
11:3012:00 Kristiana Abele. Fellow-nationals vs. compatriots:
The turn of the 20th century period and the mono-ethnic tradition of its interpretation in Latvian art history
12:0012:30 Jon Blackwood. Writing national art history:
Estonia and Scotland as case studies
12:3013:00 Giedre Jankeviciute. Writing art history of the vanished states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 1940s
13:0014:00 Lunch
Keynote presentation
14:0014:45 Linara Dovydaityte. The writing of history in a museum:
The case of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius
Session II: Questioning the Canon
Moderator: Stella Pele
14:4515:15 Renja Suominen-Kokkonen. Writing a canon of architectural history in Finland
15:1515:45 Vytautas Michelkevicius. Producing the canon of Lithuanian photography: Dispositif of art photography since 1969
15:4516:15 Coffee break
Session III: Interdisciplinary Research
Moderator: Anu Allas
16:1516:45 Visa Immonen. Medievalisms with a difference: The Finnish and Estonian pre-war traditions of antiquarian art history
16:4517:15 Epp Lankots. History appropriating contemporary concerns:
Leonhard Lapins architectural history and mythical thinking
17:1517:45 Tomas Pabedinskas. Lithuanian photography: Contemporary practice and its definitions
Day 2
Saturday, 28 Nov
9:3010:15 Keynote presentation
Krista Kodres. Our own Estonian art history: Changing geographies of art historical narrative
Session I: Beyond the Local
Moderator: Linara Dovydaityte
10:1510:45 Agne Narusyte. Disruptive art histories: Strategies of innovative thinking
10:4511:15 Alexandra Alisauskas. Friends is olvais velcome to Lithuania: International representations of Lithuanian art practices
11:1511:30 Coffee break
Session II: Rethinking the Soviet Past
Moderator: Epp Lankots
11:3012:00 Andres Kurg. Taking the Soviet Union seriously
12:0012:30 Mari Laanemets. On the reconstruction of the art history of Soviet Estonia: The art history of interdisciplinary art
12:3013:00 Kristina Budryte. The Baltic fine arts exhibitions in Vilnius during the Soviet period: Conventions and innovations
13:0014:00 Lunch
Session III: Histories of the Built Environments
Moderator: Andres Kurg
14:0014:30 Laima Lauckaite. Writing art history of the city:
From nationalism to multiculturalism
14:3015:00 Anna Ancane. The concepts of international and vernacular in studies of Latvian architecture in the second half of the 17th century
15:0015:30 Marija Dremaite. Post-war architecture in the Soviet Baltic republics: National, regional and international research perspectives
15:3016:00 Coffee break
16:0017:00 Closing discussion
The conference is co-organised by Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts (www.artun.ee) and the Estonian Association of Art Historians (www.kty.ee).
The conference board includes: dr. Linara Dovydaityte (Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas), dr. Stella Pele (Institute of Art History, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga), dr. Katrin Kivimaa (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn) and Andres Kurg (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn).
Further information:
Katrin Kivimaa, katrin.kivimaa@artun.ee
Anu Allas, anu.allas@artun.ee
Posted: 09/27/09
CELEBRATING THE CENTRUM AT THE RUBENIANUM: 50 YEARS ON
The Centrum voor de Vlaamse Kunst van de 16e en de 17e Eeuw was founded in 1959 to promote the study of Flemish art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Based at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, the Centrum will mark its 50th anniversary with a symposium on 22 January 2010. A series of short lectures will explore the Centrum's achievements over the past five decades and outline its aims for the future. The occasion will also celebrate the publication of the latest volume of what is undoubtedly the Centrum's most prestigious project, the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard.
Location: Rubenianum,
Kolveniersstraat, 20, 2000 Antwerp
Tel.: 0032-3-201 15 70
Preliminary Programme
Date: Friday, 22 January 2010
14.30 Carl Van de Velde:
History and Aims of the Centrum
14.50 Egbert Haverkamp Begeman
The Founding Fathers - A Personal View
15.10 Christopher White
The Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard and Rubens Scholarship
15.30 Coffee
16.15 Jeremy Wood
Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists.
Italian Artists. CRLB, XXVI, I, 1-2 (Raphael and His School)
17.00 Arnout Balis
The Future of the Centrum
17.30 Reception with private view of the Willem Van Haecht exhibition
(Rubenshuis)
Posted: 09/06/09
2010 Conservation Assessment Program Application now available!
The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) provides small to mid-sized museums of all types, from art museums to zoos, with a general conservation assessment of their collections, environmental conditions, and facilities. Forms for applying to CAP are now available at www.heritagepreservation.org. The postmark deadline for submitting applications is December 1, 2009.
Program participants may start their assessments as early as January 1, 2010, making it possible for museums to get feedback on their collections and historic structures without delay.
For more information, call 202-233-0800 or email cap(a)heritagepreservation.org.
Heritage Preservations CAP is supported through a cooperative agreement with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Posted: 06/14/09
The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria, British Columbia is pleased to announce its Fall 2009 distance education and on-campus immersion learning opportunities.
Our courses are geared toward professionals, volunteers and board members in museums, galleries, heritage sites, cultural centres and related organizations. Courses are designed to address the emerging needs of the sector and build your personal and organizational capacity.
In both on-campus and distance education formats, you interact with colleagues from across North America and beyond, participate in stimulating learning activities, and relate your learning to the practical issues and realities of your workplace and community. Courses are taught by instructors who are leading professionals in the field.
Courses can be taken individually or towards a comprehensive diploma or focused professional specialization certificate. Credit and non-credit registration options are available. Choose the programs and format best suited to meet your needs from the flexible options available.
The following information provides a brief overview of our course offerings and a listing of upcoming sessions. For more information on each of these sessions, visit our "Upcoming Courses" page on our website at: http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/crmp/
On-Campus Immersion Courses
Our on-campus immersion courses bring together small groups of colleagues and expert instructors. The 6-day immersion format provides inspiring learning experiences away from the workplace.
Upcoming On-Campus Offerings for Fall 2009:
Heritage Conservation Planning (HA 489L)
November 30-December 5, 2009
Instructor: TBA
For more information on our programs and courses, please visit our website at http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/crmp/ or contact:
Anissa J. Paulsen, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3N6 CANADA
T: (250) 721-6119
F: (250) 721-8774
apaulsen@uvic.ca
