British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values
Workshop
A public lecture and following workshop, convened by Prof. Kate Fullagar. In March 2023 the longstanding battle for ownership of Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (1775) was resolved. After more than two decades of struggle to retain the work in public British hands for its “historical…
Student Lunchtime Chamber Music Concert
Performance
ANU Chamber Music students perform works from the Baroque era to the present day as part of their assessment. Program Georg Philipp Telemann Methodische Sonate E moll, TWV 41:e2 …
Jemima McPhee (Australian National University)- ‘Fire, earth and astrologia: writing science under Augustan stars’
Seminar
What makes Roman science ‘Roman’? How did the Romans investigate natural phenomena? And how did changing institutions influence scientific discourse? Contemporary ancient science scholarship focuses on positioning science in the wider ancient world and investigating how social, cultural, and…
Penelope Jackson | Cataloguing the Crimes Against William Dobell’s Artistic Legacy
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online Many will consider the biggest art crime committed against Sir William Dobell’s artistic career was being dragged through the courts in 1944 following his Archibald Portrait Prize win of the previous year. However, predating this now famous event,…
Penelope Jackson | Cataloguing the Crimes Against William Dobell’s Artistic Legacy
Seminar
Many will consider the biggest art crime committed against Sir William Dobell’s artistic career was being dragged through the courts in 1944 following his Archibald Portrait Prize win of the previous year. However, predating this now famous event, his work has been consistently subjected to an…
The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange Exhibition
Project Space
The exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2024 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal…
Freilich Research Seminar: Rebel Sistah Cypher: Research, activism and creative practice
Seminar
This research project collaboratively investigates how women in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, are using hip-hop to address issues of racism, sexism, economic oppression and the lasting effects of colonialism and apartheid. Since 2015 the activist hip-hop crew, Soundz…