Artworlds Symposium
Symposium
Conveners:Jane CushLesabelle Furhagen Image Courtesy of Tim Wetherell. Under the Great Southern Heavens 2011.
The Little Mermaid
Exhibition
The ambition is to take seven familiar stories from the nursery, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and The Princess and the Toad, with their urgent themes of love, lust, temptation, revenge, fetishism, hate, envy and…
Nature’s saviours: contemporary celebrity conservationists in a media age
Seminar
In this seminar Graham Huggan will discuss his research for a new book to be published next year on five contemporary celebrity conservationists: David Attenborough, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Dian Fossey, David Suzuki and Steve Irwin. The book argues that celebrity and conservation are intertwined at…
From egalitarian to elite and back: Recent policy shifts in higher education in Germany
Lecture
The aims of the “Excellence Initiative” policy include: improving the global attractiveness and rankings of the “excellent” universities sustainable structural change in universities, while maintaining the Humboldtian principles that excellent teaching is based on excellent research and of…
Matisse between North Africa and Oceania: Orientalism, Modernism and Artistic Métissage
Lecture
Unlike Gauguin who was a long term settler in Tahiti and the Marquesas, Matisse spent a fleeting eleven weeks there in 1930. Intriguingly, his drawings from that visit include few portraits of women and no nudes. His major later works inspired by that sojourn, Oceania, the Sky and Oceania, the Sea…
How to paint a landscape
Exhibition
A selection of paintings by seventeen artists whose work responds to the natural environment and engages with the tradition of painting the landscape. For more information see: /event/how-paint-landscape
Keywords Public Lecture Series: Ned Curthoys on Character
Lecture
Character is a Janus-faced concept that transgresses the border between the fictional and real, the performed and the authentic. From the Greek word kharattein, to engrave, the word suggests a mark or sign, something imprinted, hence indelible. Since The Characters of Theophrastus, a disciple of…