Past events

A photograph of Huong Ngo

Thu, 20 August 2026

12:00PM

Workshop: Reading the news otherwise

Hương Ngô

US-based interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô leads a workshop exploring how texts can be collectively transformed into critical and empathic investigations of social reality.

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A photograph of Huong Ngo

Hương Ngô

US-based interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô shares recent and new work.

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Wed, 19 August 2026

6:00PM

Networks of Invisible Labour

Hương Ngô

Artist Hương Ngo unearths networks of invisible labor, and their place within histories of the Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora.

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Tue, 18 August 2026

11:00AM

Modalities of Everywhen

Terry Smith

A lecture about Yirawala, Narritjin Maymuru, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Emily Kam Kngwarreye, and Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Part Three of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".

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Ian Andrews, Margie Borschke, Katrina Grant, Paul B. Jaskot, Machine Listening, Yvonne Low, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Asti Sherring, Adrian Vickers, and Andrew Yip

A symposium about research using digital tools, and against research as a tool of the digital

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A photograph of the Wawel castle in Krakow, Poland

Paul B. Jaskot

A lecture on architecture and urban planning as central to the Nazi military occupation of Europe. An event to mark Paul B. Jaskot's new book, "The Tyranny of the Object: An Introduction to the Barbarism of Art History", published by Power Publications.

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Mary Roberts, Ekaterina Heath, and Lucy Pittman

A roundtable on the rise of new illustrated newspapers in the 19th century, and the ways in which urban modernity in the Islamicate world was at the heart of emerging theories of aesthetic modernism in France. 

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A pastel drawing by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas.

Tue, 11 August 2026

11:00AM

Bodies as mediums of modernity

Terry Smith

A lecture about Edgar Degas and Willem de Kooning, Suzanne Valadon and Frida Kahlo. Part Two of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".

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Thu, 6 August 2026

3:00PM

A great fire and whirling smoke

Marie Ngiam

A presentation by visiting scholar Marie Ngiam (University of Oslo) on arboreal aesthetics and the transcultural agency of tree burls.
 

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A painting by Renaissance artist Giorgione.

Tue, 4 August 2026

11:00AM

Visual allegories of seeing as knowing

Terry Smith

A lecture about Piero Della Francesca's painting of St Augustine, Giorgione, and Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Part One of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".

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