Past events

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

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

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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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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 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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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 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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A discussion about Australian, Asian and global art with Melissa Chiu, incoming director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Maud Page, director of the Art Gallery of NSW.

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A panel conversation on the writings of Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian curator who from the 1990s until his death in 2019 pioneered new frameworks for understanding and exhibiting African and global contemporary art.

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