2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Contemporary Art, Health and Medicine”

This panel explores the proliferation of artistic practices addressing medical and health-related subjects, both within and outside of traditional systems of art production and display. As well as the increasing prevalence of medical themes in the work of individual artists, contemporary art is now called on to interpret, communicate and produce health-related knowledge in academic research, medical museums and medical environments. The intersections between contemporary art and medicine have received little critical attention (to date, most work on art and medicine has focused on the 19th and early 20th centuries). As Jordanova notes, “we lack a basic map” of “the…

International Call: Reconnecting with your culture. Draw your heritage

EdA Esempi di Architettura International Research Center together with UNESCO University and Heritage and coordinated by Olimpia Niglio organized a project in order to bring the younger generations closer to the theme of cultural heritage. The project is addressed to all schools in the world and to children between 5 and 17 years old. The first presentation of the project will be held in Lima (Peru) on July 31st. Other presentations will follow in Latin America and then move on to Asia and Europe. Everything is done through Webinars. The main languages of the project are: English, French, and Spanish (UNESCO languages)….

Call for Artists: BORDERS Festival 

The first edition of BORDERS Festival took place in Venice in 2016, in the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, presenting a great selection of more than 500 art and architecture works realized by 180 artists and architects, coming from 36 countries. Never as this time the concept of the exhibition seems to be epochal: since 3 months, the humankind coexists at a distance to stay closer. The new invisible borders generated by the covid-19 are creating new ways of living everyday life, new human connections, re-thinking common spaces and entire cities. Could the new “borders” be the solution? We invite artists, architects and designers to be inspired by this new era, exploring the connection between…

Call for Artists: Venice International Art Fair 2020

Venice International Art Fair is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 12th edition will represent a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance. Venice International Art Fair, organized by ITSLIQUID Group in collaboration with Venice Events, will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space from July 23 to August 21, 2020, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi from July 24 to August 21, 2020 and in other prestigious venues and historical buildings. Venice International Art Fair provides artists…

Call for papers: 31:1 Writing Automobile Histories

Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (volume 31, no.1) on Writing Automobile Histories edited by Marianna Charitonidou, ETH Zürich, National Technical University of Athens and Athens School of Fine Arts. Papers are due by 29 June 2020 (EXTENDED). The point of departure for this special issue is the hypothesis that the view from the car has established a new epistemology of the urban landscape. Focusing on the views from the car produced by architects will help us better understand how this epistemological shift influenced architectural thinking and…

Call for Articles: TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura

TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura is a journal of the editorial seal of the University of Seville EUS, preferably addressed to the academic community focused on international research in History of Architecture. It publishes annually scientific articles selected by the double-blind peer review system and through an editorial process characterized by quality, rigor and transparency, monitored by its editorial team committee with a marked international character. Research in the History of Architecture is approached from any discipline, chronological period and geography, and promotes the diversity and complexity of History as an inalienable value. In addition to this transversal and…

Call for Papers: No.8 REVISTA EVITERNA (September 2020)

The Call for Papers for the 8th issue of Revista Eviterna is open for receiving papers (Articles, Varia, Exhibition&Art reviews, biblio/books reviews). All the interested are invited to collaborate in the eighth number, whose topic line will be -Questions of art in general-. You can find the appointment rules, bibliography and the template to which the articles should be adapted in the section “Author Guidelines” of Revista Eviterna’s website. To receive articles and review them, the author must register on the web with the role of “Author”. In order to launch the eighth issue of the journal in September 2020,…

Call for Papers: University Museums Research Symposium 2020

SYMPOSIUM THEME This year’s symposium will reflect on the architectural heritage of universities, their deployment for the activities of the institution, the potentials of these historic structures in fostering academic research and education, and the challenges they present to their owners. The sub-themes of the symposium are developed to encourage personnel from across the university – faculty, undergraduate and postgraduate, estate management, development office – to participate in discussion, debate and reflection. Architectural heritage as a pedagogical resource Historical architecture on campus are landmarks in the institution’s history; steeped in the collective memories of students across generations, they enhance the…

Call for Papers: “Committed, Politicized, or Operative: Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today” (HPA 7/2020)

In a 1995 article on the renewal of architectural criticism, French architect and critic Bernard Huet referred to Charles Baudelaire to define art criticism as necessarily – in the poet’s words – “partial, impassionate, political”. During the 1990s, perhaps as a reaction to the 1980s, when in many specialized publications architectural criticism was identified as “communication” or even as promotion of architects and architectures, it emerged an extensive nostalgia for a notion of criticism associated to the historical avant-gardes. In this “committed” criticism or in the “politicized” one it was possible to emphasize the critic’s influential and active role in…

Call for Papers: Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation (Split, 3 Dec 20)

The Institute of Art History – The Cvito Fiskovic Centre in Split calls for papers for an international conference of academics and professionals: “Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation”. Across the globe, the year 2020 was unexpectedly marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Photographs of empty public spaces – the locations of historic events, celebrations, protests, social gatherings, crowds of tourists – from Milan, Paris, London, Istanbul, and Hong Kong to Dubrovnik and Split… these sights stir up bittersweet emotions. On the one hand, these pictures are intensely beautiful. They recall artist’s books and historical photographer’s monographs…