Crystal World: colllaborative exhibition with the Royal Society, London, 4 July - 5 October, 2011 Professor Gill Perry of the Art History Department has collaborated with The Royal Society to produce a small exhibition on crystals in contemporary art, Crystal World. The show features the work of artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Hubert Duprat and Michelle Charles. If you are interested in visiting this show, or would like to know more, please follow the link below. The exhibition is also to be featured on the Open Arts Archive (www.openartsarchive.org), and is accompanied by a catalogue which includes an essay by the author Brian Dillon. Further information about visiting this exhibition.
To coincide with the exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, at Tate Modern, London, Dr Steve Edwards co-organised a symposium on 'Violence and Representation' on Saturday 18th September 2010. A full house listened to international artists, photojournalists and theorists explore notions of spectatorship and consumption of violent images in contemporary culture. Questions discussed included the political, apolitical or depoliticised spectator of representations of violence; the iconoclasm, censorship and the difference between photo reportage and art photography.
Speakers: Shahidul Alam, Susan Meiselas, Simon Norfolk, John Roberts, Julian Stallabrass and Alberto Toscano.
The event was supported by Oxford Art Journal, Oxford University Press, the Open University and the British Council.
Garden Room, Barbican
£20: includes entrance to the exhibition
This study day explores issues raised by the successful Surreal House exhibition currently at the Barbican, and will consider the role and meanings of the theme of the house in modern and contemporary art, film, architecture and culture. It includes presentations and discussions by curators, art historians and writers.
Contributors include Jane Alison, Senior Curator, Barbican Art Gallery; Gill Perry, Professor of Art History OU; Barry Curtis, Professor of Art History, Royal College of Art; Brian Dillon, Writer and UK Editor of Cabinet; Dagmar Weston, Lecturer in Architectural Theory, Edinburgh University; Krysztof Fijalkowski, Senior Lecturer in Art History, Norwich School of Art and James Lingwood, Co Director, Artangel..
This Study Day will be of interest to students studying modern art, architecture and literature, and is relevant to Open University courses AA318 Art of the Twentieth Century, A216 Art and its Histories, and the Art History MA.
The Open Arts Archive is a major new archive and website linking The Open University with a range of collaborating museums, galleries and art institutions. It will provide open access to a wealth of artistic, cultural and educational resources, featuring work from the ancient to the modern period. These resources include seminars, study days, artist interviews, research projects and archives. The website will be available from the end of March at www.openartsarchive.org and will continue to expand as more new material is added regularly.
This study day considered some of the broad issues and ideas associated with the concept of 'abstraction'. It was dedicated to the memory of Professor Charles Harrison, Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at The Open University.
A webcast of this study day will be available soon from the Tate Modern & Open University Study Days website.
We are sad to announce the death on August 6th 2009 of Professor Charles Harrison. Please follow this link to read tributes to Charles.
The Association of Art Historians dissertation prize has been won by an OU student on the art history MA programme for the second year in a row. This is great news and testifies to the strength of graduate art history at the OU. It is quite exceptional for students from the same institution to win the prize two years running. This success is all the more impressive in view of the fact that the OU MA in art history was only set up relatively recently. Read more ...
From 2010 the assessment of the course is being modified. The Course Team feels that, at third level, students want, and deserve the opportunity for more independent study. Accordingly the old assessment format of seven 2000 word TMAs and a three-hour unseen Examination is being replaced by four longer TMAs, one for each book, and a 3,500 word End of Course Assessment. In this, students will research works and texts of their own choice, within an overall rubric provided by the Course Team, in what we hope will be a rewarding combination of guided study and independent work.
Dr Carol Richardson has received one of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme prizes for 2008. The prizes are awarded to outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study. Carol's work on Renaissance Rome addresses the relationship between history, culture and art, pioneering studies of artefacts created to mark, celebrate or defend monuments of triumph and crisis in Papal Rome.
Professor Tim Benton has been jointly awarded the Prix National du Livre by the Academie d'Architecture in France for his book Le Corbusier conférencier . Tim shared the prize with Philippe Prost, author of Vauban le style de l'intelligence (Archibooks, Paris). The prix du livre is the most prestigious prize for books about architecture in the French language. An English edition of the book, The Rhetoric of Modernism; Le Corbusier as a lecturer (Birkhauser) will appear in May 2009. The book is a collection of numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs produced by Le Corbusier for his lectures. It covers the period 1924-1929 and analyses the construction, content and use of verbal and visual aids.
Webcasts:
Tate Modern and OU Study Days online These study days take place at Tate Modern approximately twice a year. There is a fee for attending the live events, but all on-line materials are free. You can view the events as webcasts and there are links to technical help on each study day page.
You can view the following Tate/OU study days from the archive:
Tate's Online Events section allows you to view a wider range of live and archived webcasts. Featured items include artists' talks, lectures and symposia.