Tuesday, January 11, 2011

WHO SAYS JANUARY IS A DULL MONTH? THERE'S LOADS HAPPENING.......


PODCASTS: Missed the Writing Irish Art History Research Day in  Trinity College in November? You can listen back to the podcasts now on iTunesU - Field search terms for Title &  Institution - TRIARC & Trinity College Dublin respectively.
Kindly sponsored by: FOUR COURTS PRESS http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/ 
TRIARC http://www.triarc.ie/ IRCHSS http://www.irchss.ie/
NEXT Writing Irish Art History Event will be at the Association of Art Historians (AAH) Annual Conference in University of Warwick, March 30-April 2, 2011.  Abstracts available soon at:  http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3307



CALL FOR PAPERS:   
SOCIAL NETWORKING BEGAN WITH FACEBOOK - RIGHT? 
WRONG!  Power, wealth, and influence were distributed in myriad ways in the nineteenth century, and often through localised elites or social networks...


CFP for presentations at the 17th International Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, (SSNCI) to be held in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 30 June – 01 July, 2011.
More information at http://www.ssnci.com/2010/09/ssnci-2011-conference-irish-elites-in-the-nineteenth-century/  and  http://irishelites.wordpress.com/
ABSTRACTS BEFORE: January 31, 2011
Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland's Flickr feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/

ATTEND:
TOMORROW! Wednesday 12 January 2011 2.30-3.30 National Museum of Ireland
Conservation Talk: Get behind the scenes at NMI Collins Barracks and see how artefacts are conserved for the future. Includes furniture and textile conservation, bookbinding and archaeological conservation.  
Booking essential some places may still be available. Contact NMI Event Bookings: bookings@museum.ie

ALSO TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2011
Opening Reception: 6pm – 8pm Broadstone Gallery and Studios, 22 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2
Chimeric Agonism - Exhibition of significant body of new work by Cormac Browne and Ciara McMahon as part of their work on the Art in the Contemporary World masters program at the National College of Art and Design. Exhibition continues: 13th – 17th January 2011, 12-6pm.http://www.broadstonestudios.com/

Spanish movie season at Instituto Cervantes, Dublin - beginning on Wednesday 12 January
A new film series that covers the works of the most important figures in Spanish Cinematography.  Fernando León de Aranoa and Isabel Coixet, the late Luis García Berlanga,  Mario Camus, Javier Rebollo and José Luis Guerín. Some of these filmmakers have been photographed by Óscar Fernández Orengo and their portraits form part of the exhibition entitled “Through My Eyes” to open in the Instituto Cervantes on 10th February. More info at: http://dublin.cervantes.es/boletin/newsletter_enero_2011.htm

Thursday 13 January, 5:30 pm Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Cecily Brennan – Artist Talk and Screening ‘Black Tears’
Screening: 13 January – 26 February

Gallery Talk & Symposium this January at IMMA, Dublin:
Wednesday 19 January, 4.00pm East Wing Galleries.
Hear about "Eileen Gray: an Irish Modernist" with  Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Music, Science & the Eileen Gray Collection from the National Museum Ireland.
Saturday 29 January 10.30-5.30 Lecture Room
"Heroes and Anti-Heroes of C20 Irish Architecture" - Discussion and debate on architecture and design in Ireland in collaboration with DoCoMoMo Ireland
Speakers: Ellen Rowley, Dr. Lisa Godson, Simon Walker, Peter Carroll, Ruth O'Herlihy and Dr. Linda King. NB*BOOKING REQUIRED FOR THESE EVENTS*

BLOG OFF:
Cut-and-Paste is just not on - one blogger succeeds in protecting their intellectual property rights.....
http://www.3pipe.net/2011/01/madame-pickwick-art-blog-unattributted.html

READ:
"Universities ...fatefully in love with ambiguity, they trust in the absurd modernist doctrine that great art should have no moral content or desire to change its audience." Alain de Botton's opinion on how the arts *should be taught today....but be warned! what he has to say may not please everyone....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12136511

"It's not about you. It's about culture, learning, and community space--for everyone." What are museums *really about? What do you think? Comments please!!
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2011/01/open-letter-to-arianna-huffington.html

Imagine Ireland - major Government funding for promoting Irish arts in the United States http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/first-details-of-new-irish-arts-festival-in-u-s-are-unveiled/

WATCH: Gabriel Byrne on how Irish arts can contribute to Ireland's economic recovery
http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=199703

LISTEN:
Historical accuracy in movies? Abandoned Mansions of Ireland? Discussion about these topics and more in The History Show with Myles Dungan and guests this week at: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thehistoryshow/

INTERN JOB:
Excellent CV-building opportunity! Dublin Contemporary are looking for a Sponsorship and Development Volunteer for their festival in September next.
http://www.dublincontemporary.com/index.php/about/involve

VISIT:
Declan Clarke ' We'll be this way until the end of the world' - Unlocking the codified language of monuments
Venue: Mother's Tankstation Dublin. 12th Jan to – 12th Feb 2011
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE EXHIBITION SPACE AND THE DARKNESS REQUIRED FOR SCREENINGS, THE GALLERY OPENING HOURS WILL BE 4-6PM, THURSDAY TO SATURDAY. http://bit.ly/ey1NLj

VIRTUAL VISIT:
Lost in Translation? "...due to recently discovered egress* difficulties, lift-dependent visitors will not be able to visit The Moderns exhibition in the First Floor Galleries..." (*Why use an ordinary word when you can use a terrific word like this?) All the same the virtual visit option is great if you can't otherwise get to IMMA. Find it here at: http://imma.gallery-access.com/intl/en/index.php?w_id=2&r_id=&g_id=&a_id=





AND "YAY !" FOR:
Seamus Heaney 's 'Colmcille the Scribe' having been selected for a new collection of Poems on the Underground in London
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/142470-heaney-keats-and-hardy-on-tube.html

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