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2025 Paris Residency Fellowships: Applications Closing Soon!
You can now apply to be one of our 2025 Nicholas & Angela Curtis Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellows. Applications close 31 July 2024!
Simryn Gill: Schaeffer Library Artist in Residence 2024
In 2024, Simryn Gill will be the Schaeffer Library Artist in Residence, finding a place for her practice amidst the Library's unique collection.
Digital art history: Power convening panel at CIHA Lyon 2024
The Power Institute is convening a panel in June on art history and the digital, at the prestigious CIHA conference in Lyon.
Lauren Carroll Harris: Paris Residency Fellow 2023
Lauren Carroll Harris details her winter writing and research projects in Paris.
End of Year Message 2023
A message from Mark Ledbury, Director of the Power Institute
Slight edit of JW Power, Self portrait, c1920, Chau Chak Wing Museum, PW1961.8.
Ends of Painting wins prize
Our 2023 publication Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s, edited by Paris Lettau and David Homewood, has been awarded a prize for best anthology.
Vale Lindsay Barrett
We mourn the passing of author and cultural historian Lindsay Barrett (1959-2023).
Visiting Scholar: Jack Halberstam
The influential gender and queer theorist is visiting Sydney, hosted by the Power Institute
Interview with Scholar in Residence Melody Rod-ari
Our 2023 Sydney Asian Art Series scholar Melody Rod-ari was recently interviewed on ABC's Art Show.
Anklet(?) with Spiral Decoration, Thailand (Ban Chiang) ca. 300 BCE–200 CE (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Horror Cinema of Ari Aster
A research symposium on the pioneering horror cinema of Ari Aster, including a livestream conversation with the filmmaker himself.