Yasmine Aboud is studying the Master of Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney. Her internship took place at the Chau Chak Wing Museum with an exhibition as part of the Western Sydney Pop-Up Museum. I’m a Master of Museum and Heritage Studies student, with a Bachelor of Ancient History. My passion for history has always been a major part of my life and grew so much stronger thanks to the internship opportunity at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. As someone with a c

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute. Thursday 28 May 2026, 03:00PM - 04:30PM. Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26) Free. This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom. Join via Zoom Presentations by two art history PhD candidates. Aiden Magro introduces his research into

This article is part of a series focusing on Alumni from Art History, Art Curating, or Museum & Heritage Studies. Izzy Hillman is the Kairauhī Whakaaturanga / Exhibitions Curator at the Aigantighe Art Gallery, South Canterbury’s regional art museum. In this article, she reflects on her studies and burgeoning arts career. One thing that has stayed with me professionally from my degree is the understanding that the historical, social, and personal contexts behind artworks or ob

Part of a series of student articles for the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library Internship Program Sherman Gallery exhibition catalogues, assorted exhibition notices from other galleries, art criticism, news clippings, photocopies of news clippings and two published books related to the artist. Yuki Kihara: Memory, Media and the Ethnographic Archive’ gathers a series of archival materials on the interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, including her early involvement at the Sherman Ga

Part of a series of student articles for the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library Internship Program Fiona is studying a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications)/Advanced Studies. This semester I had the opportunity to undertake the Library Research and Metadata Internship at the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library through FASS3000, where I explored the archival predicament in capturing metadata that would most accurately translate the fluid ephemerality of performance video art practice

Part of a series of student articles for the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library Internship Program Most people enter the arts for what is most visually striking: the colour, the form, the artworks themselves. I came in expecting the same. Yet, as a Metadata Intern, I quickly realised that some of the most revealing stories of the art world are not found on gallery walls, but in materials that have quietly drifted through time: catalogues, letters, press clippings, and records that,

Part of a series of student articles for the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library Internship Program During my MHST6905 internship at the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library, I worked as a library research and metadata intern. As I became more involved in cataloguing tasks, I realised that my earlier view of archival practice as mainly technical and procedural was too limited, the practical work made me aware that it also involves decisions and implications that are more layered than I had ex

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute. Thursday 7 May 2026, 03:00PM - 04:30PM. Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26) Free. This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom. Join via Zoom Art historian Yvonne Low introduces the often overlooked history of society-based, medium-

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute. Thursday 30 April 2026, 03:00PM - 04:30PM. Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26) Free. This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom. Join via Zoom A presentation by UK-based art historian Maddie Hewitson drawing together Victorian art

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute. Thursday 23 April 2026, 03:00PM - 04:30PM. Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26) Free. This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom. Join via Zoom Art historian and curatorial scholar Lilian Cameron analyses one of the most prominent

Art historian Ekaterina Heath traces the history of an 18th century sabre, examining its movement across Russian, steppe, and Qing imperial contexts, as part of a broader history at Kalmyk visual culture.

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute. Thursday 26 March 2026, 03:00PM - 04:30PM. Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26) Free. This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom. Join via Zoom Luisa Roldán, The Virgin and Child with S. Diego of Alcalá. Painted terracotta on gilt