EVENTS CALENDAR



4-Jun-08 Australian Short Film Night
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5-Jun-08 Monthly Reception
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6-Jun-08 Spring Lecture Series Luncheon
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17-Jul-08 Education Reception
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10-Sep-08 Annual Wine Tasting Event
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2-Oct-08 6th Anniversary Corporate Golf Challenge
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Cultural

Arts Grants
The Association works to promote the arts from Australia, the United States and New Zealand . We award modest donations to young Australian artists in New York from the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund.

In the past several years we have held events such as the showing of short films from both countries across the U.S., weekend excursions, concerts by Australian performers and a range of receptions to promote Australian art and culture in the United States.

Short Films
Australian and New Zealand short film nights are held at the Asia Society, curated by Susan Talbot.  The Australian Short Film night is being held on June 4th 2008. More...
 
Art Exhibits 

Open Studios & Grand Opening, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
May 8th to 12th
ISCP hosts Open Studios twice a year to give art professionals and other audience’s access to the program’s artists and curators from around the world. Free to the public, the Open Studios weekend presents recent artworks and projects by the participants in the residency program, providing an exclusive peak of the production, process, and personal archive of 27 artists from 20 countries. Founded in 1994, ISCP has hosted more than 750 artists and curators whose participation in the program have resulted in substantial career growth, while contributing to the diversity of New York’s international arts community. Visit www.iscp-nyc.org for further information.

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning & American Art 1940-1976
May 4 to Sept 21 showing at the Jewish Museum.
Abstract Expressionism forever altered the landscape of American art.
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976 is the first major exhibition in 20 years to rethink this important movement. Fifty extraordinary works by 31 artist - including Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and Frankenthaler - are viewed from the perspectives of the influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture.  Visit www.thejewishmuseum.org for further information.