Welcome to the first edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong which takes place from Thursday, May 23, to Sunday, May 26, 2013 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). The debut show will present more than 250 of the leading galleries from Asia, Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world, chosen by a selection committee composed of renowned international gallerists.
As in the established shows in Basel and Miami Beach, the new Hong Kong edition of Art Basel will draw more than 50 percent of participating galleries from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. In the show's multiple sectors the exhibition will present the highest quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works of the 20th and 21st centuries by more than 2,000 artists from Asia and around the globe.
At Art Basel in Hong Kong, collectors from across the world will discover the best art being produced in Asia and beyond, and enjoy the dynamic cross-cultural exchange that only this show and city can offer. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive talks program, giving first-hand insights into the latest developments in the artworld, and a stimulating program of events showcasing Hong Kong's rich culture. Exhibitions and events timed to coincide with the show will take place across the city’s thriving gallery scene, and in its growing array of cultural institutions, including Asia Art Archive and Para/Site Art Space in Sheung Wan, the Asia Society in Central, and M+, the developing museum component of the West Kowloon Cultural District.

http://hongkong.artbasel.com/go/id/oyh/

The American Rock Art Research Association invites Scientists, Researchers, Educators, Conservators, and all interested people to the XVII International Congress of IFRAO in conjunction with the ARARA 2013 Conference. Our meeting in the heart of the American Southwest provides an atmosphere where rock art continues to be a daily presence in the lives of those in the area. Field trips will provide opportunities for all Congress attendees to learn about the rock art of this region. The nearby Petroglyph National Monument will allow attendees continual access to the local rock art throughout the Congress.
The Congress theme “Ancient Hands Around the World” is designed to bring together the diverse interests of the many people who study and work to conserve the pictographs and petroglyphs in all countries. Depictions of hands are found in rock art of all cultures and in all time periods, and their symbolism portrays our goal of assembling people from across the globe to share their experiences and knowledge.
In keeping with the international agenda established over the past years, the Congress will have four days of oral and poster presentations in sessions organized by topics, and Wednesday will be devoted to field trips for all attendees. Other special cultural events are planned throughout the week including evening lectures open to the public, dances by local Pueblo groups, and vendor offerings of rock art related merchandise. Opportunities to book extended field trips before and after the Congress will also be available.
Official languages of the Congress will be English and Spanish.

http://www.ifrao2013.org/default.html

The conference is open to all—professional archaeologists and interested avocationalists alike. In keeping with the international agenda established over the past years, the conference will offer four days of oral and poster presentations in sessions organized by topic, and Wednesday will be devoted to field trips for all attendees. Other special cultural events are planned throughout the week including evening lectures open to the public, dances by local Pueblo groups, social events and vendor offerings of rock art related merchandise. Opportunities to book extended field trips before and after the Congress will also be available. Official languages are English and Spanish.

http://www.archaeological.org/events/9121

CONTEMPHOTO ’13 has been organized with the aim of reaching a comparative  and interdisciplinary perspective on urban issues, history and photography. Multiple roles of photography are going to be explored in relation to urban history as document, witness, survey, archive, advertisement and artifact.

A key theme is the relationship between visual history and urban (and rural) change throughout the ast two centuries.

Exploring the role of how photography shapes issues of identity, place and citizenship within the city; how it documents urban otherness (that of homelessness, or of tourism); how it archives urban memory; and how it documents the erotic or/and tragic variety of street life and how it containes historical facts are the main objectives of the interdisciplinary conference of Contemphoto '13.

http://www.contemphotoconference.org/

The world's premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show's multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.

http://basel.artbasel.com/go/id/ss/

The conference creates an intellectual platform to create an interdisciplinary conversation and serves as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world.

http://artsinsociety.com/the-conference

“Bridges Across Culture”  is the First International Conference on Arts and Humanities to be held in Perugia, Italy. The “Bridges” conference provides an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. This conference will serve as a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

http://www.washjeff.edu/international-conference-arts-and-humanities

The festival is held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on the campus of Aberystwyth University on the mid-Wales coast. Since it began in 1987 the three-day festival has grown to become the UK’s leading ceramics event.

It offers teachers, students, ceramic artists, collectors, working potters and amateurs the chance to meet and study the work of distinguished, internationally known potters and ceramicists from Wales, the UK and around the world .

The Festival attracts about 1000 people who attend lectures, watch practical demonstrations and visit our special exhibitions over three days. Our international demonstrators show skills and techniques on our specially adapted stage and also have their own workspaces – enabling personal discussion about their work. The focus is both practical and inspirational – kilns are built, pots are made and fired.

http://www.internationalceramicsfestival.org/

The Inaugural European Conference on Arts and Humanities offers a true celebration of interdisciplinary study in a stimulating scholarly environment, and in the wonderful physical and cultural surroundings of the Southeast of England. This international research conference will bring together university scholars working throughout Europe and beyond to share ideas and forge working relationships with each other over a stimulating, challenging, and long weekend.

http://ecah.iafor.org/

The spectacular coastline of Cardigan Bay in West Wales is a fine backdrop for this inspirational week of Living Music. Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s MusicFest is an enticing fusion of Music Festival and Summer School; of experience and learning; of performance and appreciation. The engagement of audience, student, and artist alike creates the unique community atmosphere of MusicFest – ‘refreshing, rewarding and thoroughly inspirational’.

http://www.abermusicfest.org/

EVA London focuses on the development and application of visualisation technologies in art, music, dance, theatre and the sciences. Where those interested in new technologies can share experiences and network in a friendly, collaborative atmosphere.

http://www.eva-london.org/

A three-day conference in English and French to be held in the University of Exeter, 4-6 September 2013. This conference provides an opportunity to analyse and reflect upon the role of the Paris Salon as an artistic and cultural event.

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/research/conferences/paris_salon/

The conference addresses what is arguably the most prolific, varied, and groundbreaking period in the coming together, exchange, and mutual influence of visual art and sound-based practices (such as music and the spoken word). It aims to explore (principally) the visual artist’s  engagement with sound, noise, music, and text while at the same time recognizing that there is a traffic of musicians, sound artists, and text artists moving in the opposite direction, who aspire to cultivate visual analogues for their work. Thus, the conference is situated at the intersection of several movements that are converging upon a point of visual-audio synthesis and exchange.

http://noisesofart.weebly.com/

Contributors have been invited based on their experience researching and writing about contact rock art in their respective countries and also for their interest in moving contact rock art research away from purely description-based studies towards a more theoretically-grounded area of specialisation within rock art studies.

Our aims are:

1. To share international perspectives on rock art depicting/representing contact between different cultural groups.
2. To explore different approaches to the interpretation of contact rock art.
3. To highlight similarities, differences and themes in the nature of representing ‘contact’ in different parts of the world and at different times.
4. To discuss options for promoting the study and protection of contact rock art globally.

This symposium will include a field trip for presenters to meet local Aboriginal Traditional Owners and visit important contact rock art sites in Kakadu National Park and western Arnhem Land.

http://rsh.anu.edu.au/rockart/index.php/conferences/2nd-international-contact-rock-art-symposium

Theatre and the many varied expressions of performance practice are by their nature inter-disciplinary forms of art. They draw ideas and symbolisms from diverse theoretical and creative fields of humanities, making historical references and links, presenting social relations, putting forward great ideas and dilemmas of the mind, highlighting aspects of the human personality and employing all existing art-forms in order to create a performance as a whole. Performance practice, whether in a theatrical space, site-specific space, or as a street or public performance of any nature, can be examined from the artistic point of view, but also from a cultural, a sociological, a historical, a psychological, a semiological, an anthropological, as well as from an educational perspective. The term “performance practice” refers to the interface within which the work of the director, performer, movement director and choreographer, scenographer (set and costume designer), musical director, composer, lighting designer and sound designer meet. It also includes all aspects and issues involving the creative process, from the initial concept to the final realization and presentation to an audience.

The aim of this conference is to develop discussion with a focus on the visual aspects of performance brought up by visual and spatial artists and researchers in various performance disciplines and practices.

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/call-for-papers/

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”(Alan Moore, V for Vendetta)

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues in and around the production, creation and reading of all forms of comics and graphic novels. Taken as a form of pictographic narrative it has been with us since the first cave paintings and even in the 21st century remains a hugely popular, vibrant and culturally relevant means of communication whether expressed as sequential art, graphic literature, bandes dessinees, tebeos, fumetti, manga, manhwa, komiks, strips, historietas, quadrinhos, beeldverhalen, or just plain old comics. (as noted by Paul Gravett)

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/call-for-papers/

The conference explores the nature and function of images and image making, welcoming academics and practitioners from the arts, communications, film, cognitive science, design, cultural studies, education, computer science and other areas.

http://ontheimage.com/the-conference

The full papers are going to be published in the proceedings book with an ISBN number. All presentations will be broadcasted live on the web page of the conference and available on Youtube afterwards.

http://www.archtheoconference.net/

Welcome to the favorite winter meeting place for the international art world. At the nexus of North America and Latin America, this Art Basel show presents premier artwork from across the globe. Over 250 of the world's leading galleries participate, drawing over 50,000 visitors each year.
With miles of sandy beaches dotted with classic Art Deco architecture, world-class art museums, and a glittering nightlife, Miami Beach ranks among America's most iconic cities. During Art Basel, it embraces the artworld with special exhibitions at museums and galleries across the city, transforming the week into a dense and dynamic cultural event.

https://www.artbasel.com/en/Miami-Beachmibeach.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/

The conference theme, “Building Strong Culture through Conservation” will focus on how the conservation of cultural heritage can help build strong culture for the benefit of society. By preserving cultural materials essential to the continuation of collective memory, conservation can help rebuild communities which have been damaged through war, natural disaster, or displacement, as well as supporting a sense of identity within thriving communities. The conference will explore how cross-cultural partnerships, new technologies, knowledge transmission, effective advocacy, and local cultural centres can contribute to the building of strong culture through conservation. Further, the conference will investigate strategies that address conservation needs in post-trauma recovery situations, as well as those of regional communities and communities who identity is not dominant within a broader culture.

http://www.icom-cc.org/254/triennial-conferences/17th-triennial-conference,-melbourne,-australia/#.URnn5PKoCLx