An initiative of the International Association for Art Critics (AICA), the inaugural AICA Academy was held this year in conjunction with the Association’s annual congress in Krakow, Poland and themed ‘Contested infrastructures: Art Criticism and the Institutionalisation of Art’. The Academy sought to engage younger art critics in the face of a reduction in art criticism training opportunities across the globe – a trend also observed locally.
Since the University of Tasmania axed the discipline of Art and Design Theory at the end of 2017, there has been no tertiary art writing education offered in the state, despite Tasmania’s image as an island of art and design.
