9 February 2011 | Conferences
The 2011 College Art Association conference begins today in New York. Alas I couldn’t make it this year, but I look forward to rounding up coverage as it appears. Charlie Finch writes about sexism in hiring. On Twitter, @ardmara writes, “Jonathan Katz quite brilliant on the NPG/wojnarowicz censorship issue. This is a political moment.” Art [...]
13 December 2010 | Conferences
“CAA has published full session information for the 99th Annual Conference and Centennial Kickoff in New York, taking place February 10–13, 2011.” It looks like a good one. The sessions on “Policing the Sacred: Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Faith” and “Gender and Sexuality in the Art Museum” will certainly have plenty to talk [...]
8 December 2010 | Africa, Conferences, Contemporary, Journals
The African art journal Nka celebrated its adoption by Duke University Press by engaging 15 scholars and critics in a debate in print (issue 26) and online over “contemporary African art history and the state of the scholarship.” Editor Salah M. Hassan expresses a certain pessimism of his own about “the political and economic crises [...]
7 December 2010 | Africa, Books, Conferences, Journals
The latest issue of The International Review of African American Art (23:2) is one of the most visually provocative magazine issues I’ve perused in years. It also includes a good mix of writing, including coverage of the most recent Porter Colloquium on African American Art. Summarizing a talk by Jacqueline Francis, Teresia Bush writes: Critical [...]
22 October 2010 | Conferences, News
“A man stood up from the audience and said, ‘I’m Mary Jane Jacob and I’d like permission to speak.’ ” The audience at this conference session had just been introduced to the session’s panelists and informed that one scheduled participant, the curator Mary Jane Jacob, wouldn’t be able to make it. So who then was [...]
13 October 2010 | Conferences, Islamic
From The National (Abu Dhabi): [A panel] hosted by the British Council at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation … struggled to reach a conclusion as to the nature of what defines Islamic art … [Emirates Foundation arts director Salwa Mikdadi] said the theoretical framework of Islamic art had been defined by the West. “The [...]
12 October 2010 | Conferences
The “Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web” conference we mentioned back in May is now underway, and you can (sort of) follow its goings-on on Twitter using the hashtag #nethum2010. Talks include “Game-Based Learning in Collaborative Virtual Worlds,” “Distributed Objectivities of Imagining: The Generative Scholarship Driving ‘Networked,’ “Do you see what we’ve seen? Using [...]
23 August 2010 | Books, Conferences
As someone whose dissertation is a mixture of fiction and essay, I’ve been keenly interested lately in Paul Barolsky’s new book A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso. He writes in the preface: I attempt to demonstrate the powerful influence of fiction in the history of art and the history of the [...]
20 July 2010 | Africa, Conferences, Contemporary, Museums
Tolu Ogunlesi’s review of Art Basel alerted me to a recent provocative essay by professor and Aachron Editions publisher Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, “The Curator as Culture Broker (A Critique of the Curatorial Regime of Okwui Enwezor in the Discourse of Contemporary African Art),” which he recently presented at a UC-Santa Cruz conference The Task of [...]
7 July 2010 | Conferences, Theory
The theme for this year’s Stone Summer Theory Institute is “Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic”: This year’s event addresses one of the central puzzles of contemporary art practice: the choice between continuations of modernism (with its aesthetic values) and the many kinds of postmodernism (which privilege politics, gender, identity, and many issues outside of [...]
1 July 2010 | Conferences, Islamic, Pre-Columbian, Renaissance
On July 9th, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris will present “1500-1600. Entre Islam et Nouveaux Mondes: les réformes dans un contexte global,” in the Salle Walter Benjamin of the Galerie Colbert. The event aims to extend the Reformation’s questions of “idolatry” beyond the European context, and consider well-known Reformation images within a broader frame [...]
14 May 2010 | Conferences, Photography
As a San Francisco Chronicle article noted, the SFMOMA recently hosted a symposium, “Is Photography Over?” Refreshingly, its website published the panelists’ statements and created a forum to extend the conversation and draw in more voices (W.J.T. Mitchell wrote, “I am a little grumpy about the premise of this symposium.”) In the Chronicle, critic Kenneth [...]
13 May 2010 | Books, Conferences
In a recent issue of Art Documentation (28:2), Maureen Whalen warns that Many studies have been conducted about the ill effects of being on the ‘wrong’ side of the digital divide. In the field of art history, it appears that the fetish for the printed book and a reluctance to incorporate digital technologies into the [...]
30 April 2010 | Conferences, Theory
From Idearte: The third annual Glasgow Colloquium on Art Historiography will be held in the Institute for Art History of the University of Glasgow 25th – 27th November 2010. Papers lasting 20 minutes are invited on formative moments, movements, institutions and individuals in accordance with the mission statement of the Journal of Art Historiography.
28 April 2010 | Ancient, Conferences
From Brown University: Brown University will host the Theoretical Archaeology Group from Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2010. [This conference will address] the question of the place of archaeology – literally and figuratively. We have invited renowned scholars [Homi K. Bhabha, for example] from around the world to join with Brown faculty and [...]
16 April 2010 | Career, Conferences, Museums, Theory
Symposium: November 12–14, 2010 Banff International Curatorial Institute The Banff Centre Deadline: April 23, 2010 For information: http://bit.ly/c8d3b2
12 April 2010 | Conferences
In the blog Experimental Philosophy, Eric Schwitzgebel writes about recent studies he’s done of conference audiences. He concludes that “most audience members, listening to most academic talks, spend most of their time with some distraction or other at the forefront of their stream of experience. They may not remember this fact because when they think [...]
8 April 2010 | Conferences
From CAA News: The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, has received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to convene an international task force of art librarians, scholars, and information specialists from Europe and the United States to discuss the future of art bibliography. Recent events, including discussions of art-library closures, scant [...]
2 April 2010 | Americas, Conferences, Modern
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote this in advance of last weekend’s Romare Bearden symposium: Artist Romare Bearden … is the subject of a symposium … at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown. “Bearden in the Public Realm,” include[s] a Friday conversation with novelist John Edgar Wideman … Saturday’s keynote speaker will be Mary [...]
29 March 2010 | Conferences, Journals, Museums
Routledge has announced a new journal World Art, edited by George Lau, Daniel Rycroft, and Veronica Sekules: In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study of art as a global human activity challenges categories of mainstream and marginalised arts and allows new histories to emerge, highlighting different [...]
