26 March 2010 | Awards, Books, Photography
Historian Linda Gordon has been awarded a Bancroft Prize (her second) for her book on the photographer Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. The prize is “awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia [University] to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.” In this [...]
3 December 2009 | Awards
From the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation: In its 2009 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of $710,000 to twenty-six individual writers. These grants range from $5,000 to $50,000 in five categories—articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing—and support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences. Representing [...]
23 November 2009 | Awards
From the TAXI Design Network: The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2009–2010. They include Bert W. Meijer, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus), as Samuel H. Kress Professor; Miguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del Prado, as Andrew W. [...]
24 September 2009 | Awards, Teaching
From a Pasadena Community College press release: Art History Professor Sandy Haynes, who developed an online version of Art Fundamentals … is being honored with a top award by the international, learning management company Blackboard … her course was one of only eight submitted by faculty and course designers from around the world that was [...]
Sociologist Michèle Lamont’s new book is How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. She “observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length.” She shows how “judging quality isn’t robotically rational; it’s emotional, cognitive, and social too,” particularly when academics serving on multi-disciplinary panels are forced to evaluate [...]
30 April 2009 | Awards
Grant-hunting season has re-opened at The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. The “Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants ranging from 3,000 to 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories: articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, [...]
28 April 2009 | Awards
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences inducts “leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector.” Since 2006 (the last time we checked in on the academy), it has elected the following art historians: Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard) John (Jas) Elsner (Oxford) Benjamin Buchloh (Harvard) Gülru Necipoglu (Harvard) [...]
9 April 2009 | Awards
Down from six last year, two art historians this year won Guggenheims: Francesca Fiorani, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia: Leonardo da Vinci’s shadows. Jaime Lara, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Flying Francis: a new iconography in the Andes. This year a total of 180 were [...]
21 January 2009 | Awards
Via Artnet: The College Art Association has announced the winners of its annual awards, in advance of the organization’s 2009 conference in Los Angeles, Feb. 25-28, 2009. Winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism is Boris Groys, the Berlin-born NYU prof whose most recent book is Art Power (MIT, 2008). In one [...]
16 April 2008 | Awards
From CAA News: At its October 2007 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors voted to establish a twelfth Award for Distinction: the Distinguished Feminist Award. The award honors a person who, through his or her art, scholarship, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. A three-member jury, appointed by [...]
8 April 2008 | Awards
Mark Feeney has won the 2008
7 April 2008 | Awards
From the fields of “Fine Arts Research,” “Architecture, Planning and Design,” and “Photography studies,” there were six winners this year. Here they are, together with their affiliations, and areas of research: Meiling Cheng, Associate Professor of Critical Studies and English, and Director of Critical Studies, School of Theatre, University of Southern California: Contemporary time-based art [...]
19 February 2008 | Ancient, Awards, Books
The new Art Book Award, awarded by The Art Book and the Association of Art Historians (both in the UK), “aims to promote and acknowledge the best in art publishing by honouring the contributions and collaboration of the many different people involved.” Its first award has just gone to Antinous: the Face of the Antique [...]
15 January 2007 | Awards
The following individuals (and others) will receive awards at next month’s CAA conference: Peter Selz (best art-history book), Teresa A. Carbone with Barbara Dayer Gallati and Linda S. Ferber (museum catalogue), Elizabeth Marlowe (Art Bulletin article by a young scholar), Sean Cubitt (Art Journal article), Jerry Saltz (art criticism), Wanda M. Corn and Alan Wallach [...]
24 October 2006 | Awards, Medieval
Kristin Marek has received the 5,000-Euro Hertha and Werner Krauße Prize for her dissertation, Three Bodies of the King: The Visual Culture of the Effigy. Marek argues that in the Middle Ages there was a sacred body alongside the body politic and the body natural, as distinguished by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz. For example, kings [...]
28 April 2006 | Awards
“The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 175 new Fellows and 20 new Foreign Honorary Members,” including Keith Christiansen, Anne Poulet, and Henri Loyrette.
20 April 2006 | Awards
Four this year go to art historians: “Joseph Leo Koerner, Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art: Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, and the painting of everyday life. Carol Lawton, Professor of Art History, and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Lawrence University: Popular Greek religion and the votive reliefs from the [...]
8 March 2006 | Awards
The Max Planck Research Award “is awarded this year to Harvard Art History and Architecture Professor Alina Payne and Professor Horst Bredekamp at Humboldt University in Berlin. The award comes with a 1.5 million euro grant and each year recognises one German, and one non-German researcher, both of whom show outstanding work involving international co-operation.” [...]
