by Jon Lackman | 22 December 2009 | Uncategorized
Our next post will be on Monday, January 4.
- “Citing its high cost in a time of severe budget constraints, the University of Illinois will phase out an art history program headquartered in the nation’s capital. Interim Chancellor Robert Easter decided this week to close the ‘Illinois at the Phillips’ program, created in 2006 with support from then-Chancellor Richard Herman, after the spring 2010 semester. Designed by art history Professor Jonathan Fineberg, the program offers courses and internships for UI art students at Washington’s Phillips Collection.”
- “The Savannah College of Art and Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology Digital Media Program will host the first Art History of Games conference Feb. 4-6. The three-day public symposium will bring together experts in game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies to investigate games as an art form.”
- “The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky will present a groundbreaking exhibition on the horse in American Art to coincide with the World Equestrian Games in 2010. Hoofbeats and Heartbeats will be the first significant exhibition to critically examine the role of the horse in American art, history and culture.”
- An exhibition of art by Henry Koerner, father to Joseph Leo Koerner. “Joseph Koerner, an art history professor at Harvard, never became a painter himself, but his father’s passion helped steer him into his career as an art historian with a focus on 15th and 16th century northern European art.”
- “When art history professor Lisa Clayton posted a sarcastic rant Friday about Qatari youth on a popular online forum for expatriates in the country, she was not expecting to spark a national cultural war … Professor Clayton, now banned from the site, has also apologized for her post. ‘I am a destroyed woman who is afraid to leave her home and humiliated by being at the root of this terrible firestorm in my adopted home.’ “
