Jon Lackman is a PhD student at NYU. His dissertation (in progress) is “Invective in Mid-1800s French Art Criticism.” He has written for Slate, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. He sometimes tweets.
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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 [...]
We belatedly take note of a post by Gary Schwartz: … a research institute in Paris and Houston, Texas, known as The Image of the Black in Western Art … was put in place by the oil millionaire Dominique de Menil (1908-97), a formidable figure in 20th-century patronage of minority politics as well as art. [...]
8 April 2009 | Uncategorized
Thomas W. Gaehtgens notes that Willibald Sauerländer’s 85th birthday was recently celebrated in Munich and Princeton, which held a two-day conference in his honor. Sauerländer recently lectured on David’s painting of Marat. Oskar Bätschmann remembers art historian Hans A. Lüthy, who died recently. Once the director of the Schweizerischen Instituts für Kunstwissenschaft, Lüthy published on [...]
8 April 2009 | Uncategorized
Here at The Art History Newsletter, we’re contemplating making more changes. You asked for the ability to post comments — done. What else would you like to see? What other blogs (academic or otherwise) do you enjoy and wish this one more resembled? And what do you think of these ideas?: We could give anyone [...]
7 April 2009 | Books
From the recently published book Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, edited by Daniel Esterman: Barcelona, 21 July 1927 … I know that after 1000 monographs have exhausted a million details, their blurred image will make a fine picture for the few people who are taken by such things. May they be [...]
In the March 2009 issue of the Burlington Magazine, Elisa de Halleux reviews Georges Didi-Huberman’s new essay collection L’image ouverte. Motifs de l’incarnation dans les arts visuels: Didi-Huberman takes representations of the body and the flesh as a means to dwell on the spectator’s intimate relationship with the image, and to describe the nature of [...]
In the March/April ’09 ArtAsiaPacific, Don J. Cohn reviews three recent books: … Melissa Chiu, museum director at Asia Society in New York, and the author/editor of several catalogs for exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art (herein Chicona, AAP’s, not Chiu’s, neologism), has written a brief, intimidatingly titled book that offers an elementary “paint by the [...]
2 April 2009 | Theory
In the Jan/Feb ‘09 Architectural Design, guest editor Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi writes on and interviews Yves Michaud: In 2003, Yves Michaud wrote a book that met with considerable success in France. In L’art à l’état gazeux. Essai sur le triomphe de l’esthétique he claims that it is now almost impossible to identify a demaracation line [...]
1 April 2009 | Books
Also in the February 2009 Burlington Magazine, Richard Ormond reviews Diana Donald’s Picturing Animals in Britain: Diana Donald has written a challenging and densely argued book … to bring animals “centre stage in historical research,” and establish the boundaries of a new discipline. She is an evangelist of her subject and of the animal kingdom [...]
31 March 2009 | Books
In the February 2009 issue of the Burlington Magazine, Xander van Eck considers recent publications from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Metropolitan Museum on their Dutch collections: Both catalogues are excellent academic publications … The surprisingly different approaches to the two publications make one wonder what kind of information belongs in a catalogue: simply the [...]
30 March 2009 | Conservation, Renaissance
Milan’s Brera Gallery has completed its restoration of Raphael’s The Wedding of the Virgin, according to Reuters: The painting’s surface had darkened considerably in the 150 years since the last major restoration. It also underwent small repairs in 1958 after a visitor attacked it with a hammer, injuring the Virgin’s stomach and elbow … The [...]
30 March 2009 | Asia
The most recent issue of Artibus Asiae (2008) contains a long, thoughtful appreciation by Helmut Brinker of the recently deceased Asian art scholar Dietrich Seckel. It also contains an obituary of scholar/curator/collector Stuart Cary Welch written by artist/collector Howard Hodgkin: Stuart Cary Welch was undoubtedly the most important expert in the field of Moghul painting; [...]
27 March 2009 | Modern
Modern Art Notes interviews TJ Clark, who is presenting this year’s National Gallery of Art Mellon Lectures, focusing on 1920s Picasso as well as Guernica: These lectures are an attempt to extract Pablo Picasso from a biographic equation: ‘Picture C equals Lover Y,’ and that’s what you need to know … Cubism now, to me [...]
27 March 2009 | Uncategorized
For technical reasons we’ve been unable to post for the last few days, but we should be able to resume shortly.
18 March 2009 | Asia, Books, Museums
In caa.reviews, Donald F. McCallum writes on a recent collaboration by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit: The exhibition Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan and its accompanying catalogue constitute a landmark in the study of Japanese art. The paintings displayed at the Japan Society Gallery were of both high quality and significance, and the [...]
14 March 2009 | Uncategorized
The 67-year-old conceptual artist apparently died of lymphoma. Obituaries in Die Zeit, the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, and Der Standard.
13 March 2009 | Conferences
We’d like to take note of one other post to the official CAA conference blog, one by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker: … the core of the conference – the Program Sessions — follow a model that has remained virtually unchanged since the nineteenth century. Papers are prepared in advance, read, and if the session [...]
9 March 2009 | Conferences
CAA is over. The most heavily blogged CAA ever, it produced more coverage than we can cover here. A selection: “Frenchy but Chic” wrote: A strange phenomenon has occurred this week in downtown Los Angeles. Hordes upon hordes of pallid, humorless and bespectacled killjoys, dressed in drab, unseasonal clothing, sporting strange unfashionable facial hair or [...]
1 March 2009 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Monday, March 9th.
1 March 2009 | Conferences
From CAA, Allyson Drucker writes: There was a noticeable decrease in attendance today at the third and final day of CAA, but some of the remaining few were treated to a series of neat papers at “The Northern Court Artist, 1400-1600.” The session was off to a great start with Carol Krinsky’s talk entitled “What [...]
