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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24 March 2010 | Career
Art history now has robust online rumor mills for jobs and salaries (now in their third year) as well as a place to discuss both, although there’s not as much to discuss this year, given the relative lack of openings. A few years back, The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote an article about such sites [...]
23 March 2010 | Uncategorized
ARTnews editor Robin Cembalest writes: In the United States, the art made in Spain’s Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it’s on the cutting edge of art history – and the wish lists of top museums … The promise, mystery, and [...]
22 March 2010 | Museums
From Timesonline.co.uk: Although a serious scholar who made significant contributions in several fields, it is as a great populariser and brilliant lecturer with the ability to hold audiences aged from 9 to 90 entranced that many will remember [Lionel Lambourne] first and foremost … As the [V&A's] unofficial “curator of silly art”, his range of [...]
22 March 2010 | Uncategorized
To add to our last post on this topic, a few more discoveries: Ivan Gaskell Steven Zucker James Elkins Roja Najafi Janet Davis Victoria Osborne Gina Collia-Suzuki Also on Twitter (sometimes, anyway): Art History Newsletter contributors Jon Lackman and Benjamin Lima.
19 March 2010 | Uncategorized
From Artdaily: “In celebration of the conferral of her doctorate, art historian and publicist Marjan Unger donated to the Rijksmuseum nearly 500 pieces of Dutch jewellery which she had personally collected over the last few decades.”
19 March 2010 | Uncategorized
Word is going out that the venerable Bibliography of the History of Art will fold at the end of this month, as the result of cost-cutting at the Getty Research Institute. In the words of the Cornell University library, “The BHA is the decisive periodical citation index for art history scholarship, and this is certainly [...]
19 March 2010 | Asia, Contemporary
The Japan Times interviews “Shihoko Iida, who late last year resigned from one of Tokyo’s most progressive contemporary art venues, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, and is now six months into a two-year sojourn at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia”: Working in Australia has also opened Iida’s eyes to how her nation’s art [...]
17 March 2010 | Career
The “CV Doctor” at The Chronicle of Higher Education has returned and last December ministrated to a soon-to-be-minted art-history PhD who fields two CVs, one for academic jobs and another for nonacademic jobs. “Lucy Scholar,” who specializes in Chinese art, is “applying for tenure-track faculty posts at small teaching universities, and for postdoctoral fellowships at [...]
17 March 2010 | News
Art historians appear to be embracing Twitter with all of the unenthusiastic hesitation and hand-wringing with which they greeted the once-novel technology of blogging. Nonetheless, a few have taken the plunge. Tweeting art historians include modernist August Jordan Davis, photography historian William Allen, Roman art scholar Francesca Tronchin, art/garden historian S.E. Gordon-Salway, and Renaissance specialist [...]
12 March 2010 | Uncategorized
We belatedly take note of another death … From the Philadelphia Inquirer: John Walker McCoubrey, 86, an emeritus professor in the department of art history at the University of Pennsylvania, died … Dr. McCoubrey became Penn’s first James and Nan Farquhar Professor of the History of Art in 1988, and for several years was the [...]
12 March 2010 | Uncategorized
From Timesonline.co.uk: Lesley Lewis made distinguished contributions to the history of art and architecture as an author and by serving on numerous influential heritage bodies … Lesley Lewis was born in 1909 … she was educated at home by governesses, the last of whom introduced her to the study of the history of art. At [...]
10 March 2010 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Renaissance
From The New York Times: By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended … That’s according to an art historian at the University of Toronto, Philip Sohm. He has studied the number of writings (books, catalogs and scholarly papers) on both of [...]
9 March 2010 | Conferences
The 2011 College Art Association conference will be in New York, February 9–12, 2011. CAA has just released the Call for Participation. Paper proposals are due May 3. Session titles include: What’s in a Name? Reconsidering Tibetan Stylistic Taxonomies The Aesthetics of Sonic Spaces Art Music and Other Paradigms for Nineteenth-Century Art Fight the Power: [...]
In caa.reviews, Kjell Wangensteen considers Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting, a new book by David Summers: In contrast to the vast scope (and scale) of his 2003 book Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism (New York: Phaidon), David Summers has dramatically focused his investigation in his newest volume, [...]
We recently discovered the scholarly book review Metapsychology which covers a fair number of art-related books. Recently reviewed: Art/Porn, A History of Seeing and Touching, by Kelly Dennis. “This is an unusual book, far removed from the writings of conventional art historians whom the author dubs ‘patriarchal’. She is anxious to make clear that hers [...]
2 March 2010 | Career
The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about a “new cross-disciplinary survey of humanities departments”: The teaching work force in the humanities is tilting more and more toward the nontenured … Survey results indicate that a low turnover rate among faculty members, combined with hiring freezes at many institutions, mean fewer academic career opportunities for graduate [...]
1 March 2010 | Uncategorized
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1 March 2010 | Museums
From The Independent: There is a new star rising in the Paris art world, still relatively little known to tourists but already a favourite with Parisians. The Pinacothèque, a privately run, wholly unsubsidised exhibition space has come from nowhere to lead the field in just over two years. In the last 12 months, it has [...]
23 February 2010 | Conferences, Theory
From Artforum.com: IN HINDSIGHT, I suppose it was inevitable that this year’s SITAC would be controversial. Titled “Blind Spots,” the eighth edition of the annual art-theory conference in Mexico City was organized by Americas Society’s visual-arts director Gabriela Rangel and dedicated to “an analysis of radical discourses and practices such as feminism, cinema, and performance [...]
23 February 2010 | Books, Contemporary
Oxford University Press recently mailed us a new essay collection by critic David Levi Strauss, From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual. Strauss has remained relatively little known despite plaudits from Arthur Danto, John Berger, Dave Hickey, and others. Perhaps Oxford will change things (his previous collections were published by Autonomedia and Aperture). This [...]
