Kelly Presutti is a graduate student at SUNY Stony Brook and a research assistant at the Musée d’Orsay.
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3 March 2011 | Conferences
This year’s College Art Association conference has just finished and they’ve already launched the CFP for next year (pdf). The one hundredth annual conference will take place February 22-25, 2012 in Los Angeles, and paper proposals are due May 2, 2011. They also posted a brief conference summary, which notes there were an astonishing 7,000+ [...]
2 March 2011 | Journals
In the latest Art Bulletin, Fabio Barry traces the iconography of the famed Bocca della Verità – Rome’s Mouth of Truth. With visitors ranging from Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday to Freud, there is an enduring fascination with what Barry terms the “massive relic of antiquity… a terrible demon who cautioned against perjury on pain [...]
12 February 2011 | Museums
Françoise Cachin, founding director of the Musée d’Orsay, died in Paris last weekend at age 74. She was the granddaughter of Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac and a specialist in Impressionist and post-Impressionist art. After leading the Musée d’Orsay for eight years, Cachin went on to serve as Director of Museums in France. William Grimes writes in the [...]
A new initiative from Mellon is supporting the publication of emerging scholars’ first illustrated art history texts. Designed to streamline procedures and reduce costs for first-time authors, the program will encourage collaboration amongst four presses – Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, and The University of Washington – to publish 40 books throughout [...]
22 December 2010 | Books, Conservation
A new book put out by the Harvard Art Museum explores the Fogg’s role as the first museum to have a scientifically based research department – conceived by Edward Waldo Forbes, director from 1909 to 1944, as a “laboratory for the fine arts”. Forbes was heavily influenced by John Ruskin, and his arguments for the [...]
21 December 2010 | Uncategorized
Today I stumbled upon a publication by the “Lighting Research Center” – an organization I was utterly unaware of. Part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, their mission is “to advance the effective use of lighting and thereby to create a positive legacy for society and the environment.” This type of research is obviously of importance to [...]
15 December 2010 | Books, Museums
A current exhibition at LACMA is challenging the notion of “hybridity” in the Indian city of Lucknow. Lucknow was a courtly city of great wealth between the declining Mughal power and the rising British Colonial one. At its height in the mid-nineteenth century, two-thirds of its population were artisans, leaving a vast cultural legacy. Commonly [...]
17 October 2010 | Museums
LACMA’s Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins exhibition is closing tomorrow, the first organized exhibition of his work in the city since 1927. With the recent restoration of The Gross Clinic at the PMA, the man often referred to as “the greatest of all American figure painters” has made a showing on both [...]
25 June 2010 | Theory
Bruno Latour is currently hosting Selon/Salon at the Centre Pompidou, a series of conferences with contemporary artists, filmmakers, curators and intellectuals. The French theorist has taken up the themes of Eloquence and Demonstration in an effort to gauge their roles within the arts, the sciences, and politics, and to forge a path for a new [...]
24 June 2010 | Uncategorized
CAA reports on an agreement between the Getty Research Institute and ProQuest, a database service that also publishes ARTbibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, and the International Index to Music Periodicals, to take over indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA, the successor to BHA). ProQuest will distribute IBA content created by GRI—covering the years [...]
15 May 2010 | Museums
The Centre Pompidou-Metz, which officially opened Wednesday, is one of a recent surge of “satellite museums” in what would seem to be a contemporary phenomenon. Yet the desire to make use of collections otherwise confined to storage could arguably have emerged simultaneously with the idea of the modern French museum. In 1750, even before the [...]
6 May 2010 | Contemporary, Museums
A few people have already commented on Cy Twombly’s recently unveiled ceiling for the Louvre (here and here) – including one technically detailed letter that reveals a significant part of it was painted by a professor of art history! Last night art historians Alex Potts (who has a forthcoming book on post-war art) and Richard [...]
1 May 2010 | Journals
The first issue of a new journal based at McGill University, SEACHANGE, was just made available electronically. Designed as a venue for creative, interdisciplinary scholarship, its mission is to reconfigure inherited critical discourses in art, media, culture, and technology. Each individual issue is centred around a singular theoretical or affective event, formulated as an “intellectual [...]
21 April 2010 | Books, Contemporary, Museums
Prompted by the opening of Les Promesses du Passé at the Centre Pompidou, some recent work on post-Wall “Eastern European” art (one of the tenets of the exhibition is to demonstrate the irrelevance of this term in light of the polyphony of voices; the exhibition layout is designed to be discontinuous, accordingly): Transitland is a [...]
