15 August 2006 | Uncategorized
El Pais profiles blogger Alejandro Pérez of Sí a la historia del arte. Among Pérez’s recent entries included discussion of Van Gogh with respect to the theory of fluid turbulence, the $135 million Klimt, and exhibitions in Seville and Salamanca.
14 August 2006 | Uncategorized
Art historian Martin Warnke has received a cool 100,000 Euros for the 2006 Gerda Henkel Prize, beating out 210 other nominees. Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, jury chairman, praised Warnke for reconnecting German art history with its pre-1933 roots, via his work on Aby Warburg.
7 August 2006 | Uncategorized
Art Journal has a new editor-in-chief, Sarah Lawrence professor Judith Federika Rodenbeck, and The Art Bulletin has a new reviews editor, Harvard professor David J. Roxburgh, whose 2001 book Prefacing the Image received a glowing review from Kishwar Rizvi in The Art Bulletin — “an important book … a welcome corrective and critique.” Incoming CAA [...]
26 July 2006 | Uncategorized
From The Santa Barbara Independent: “[Californian gallerist Frank] Goss gestures toward a large area where he plans to create what he jokingly refers to as ‘a sweatshop for art historians.’ He says that here is where the 12 seniors and graduate students from UCSB and Westmont who comprise his research team will have their library [...]
21 July 2006 | Uncategorized
Has a German academic even been as successful in France as the art historian Thomas Gaehtgens? He has held a chair at the Collège de France, is the founder of the German Forum for Art History in Paris, a bi-national research center, has been inducted into the Legion of Honor, and is at home in [...]
13 July 2006 | Uncategorized
In a new essay collection devoted to filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, reviewed by the Brooklyn Rail, “Marc Weis structures his essay around the director’s friendship with art historian and Piero della Francesca scholar, Roberto Longhi. From 1939 to 1943 Pasolini studied under Longhi while at the University of Bologna, completing a thesis on the city’s [...]
30 June 2006 | Uncategorized
“‘Her and, like, five old dudes in New York rule the roost in pizza,’ said the young waitress at Nizza La Bella restaurant here, about her boss, Evelyne Slomon. A few of those dudes died a while ago, so Slomon, who is one of the on-camera experts in the premiere episode of the History Channel [...]
29 June 2006 | Uncategorized
From the blog of Jesús Garza: “Would I come back to Oaxaca again? I’d rather not. I told my wife, lets opt for less culture and more beach next time. But, alas, my requests often fall on deaf ears. You see, my wife is an art historian…”
27 June 2006 | Uncategorized
Has the art-history lifestyle left you flabby? Elizabeth Howard Schmidt does water tai chi.
21 June 2006 | Uncategorized
From the New Republic: “Divorcing Gumilyov, [Anna Akhmatova] married an irascible Babylonian scholar named Vladimir Shileiko, who was considerably older than she was, and when she tired of his bullying and his jealousy, she moved on to the noted art historian Nikolai Punin. Punin was in many ways the love of her life, but he, [...]
20 June 2006 | Uncategorized
Wick Sloane writes in Inside Higher Ed: “My heroes of the century past are Jonas Salk and Norman Borlaug. Borlaug’s work still feeds millions by putting more grains of wheat on shorter stalks. The rest of us aren’t creating human conditions that can accept these advances at enough scale. What, with our metaphors, would transform [...]
20 June 2006 | Uncategorized
…if you want to keep making art. Nicholas Serota joins the ranks of those who “was deeply interested in art when I was at school, and of course, like everyone else, I drew at that time. But then, when I became an art historian, I think I recognized my own limitations. So from the age [...]
30 May 2006 | Uncategorized
The Art History Newsletter will resume publishing Monday June 19. See you then!
25 May 2006 | Uncategorized
From the Athens Banner-Herald: “If you’re headed to college, take some time to sample courses in a wide variety of disciplines. Contrary to what you might believe today, you have no idea about what there is in this world that might truly spark your imagination. But if you choose to follow this advice, a note [...]
23 May 2006 | Uncategorized
Regarding Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes, Spiked notes, “Hints of paedophilia come from art-historian godfather, Stephen (Ralph Fiennes).”
22 May 2006 | Uncategorized
Hero or cautionary tale? Artists’ attitudes toward Alexander the Great, from antiquity through Altdorfer and Warhol, are surveyed in this new book by Thomas Noll. Depending on the times, Alexander’s ambition and greatness suggested parallels to Lucifer in pride, to Elijah, and even to Christ in dramatic heavenly ascension. Reviewer Sabine Müller finds it satisfactory.
18 May 2006 | Uncategorized
According to the Quad-City Times of Davenport, Iowa, “The woman who took the Figge Art Museum from a dream to an internationally recognized part of Davenport’s skyline is leaving for an executive post in New York City. Linda Downs, who has been executive director of the Figge and its predecessor, the Davenport Museum of Art, [...]
10 May 2006 | Uncategorized
From blogger foozini: “For those that are considering a useless degree like art history…. ‘Where the consumers do not value what is being produced, the investment should not pay off. When people insist on specializing in a field for which there is little demand, their investment has been a waste of scarce resources that could [...]
9 May 2006 | Uncategorized
Robert M. Edsel, author of the new book Rescuing da Vinci, yesterday wrote for the Dallas Morning News: “Today we celebrate V-E Day, the 61st anniversary of the Allies’ defeat of Nazi Germany and the victory in Europe. It should also become V-I Day: victory over ignorance … How different things were 65 years ago [...]
9 May 2006 | Uncategorized
If you’re a young art historian on the market — the meat market that is — consider House Music at the Guggenheim: “So I’m at dancing to some really deep House Music at the Guggenheim with this cute young chef/art historian and his friend that I met at a restaurant earlier. The place is really [...]
