1 March 2009 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Monday, March 9th.
25 February 2009 | Uncategorized
Two of the contributors to the CAA blog this year are Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. They are academics and the creators of smarthistory.org, where they also maintain a blog. In one recent entry, they contrast Stanley Fish’s recent obit for the humanities with the Digital Humanities Manifesto, which is “a project of the Mellon [...]
19 February 2009 | Uncategorized
Tate Britain is marking the 40th anniversary of the book and television series Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s “epic survey of one thousand five hundred years of western culture,” with a series of debates. Debate participant and Guardian columnist Jonathan Jones writes: Reading Clark is like drinking champagne compared with the small beer of most art history. [...]
11 February 2009 | Uncategorized
Art historian Franz-Joachim Verspohl of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena died last week. Some excerpts from a (alas machine-translated) remembrance: He was instrumental in the founding of the Art History Department in Jena … Additionally, he initiated lively exhibitions … notably of Paul Klee (1999) and Frank Stella (2001) … After his dissertation on the history of [...]
6 February 2009 | Uncategorized
On several occasions, we’ve gotten valuable tips from the CultureGrrl blog, and so if you have the means to do so, we encourage you to consider helping to keep it afloat. There, veteran cultural journalist Lee Rosenbaum frequently reports on art-world controversies from deaccessioning to culture ministers in a timely and tenacious fashion. She is [...]
5 February 2009 | Uncategorized
When we started the Art History Newsletter three years ago to “synopsize news and opinion of interest to art historians and provide original reporting on conferences, lectures, and other special events,” we hoped to also provide a forum for discussion and so we invited readers to comment on our posts. Alas, spam robots added all [...]
27 January 2009 | Uncategorized
According to Michele D. Marincola, interim director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts: It is with real sadness that I report the death of Olga Raggio, former Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor at the IFA from [...]
19 January 2009 | Uncategorized
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: When it comes to hard data about what they do, policy makers and educators in the humanities have been mostly left out in the cold, forced to rely on isolated statistics that do not give an overview of the field. That changed this month, as the American Academy of [...]
2 January 2009 | Uncategorized
From The Telegraph: Sir Michael Levey, who died on Sunday aged 81, was a distinguished art historian who rose through the ranks of the National Gallery to become its director. Levey joined the National Gallery in 1951, aged 24, as an assistant keeper. His academic career had ended abruptly when he left and lost his [...]
22 December 2008 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Friday January 2.
17 December 2008 | Uncategorized
Noted: Art Historians at Work. “Ideas, tips, and ruminations about the teaching of art history. A blog instigated by the History of Art & Architecture graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh.” Various art magazines also maintain blogs we’ve never much discussed because they’re mostly concerned with who bought what for how much last night. [...]
8 December 2008 | Uncategorized
There still are not many art historians blogging, but let’s note a couple worthwhile sites we’ve not yet indicated: Jonathan Janson considers all things Vermeer. An artist himself, he writes with particular sensitivity to technical aspects: Vermeer used glazing as other Dutch painters, with parsimony. They knew glazing is not an answer-all technical solution and [...]
6 December 2008 | Uncategorized
At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he was senior curator and oversaw the department of classical art for 40 years … Although his bibliography of articles and books filled 60 printed pages, Dr. Vermeule may have been the least stuffy classicist to prowl the MFA’s halls. He was fond of draping plastic Hawaiian [...]
6 December 2008 | Uncategorized
I read in the York University newspaper that With Halifax’s vaunted ‘Golden Generation’ jettisoned out into the real world of 9 to 5, mortgages and finding school for the littl’un, it has taken the leadership of metrosexual art historian Joseph Harrison-Davis to blend the new blood of rotund-ladies man (the ladies being rotund) ‘Lundy’ with [...]
6 December 2008 | Uncategorized
The Fluxus artist just died in a retirement home in Cologne at the age of 82 years, according to this short article from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
14 November 2008 | Uncategorized
In a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, Laurie Fendrich writes: … I stopped by the Met last week (as I’ve said, the pleasure of $60 Met membership is that you can do drop-ins) to check out the current Morandi exhibition, up through December 14th. I’m happy to report that Morandi is still great. Go see [...]
6 November 2008 | Uncategorized
Perhaps now is a good time to start analyzing art related to Barack Obama.
31 October 2008 | Uncategorized
From CAA News: CAA warmly thanks the 831 participants in a recent email survey, which was sent to 8,300 members whose database records indicate that their primary profession is: art/architectural historian, artist, administrator, curator, art-museum educator, or librarian. The survey contained one open-ended question: “What are the most pressing issues you face in your profession?” [...]
23 October 2008 | Uncategorized
As we’ve noted, art historian bloggers are few and far between. And it would appear that one of the few good ones we had is no longer — anybody know if David Packwood has decided to give up on Art History Today for good? I’m still getting a “Blog has been removed” message.
23 October 2008 | Uncategorized
From the L.A. Times: Albert Boime, an art historian, educator and author who evaluated art in its social and political context for new insights into French Neo-Classicism, Impressionism and other prominent art movements of the last 250 years, has died. He was 75. Boime, a faculty member at UCLA for more than 30 years … [...]
