14 October 2008 | Uncategorized
… that in 2000 USC art historian Richard Meyer “was sent by the U.S. Department of State to Kazakhstan to conduct a series of lectures and seminars about Warhol and contemporary art in the United States.”
14 October 2008 | Uncategorized
More here.
2 October 2008 | Uncategorized
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: In the past six months have you regularly: Been glared at in a hostile manner? Been excluded from work-related social gatherings? Had others storm out of the work area when you entered? Had others consistently arrive late for meetings that you called? Been given the “silent treatment”? Not been [...]
30 September 2008 | Uncategorized
From the Yale Daily News: If being deemed a “great teacher” is any indication of a faculty member’s worthiness to assume the job of dean of Yale College, University President Richard Levin’s likely short list can quickly be reduced to one candidate: Mary Miller … But the 55-year old Sterling Professor — the highest academic [...]
29 September 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the (soon to be defunct?) New York Sun, An art history professor at Columbia University jumped to his death from his Morningside Heights apartment. Petrus Schaesberg, an adjunct professor … began teaching in the art history department in 2005 but was not teaching this semester. The German native was also a photographer. According [...]
26 September 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the Telegraph, A portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh that he later painted over has been revealed in more detail than every before thanks to a new X-ray technique … [which] allowed the team – led by Dr Joris Dik, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Professor Koen [...]
8 September 2008 | Uncategorized
We’re back from vacation, untanned and badly rested. It was a surprisingly busy summer for art historians, which we dare not attempt to summarize. Instead, select morsels: MoMA named Ann Temkin its chief curator of painting and sculpture. Michael Baxandall died at the age of 74. At the Getty Villa in Malibu, “20 art historians, [...]
28 May 2008 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Monday, September 9.
20 May 2008 | Uncategorized
From The New York Times: Philippe de Montebello will … become the first professor to teach the history and culture of museums … Mr. de Montebello, who turned 72 on Friday, said he planned to teach full time. But rather than lecturing on what might seem most obvious — how to run a museum, for [...]
20 May 2008 | Uncategorized
From The Age: Peter Tomory, an inspirational figure in the art world who was foundation professor of art history at La Trobe University, has died in Wales, aged 86. His passionate commitment to art, its history and scholarship was matched by an instinct for pedagogy … [He] was a colourful conversationalist and tireless raconteur, both [...]
19 May 2008 | Uncategorized
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A well-known art historian from Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities died Wednesday at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, apparently after a heart attack. Roxanna Brown, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen … was the first person arrested as part of a five-year, undercover investigation into smuggled [...]
1 May 2008 | Uncategorized
In 1938 Dalí presented a taxi as art, but it was a real taxi that precipitated the death last week of Enrico Donati, the “last of the Surrealists.” Unlike his good friend Marcel Duchamp, who only dabbled in the worlds of business and perfume, Donati, according to the New York Times, was for many years [...]
24 April 2008 | Uncategorized
We read in The Times of London that art historian Michael Podro “died of cancer on March 28, 2008″: Michael Podro was one of a handful of pioneers who transformed art history, here and abroad, into an ambitious humanities discipline comparable with philosophy, literature and history … In 1956, under the joint supervision of [Ernst] [...]
22 April 2008 | Uncategorized
We belatedly take note of the third annual rankings of the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The index, designed to compare faculty using objective measures such as books published or times cited, has been criticized most for using faulty data. “Many want to see the National Research Council’s long-anticipated [...]
14 April 2008 | Uncategorized
In caa.reviews, Emine Fetvaci considers Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797, the catalogue for the recent Metropolitan Museum exhibition: With its rich essays on the historical and cultural background, focused studies on individual media, and technical examination of paint pigments, textile weaves, metalwork inlay, and lacquer and glass production, the catalogue is an impressive showcase [...]
8 April 2008 | Uncategorized
In The Globe and Mail, we read of a video installation by Robert Morris titled The Birthday Boy that is now making its first North American appearance. It features two video projections – each ostensibly of an art historian at a lectern, standing next to a rotating model of [Michelangelo's David]. On a table next [...]
26 March 2008 | Uncategorized
From New York Magazine: “Our society now values a Warhol for three times as much money as a great Rembrandt,” [art dealer Larry Salander] thunders, referring to the latest auction reports. “That tells me that we’re fucked. It’s as if people would rather fuck than make love.” An aesthete with no formal art education (nor [...]
12 March 2008 | Uncategorized
From the Daily Mail (London): Thanks to the bestselling Da Vinci Code, Sotheby’s auctioneer Matthew Festing has his work cut out as the new Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Ampleforth and Cambridge-educated Festing, 59, finds himself thrust into the limelight as the new leader of the secretive Catholic organisation after a ballot in [...]
14 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Power enough to persuade the London Underground to ban the Royal Academy from using his “Venus” in a Tube advertisement. The Guardian writes: … if Cranach’s nudes didn’t prevent his friendship with Martin Luther – hardly a slouch in the morality department, what with the Reformation and all – you wonder if they are really, [...]
8 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Blogger Sneakysnu analyzes the Barack Obama campaign’s imagery: As an art historian by training, I have been fascinated by the campaign’s use of images and graphic design. It has inspired other Obama supporters to create their own images that produce a specific message: Obama as cultural icon. Below, I am going to engage in visual [...]
