7 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Columbia University architectural historian Hilary Ballon, who recently co-authored a report on art-history publishing with Mariët Westermann, “left Columbia last semester for a curriculum development job at New York University’s new Abu Dhabi campus,” where Westermann is vice chancellor.
4 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Regarding our earlier post (‘The Abu Ghraib Effect’), see also this recent segment from NPR’s “On the Media”: Models wearing designs from John Galliano’s Fall 2008 Mens collection looked as if they’d stepped out of Abu Ghraib prison and onto Paris runways. Do the designs fetishize torture? RISD professor Kathleen McDermott says Galliano is following [...]
31 January 2008 | Uncategorized
From Harper’s Magazine: George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born-again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled A Charge to Keep. Bush was so taken by it, he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography. And here’s what he says about [...]
24 January 2008 | Uncategorized
Piero della Francesca’s The Flagellation continues to attract attention. From the Times of London: An historian claims to have solved a Renaissance murder mystery by deciphering one of the world’s most enigmatic masterpieces. The true meaning of Piero della Francesca’s The Flagellation, kept at the National Gallery of the Marches in Urbino, has been the [...]
14 January 2008 | Uncategorized
The Austrian art historian and longtime director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle has published on Caspar David Friedrich, Francisco de Goya and Edgar Degas, among other artists. Marion Lauschke and Isabella Woldt also won awards. More here (rough English translation).
18 December 2007 | Uncategorized
We’ll return on Wednesday January 2.
4 December 2007 | Uncategorized
According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, art historian Martina Baleva aroused controversy in Bulgaria after researching a painting of an event central to Bulgarian national identity: Early this year, Martina Baleva and Ulf Brunnbauer, academics at the Institute for Eastern European Studies of the Free University Berlin, planned an exhibition and a conference on a picture [...]
27 November 2007 | Uncategorized
In the November issue of CAA News, we read that caa.reviews has five new field editors: 18th Century European Art: Laura Auricchio (Parsons) Pre-Columbian / Colonial Latin American Art: Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA) American Art: Cécile Whiting (UC-Irvine) Modern/Contemporary Art Exhibitions in New England: Patricia Hills (BU) Modern/Contemporary Art Exhibitions in New York / Abroad: [...]
21 November 2007 | Uncategorized
The Art History Newsletter will next publish on Monday, November 26.
8 November 2007 | Uncategorized
The August 2007 issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is devoted to “Detritus and the Moving Image.” Caetlin Benson-Allott writes on VCRs, specifically … a Panasonic 4-Head, Hi-Fi Stereo VHS VCRplus+. Its name appears in gold letters across the VCR’s faceplate, which is otherwise visually dominated by an oblong flap in the middle of [...]
5 November 2007 | Uncategorized
In the September 2007 Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Pamela Turton-Turner has contributed an article, “The Role of Ridicule in Naked Charity Calendars.” According to the author, there appeared at least 556 naked fundraising calendars between 1996 and 2007. One produced by “elderly women in a small Tasmanian village in 2002″ generated $100,000 in [...]
1 November 2007 | Uncategorized
In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Karin Hellwig tells the story of the 36-year correspondence between art historians Carl Justi and Wilhelm Bode. (Rough Google translation here.)
19 October 2007 | Uncategorized
In the September 2007 Renaissance Studies, Lucia Dacome has contributed an article on “Women, wax and anatomy in the ‘century of things’” on the surprisingly fascinating topic of eighteenth-century anatomical waxworks created by women in Europe. (If you have access to Renaissance Studies online, be sure to view the article’s stunning illustrations.) … As the [...]
1 October 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Village Voice: This month, in an article about the Venice Biennale in Artforum, the art historian and critic Katy Siegel christened [Peter] Schjeldahl and his old friend, the writer Dave Hickey, as “the feelers”—this in opposition to another critical gang she sturdily termed “the thinkers” (namely, Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, and Benjamin Buchloh). [...]
27 September 2007 | Uncategorized
Jonathan Jones writes: Why do journalists write the same six generic stories about art over and over again? … Imagine how little news about visual art would appear in the papers if the following generic stories were banned: 1. The most expensive work of art ever … 2. Anything about graffiti … 3. Lost masterpiece [...]
24 September 2007 | Uncategorized
From the (Memphis, TN) Commercial Appeal: Leave it to the art history majors to change the world. That’s what Lynda Ireland did. She graduated from college with an art history degree in the 1960s, taught art for 20 years, then shifted her career to work for a business. In the process, she became a fascinating [...]
12 September 2007 | Uncategorized
From the L.A. Times: Gaehtgens, 67, a native of Germany who has art history degrees from the universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Vienna and Paris, is expected to arrive in Los Angeles in November. He will take charge of the Getty’s program for interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts and humanities, founded in 1984 as a branch [...]
7 September 2007 | Uncategorized
From the press release: “Elizabeth Hutton Turner, senior curator at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., will join the faculty of the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Art … During her 18-year tenure at The Phillips Collection she directed exhibits and wrote extensively on Pierre Bonnard, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Wassily Kandinsky, [...]
6 September 2007 | Uncategorized
As we continue catching up on the movements of art historians, we note that ARHV reported the promotion of Giovanni Careri to “directeur d’études” at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), where he’s been the director of the Centre d’histoire et théorie des arts (CEHTA) since 2001. “Born in 1958 in Rome, Giovanni [...]
5 September 2007 | Uncategorized
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts director will become “Vice Chancellor of the University with a brief to establish campuses of NYU abroad.” “Intended as a new model for higher education worldwide, the first such campus is to be established in the Middle East. Other locations are under discussion.” She will “remain on the Institute [...]
