4 September 2007 | Uncategorized
Earlier this summer, Williams College “announced the appointment of Marc Gotlieb as the Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of Art and director of the Graduate Program in Art History, effective July 1. He succeeds Mark Haxthausen as director of the graduate program. Gotlieb is associate professor and chair of the department of fine art at [...]
13 June 2007 | Uncategorized
We’ll resume publication Tuesday, September 4. (If you’d like to receive an email when we do, write us.)
12 June 2007 | Uncategorized
A few art historians are starting a discussion, over email, of new ways to write art history. (To join, write us.) The catalyst: A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education described an unusual attempt by a doctoral student to revise Robert Caro’s 1974 portrait of “master builder” Robert Moses, The Power Broker, which [...]
20 April 2007 | Uncategorized
Blogger Millinerd (“a student in Princeton U’s art history PhD program” who in “a previous life … graduated from the same town’s Theol. Seminary”) writes: “What is remarkable is that [T.J.] Clark’s most recent book, which he was visiting our department to discuss, leaves politics behind to focus back on the object. Clark is still [...]
18 April 2007 | Uncategorized
Is praise “from an art history perspective” different from other kinds of praise? Consider this report from Reuters: “Singer Bryan Ferry has apologised for remarks he made in an interview with a German newspaper in which he praised Nazi iconography as ‘just amazing’ and ‘really beautiful’. The 61-year-old lead singer of Roxy Music told Germany’s [...]
16 April 2007 | Uncategorized
In CAA Reviews, Christine Kuan discusses Susan M. Bielstein’s Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property: “In today’s litigious ownership society, there are more visual arts permissions hurdles than ever before for both publishing and artistic expression … Intellectual discourse and artistic practice can be severely handicapped by these factors, and [...]
9 April 2007 | Uncategorized
Visit this academic blogs page, and compare the number of art-history blogs to, say, the number devoted to linguistics and philosophy. There are more art historians blogging than appear on this list, but most of the others that we know about blog mostly about their personal lives. (Not that that — or, say, this or [...]
5 April 2007 | Uncategorized
From the University at Buffalo (aka SUNY-Buffalo) Reporter: “As the first new faculty member to join the Department of Visual Studies since it was created from the merger of the departments of Art and Art History last spring, Nancy Anderson is on a mission to help UB become one of the first universities in North [...]
27 March 2007 | Uncategorized
Various stories of interest to art historians get little play here, because they’re already well covered elsewhere. We particularly recommend the ArtsJournal visual-arts newswire and ArtsJournal blogger CultureGrrl. To summarize some recent developments: The Met has gone forward with its plans (similar to the V&A’s) to make previously expensive images more available to professionals (via [...]
12 March 2007 | Uncategorized
He died March 6. From the London Times: “Jean Baudrillard was a leading French social theorist. His prolific writings — more than 50 books — and his status for many years as a cult figure among students of postmodern theory established him as one of the most celebrated and provocative French thinkers to emerge in [...]
28 February 2007 | Uncategorized
From Herbert Muschamp: “Mr. Rosenblum, who died in December at 79, went on to become the most consistently edifying art historian of his generation. With a combination of iconoclasm, faultless lucidity and wit, he smashed aesthetic prejudices the way physicists smash atoms. There ought to be a Nobel Prize for that sort of achievement.”
15 February 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Washington Post: “Normally jurors do not speak in trials until the last day. Not the jurors in former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s perjury trial. Valentine’s Day broke their silence early. On the last day of testimony Wednesday, the 12 jurors and two alternates came into court with a surprise: Thirteen [...]
9 February 2007 | Uncategorized
According to Connaissance des Arts, Cabanne died January 24: “One of the world’s great cubism specialists … [Cabanne was best known for his] Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp … and his four-volume Le Siècle de Picasso … He also interested himself in older artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Georges de la Tour and in more [...]
8 February 2007 | Uncategorized
Elizabeth Tashjian, “The Nut Lady,” has died.
17 January 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Guardian (second item on page): “The Metropolitan Police Authority recently told its art and antiquities squad, which now employs only four full-time officers, that it would be dissolved unless it becomes 50% self-financing by 2008. As a result, the unit is trying a radical new tack: recruiting curators and art historians to work [...]
12 January 2007 | Uncategorized
“A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, describes the new “Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company, [which] rates faculty members’ scholarly output at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country. It [...]
27 December 2006 | Uncategorized
Returning Weds, Jan 3.
20 December 2006 | Uncategorized
The Baltimore Sun and the JHU Gazette have published obituaries of Forgione, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member who wrote a dissertation on Vuillard and the 1999 Art Bulletin article, “‘The shadow only’: shadow and silhouette in late nineteenth-century Paris.”
12 December 2006 | Uncategorized
In The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, The New York Sun, Artnet, The Huffington Post, Art History Today, and CultureGrrl.
7 December 2006 | News, Uncategorized
From an email circulated by Mariët Westermann, director of the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU: “I am very sad to let you know that our beloved Robert Rosenblum died yesterday … In 1956 he earned his PhD from the Institute with his dissertation ‘The International Style of 1800: a Study in Linear Abstraction.’ Robert’s [...]
