29 November 2006 | Uncategorized
A new French website, L’Observatoire critique des ressources en ligne pour l’histoire de l’art et l’archéologie, helps art historians use and discuss the web and other technologies. An opening review of online resources offers copious links for the curious surfer. (via ARHV)
22 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From the CBC: “Two paintings by Renaissance master Fra Angelico that were considered lost for 400 years have been discovered in the British home of a manuscript librarian and her heirs intend to sell them in 2007. Jean Preston, who had been a curator of manuscripts at Princeton University before retiring, died earlier in the [...]
17 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From The New York Times: “David W. Galenson, an art lover, modest collector and tenured professor of economics at the University of Chicago … has developed something approaching a unified theory of art, which hasn’t won him many fans in the art world but does a surprisingly good job of explaining the relative value of [...]
16 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From The North Adams Transcript: “S. Lane Faison Jr., one of the nation’s most influential teachers of art history and a Williams College professor for 40 years, died Saturday … [his former students include] Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery; Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation; Glenn D. Lowry, director of [...]
13 November 2006 | Uncategorized
Kathryn Tuma interviews T.J. Clark in The Brooklyn Rail: “I think [Left art history is] stuck with an out-of-date sense of the issues. As if it mattered any longer—as if it had any present political point—to prove for the umpteenth time that what we poor suckers had imagined was a difficult and double-edged picture of [...]
9 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From the Washington Post: “Dr. Howland, a debonair socialite as well as dedicated scholar, was a man of many facets. He was a classical archaeologist, art history professor, author, founder of learned societies and a special assistant at the Smithsonian Institution … He taught art history, first at Wellesley College from 1939 to 1952, then [...]
29 October 2006 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Monday, November 6.
27 October 2006 | Uncategorized
From Artnet: “Duke University has received a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to sponsor a “visual studies initiative,” an interdisciplinary program designed to explore ‘visual literacy.’ ‘The visual can have its own logic that can’t be expressed in text,’ said Hans van Miegroet, chair of Duke’s dept. of art, art history [...]
26 October 2006 | Uncategorized
From The New York Times: “Thomas Crow, a respected art historian who has been the director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles since 2000, has been named the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Mr. Crow is replacing Robert Storr, who left the Art Institute [...]
20 October 2006 | Uncategorized
From “Annie,” an American student in Barcelona: “I started my classes at Universitat Pompeu Fabra the next week. I’m taking Arte y Artistas, a class about avant-garde Spanish art, with a concentration on the work of Picasso, Dali, Tapies and Miro. We’ve got the prototypical art history professor: a wiry, overly emphatic man prone to [...]
16 October 2006 | Uncategorized
From The Australian: “Australian National University art historian Nigel Lendon and law professor Tim Bonyhady were given almost $250,000 last year to study the Afghan war rug as part of research funded through a new national security stream of research grants … Mr Lendon said … he wanted to study whether there were secret messages [...]
9 October 2006 | Uncategorized
Via Brian Sholis, an interview with Courtauld professor Joseph Leo Koerner published by ReadySteadyBook: “Michael Baxandall’s The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany remains a model of historical exposition. Michael Fried’s has been personally important to me, and I feel especially in tune with his new book on Menzel. I studied with Svetlana Alpers, and I [...]
21 September 2006 | Uncategorized
First we go on vacation, then the site goes down. All seems fixed now, we should be back on track shortly with new posts.
20 September 2006 | Uncategorized
“Tuesday, Sept. 19. AntiquiTEA: Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Sarah Scher, a Ph.D. candidate in the art history department, discusses the ritual practice of human sacrifice in the ancient Americas.” (Found in the Emory University newspaper events listings.)
20 September 2006 | Uncategorized
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Jim Schinneller … a retired University of Wisconsin art professor, died at home Sept. 9 at age 81 … When Jim received the first royalty check in the 1960s for a popular art history textbook he wrote, ‘Art: Search and Self-Discovery,’ he brought home the money in 1,000 single dollars. He [...]
20 September 2006 | Uncategorized
From Artnet, an update on Getty goings-on: “The Getty Research Institute is digitalizing all nine volumes of Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde by Bernard Picart (1673-1743), the rare 18th-century study of world religions. The Getty Foundation announced a $240,000 grant for a series of eight books on African art to [...]
19 September 2006 | Uncategorized
104 years old, the widow of Meyer Schapiro, she quit her career in medicine in 1996 to edit his papers. According to the couple’s daughter, “She was incredibly single-minded, gathering every scrap of my father’s intellectual output, and she was very successful in getting young volunteers to work with her.” (Via the Villager.)
18 September 2006 | Uncategorized
We received the following email from Jonathan Gillis of the Aaronsohn Sher Aboulafia Amoday & Co. Law Offices in Jerusalem, regarding our recent post on Gannit Ankori (whom he represents): “Dear Sirs Re: Libelous attacks and harrassment by Kamal Boullata of Gannit Ankori I would ask that you act immediately to correct the erroneous impression [...]
8 September 2006 | Uncategorized
Many artists study art history, but how many have worked on catalogues raisonnés, let alone catalogues of Bouguereau and Gérôme? Painter Graydon Parrish employs a “classical” style and recently completed a large “allegorical mural entitled The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11th 2001-2006 [c]ommissioned by the New Britain Museum of American Art,” according to [...]
6 September 2006 | Uncategorized
A new academic year, that is. Blogger-student La Critika kicks it off: “Although it’s hard to believe that I spent 7 months working for a manufacturer of silicone breast implants, I think my time at the boob job put to rest, once and for all, any doubts I had about academia or graduate school. I [...]
