21 January 2009 | Conferences, Modern
Last Friday marked the 100th birthday of Clement Greenberg. You hadn’t heard? Almost no one marked the occasion. In Die Welt, Ulf Poschardt wrote a wistful reminiscence. This April, Harvard will host a two-day symposium, “Clement Greenberg at 100: Looking Back to Modern Art”: Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to: avant-garde and [...]
28 November 2008 | Conferences
The 2009 CAA conference in Los Angeles now has sessions and individual paper titles listed on its website. A few highlights: “The Disciplined Body and Rational Architecture: The Foro Mussolini in Rome as the Setting for Performative Ritual of Synchronized Gymnastics” “Statelessness: Gregor Schneider’s Weisse Folter, Clean Torture, and Guantánamo Bay” “Riding the Rails of [...]
9 October 2008 | Conferences
Amy Poehler “reports”: “An art historian believes that the meal eaten in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper was not bread or lamb, as previously thought, but eel garnished with orange slices. The historian will present his theory at the upcoming symposium, ‘Things That Don’t Matter.’”
8 October 2008 | Conferences
Who says art historians are never topical? Later this semester, the German Historical Institute London and the University of Exeter will co-host a conference on “Visual Representations of the Unemployed.” Special Offer: The first unemployed art historian to email us a picture of him- or herself attending the conference is guaranteed to get their picture [...]
7 May 2008 | Conferences
The May issue of CAA News includes Donny George’s convocation address for the 2008 CAA Annual Conference in Dallas, “The Looting of the Iraq National Museum”; an interview with the next CAA president, art history professor Paul Jaskot (“It says a lot—and probably raises a few eyebrows—that the Board would choose as its president someone [...]
3 March 2008 | Africa, Conferences
The Spring 2008 issue of African Arts contains a review of the recent symposium Global Africa: Through the Lens of Visual Culture, a triennial event that was held concurrently with the University of Florida’s annual Gwendolen M. Carter Lectures on Africa: … we attempt to highlight several of the panels that we believe are indicative [...]
29 February 2008 | Conferences
We’ve extracted a few choice bits from the collected abstracts of the recent CAA meeting in Dallas: Yvonne Scott: “The paradox of the island is that it is at once an entity and a fragment and consequently functions synecdochically.” Daniel Savoy: “The architects of early modern Venice created an ‘aquatic aesthetic’ that responded to the [...]
25 February 2008 | Conferences
X.M.B. writes: So here is a brief overview of the 2008 CAA conference in Dallas. There is no Bohemia. everyone gets dressed up and applies for jobs, the world of academia is as cold and stiff as everyone described. There are good eggs and bad eggs though, It is fun to differentiate between the folks [...]
22 February 2008 | Conferences
Alas, neither we nor CAA are blogging from the conference this year. Fortunately, a few other people are: Artist E. Marie writes: … Dallas does not adhere to the same coffee standards as Northern California. Now. On to the more esoteric lessons. The day started off with an interesting conference session entitled “Photography After Photography” [...]
21 February 2008 | Career, Conferences
Karla, completing a dissertation on Czech Surrealism, writes: I have reached the architecturally unexpected city of Dallas and am trying to get myself into full College Art Association mode. I’ve always enjoyed CAA in the past, but this year it’s more of an effort. It is kind of difficult to enjoy much of anything to [...]
20 February 2008 | Conferences
Various individuals descend on the College Art Association conference, which begins today in Dallas. Artist Kathy O’Connell writes, “There I will be schmoozing my way to a job (wearing power shoes, but avoiding Dallas power hair).”
29 January 2008 | Conferences
The annual College Art Association conference convenes February 20–23 in Dallas. If you’re going, please consider writing about your experience! We’ve enjoyed hearing from a variety of people in the past, and it’s an opportunity for you to opine before our audience of 1000+ readers per day. Email your write-up(s), which can be brief and [...]
15 January 2008 | Conferences
From The Age: The fact that Melbourne is hosting the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art [Jan 13-18, 2008] is no small feat. Held every four years, and considered the “Olympics” of art history, the congress has never been staged south of the equator. The conference, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration [...]
11 December 2007 | Conferences
Coming this April: “Framing the Other: 30 Years after Orientalism,” a one-day conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London: This one-day conference will focus on the impact of Said’s legacy to analyse visual culture as a crucial component of Orientalism’s (and more generally imperialism’s) political self-justification, in the discursive construction of the Orient. Not [...]
13 November 2007 | Conferences
The 2008 College Art Association conference, to be held February 20-23 in Dallas, now has a full website, including a list of all papers to be presented. A session entitled “Cute” will feature the following papers: The Apotheosis of Cute: The Sacred and Profane in the Work of Mark Ryden How Cute: eBay’s “Black Americana” [...]
21 May 2007 | Americas, Conferences, Museums
Has anyone written about the phenomenon of art scholars and curators who also collect? According to Princeton University, John Wilmerding “revealed May 4 at a reception and dinner in honor of his retirement that he is the previously anonymous donor of a major gift of Pop art to the Princeton University Art Museum.” Also, “a [...]
17 May 2007 | Conferences, Journals
The most recent issue of Nka (n. 20), devoted to “Lynching, Visuality and Empire,” is drawn from papers delivered at a sympoium at Cornell University. It contains six sections: “Lynching Photographs and the United States,” “Lynching, Visuality, and Empire,” “Exhibiting Lynching,” “Roundtable Discussion,” “Contemporary Artists and Lynching: A Portfolio,” and “Further Readings.” In their introduction, [...]
14 May 2007 | Conferences, Photography
In the most recent issue of History of Photography (30:4), Allison Moore contributes a report from the symposium “Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis,” a recording of which is available online: As soon as the panels began, the need to define atrocity became apparent. Is war in itself an atrocity, or is it only an excess [...]
2 May 2007 | Asia, Conferences
This MediaNews article was published in advance of the James Cahill symposium last weekend: “Fourteen of the world’s greatest experts on Chinese painting, coming from as far away as Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, will descend on Berkeley this weekend … to honor the man who taught them, James Cahill, professor emeritus in the history [...]
28 March 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary
Contributor Daniel Belasco reports from “Writing the Contemporary: Art History and Art Criticism,” last night’s CUNY Graduate Center panel, moderated by Katy Siegel and including Johanna Burton, Branden Joseph, Scott Rothkopf, and Lawrence Weschler: “What’s the difference between, say, a monograph on Cindy Sherman and a long exhibition review of the same artist in Artforum? [...]
