9 March 2007 | Conferences, Theory
This July, the week-long Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will consider “Globalism in Art”: “Faculty include Harry Harootunian, Fredric Jameson, Susan Buck-Morss, James Elkins, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, and Shigemi Inaga. Lectures and discussions are open to the public (tickets required). The seminars are limited to 15 Fellows; [...]
22 February 2007 | Career, Conferences
Blogger Franklin Einspruch writes on the CAA job fair: “To Prairie Dog Technical College, thank you for thanking me as I picked my package back up. You showed class. To Dastardly Beaver University, who seemed pained to take it in the first place, I have noted your snotty avoidance of eye contact for future reference [...]
21 February 2007 | Conferences
Artforum’s Scene & Herd diary has a dispatch (with photos) from CAA, written by Sarah Thornton: “Some art worlders lead sexy lives, others spend Valentine’s Day at the Hilton in Midtown … Bigwig art historians wandered the corridors with entourages of grad-students nipping at their heels. When they encountered dons of similar rank, they made [...]
21 February 2007 | Conferences
For more reporting on this panel, see Artnet.
21 February 2007 | Conferences
Blogger mayhem writes: “I went to the Feminist Art Project seminar for the College Art Association conference. Initially I’d had vague dreams of swanning around with little business cards, networking and sussing out a post-doc. But – I have days where everything is too much. i can barely meet people in the eye – let [...]
21 February 2007 | Conferences
Blogger Joanne Renaud writes: “Well, what a productive trip it’s been! … I did manage to sell ‘Bunnie Antoinette‘ to the director of the College Art Association for not an enormous sum — but it is out in the world now, and I don’t have to lug it home in my suitcase.”
21 February 2007 | Conferences
Responding to the CAA panel on copyright, Blogger Mike Madison puts forward the idea that “copyright law is constituent of the artistic process, not external to it, and via fair use (among other doctrines) copyright offers a crucible for mediating between multiple conceptions of ‘art’ … Christo endured years of zoning battles with local authorities [...]
20 February 2007 | Conferences
More on the appropriation and the law panel from participant William Patry (of Google).
19 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Paddy Johnson writes: “If you like discourse about the ‘aesthetic criteria of compression’ or ‘virtuality as the ontology of art’, then this conference will suit you well. The quotes are two of the more comprehensible phrases I managed to glean out the session Virtualities: Contemporary Art between Fact and Fiction, with star panelists David [...]
19 February 2007 | Career, Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Jeffry Cudlin writes: “One of the more popular panels of the conference was held on Saturday. ‘A Faustian Bargain? Emerging Artists, Critics, and the Market’ consisted of the usual hand-wringing about art fairs and the diminished role of criticism — but it also featured Jerry Saltz … ‘I don’t think that any artist wakes [...]
19 February 2007 | Americas, Conferences, Museums
Contributor Ross Finocchio reports: “When, during a morning panel on art collecting, a bad projector distorted the dimensions of the Giorgione ‘Nativity’ in Washington’s National Gallery, the audience immediately erupted in protest. As the IT staff scurried to fix the problem, speaker Roger Crum calmly quipped, ‘As you’ll learn, Kress believed in expansion but this [...]
19 February 2007 | Conferences
There are numerous interesting new posts on CAA’s blog, covering the art market, virtualities, globalism, feminism (here and here), the book fair (here and here), “post-studio art” (i.e., the studio is no longer a temple), curating, and blogging itself.
19 February 2007 | Conferences
From blogger art nerd lauren: “The College Art Association conference was this week in New York. I had plans to go on Thursday and Friday- cancelled class and everything. I went last year, too, in Boston, and it was…ummm…interesting? I guess? As interesting as conferences get. I’ve only ever been to this one, but I [...]
19 February 2007 | Conferences, Crime
For more on the appropriation & the law panel, see Roberta Fallon’s post to artblog.
17 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Joy Garnett covers Friday’s “Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond”: “One of the most germane questions came at the end from organizing co-chair Virginia Rutledge, who asked Leval if he thought that the importance of context and conceptual underpinnings of works of art would ever finally trump visual, formal (superficial) resemblance in [...]
17 February 2007 | Conferences, Medieval, News
Perhaps not surprisingly, a good seventy people show up for “Sex Acts: Performance and Perversion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” Chair Allison Levy characterizing the session as trying to move “beyond a discourse of desire to one of action,” a consideration of bodies that “act out” or “act up.” Robert Mills presents “Gay [...]
17 February 2007 | Architecture, Conferences, News, Theory
The line at Starbucks seemed longer than ever this morning, but apparently it did not include very many lovers of architecture dragging and drugging themselves out of bed this Saturday morning to make it to this session, “Detecting Architecture: Questions of Evidence in Architectural History.” There are twenty attendees here at best. Or perhaps it’s [...]
16 February 2007 | Asia, Conferences, News
About fifty people attend “The Middle Path? Between Style and Cultural History in Chinese Painting Scholarship.” Is “theory” applicable to Chinese art? Can westerners understand Chinese art at all? Do Chinese observers necessarily do better? How important is it to study Chinese texts? These questions have long bedeviled Chinese art history, as the redoubtable Julia [...]
16 February 2007 | Africa, Conferences, Contemporary, Museums, News
Just two of the five scheduled speakers showed for this panel! “Contemporary African Art: Moving Forward, Looking Back; Investigating the Currency of Contemporary African Art” nonetheless proved quite lively. Barbara Pollack in particular provided fireworks. A very rough and selective transcript of her talk: “I’m not an expert on Chinese art or African art. I [...]
16 February 2007 | Conferences, Modern, News
“Now Really: Art and Theory of Realist Art in the 19th Century” has drawn about 150 people to another overstuffed room. Sura Levine sets about “redefining realism from a Belgian perspective.” Realism was coined to describe Courbet’s art, nonetheless it’s instructive to examine Belgium. Courbet called Belgium “my country,” befriended numerous individuals. Realism was a [...]
