16 February 2007 | Conferences, News
“What then is time? If no one asks me I know; if I wish to explain to one who asks me, I know not,” Saint Augustine wrote. A new interest in time developed in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. Hence this well-attended panel on “The Presence of History, the Persistence of Time” [...]
16 February 2007 | Conferences, News
Some 500 people pour into the session honoring Linda Nochlin and then break out in sustained applause at the first mention of her name. Distinguished panelists present talks directly or indirectly related to her work. Chair Tamar Garb begins on a personal note, by observing that when she began studying art history in the 1970s, [...]
16 February 2007 | Conferences, Modern
In CAA’s blog, Benjamin Lima reports on the “Art History and Nazi Germany” panel: “In Germany, the National Socialist period lasted from 1933 to 1945. But to bracket Naziism within these years, and close the book there, would be all too easy an abdication of responsibility. This is the message that I took from the [...]
15 February 2007 | Conferences, Modern, News
In an over-stuffed Madison Suite (eighty people in about as many square feet), five papers are to be shoehorned into ninety minutes. According to Temma Balducci, Paris street life was dominated not by flaneurs, but by beggars, who were frequently lamented in the popular press and often depicted in paintings seen at the Salon. Beggars [...]
15 February 2007 | Career, Conferences
A woman walks up to conference representatives near the job-interview area. She has a question. “So how do I apply for jobs?” “Well, I would suggest going online, then emailing your resume to …” “I don’t have an electronic copy of my resume.” “Oh.”
15 February 2007 | Conferences, News, Theory
This morning, the Physical insistently re-asserts itself at the highly cerebral panel “The Status of Interpretation in Art History.” Two bodies cannot occupy the same space, and therefore this panel was hastily relocated to Gramercy Suite when it became apparent that its original ballroom had been double-booked. The new Suite holds the 100-odd attendees comfortably, [...]
15 February 2007 | Architecture, Conferences, News, Renaissance
Contributor Ross Finocchio writes: This year I had every reason to think that getting to CAA would be a breeze. After all, I live in New York. Although February can be brutal here, what could be worse than the deep freeze that covered Boston during the ’06 conference? The answer turned out to be stinging [...]
15 February 2007 | Conferences
The rotten weather has kept more than a few attendees away. Blogger Gregory T. Davis writes: “melanie and I fly out tomorrow evening for new york city to attend the college arts association’s annual meat market … the conference was a bust last year, so we’ll see if it still blows this year … the [...]
15 February 2007 | Architecture, Conferences
CAA has its own blog again this year. Bloggers include Benjamin Lima (see here, third paragraph), who posted recently on William Tabler, the mid-century brains behind the Hilton Hotel where College Art Association members spend so much of their time every few years. As one article cited by Lima notes, “Few Tabler hotels win design [...]
14 February 2007 | Conferences, News
Numerous papers and indeed entire panels this year are devoted to non-western topics — especially to the collision of western and non-western cultures. This afternoon we have panels on “The Reception of Caribbean Art,” “The Appropriation of Classical and Gothic Architecture by Indigenous and Diasporic Communities,” “The Art of Being Global: International Art of International [...]
14 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary, Modern, News
About 120 people are here for the “Reframing Modernism” panel in the Hilton’s rather unmodern Trianon Ballroom, where bad lighting is making the slides near-impossible to see. One speaker, Jenny Anger, considers it still necessary to contest Michael Fried’s concept of “theatricality.” Among other things, she believes that there is a fascist element in modernism [...]
12 February 2007 | Conferences
Already bored by this year’s conference? Start preparing your 2008 paper: “The 96th CAA Annual Conference takes place February 20–23, 2008, in Dallas, Texas. Listing more than 120 sessions, the 2008 Call for Participation arrives in the mailboxes of all CAA members in early March; it is also available for download. This publication describes many [...]
5 February 2007 | Ancient, Conferences
From The Wall Street Journal: “[A] conference organized by the Institute of Archaeology and the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, in Bern, Switzerland, devoted itself to sorting out the Pantheon’s history. Breaking news, of a kind, caused an ‘absolute sensation’ (in a manner perhaps possible only at an academic conference). A revisionist [...]
1 February 2007 | Conferences, Renaissance
In CAA Reviews, Diana Gisolfi discusses a recent symposium “Rediscovering Venetian Renaissance Painting was the closing event of several associated with the exhibition Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington … Nicholas Penny’s presentation was incisive and provocative, noting the several unsettled attributions and various [...]
30 January 2007 | Conferences
From the New York Times: “‘Well, this is quite a turnout for an ‘ism,’ said the art historian and critic Lucy Lippard on Friday morning as she looked out at the people filling the Roy and Niuta Titus Theater at the Museum of Modern Art and spilling into the aisles. ‘Especially in a museum not [...]
19 January 2007 | Career, Conferences
As CAA’s annual carnival of job seeking approaches, it’s worth looking at a few statistics. A recent search of CAA’s website showed 106 full- and part-time art-history teaching jobs available. According to our analysis of data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. has minted about 200 new art-history PhDS each year [...]
23 November 2006 | Conferences
A complete 2007 New York conference schedule can now be viewed online. Papers include “Gay Kisses/Queer Wishes: Enactments of Sodomy in the Bible moralisée Tradition,” “Martin Luther King Lived in the Renaissance: Teaching Art History in Qatar,” “The Myth of the Secret Juice of the Flemish Masters,” “The Endogamous Eugenic Japanese Nude: Koide Narashige,” and [...]
7 September 2006 | Conferences
You think you’ve done some exhausting conference-going? Metropolis reports that Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist recently “interview[ed] over sixty artists, architects, and writers for 24 hours…straight”: “Known for his energetic and globe-trotting ways, Rem Koolhaas finally admitted to being exhausted … He was speaking in the pavilion he designed on the lawn of London’s [...]
6 July 2006 | Conferences
We just discovered CAA’s “Boston Conference Press and Blog Roundup.” Be sure to click on Artforum’s Diary entry in particular if you haven’t read it already (“Why … were ‘dull as dishwater’ and ‘stale’ among the mordant first takes on this year’s session offerings? One veteran reminisced about the ’70s and ’80s, when ‘everyone knew [...]
17 May 2006 | Career, Conferences
From blogger mister mutt: “initially i had a dissertation topic. which was very theoretical. i wrote about 400-500 words on it, to get my thoughts together, and realized it fit a certain conference, so i impulsively sent my little paragraphs off as a conference abstract, as a sort of exercise in practicing good job habits. [...]
