9 May 2006 | Conferences
You can now order audio recordings of CAA, including the whole conference in mp3 format for $99.95. Download it to your iPod and listen to your favorite sessions over and over.
20 April 2006 | Conferences
“Jesus tits, you’d think the College Art Association had never run a goddamn conference before! First I tripped over a microphone cord, which caused a roomful of people to, like, laugh at me, and then there was all this awful feedback that sounded like somebody applying a baby to a cheese grater, and then William [...]
19 April 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary
From the intriguingly themed group blog, “Medical Humanities: A conversation about the intersection between medicine and the arts,” comes this illustrated post on the AAH conference: “Last week I spent three happy days in Leeds at the Association of Art Historians annual conference. On the last day I co-convened the student session and was pleased [...]
12 April 2006 | Conferences
The UK’s Association of Art Historians just had its annual conference. University of London PhD student Charlotte Frost blogged it: “In my own session, ‘Does Art History Have a Future?’: the paper ‘Is There Life in Art History?’ by Gavin Butt … proposed the idea that many of the forms scholarly art historical endeavour takes [...]
28 March 2006 | Conferences
Reporting for Artinfo.com, Stephen S. Hall offers another, more optimistic account of the recent “New Biology of the Mind” symposium at Columbia, remarking that “one of the animating ideas behind the proceedings came from [organizer] Louise MacBain, who noted that an understanding of the neurobiology of creativity could have immense educational potential, as a way [...]
27 March 2006 | Conferences, News
Contributor Ross Finocchio reports from last Friday’s star-studded “Forum on Art and the New Biology of Mind” at Columbia’s Italian Academy: “As the afternoon session got underway, red and blue 3-D glasses were distributed that Margaret Livingstone then used to demonstrate the neural mechanics of depth perception. She also explained how brain processes create the [...]
22 March 2006 | Conferences
Simeon Solomon & Marginality (New Haven 5-6 May 06) Photography & the American West (Princeton 29 April 06) Images/Maps (Oxford 12-13 May 06) Refiguring Modernism – Maritain (Brussels 12-13 May 06) (via H-Arthist)
15 March 2006 | Conferences
Telling Stories (Loughborough Feb, Apr, Sep 07) 18th Century Consumption (CAA/NY Feb 07) Building America (Dresden 16 Jun 2006) Assemblage, Bricolage & the Obsolete (Leeds 18 Nov 06) (via H-Arthist)
13 March 2006 | Conferences, Modern
“Six of the world’s pre-eminent Jackson Pollock scholars will converge at Williams College [Museum of Art] on May 13 to discuss the artist’s work in a rare symposium, the museum’s director said Wednesday. The gathering will be highly unusual, particularly in light of the recent controversy over 32 previously unknown Pollock works discovered in 2003 [...]
10 March 2006 | Conferences
Suzaan Boettger delivers her CAA wrap-up on Artnet: “The singsong tenor of Danto’s grandfatherly voice reminded me of Daniel Dennett’s Philosophical Lexicon definition for ‘arthurdantist, n. One who straightens the teeth of exotic dogmas, viz., “Little Friedrich used to say the most wonderful things before we took him to the arthurdantist!” — Frau Nietzsche.’ Danto’s [...]
10 March 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary
ARTnews editor Robin Cembalest reports for Nextbook on a recent panel devoted to “neosincerity,” the contemporary artistic and literary tendency that is “grounded in irony but allow[s] for the expression of sentiment and emotion, thanks to black humor, pratfalls, buffoonery, and other comic devices.” Cembalest reprints generous portions of the piquant conversation: “‘It’s really terrible [...]
8 March 2006 | Conferences
Quattrocento Architecture (Miami Mar 07) Exposed Memory: Family Pictures (Budapest Nov 06) Passions – Early Modern Netherlands (Ontario Nov 06) Masterpiece – Meisterstueck (Frankfurt Nov 06) Utopia and Architecture (Arc et Senans 25-27 Oct 06) Protest Aesthetics (Zurich Mar 07) (via H-Arthist)
6 March 2006 | Conferences
American Public Cultures (St. Louis 7-8 Apr 06) The Legacy of Antiquity (St. Andrews 30 Mar – 1 Apr) Spanish Medieval Art (Princeton 29 Apr 06) Blinky Palermo (Darmstadt 17-19 Mar 06) Photography and Narrative (Pennsylvania 17 Mar 06) Fuseli and the Fugitive Imagination (London 17 Mar 06) (via H-Arthist)
3 March 2006 | Conferences
Blogger “vswbookartist” writes: “This past week I attended the College Art Association conference and learned a lot about art history, less about teaching art, and still less about art making itself. I must say however, that the experience and people I met were well worth the frustration of broken slide projectors and a few rude [...]
1 March 2006 | Conferences, Teaching
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article described the “moving away from just lecturing with slides … to incorporating elements like studio work, small-group projects, and online discussion and review of images.” At CAA, Robert Bersson “recalled his own time as a 20th-century student in art-history courses at Brandeis University. He displayed the elaborate doodles [...]
1 March 2006 | Asia, Conferences
Blogger “Moksha” writes about her CAA experience: “it was a fabulous conference for Asianists – there were more papers and panels relevant to this field than at any other CAA that I have attended over the last six or seven years [...] Another positive sign [was] the number of interviews that South Asianists were racking [...]
26 February 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary, News
Contributor Daniel Belasco reports: “My concluding remarks, on the discussion of international contemporary art at CAA, will necessarily reflect my experience as a panelist here, my first. (Went well, thank you very much, even though my Powerpoint lost a few hi-res images in the translation from PC to Mac … a metaphor for things to [...]
26 February 2006 | Conferences
Art historian Rebecca Brown sums up her CAA experience on her blog, including “the peculiarity of having been on the job market every year since 1997: I know half the people at these conferences because they interviewed me and rejected me (or very occasionally I rejected them). this creates the ‘dodge-and-weave’ form of conferencing, where [...]
26 February 2006 | Conferences
Blogger Trebor Scholz’s CAA diary comes complete with pictures, including a couple of laptopped attendees huddled around the few power outlets like hobos around a burning barrel. Scholz is most impassioned on the subject of name tags: “Perhaps instead of listing your institution on this social interface tag you could add a few keywords describing [...]
26 February 2006 | Conferences
CAA’s blog is finishing lively. Susan Hamburger writes: “No one likes to be asked, nor should they be asked in an interview, ‘how old are you?’ or ‘are you planning to have children?’ You know who you are.” Not to mention the colleagues who were “deployed to stalk the [interviewing] rows to unnerve those who [...]
