26 February 2006 | Conferences, Modern, News
Contributor Anne Byrd reports: “At Saturday morning’s Minimalism and the Common Culture panel, Anna Chave ground her Rosalind Krauss axe, while younger scholars Mitte Gieskes, Dominic Rahtz, and Nina Murayama offered historical readings of minimalism: Gieskes’s paper was a nuanced (if, as one questioner suggested, somewhat uncritical) discussion of Carl Andre, theories of contingency such [...]
25 February 2006 | Conferences, News
Contributor Ross Finocchio reports: “Friday’s program offered a feast for Italianists. In a morning session that met at the Museum of Fine Arts, Frederick Ilchman chronicled the hits and misses of Italian acquisitions at the MFA, including an overpainted female portrait, dubiously attributed to Raphael and illicitly exported in a curator’s suitcase. In an afternoon [...]
24 February 2006 | Conferences, News, Renaissance
Our Ross Finocchio writes: “Talk of Italian festivals warmed the damp chill of Boston on Thursday afternoon. The ‘Celebration in the Arts of Italy’ session took as its theme the Renaissance public processions that transformed their urban setting. The triumph of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1536, for example, was also ‘a triumph of [...]
24 February 2006 | Conferences
Contributor Daniel Belasco writes: “Your correspondent arrived in foggy Boston Thursday afternoon to dance the old academic-conference two-step, which never seems to go out of style. Normal rules of decorum are suspended at such an overwhelming concentration of brains, images, and schmooze unleavened by free-flowing coffee. One has to be shameless about barging through closed [...]
23 February 2006 | Conferences
Artist-blogger Gerard Brown reports from the “Ruins and After: Art in the Age of Global Violence” panel: “When the Q&A started, a number of people in the audience (some of whom admitted they hadn’t been present for all the presentations!) expressed disappointment that the panel wasn’t ‘political’ enough.” This reminded Brown of … teaching. “[S]tudents [...]
23 February 2006 | Conferences
CAA itself is hosting a group blog, written by Susan Hamburger, Kerr Houston, Christopher Howard, Anthony Huberman, Lara Kohl, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and Bill Tronzo. Recently, Hamburger expressed disappointment with the painting panel she attended: “there was a lack of energy and passion and it contributed to the attrition rate of the crowd and ultimately a [...]
22 February 2006 | Conferences
Conference blogging, now common, is slowly permeating CAA. We here intend to post a few dispatches this year; if you do as well, let us know. Painter Gerard Brown and art historian Rebecca M. Brown (any relation?) have already begun. Rebecca writes: “my list of to-dos involves … 5. lunch/dinner/drinks with friends, colleagues, potential employers, [...]
21 February 2006 | Conferences
Artnet previews CAA: Keynoting “is Arthur C. Danto, whose talk, ‘The Relevance of Commentary,’ addresses the relationship of art and writing.” Awards will go to Linda Nochlin, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Lester Van Winkle, Carol Mattusch, Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, Cristina Esteras Martin, Mitchell B. Merback, Mark Cheetham, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The art criticism [...]
