7 March 2006 | Books, Teaching
The New York Times gives the new Janson the “who’s in, who’s out?” treatment: “hit men, otherwise known as critics and scholars, are lurking around every corner, waiting to whack even the most sterling reputation … The new edition drops not only Whistler’s portrait of his mother but also evicts several other longtime residents, like [...]
7 March 2006 | Journals
Visual Resources (Special 19th Century Issue) Art History (Feb 06) Orientations (March 06) Oxford Art Journal (Mar 06) (via H-Arthist)
7 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums
Savannah’s Telfair Museum of Art, due to unveil its new Moshe Safdie-designed building this Friday, will also feature “a permanent group of 20 works on paper [donated] by well-known artists who knew the late Varnedoe, a Savannah native and art historian who for 14 years curated painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art [...]
6 March 2006 | Renaissance
The “save the villa” petition has attracted many signatories, including “Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, former director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; Gerhard Wolf, director of the Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institut, Florence … Charles Hope, director of the Warburg Institute, London; and Elizabeth Cropper, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the [...]
6 March 2006 | Books, Renaissance
Publishers Weekly has nominated Frank Zollner’s recent Botticelli tome for the distinction of “least-scintillating opening sentence ever (‘Art history is the scholarly discipline that addresses the ubiquitous medium of the visual image’).”
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)
4 March 2006 | Crime
Does successful art forgery show up art history’s connoisseurship as arbitrary? “Never was there such a load of rubbish talked about anything as has been, and will be, talked about art … that a Van Gogh can go for, what is it, $75 million? That’s disgusting,” says former art forger John Myatt in today’s New [...]
3 March 2006 | Teaching
From yesterday’s David Brooks column: “I’ve got great news! You’re young and you’re smart and next year you’re beginning college. Unfortunately, I’ve also got bad news. The only school you got into is Harvard, where, as Peter Beinart of The New Republic notes, students often graduate ‘without the kind of core knowledge that you’d expect [...]
3 March 2006 | Books, Teaching
Samuel Y. Edgerton loves Gauvin Alexander Bailey’s new Art of Colonial Latin America: “When I think of all the popular surveys I’ve assigned in my fifty years of teaching art history … only E.H. Gombrich’s Story of Art … is a true literary gem … But now, eureka! The survey by Gauvin Bailey here under [...]
3 March 2006 | Contemporary, News, Teaching
Though he starts his new Yale job this July, he’ll teach one more semester at NYU’s IFA this fall and then switch to adjunct status. (And he’ll continue supervising dissertations in progress.) Speculation has of course already begun swirling as to his likely successor at IFA…
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 [...]
2 March 2006 | Architecture
Reviewing La Bellezza della Città: Stadtrecht und Stadtgestaltung im Italien des Mittelalters und der Renaissance for CAA Reviews, Areli Marina writes: “the last decade has brought an explosion of new research not only on medieval and Renaissance urbanism in Italy but also in the history of Italian jurisprudence … the essays in this book contextualize [...]
2 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums, News
Contributor Anne Byrd writes: “Politics are especially prominent at this year’s Whitney Biennial: the first work that visitors see is Rirkrit Tiravanija’s and Mark di Suvero’s Peace Tower, clad in antiwar paintings. Explicitly political works inside the museum include Richard Serra’s “Stop Bush” poster and video documentations of Steve Kurtz’s interventions. Several artists address racial [...]
2 March 2006 | Museums
The Art Newspaper has synopsized and printed excerpts from William Rubin’s unpublished memoir, A Curator’s Quest: “Barr appointed him curator of the department of painting and sculpture. ‘I was walking on air,’ Rubin writes. But William Lieberman, who had joined the museum as Barr’s assistant in 1945 and became a curator in 1953, was less [...]
1 March 2006 | Museums
When many people think of the late William Rubin, they think of the landmark exhibitions he organized for MoMA, but in the latest Art in America Pepe Karmel argues that “His most lasting achievement was the upgrading and expansion of the museum’s permanent collection … he was ruthlessly ready to sell or trade work from [...]
1 March 2006 | Contemporary
Robert Storr will start overseeing Yale’s studio program this July. Presumably he’ll continue organizing the 2007 Venice Biennial and curating shows for the Philadelphia Museum, but it seems hard to imagine he’ll also keep teaching art history at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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 [...]
“There was no plan to protect the Iraq Museum” during the 2003 siege of Baghdad, said Matthew Bogdanos last night at a Cooper Union lecture sponsored by Saving Antiquities for Everyone (S.A.F.E.). As a result, thousands of Mesopotamian artifacts were stolen. Bogdanos, who holds a master’s degree in classical studies, assembled a multi-agency team while [...]
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 [...]
