30 November 2006 | Americas, Museums
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “The campaign to raise $68 million and retain Thomas Eakins’ monumental painting The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia has reached about one-third of its goal, officials said yesterday, with the number of donations now running into the hundreds. With just under four weeks left to raise the remainder, Anne d’Harnoncourt, director and [...]
29 November 2006 | Uncategorized
A new French website, L’Observatoire critique des ressources en ligne pour l’histoire de l’art et l’archéologie, helps art historians use and discuss the web and other technologies. An opening review of online resources offers copious links for the curious surfer. (via ARHV)
27 November 2006 | Americas, Modern, Museums
From the Houston Chronicle: “Emily Ballew Neff, curator of American painting and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is shaking up the art world with her new exhibit, The Modern West. In it, she shows that the American West influenced artists not usually considered Western — a group that includes, most controversially, Jackson [...]
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 [...]
22 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From the CBC: “Two paintings by Renaissance master Fra Angelico that were considered lost for 400 years have been discovered in the British home of a manuscript librarian and her heirs intend to sell them in 2007. Jean Preston, who had been a curator of manuscripts at Princeton University before retiring, died earlier in the [...]
17 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From The New York Times: “David W. Galenson, an art lover, modest collector and tenured professor of economics at the University of Chicago … has developed something approaching a unified theory of art, which hasn’t won him many fans in the art world but does a surprisingly good job of explaining the relative value of [...]
16 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From The North Adams Transcript: “S. Lane Faison Jr., one of the nation’s most influential teachers of art history and a Williams College professor for 40 years, died Saturday … [his former students include] Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery; Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation; Glenn D. Lowry, director of [...]
14 November 2006 | Baroque/Neoclassical
From The Telegraph: “The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, owned by the Royal Family for almost 400 years, has lain unloved and seldom seen in a storeroom at Hampton Court for decades. Misattributed as a copy of a Caravaggio by an unknown hand, it was valued in thousands rather than millions. The Royal Collection, [...]
13 November 2006 | Uncategorized
Kathryn Tuma interviews T.J. Clark in The Brooklyn Rail: “I think [Left art history is] stuck with an out-of-date sense of the issues. As if it mattered any longer—as if it had any present political point—to prove for the umpteenth time that what we poor suckers had imagined was a difficult and double-edged picture of [...]
10 November 2006 | Americas
Adam Mazmanian reviews Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture by Michael Kammen in the Washington City Paper: “When sculptor Henry Kirke Brown previewed a bronze of Gen. Winfield Scott for his heirs in the early 1870s, the family was aghast to see the Civil War hero portrayed atop a mare. Although [...]
9 November 2006 | Uncategorized
From the Washington Post: “Dr. Howland, a debonair socialite as well as dedicated scholar, was a man of many facets. He was a classical archaeologist, art history professor, author, founder of learned societies and a special assistant at the Smithsonian Institution … He taught art history, first at Wellesley College from 1939 to 1952, then [...]
6 November 2006 | Books
From the St. Petersburg College Library Blog: “Grove Art Online was updated to enlarge the broad coverage of women in Grove Art Online by adding nearly 120 new articles and essays on women artists and designers, and over 120 new images of works by women, to include over 850 women artists. New entries include Kara [...]
