19 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Paddy Johnson writes: “If you like discourse about the ‘aesthetic criteria of compression’ or ‘virtuality as the ontology of art’, then this conference will suit you well. The quotes are two of the more comprehensible phrases I managed to glean out the session Virtualities: Contemporary Art between Fact and Fiction, with star panelists David [...]
19 February 2007 | Career, Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Jeffry Cudlin writes: “One of the more popular panels of the conference was held on Saturday. ‘A Faustian Bargain? Emerging Artists, Critics, and the Market’ consisted of the usual hand-wringing about art fairs and the diminished role of criticism — but it also featured Jerry Saltz … ‘I don’t think that any artist wakes [...]
19 February 2007 | Americas, Conferences, Museums
Contributor Ross Finocchio reports: “When, during a morning panel on art collecting, a bad projector distorted the dimensions of the Giorgione ‘Nativity’ in Washington’s National Gallery, the audience immediately erupted in protest. As the IT staff scurried to fix the problem, speaker Roger Crum calmly quipped, ‘As you’ll learn, Kress believed in expansion but this [...]
19 February 2007 | Conferences
There are numerous interesting new posts on CAA’s blog, covering the art market, virtualities, globalism, feminism (here and here), the book fair (here and here), “post-studio art” (i.e., the studio is no longer a temple), curating, and blogging itself.
19 February 2007 | Conferences
From blogger art nerd lauren: “The College Art Association conference was this week in New York. I had plans to go on Thursday and Friday- cancelled class and everything. I went last year, too, in Boston, and it was…ummm…interesting? I guess? As interesting as conferences get. I’ve only ever been to this one, but I [...]
19 February 2007 | Conferences, Crime
For more on the appropriation & the law panel, see Roberta Fallon’s post to artblog.
17 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Joy Garnett covers Friday’s “Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond”: “One of the most germane questions came at the end from organizing co-chair Virginia Rutledge, who asked Leval if he thought that the importance of context and conceptual underpinnings of works of art would ever finally trump visual, formal (superficial) resemblance in [...]
17 February 2007 | Conferences, Medieval, News
Perhaps not surprisingly, a good seventy people show up for “Sex Acts: Performance and Perversion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” Chair Allison Levy characterizing the session as trying to move “beyond a discourse of desire to one of action,” a consideration of bodies that “act out” or “act up.” Robert Mills presents “Gay [...]
17 February 2007 | Architecture, Conferences, News, Theory
The line at Starbucks seemed longer than ever this morning, but apparently it did not include very many lovers of architecture dragging and drugging themselves out of bed this Saturday morning to make it to this session, “Detecting Architecture: Questions of Evidence in Architectural History.” There are twenty attendees here at best. Or perhaps it’s [...]
16 February 2007 | Asia, Conferences, News
About fifty people attend “The Middle Path? Between Style and Cultural History in Chinese Painting Scholarship.” Is “theory” applicable to Chinese art? Can westerners understand Chinese art at all? Do Chinese observers necessarily do better? How important is it to study Chinese texts? These questions have long bedeviled Chinese art history, as the redoubtable Julia [...]
16 February 2007 | Africa, Conferences, Contemporary, Museums, News
Just two of the five scheduled speakers showed for this panel! “Contemporary African Art: Moving Forward, Looking Back; Investigating the Currency of Contemporary African Art” nonetheless proved quite lively. Barbara Pollack in particular provided fireworks. A very rough and selective transcript of her talk: “I’m not an expert on Chinese art or African art. I [...]
16 February 2007 | Conferences, Modern, News
“Now Really: Art and Theory of Realist Art in the 19th Century” has drawn about 150 people to another overstuffed room. Sura Levine sets about “redefining realism from a Belgian perspective.” Realism was coined to describe Courbet’s art, nonetheless it’s instructive to examine Belgium. Courbet called Belgium “my country,” befriended numerous individuals. Realism was a [...]
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 | Renaissance
From Chemistry World: “Forensic scrutiny of flecks of paint from an unattributed painting lends weight to the idea it was a mock-up for one of Raphael’s most famous Renaissance creations. An unattributed portrait of the Madonna and Child known as the de Brécy Tondo bears an unmistakable resemblance to the central figures in the Sistine [...]
15 February 2007 | Modern, Museums
From the BBC: “A painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne that was lost for more than 60 years is to go on show in Italy. The picture disappeared after its last exhibition in 1945, before being found recently in a private collection by art historian Francesca Bardazzi. It will be shown from 2 March [...]
