4 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Regarding our earlier post (‘The Abu Ghraib Effect’), see also this recent segment from NPR’s “On the Media”: Models wearing designs from John Galliano’s Fall 2008 Mens collection looked as if they’d stepped out of Abu Ghraib prison and onto Paris runways. Do the designs fetishize torture? RISD professor Kathleen McDermott says Galliano is following [...]
4 February 2008 | Books
In caa.reviews, Terri Weissman considers Stephen F. Eisenman’s new book, The Abu Ghraib Effect: The 2004 appearance of photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison, which showed in horrific detail U.S. soldiers violating the human rights of supposed Al-Qaeda terrorist and Iraqi insurgency suspects … failed to instigate radical political change in the United States … [...]
1 February 2008 | Museums
From Le Monde: The Musée d’Orsay, which is devoted to nineteenth-century art and is one of France’s most important institutions, will have a new chief as of March 7: Guy Cogeval, 52. Formerly the director of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal – he spent nine years there – he was the favorite to replace [...]
1 February 2008 | Books, Teaching
Artist and writer Morgan Meis reviews the new Phaidon megasurvey 30,000 Years of Art: The story of human creativity across time and space: … [I] imagine a group of art historians sitting around a table with a sixth or seventh bottle of wine giggling to each other like schoolgirls. “Take that, art theorists! We give [...]
