30 September 2008 | Uncategorized
From the Yale Daily News: If being deemed a “great teacher” is any indication of a faculty member’s worthiness to assume the job of dean of Yale College, University President Richard Levin’s likely short list can quickly be reduced to one candidate: Mary Miller … But the 55-year old Sterling Professor — the highest academic [...]
29 September 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the (soon to be defunct?) New York Sun, An art history professor at Columbia University jumped to his death from his Morningside Heights apartment. Petrus Schaesberg, an adjunct professor … began teaching in the art history department in 2005 but was not teaching this semester. The German native was also a photographer. According [...]
26 September 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the Telegraph, A portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh that he later painted over has been revealed in more detail than every before thanks to a new X-ray technique … [which] allowed the team – led by Dr Joris Dik, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Professor Koen [...]
23 September 2008 | Africa, Books
In the Autumn 2008 issue of African Arts, anthropologist Joseph Nevadomsky reviews Art, Performance, and Ritual in Benin City by Charles Gore: Gore’s book signals a change of direction in Benin Studies. It chips at the ossifications that had become the boundary markers of Benin research. John Piction, in his blurb, call Gore’s book “the [...]
18 September 2008 | Books, Theory
In caa.reviews, Keith Moxey considers the anthology Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science edited by Lorraine Daston: Things—from soap bubbles to works of art—have a voice of their own. This is the audacious claim of a collection of essays that brings together distinguished scholars in the history of science and art history. [...]
12 September 2008 | Books
In the September 2008 Art Bulletin, Aruna D’Souza reviews Petra ten-Doesschate Chu’s book The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture. In her conclusion D’Souza writes: Ultimately, this book approaches–even if it chooses not to address head-on–what is perhaps the most urgent cultural question of our moment: How does art [...]
10 September 2008 | Museums
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis chose the wrong time to announce their new chief curator, the Baltimore Museum of Art contemporary art head, Darsie Alexander. Everyone is now too busy reporting another story, “Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. [...]
8 September 2008 | Uncategorized
We’re back from vacation, untanned and badly rested. It was a surprisingly busy summer for art historians, which we dare not attempt to summarize. Instead, select morsels: MoMA named Ann Temkin its chief curator of painting and sculpture. Michael Baxandall died at the age of 74. At the Getty Villa in Malibu, “20 art historians, [...]
