31 March 2009 | Books
In the February 2009 issue of the Burlington Magazine, Xander van Eck considers recent publications from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Metropolitan Museum on their Dutch collections: Both catalogues are excellent academic publications … The surprisingly different approaches to the two publications make one wonder what kind of information belongs in a catalogue: simply the [...]
30 March 2009 | Conservation, Renaissance
Milan’s Brera Gallery has completed its restoration of Raphael’s The Wedding of the Virgin, according to Reuters: The painting’s surface had darkened considerably in the 150 years since the last major restoration. It also underwent small repairs in 1958 after a visitor attacked it with a hammer, injuring the Virgin’s stomach and elbow … The [...]
30 March 2009 | Asia
The most recent issue of Artibus Asiae (2008) contains a long, thoughtful appreciation by Helmut Brinker of the recently deceased Asian art scholar Dietrich Seckel. It also contains an obituary of scholar/curator/collector Stuart Cary Welch written by artist/collector Howard Hodgkin: Stuart Cary Welch was undoubtedly the most important expert in the field of Moghul painting; [...]
27 March 2009 | Modern
Modern Art Notes interviews TJ Clark, who is presenting this year’s National Gallery of Art Mellon Lectures, focusing on 1920s Picasso as well as Guernica: These lectures are an attempt to extract Pablo Picasso from a biographic equation: ‘Picture C equals Lover Y,’ and that’s what you need to know … Cubism now, to me [...]
27 March 2009 | Uncategorized
For technical reasons we’ve been unable to post for the last few days, but we should be able to resume shortly.
18 March 2009 | Asia, Books, Museums
In caa.reviews, Donald F. McCallum writes on a recent collaboration by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit: The exhibition Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan and its accompanying catalogue constitute a landmark in the study of Japanese art. The paintings displayed at the Japan Society Gallery were of both high quality and significance, and the [...]
14 March 2009 | Uncategorized
The 67-year-old conceptual artist apparently died of lymphoma. Obituaries in Die Zeit, the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, and Der Standard.
13 March 2009 | Conferences
We’d like to take note of one other post to the official CAA conference blog, one by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker: … the core of the conference – the Program Sessions — follow a model that has remained virtually unchanged since the nineteenth century. Papers are prepared in advance, read, and if the session [...]
9 March 2009 | Conferences
CAA is over. The most heavily blogged CAA ever, it produced more coverage than we can cover here. A selection: “Frenchy but Chic” wrote: A strange phenomenon has occurred this week in downtown Los Angeles. Hordes upon hordes of pallid, humorless and bespectacled killjoys, dressed in drab, unseasonal clothing, sporting strange unfashionable facial hair or [...]
1 March 2009 | Uncategorized
We’ll return Monday, March 9th.
1 March 2009 | Conferences
From CAA, Allyson Drucker writes: There was a noticeable decrease in attendance today at the third and final day of CAA, but some of the remaining few were treated to a series of neat papers at “The Northern Court Artist, 1400-1600.” The session was off to a great start with Carol Krinsky’s talk entitled “What [...]
