30 May 2010 | Uncategorized
Can art history be published, reported on, or otherwise communicated through the medium of the podcast? In logging many hours of commuting time, I have had reason to ponder this question.
29 May 2010 | Teaching
As I was listening to this interesting “On the Media” segment recently, I became intrigued when I got the impression that everyone but me had read this article (pdf), “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes,” by Kathleen Hayles. (In fact, it’s not all that well known.) This is a topic I’ve [...]
28 May 2010 | Teaching
The March-April 2010 issue of Le Débat prints a talk that Pierre Rosenberg gave at a September 2009 colloquium (pdf): My career has been in museums, at the Louvre mostly, where I’ve spent almost 40 years. I love museums, all museums. Alas I didn’t discover them in school, but rather from my parents … Many [...]
27 May 2010 | Museums, Teaching
Walking through the Birth of Impressionism exhibition at the De Young Museum, I realized that Kenneth Baker got basically one thing right in his sparse review: it builds anticipation for coming Fall exhibit. What I noticed about this well-executed exhibition was its genuine interest in teaching us something about the relationships between mid 19th-century painting and [...]
27 May 2010 | Renaissance
Plants in renaissance paintings usually have religious associations, but seldom if ever connections with mind-expanding drugs. Now, David Bellamy of Sotheby’s has decided that a plant held by a satyr in Botticelli’s canonical ‘Venus and Mars’ has hallucinogenic properties. After consulting with horticultural experts at Kew Gardens, Bellamy maintains that it is Datura stramonium – [...]
26 May 2010 | Film
At Artnet, David D’Arcy reviews the recent International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal: The fest featured no less than six films on Picasso, including Arne Glimcher’s unlikely Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies [which argues] that Cubism was inspired by early movies … Views on Vermeer – 12 Short Stories … weighs [...]
25 May 2010 | Books
Want to get the finger? I reviewed a new book on its role in art, literature and history by Yale Center for British Art senior curator Angus Trumble.
In a recent issue of History of Photography (34:1), Jonathan P. Eburne reviews several recent books on surrealism and dada. He’s most taken with George Baker’s The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris: Baker’s mannered yet often luminous [book] represents a major contribution to the study of avant-garde art … [...]
24 May 2010 | Books
Pace Gallery president Marc Glimcher has founded Artifex Press, “the first publishing company dedicated to the creation of comprehensive, publicly accessible, online catalogues raisonnés”: Artifex Press has been named publisher of the digital catalogues raisonnés of the estates of Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin along with contemporary artists Chuck Close, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg and [...]
24 May 2010 | Teaching
I am one of those art historians who is a digital alien (see L. Rusch’s comment to Jon Lackman’s post of 13 May). But even if I were a digital native, I might still be perplexed by the pedagogical applications of the new technology that will work best in the classroom. I am wondering how [...]
24 May 2010 | Modern
Kline was born May 23, 1910. As far as I know, no exhibition was held or publication released to mark his centennial. Nor does he yet have a catalogue raisonné, apparently.
21 May 2010 | Journals, Modern
The CAA’s Art Journal has a new editor, Katy Siegel. I haven’t had a chance yet to look at her first issue, which is now out and apparently focuses on artists’ projects. Siegel has said, “While preserving its integrity as an academic journal, I want to make sure that every issue of Art Journal also [...]
20 May 2010 | Uncategorized
From Las Vegas Weekly: They were adored, fawned over, hated, respected, energizing and revered. They brought hope, insulted the city and loved the city. They were negative, positive, cherished and polarizing. And now they are leaving. Love or hate them, there is no arguing that Dave Hickey, famous art critic and genius-grant recipient, and Libby [...]
20 May 2010 | Uncategorized
On the lighter side, the Santa Barbara Independent reports that a recent debate at UCSB asked the audience to imagine that a zombie outbreak has taken society to the brink of extinction and UCSB, the only remaining safe house, has room to admit only one more member. Seven professors [from the departments of Education, Philosophy, [...]
From the Guggenheim: Kenneth Noland, 1924–2010: A Tribute May 21–June 20, 2010 A key figure of postwar abstract painting, Kenneth Noland explored the essential qualities of color and surface throughout a career that spanned six decades. Noland was born on April 10, 1924, in Asheville, North Carolina. He attended the nearby Black Mountain College on [...]
The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced its annual awards: Category: Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection Michael R. Taylor, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés Category: Exhibition Catalogue “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity” (MoMA) Category: Exhibition in the Eastern Time Zone (Tie) “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity” (MoMA) “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance [...]
19 May 2010 | Career
Last week I emailed the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education to ask if they had any plans to update their study PhDs in Art History – Over a Decade Later. I got a response today: We are delighted about your interest in our study. We would love to undertake another study, should [...]
19 May 2010 | Americas, Architecture, Awards, Books, Modern, Museums, News
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced that it awarded the annual Eldredge Prize to Kirk Savage for his book Monument Wars. I should disclose that I am far from impartial on this topic–Savage was my advisor in graduate school. That said, I think that his book is notable as a model for future scholarship. Rather than framing the official monuments, [...]
18 May 2010 | Uncategorized
A recent issue of Master Drawings (XLVII: 4) notes the passing of Carlos van Hasselt: Carlos van Hasselt died on 19 July 2009 in Paris … [He retired] as director of the Fondation Custodia in 1994 [after] twenty-four years. Carlos was born on 7 April 1929 in Bergen-op-Zoom in Brabant, The Netherlands … [and studied] [...]
17 May 2010 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Journals, Theory
The latest (March-June 2010) Art Bulletin just arrived here. This one comes with another “Intervention”; in this recurring feature, a number of scholars are invited to respond to a provocative essay. The author completes the exercise by responding to the respondents, and the whole thing is published across many pages. I’m curious — do people [...]
