13 June 2010 | Career
I asked the Getty again if they planned to update “PhDs in Art History – Over a Decade Later” and heard back this time: [W]e are not considering any funding in this area at this time. Please feel free to view information about our current work http://www.getty.edu/foundation/message_director.html .
8 June 2010 | Uncategorized
CAA managing editor Christopher Howard reports on the recent art bibliography summit: With internet research ever increasing, especially among undergraduate students, the popularity-driven results of search engines must be countered with reliable sources of knowledge, said Elizabeth Mansfield of New York University … Since BHA covered only Western art—the founding editor Michael Rinehart noted that [...]
Modern Art Notes is recommending summer reading on art. I’d add to his list Peter Read’s Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory, which has just been re-issued in paperback. (Published in 2008, the book substantially revised the author’s original 1995 French version.) Writing in the Burlington Magazine in Nov 2008, Caroline Levitt called it [...]
7 June 2010 | Uncategorized
In a recent issue of the journal of visual culture (8:2), “The Obama Issue,” the editors posed six questions to various contributors: Is Barack Obama the most “visible” U.S. president? What role did visual media play in the 2008 election? Why do commodities with Obama-inspired imagery sell so well? How did racial tropes influence depictions [...]
4 June 2010 | Contemporary
Last night the Dallas Museum of Art presented a talk with Luc Tuymans. The DMA recently opened the first US retrospective of the artist (organized by the Wexner and SFMOMA). I enjoy how the subdued palette of his work combined with the paintings’ subject matter produces a feeling that lingers, or haunts the viewer (like [...]
4 June 2010 | Ancient
The Dec. 2009 Antiquity cover bears an unusually alluring set of teasers: Royal purple found at Qatna, Syria The Bishops of Whithorn and their diet Cannibalism in Neolithic Germany Clubbing and stabbing in Bronze Age Spain The eventful story of some Chinese trousers Also in this issue, Bisserka Gaydarska analyzes the Theoretical Archaeology Group and [...]
3 June 2010 | Modern
Classiques Garnier Numérique (formerly known as Éditions Champion Électronique) has released a new online database (subscription required), “Writings on Art from the 18th to the 20th Century“: It brings together 61,000 pages, going from 1741 to 1927, gathering 72 authors and containing 169 titles. Esthetics, philosophy, art history, texts by painters and writers, but also [...]
2 June 2010 | Uncategorized
British art historians are concerned that proposed changes to the system by which their universities are classified and evaluated could diminish the reputation of art history there. Incidentally, the 2008 evaluations are available online (scroll to page 97). The quality of these rankings and their methodology are of course up for debate. That said, see [...]
1 June 2010 | Museums, Pre-Columbian
Art Daily has just announced that nearly 100 prehispanic objects deposited by the Mexica (often called the Aztecs) in the ceremonial precinct of in their capital of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) will be on display in Mexico City. The exhibition will open in the later part of June 2010. The objects, which include wooden masks and [...]
