30 November 2011 | Uncategorized
Victoria Coates, who earned an art-history PhD at UPenn and has worked at the Cleveland Museum, is Rick Perry’s chief foreign-policy advisor. I struggle to think of an art historian playing this prominent role in politics since Anthony Blunt. Anyone? The Noguchi catalogue raisonné begins. Art historian Semavi Eyice was one of four to receive [...]
29 November 2011 | Journals
Several art magazines and journals have sprouted up online over the last few months. Caribbean Art World (CAW) Magazine founded by artist Marcel Wah includes an interview (click “Articles”) with Erica James, founding director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, who was recently
23 November 2011 | Africa, Conferences, Contemporary
The Autumn 2011 African Arts (44:3) continues that journal’s tradition of fine reporting on important conferences, with five dispatches from the Fifteenth Triennial Symposium of African Art last March at UCLA, which featured 46 panels. The Triennial’s theme was “Africa and Its Diasporas in the Marketplace.” Susan Rosenfield writes: dele jegede, alongside [Sylvia] Forni, and [...]
21 November 2011 | Conferences
With apologies to the Harper’s Index (which I once helped to produce) I present a few statistics regarding CAA’s 2012 annual conference: Sessions: 203 Sessions with co-chairs: 93 Participation slots (chair, panelist, discussant): 1194 Participants: 1095 Participants playing more than one role: 75 Most roles played by any one participant: 4 People playing that many [...]
18 November 2011 | Conferences
The 100th annual conference of the College Art Association convenes February 22-25. Among the sessions I’m looking forward to: Theorizing the Body Chair: Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University Medusa as “Seduction of Excess” Basia Sliwinska, independent scholar Body of Work: Stylization and Ambiguity in the Benin Plaque Corpus Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, New York University Body [...]
15 November 2011 | Books
Without my noticing, my minivacation from blogging turned into a multi-month hiatus. Well, I’m now feeling excited to get back to it, so without further ado I’ll begin what I hope will be the first of many posts this fall. How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art is a new, provocative anthology of writings [...]
