26 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
“Victoria Szabo talking about training grad students to collaborate to create database. Training grad students! I love it!” “Many thanks to #CAA2012 for the amazing panel with Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster.” “Lev Manovich encourages CAA to embrace the intersection of art history and art practice.” “Academic publishing as a colonization of intellectual property.” [...]
25 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
“Black clad east coasters shedding cardigans and sunning themselves like lizards on rocks outside the conference.” “This panel was an invigorating breath of jet-lagged-yet-fresh air and a vision of moving beyond the dead-end rhetoric of the copyright cartel, consumer culture, and commodity art.” “You probably don’t want to hear about the truly bizarre but interesting [...]
24 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
The first session of “Pop and Politics” ended up being really interesting and productive. Ten minutes before the scheduled start time, things weren’t looking so promising, as panelists and co-chairs still outnumbered audience members in the massive conference room. By the time the panel started, however, we had a lively audience of at least 40. Allison Unruh introduced the [...]
24 February 2012 | CAA2012, Career, Conferences, Photography, Teaching, Theory
The Los Angeles Convention Center is massive. Despite its girth, the College Art Association 2012 Conference occupies about one third of the center. There is no shortage of simultaneous interesting sessions, forcing attendees to choose carefully. The sessions I’ve visited thus far have been largely interesting, with some presenters generating more enthusiasm than others. “Deconstructing [...]
24 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
“The CAA’s 100th Annual Conference couldn’t have come at a better time for the city…” “Looking forward to warm sunshine…” “I’ve seen so many people knitting during sessions. Is there a group art project happening that I’m not aware of?” “I’ve heard rumors of a cage match between art history profs and painting profs tomorrow.” [...]
23 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
“At the Where The Bodies Lie session… really really really excited about Patricia Cronin’s talk … I think, for some, it’s a bit early to be talking about putrefying bodies.” “Psychotropic drugs and yayoi kusama. Great transnational fluxus panel.” ” ‘Aztec rulers were cool and hot’ – Emily Umberger” “Seriously, Kincaid its only secondary to [...]
22 February 2012 | CAA2012, Conferences
The College Art Association conference kicks off today in L.A. I expect record tweeting this year, considering the number of people who’ve already reported boarding a flight to #CAA2012. On Hyperallergic, Jeffrey Songco shares his “10 must-see sessions.” Meanwhile, if you lost a yellow floral (eyeglasses?) case at CAA last year, you’re in luck: PSU [...]
20 February 2012 | CAA2012, Career, Conferences, Current Events, Teaching, Theory
The schedule of sessions for the almost-here College Art Association Conference in Los Angeles is overwhelming. Thankfully the abstracts have arrived to help clarify some of the content. While attendees will undoubtedly seek out sessions that pique their personal and research interests, I would like to suggest five sessions which are likely to appeal to [...]
15 February 2012 | Americas
The New Mexico Daily Lobo reports the death of David Craven, author of Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990: [Craven] died Saturday from an apparent heart attack while playing tennis, his family said. Craven became a professor at UNM in 1993 and was the fine arts department chair for two years. He published 10 [...]
11 February 2012 | Modern
I belatedly note the sad passing of Dorothea Tanning, 101. There’s little I can add at this point to all that’s been said, though I knew her briefly, when in 2004 I fact-checked Jane Kramer’s New Yorker profile of the artist. Tanning’s aversion to phones and email necessitated that I twice trek to her apartment [...]
9 February 2012 | Modern, News
The Courtauld Institute has announced the sudden and entirely unexpected death yesterday, at the age of 66, of John House, Emeritus Professor of the Institute. One of the pre-eminent scholars of nineteenth-century French art of his generation, John served The Courtauld with great distinction from his appointment in 1980 up until his retirement as the [...]
7 February 2012 | Awards, Books, Renaissance
Alexander Nagel’s award-winning The Controversy of Renaissance Art focuses on Italy. In his words, This book offers an alternative to the view that Renaissance art struggled to break away from the confines and superstitions of medieval religion, but at the same time it ranges itself against the more recent tendency to let the art fall [...]
