by Jon Lackman | 29 March 2010 | Conferences, Journals, Museums
Routledge has announced a new journal World Art, edited by George Lau, Daniel Rycroft, and Veronica Sekules:
In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study of art as a global human activity challenges categories of mainstream and marginalised arts and allows new histories to emerge, highlighting different standpoints and disciplines. World Art encourages critical reflection at the intersections of theory, method and practice. It provides a forum for redefining the concept of art for scholars, students and practitioners, for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses.
Its first three themed issues will be devoted to “Heritage Futures,” “Museums and the Marginalised,” and “Visualising the Exotic.”
For other news, see David Packwood on symposia dedicated to Hubert Damisch and Svetlana Alpers, and this on the FBI’s “appointment-only display called the Evil Minds Research Museum that displays the letters, art and artefacts of serial killers” (via Wired).
