The Art History Newsletter

One More CAA Conference Blog

by | 20 April 2006 | Conferences

“Jesus tits, you’d think the College Art Association had never run a goddamn conference before! First I tripped over a microphone cord, which caused a roomful of people to, like, laugh at me, and then there was all this awful feedback that sounded like somebody applying a baby to a cheese grater, and then William Pope L., who’s, like, supposedly this super-important art person, he’s there to talk on a panel discussion called ‘The Politics of Visual Culture,’ and I think he’s supposed to receive the Frank Jewett Mather Award or something, starts going off about anticommercialism and fascism and all this fortune cookie politics…”

We recently (belatedly) happened upon this parody of the CAA’s official conference blog, as well as the email exchange it prompted between its author and CAA.