CAA News Today

Each week CAA News publishes summaries of eight articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.

New Data on Adjuncts

Teaching is the primary source of income for nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of adjunct faculty members, and two-thirds have actively sought a tenure-track position. Some 38 percent have been on the market for a tenure-track job for five or more years. Those are some of the preliminary findings of a survey of part-time faculty members released last week by the New Faculty Majority. (Read more from Inside Higher Ed.)

College Students Say Campus Is Too PC, but Also Love Trigger Warnings

A newly commissioned poll suggests that a majority of American college students approve of campus speech restrictions, and nearly a third believe the First Amendment is “outdated.” The poll was commissioned by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, a Yale University organization that describes its mission as promoting intellectual diversity on campus. It asked undergraduate students around the country about their views on a variety of free-speech topics. (Read more from the Daily Caller.)

Digital Preservation in the Artist’s Studio

The artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer recently wrote a great manifesto about the conservation of time-based media artworks. He mentions how the great majority of artists feel they are too busy keeping their studio running to think about conservation — let alone digital preservation. He goes on to frame conservation as a business opportunity for artists, showing them that they can offer maintenance of their work as a service to be monetized. (Read more from Medium.)

Come Right In: Artists in Residence Put Out the Welcome Mat

Artist-in-residence programs, which number in the hundreds across the United States, have been evolving in ways that benefit not only artists but also visitors. Ranging from a program in the Golden Gate Recreational Area in San Francisco to initiatives at scattered temporary quarters in lower Manhattan, artist-in-residence programs offer courses for children and adults, studio visits, performances, and exhibitions of work by the artists—and even opportunities to dine with them. (Read more from the New York Times.)

The Ins and Outs of Art Gallery Waiting Lists

When it comes to works by successful artists, demand often exceeds supply. Enter the waiting list. Galleries and dealers increasingly offer waiting lists to would-be purchasers of some of the most-sought-after works in the art market. No doubt, many collectors assume that such a list represents a kind of agreement, that those on the list are part of an orderly process that gives them a much better chance of obtaining a highly desired artwork. (Read more from the Wall Street Journal.)

Google’s Court Victory Is Good for Scholarly Authors. Here’s Why

The Authors Guild has lost the latest round of the copyright battle that it brought against Google more than a decade ago. And though the guild has decried the appellate court’s ruling as “damaging” to authors, it is nothing of the sort. The decision is actually a substantial boon for authors, especially scholarly ones, for at least four reasons. (Read more from the Chronicle of Higher Education.)

Arts Salary Survey Reveals Stark Gender Pay Gap

The gender pay gap in the arts sector is greater than the national UK average, with women earning up to £5,000 less than men at similar stage in their careers, despite being better educated, according to the latest Arts Professional survey. Although women in full-time salaried work in the arts sector outnumbered men by two-to-one last year, the average earnings of the men were higher than the women in almost every type of job, art form, region, and age group. (Read more from Arts Professional.)

Ghost in the Machine

For years now there has been talk of a schism between the respective tribes of book and screen, between those whose medium relies on diligent, contemplative immersion and those who favor the more frictionless rewards of speed. In this conflict, the literary community has more often found itself on the defensive. (Read more from Boston Review.)