CAA News Today

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

Tim Rollins, Artist and Activist Whose Work Thrived on Collaboration, Dies at 62

Much of Rollins’s work was produced in collaboration with a group known as the Kids of Survival, or K.O.S. (ARTnews)

Art Historian Finds Missing Monet Painting Through a Google Search

Believed to have been missing since 1895, Monet’s painting Effet de Brouillard (1872) will soon go on view. (Hyperallergic)

Saddle Up: 7 Trends in Higher Education Coming in 2018

Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson predict the challenges that higher education will face in the coming year. (Inside Higher Ed)

37 Museums in Southern California Will Be Free on January 28

Institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Craft & Folk Art Museum are participating in the free admission initiative. (Hyperallergic)

A Look Inside Cézanne’s Studio, Through the Eyes of Joel Meyerowitz

A fitting homage to an artist who once wrote, “Painting is first and foremost an optical affair. The stuff of our art is there, in what our eyes are thinking.” (The New Yorker)

Eight of Art History’s Greatest Mysteries—from Stonehenge to Banksy

The study of artworks and objects of visual culture is a tantalizing exercise in unraveling the unknown. (Artsy)