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International Review: A Centenary Celebration of Chilean Artist Nemesio Antúnez
posted by CAA — Nov 14, 2019
The following article was written in response to a call for submissions by CAA’s International Committee. It is by Sophie Halart, Professor of Art History at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile.
Figure 1. Promotional image of the Antúnez centenary celebration (photograph provided by the Ministerio de las culturas, las artes y el patrimonio)
In 2018-19, Chile celebrated the centenary of the visual artist, educator, and cultural figure Nemesio Antúnez (1918-93) (Fig. 1). The initiative, led by the family foundation in charge of Antúnez’s legacy, comprised several events, including roundtable discussions and archival and retrospective exhibitions throughout the country. In Santiago, the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art), two institutions whose very structure and mission were profoundly modified under Antúnez’s leadership, organized a series of three exhibitions, each focusing on one aspect of his prolific career.
Figure 2. Manifiesto, installation view (photograph provided by the author)
The Museo de Bellas Artes hosted Manifiesto (Manifesto), a comprehensive retrospective of Antúnez’s artistic production (Fig. 2). Showcasing a selection of paintings, engravings, notebooks, and photographic archives, curator Ramón Castillo retraced both Antúnez’s international formation and his influence on the Chilean art scene. Initially trained as an architect in Chile, Antúnez secured a Fulbright grant in 1943 to study art in New York, where he attended Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17. Upon his return to Santiago in 1956, he founded his own engraving workshop, Taller 99, attended by important national artists like Roser Bru and Juan Downey. Antúnez’s interest in art education also led him to take part in the creation of the Universidad Católica’s School of Arts in 1959. Castillo’s exhibition offers an intimate gaze into Antúnez’s life and work, revealing the complexity of both. More importantly, the show considers the artist’s standing at the threshold of two epochs. A product of cosmopolitan modernity, Antúnez felt more acutely than most the changes that entry into the contemporary age would bring to Latin American art.
Figure 3. Construction of a lower ground floor at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago (photograph provided by the author)
This temporal aspect of Antúnez is even more clearly evidenced in the second exhibition hosted by the museum. El Museo en Tiempos de Revolución (The museum in times of revolution), curated by Amalia Cross, examined the pivotal changes made by Antúnez when he became the Fine Arts Museum’s director in 1969. The appointment, which just preceded the presidential election of Socialist candidate Salvador Allende, reflected the implementation of an equally revolutionary agenda that sought to do away with the museum’s elitist image. Appealing to the etymological roots of the word museum, Antúnez opened the institution’s doors to a plurality of artistic media, including music and live performance, while striving to attract new, more diverse audiences. He also oversaw an important refurbishment of the building that included the construction of an additional, underground exhibition space dedicated to recent art (Fig. 3).
Figure 4. Liliana Porter, Wrinkle Environment, 1969. 2019 re-creation of the piece in the Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago (photograph provided by the author)
While Antúnez shared some of the democratizing ideals of culture advocated by Allende’s government, his project to open the museum to new audiences and artistic practices—including an incipient conceptual scene—rejected strictly programmatic and propagandistic ends. Some memorable on-site interventions were performed under his tenure, including Juan Pablo Langlois’s Cuerpos Blandos (Soft bodies, 1969) and Cecilia Vicuña’s Otoño (Autumn, 1971), both pioneering the field of institutional critique in Chile. Through a display of archival documents and photographs, Cross’s curatorial work invites comparison of the infrastructural and conceptual modifications that took place in the museum. The exhibition also recreates an installation produced by Liliana Porter whom Antúnez had invited to exhibit in June 1969 along with Luis Camnitzer. A founding member of the New York Graphic Workshop (along with Camnitzer), Porter produced one of her “Wrinkled Environments,” a paper tapestry that covered the walls of the museum and which visitors were invited to modify by tearing away some of the sheets and discarding them on the floor (Fig. 4).
The 1973 military coup, which took place on the eve of an exhibition on Mexican muralism due to open a few days later, put an abrupt end to this period of political and artistic experiments and sent Antúnez into European self-exile. The return of a democratic government in 1990 allowed him to resume his work as director of the museum, a position he occupied until his death three years later.
Figure 5. Nemesio Antúnez: Panamericano, installation view (photograph provided by the author)
While these first two exhibitions focused on Antúnez during his time as director of the Bellas Artes, the show Nemesio Antúnez: Panamericano, which took place in the adjoining building of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), focused on a previous and lesser-known period of Antúnez’s professional life, namely his tenure as director of that museum (1962–64) and his influential role in rethinking contemporary artistic creation along transdisciplinary and cross-regional lines. (Fig. 5). According to the show’s curator Matías Allende, Antúnez remains a ghostly figure in the MAC, his vision haunting an institution which, when it opened in 1946, was the first museum of contemporary art in Latin America. Allende’s research focuses on the way Antúnez contributed to rethinking contemporary creation along three axes: the national, the popular, and the American. Indeed, while the off-site events he staged in modest neighborhoods of Santiago revealed an early ambition to democratize art, the organization of the first Biennial of American Printmaking (1963) showed Antúnez’s desire to build a bridge between avant-garde art and popular crafts on a continental scale. Moreover, using the connections he had made while studying in the US, his acquaintance with Alfred Barr in particular, Antúnez also piloted the organization of exhibitions comprised of works on loan from MoMA’s permanent collection. In this exhibition, Allende opted for a densely documented installation that could be overwhelming at times. Thankfully, this encyclopedic fervor was offset by the presence of short videos the curator commissioned from the video artist Flavia Contreras. Somewhat dramatizing Antúnez’s aura as an educator, these videos were fictional recreations of the cultural TV program Ojo con el arte (Watch out with the art) that Antúnez hosted for two seasons on national TV (in 1970–71 and for a second run between 1990 and 1993).
While the three exhibitions discussed above were products of independent research and curatorial planning, each of which focused on one facet of Antúnez, they may also be understood as part of a collective portrait enriching the prolific and multifarious contributions he made to Chilean art and cultural life. At the same time, the pivotal role played by the private Fundación Nemesio Antúnez in the planning of the centenary, an organization founded and directed by relatives of the artist, also begs the question of the public sector’s passivity in providing official recognition to one of Chile’s most important cultural figures. While the Fine Arts Museum, a state entity, and the MAC, a university institution that also relies on public support, did eventually take an active part in the celebration, the delays that occurred in the opening of the exhibitions were due in part to an initial lack of enthusiasm on the part of the State. Thus, while the exhibitions comprising the backbone of the centenary celebrations must be praised for their quality, they also highlight the problematic absence of public funding for culture in Chile and the ways in which the writing of art historical narratives continue to be relegated to the goodwill of private institutions and family estates.
RAAMP Coffee Gathering: My Gallery Is Bigger Than Your Gallery
posted by CAA — Nov 13, 2019
Coffee Gathering: My Gallery Is Bigger Than Your Gallery
On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2 PM (EST) RAAMP will be online with Michael Dickins, the curator and director of The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University. He will talk about the campus plan he created which enables him to share the gallery’s collection in the university’s community spaces.
“My formal gallery is 1500 sq. Ft,” writes Dickins. “My actual gallery is 186 acres of surrounding campus. I list my Gallery as my primary residence, but the rest of my campus is my second home, or better yet, a cultured land that includes some of my favorite vacationing spots.”
“I often use academic buildings, student common areas and the campus landscape to install works of art to not just boost the presence of the Department of Art+Design around campus, but as extensions of the gallery to educate students and the campus community about art and to generate conversations. These installations of artworks have bred collaboration between departments, administration and, more importantly, the facilities and grounds crews. They have also been excellent teaching opportunities for my students to learn about curating, installation, collaboration and managing red tape.”
To RSVP to this online coffee gathering, please email Olivia Knauss at oknauss@collegeart.org
RAAMP Coffee Gatherings are monthly virtual chats aimed at giving participants an opportunity to informally discuss a topic that relates to their work as academic art museum professionals. Learn more here.
Submit to RAAMP
RAAMP (Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals) aims to strengthen the educational mission of academic art museums by providing a publicly accessible repository of resources, online forums, and relevant news and information. Visit RAAMP to discover the newest resources and contribute.
RAAMP is a project of CAA with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — Nov 13, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Art Museum of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2018. Photo: Carlos Giusti/AP/Shutterstock, via ARTnews
Lin-Manuel Miranda Teams Up with Google for Major Art Digitization Project in Puerto Rico
The collaboration was formed after Miranda’s recent visit to the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan, which currently lacks a permanent space for exhibitions. (ARTnews)
What’s Next for Nonprofit Museums after the Closing of the Marciano Art Foundation?
The museum abruptly closed last week after laying off dozens of employees attempting to unionize, and now faces a charge from the National Labor Relations Board. (Los Angeles Times)
Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
Incorporate these practical steps into your teaching to minimize inequities and help more students succeed. (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
MoMA’s Revisionism Is Piecemeal and Problem-Filled: Feminist Art Historian Maura Reilly on the Museum’s Rehang
“Does Ringgold need to be linked with Picasso to validate her genius?” (ARTnews)
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Deadline extended! Annual Conference Committee Seeks Members
posted by CAA — Nov 12, 2019
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for two at-large members of the Annual Conference Committee to serve a three-year term. Terms begin February 2020, immediately following the 108th Annual Conference.
The Annual Conference Committee, working with the CAA Programs Department, selects the sessions and shapes the program of the Annual Conference. The committee ensures that the program reflects CAA’s goals for the conference, namely, to make it an effective place for intellectual, aesthetic, and professional learning and exchange; to reflect the diverse interests of the membership; and to provide opportunities for participation that are fair, equal, and balanced.
The Annual Conference Committee meets during the conference and at the call of the program chair and vice president for Annual Conference. Committee members also serve to support sessions comprised of individual papers and projects where a formal chair has not been identified.
Please send a 150-word letter of interest and a CV to Mira Friedlaender (mfriedlaender@collegeart.org), CAA manager of annual conference.
Deadline (extended): February 18, 2020
Announcing N. Elizabeth Schlatter as President-Elect of CAA
posted by CAA — Nov 11, 2019
We’re delighted to announce that N. Elizabeth Schlatter was elected at our October Board meeting as the new President of the CAA Board of Directors. She will succeed Jim Hopfensperger and serve a two-year term beginning May 1, 2020.
N. Elizabeth Schlatter is Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the University of Richmond Museums, Virginia. A museum administrator, curator, and writer, she focuses on modern and contemporary art and on topics related to curating and issues specific to university museums. At UR, she has curated more than 20 exhibitions, including recent group exhibitions of contemporary art such as “Crooked Data: (Mis)Information in Contemporary Art,” “Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape,” and “Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists,” She also serves on and chairs various University and School of Arts & Sciences committees. Prior to the University of Richmond, she worked with exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in Washington, D.C, and in fundraising at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. She is author of Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Novices and Students (Left Coast Press, Inc.) and a contributor to A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career (American Association of Museums). She has a B.A. in art history from Southwestern University in Texas, and an M.A. in art history from George Washington University.
Prior to this elected position, Schlatter was completing a 4-year term as a CAA board member, elected in February 2016. During that time, she served as Vice President for Annual Conference for two years, and in 2019 she served on the Nominating Committee and the Strategic Plan Task Force. She jointly initiated and assisted with the development of CAA’s Resources for Academic Art Museums Professionals (RAAMP), and prior to joining CAA’s board, she was chair of the Museum Committee.
Art Journal / Art Journal Open (AJO) Editorial Board Seeks New Members
posted by CAA — Nov 11, 2019
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for two individuals to serve on the Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board for a three-and-one-half-year term: January 1, 2020–June 30, 2023 Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals; institutional affiliation is not required. Art Journal, published quarterly by CAA, is devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture. AJO is an online forum for the visual arts that presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of original content. Committed to fostering new intellectual exchanges in the fields of modern and contemporary art, AJO prioritizes material that makes meaningful use of the web and publishes on a rolling basis.
The editorial board advises the Art Journal and AJO editors-in-chief and assists them in seeking authors, articles, artists’ projects, and other content for the journal; performs peer review and recommends peer reviewers; guides the journals’ editorial programs and may propose new initiatives for them; promotes and advocates for both journals; and may support fundraising efforts on their behalf. Members also assist the editors-in-chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and events.
The Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board meets three times a year, with meetings in the spring and fall plus one at the CAA Annual Conference in February. The fall and spring meetings are currently held by teleconference. Members are expected to pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference in February. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. Members may not publish their own work in the journals during the term of service. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on the Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please send a letter describing your or your nominee’s interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to Joan Strasbaugh, Managing Editor, at JStrasbaugh@collegeart.org or c/o CAA, 50 Broadway, 21st floor, New York, NY 10004.
Deadline: Sunday, December 8, 2019
Chalice Mitchell and Charlotte Brisland
posted by CAA — Nov 11, 2019
The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.
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This week, Chalice Mitchell and Charlotte Brisland discuss painting and relationships to public and private audiences.
Chalice Mitchell is an independent scholar, figurative painter, and occasional video artist who has just relocated back to the United States after living in Japan and the UK.
Charlotte Brisland is an associate lecturer in drawing and painting at University of the Creative Arts in the UK, and an artist borrowing painting’s language and playing with everyday landscape using light and space.
Chalice and Charlotte first met in Japan at a residency.
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — Nov 08, 2019
Atreyee Gupta reviews No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia, edited by Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh, alongside Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India by Rebecca M. Brown. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Stephennie Mulder writes about Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s volume The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Elizabeth Berkowitz considers Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, formerly on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Juliette Milbach discusses the Tate Britain exhibition Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Affiliated Society News for November 2019
posted by CAA — Nov 07, 2019
Affiliated Society News shares the new and exciting things CAA’s affiliated organizations are working on including activities, awards, publications, conferences, and exhibitions.
Interested in becoming an Affiliated Society? Learn more here.
Mid-America College Art Association
The Mid-America College Art Association is seeking to add a board member position to assist with financial aspects of the organization. The Association is an all-volunteer, national organization in the process of shaping a five-year plan (and beyond!) The Board meets once per month via ZOOM online meetings. If interested, please contact: Heather Hertel at heather.hertel@sru.edu.
American Society of Appraisers
Introduction to the Chinese Art Market, Challenges and Opportunities
Wednesday, February 5, 2019 | Webinar| 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET | $79 members; $119 non-members
In the past 20 years, the Chinese art market has grown dramatically, tracking the expansion of the Chinese economy, which is now the world’s second largest. This webinar will provide an overview of the socio-economic forces behind its dramatic growth and headline making prices at auction, and the challenges of appraising and advising on Chinese art. According to Artprice, since 2006, China has consistently been in the top three global art markets and is the largest in Asia. Some sectors are booming with prices often wildly exceeding auction high estimates, while others have stayed the same or declined. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in the field of Chinese art as an art historian, educator and appraiser, the presenter will address the following: the factors behind the growth of certain sectors, the role of mainland Chinese collectors and Chinese auction houses in driving the market, why the IRS will not accept realized sales from Chinese auction houses, the industry of fakes and forgeries of Chinese painting, sculpture, ceramics among other works of art and its impact on the market.
To see more upcoming ASA webinars and classes, click here.
William Morris Society in the United States
The William Morris Society in the United States is sponsoring two sessions at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle on January 11 and 12, 2020.
Our first session, “Re-evaluating the Pre-Raphaelites,” examines how recent exhibitions have reassessed Pre-Raphaelite art and design, from William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision at the Manchester Art Gallery in 2009 to the traveling exhibition Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement at venues through 2021. These displays have positioned the intersection of art, design, and literature as defining features of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement, marking them as both “avant-garde” and deeply engaged with the past.
Our second session, “Ecosocialism and the Late Victorians,” is co-sponsored with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and addresses how the late nineteenth century saw artists and writers, including Morris, plant the seeds of ecological concerns in socialist politics, leading to innovative approaches to both environmental and socialist ideas.
Interested attendees who are not members of MLA may obtain guest passes by contacting kellyann.fitzpatrick@gmail.com
For paper abstracts, panelists, and scheduling information, see http://www.morrissociety.org/MLA2020sessions.pdf
Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and University of Virginia Press are pleased to announce a new open-access, mobile-friendly edition of SAH Archipedia, an authoritative online encyclopedia of the built environment of the United States developed by SAH and Rotunda, the Press’s digital imprint, with lead funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities: sah-archipedia.org. The newly redesigned SAH Archipedia brings peer-reviewed scholarship to a worldwide audience of researchers, students, teachers, preservation advocates, cultural tourists and others interested in learning more about the architectural history of the U.S.
SAH will offer 36 paper sessions at its 2021 Annual International Conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The Society invites individuals and those representing SAH chapters and partner organizations to submit a session proposal for the Montréal conference. SAH membership is required to chair or present research at the annual conference; non-members who are selected to chair a session will be required to join SAH in August 2020. Session proposals covering every time period and all aspects of the built environment, including landscape and urban history, are encouraged. Session proposals are due January 14, 2020.
In a joint program with the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, SAH is pleased to offer the Charles E. Peterson Fellowship that will support the participation of a graduate student in the research and writing for a volume in the Buildings of the United States (BUS) series and/or SAH Archipedia. The recipient will research some aspect of American architecture prior to 1860, which they may choose from a list of topics provided by authors of forthcoming BUS books. The fellowship is intended for students currently enrolled in graduate programs in art or architectural history, architectural design, urban planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, American studies, or related disciplines. The application deadline is January 6, 2020.
Historians of Islamic Art Association
CFP: Regime Change
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
10.29–11.01.20
The aim of this conference is to focus on moments of “regime change” in Islamic art history and to also direct attention to “regimes” that structure our own field, raising questions of interpretation and method. We invite new research focusing on art and architecture after clear political ruptures (e.g., invasion, occupation, conversion); on the replacement of one symbolic order with another (e.g., public inscriptions in the urban space, changes in sartorial codes, new gender norms); and on the transfer of resources (e.g., artists, objects, libraries, treasuries) from one power to another. We also invite panels and papers that explore the potentials and pitfalls of new interpretive and methodological approaches to core questions about objects, material, and images, in both the academy and the museum.
Call for Papers
The submission deadline for pre-organized panels and single papers is December 1, 2019. For single papers, please submit as a single attachment a one-page CV and a paper abstract of no more than 250 words. For pre-organized panels (three or four papers), please submit as a single attachment one-page CVs for all speakers, and the panel abstract and individual abstracts, each no more than 250 words.
Please submit panels and papers to Christiane Gruber, Organizer (cjgruber@umich.edu). All other queries may be directed to Bihter Esener, Managing Organizer (besener@umich.edu).
Accepted speakers must be HIAA members in good standing by the time of the symposium. Speakers will have their travel expenses and accommodation covered by the University of Michigan and HIAA.
The 2020 HIAA Symposium Committee:
Christiane Gruber, organizer
Anneka Lenssen, Michael Chagnon, and Alain George, committee members
ACASA
ACASA Triennial 2020 Program Preview
ACASA 18th Triennial Symposium on African Art, June 17 – 21, 2020
The ACASA 18th Triennial Symposium on African Art will take place at DePaul University and the Art Institute of Chicago, June 17-21, 2020. This is the preliminary program:
Tuesday, June 16
Conference Registration, DePaul University Center
Wednesday, June 17
Museum Day and Reception, the Art Institute of Chicago. Separate registration required
Thursday-Sunday, June 18-21, 8am-5pm
Conference Panels, DePaul University Center
Thursday evening, June 18
Evening Reception at the Block Museum, Northwestern University
Friday evening, June 19
Awards Ceremony and Keynote Lecture by Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCA, the Art Institute of Chicago
Saturday, June 20, 5-9pm
Dinner and Dance Party, DePaul Student Center
For more and detailed information and registration, see:
ACASA website
Women’s Caucus for Art
Women’s Caucus for Art 2020 conference has a theme of Intersectionality
This conference, centered at Columbia College and concurrent with CAA, includes a wide range of panels and workshops.
The WCA 2020 President’s Award for Art and Activism will be given to Rose B. Simpson, a mixed-media artist, whose work addresses the emotional and existential impacts of living in the 21st century, an apocalyptic time for many analogue cultures. Her figures are often powerful matriarchs or elusively androgynous empaths who channel the spirits of high art, hiphop, lowrider attitudes, and long-lost ancestors of all kinds. Simpson’s work will also be discussed by Alicia Harris in the CAA panel on Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity.
WCA has a new LGBTQIA+ Committee. Those interested in joining should contact the chair, Emily Getsay: getsay.emily@gmail.com
There are two national juried exhibitions on view during the conference, February 12-16: “Collectively Shifting,” Cecilia Vargas, juror, at Bridgeport Art Center and “Intersectional History,” Donna M. Weeks, juror at Woman Made Gallery.
American Institute for Conservation
We’re looking forward to our 2020 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City! The theme is “Conservation – Reactive and Proactive.” Registration is now open! The full program schedule will be available shortly, so please continue to check our site for updated information.
Conservators play a vital role in protecting and preserving the objects and places that tell the story of our lives, history, and society. Become a Friend of Conservation and make sure our past has a future.
If you are interested in learning more about conservation and supporting the essential work performed by conservators, or want exclusive insights into conservation, including tips on preserving personal collections, learn about the benefits of being a Friend: www.culturalheritage.org/friends.
Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art and Architecture (HGSCEA)
HGSCEA is now accepting submissions for the Society’s 8th Annual Emerging Scholars Essay Prize, an award of $500 given annually to the author of a distinguished article or essay published the preceding year on any topic in the history of German, Scandinavian, or Central European art, architecture, design, or visual culture. Submissions, which must be in English and may be from electronic or print publications, must have a publication date of 2019. Applicants must be either current Ph.D. students or have earned a Ph.D. in or after 2015, and must be members of HGSCEAat the time of application. The deadline for submissions is 16 December 2019.
The Board is also seeking nominations and self-nominations for election to the HGSCEA Board for a three-year term to begin February 2020. Candidates for four at-large Board Members as well as for four Board Officers are all welcome. Each of HGSCEA’s three areas – Germany, Scandinavia, and Central Europe – should have at least one representative on the Board and candidates from all three of these areas are currently sought. Any member of HGSCEA in good standing may seek election to the Board. The deadline for nominations is 25 November 2019.
For more information on how to join HGSCEA, on the responsibilities of Board members, and how to submit materials either for the publication prize or for the election, please go to the HGSCEA website: http://hgscea.org/
Renaissance Society of America
RSA Travel, Diversity, and On-Site Care Grants
The Renaissance Society of America will hold its Annual Meeting in Philadelphia April 2-4, 2020. RSA members are invited to apply for travel, diversity, and on-site care grants. Each grant has a separate application with different requirements. Applications for conference grants are now live and can be found here. The deadline for all grant applications is December 3, 2019. Haven’t registered for the conference yet? Here is the link.
Day of Digital Learning
The RSA is pleased to offer a Day of Digital Learning on Sunday, 5 April 2020, the day after our Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (April 2-4, 2020). A tentative course list is now available to view. Signup will begin in January.
Innovative Teaching Grant Winners Announced
The RSA is pleased to announce our Grants in Support of Innovative Teaching of Renaissance Studies to High School Students will fund two projects this year. One examines the historiography of Spanish Arizona and the other highlights an inclusive Shakespeare curriculum. RSA President Clare Carroll announces our winners.
Renaissance Quarterly Open Access
The Editors of Renaissance Quarterly are pleased to provide complimentary access to two collections of articles from the journal, one relating to Islam and the Middle East and the other on The Americas.
SOCIETY OF HISTORIANS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN, EURASIAN, AND RUSSIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE (SHERA)
The Board of the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) is pleased to announce that Anna (Ania) Paluch of Carleton University has been awarded the SHERA Graduate Student or Independent Scholar Travel Grant to attend and present at the 108th CAA Annual Conference in 2020. She will be delivering a paper entitled “From Turtle Island to Vistula’s Shores: Indigenous and Slavic Futurisms in Dialogue” as part of the panel “The Present of the Future: Indigenous Futurisms in the Visual Arts” (Saturday, February 15, 2:00 – 3:30 PM in Continental B, Lobby Level). Paluch examines “the use of oral stories, memories, history, and cultural survivance within pop culture, contact zones, Native and Slavic Slipstreams and oral stories/legends as sci-fi (SF) narratives within Indigenous Futurism and Slavic Futurism, and how these genres are connected through those concepts.”
The SHERA-sponsored panel “Freezes and Thaws in the Socialist Bloc” will be held on Saturday, 4:00 – 5:30 PM in the Astoria Room (3rd Floor). This session will consider art from the former Soviet Bloc and beyond that tried to recuperate, revivify, or re-engage cultural formations that had previously been rejected or suppressed. Papers include: “A Classic(al) Russian Freeze: Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts” (Liana Battsaligova, Yale University); “Jugoslovenka and her Discontents: Feminist Resistance During Yugoslav Socialism & After” (Jasmina Tumbas, University at Buffalo); and, “Neo-avantgarde on repeat: Polish contemporary artists revisit the 1970s” (Magdalena Moskalewicz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
Association of Greek Art Historians (EEIT)
The 6th National Conference the Association of Greek Art Historians (EEIT) will be held November 22 through 24, 2019 at the Amphitheater of the Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos Street, Athens, Greece. Thirty eight papers will respond to the conference’s theme, “Periods of Crisis and Paradigm Shifts,” and will address the following topics: canonical narratives and their relative ‘paradigms’; paradigm shifts and epistemological ruptures; interdisciplinary approaches, technoscience and the crisis of humanist studies; and global art history, interculturality and art geographies. A keynote address by Mechthild Fend, professor of history of art, University College London, will investigate the theme of medical pathology in relation to the crises of the French Revolution.
More information is available at: https://eeit.org/news/6th-conference-of-history-of-art/?lang=en
Association of Art Museum Curators
Know a curator who is creating groundbreaking new work?
Nominate them for Association of Art Museum Curators’ Awards for Excellence, the annual prize dedicated to recognizing both affiliated and independent curators whose work offers new methodologies, considers the public’s understanding, and advances the field. Since their launch in 2004, nearly 200 curators have received an award from AAMC. Click here to view past Awards for Excellence recipients.
Only affiliated and independent curator(s) working in the nonprofit sector can receive an award. All nominations must be submitted by AAMC members in good standing. Those in other fields and in for-profit settings cannot be nominated. Self-nominations are welcome, encouraged, and will receive the same consideration as other nominations.
A nominator may submit more than one nomination in one or more of the following categories for work on view or published between January 1 and December 31, 2019:
- Printed Exhibition or Permanent Collection Catalogue
- Exhibition or Installation
- Article or Essay (digital or print)
- Digital Publication
Awardees are kept confidential until they are announced at the Annual Conference & Meeting during an Awards for Excellence reception on Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Seattle, Washington, USA. We hope that all Awardees will be able to join us at the event. Ability to attend the event does not influence the award selection process.
All nominations must be submitted through our online portal by 12PM ET on Monday, December 2. The deadline is fast approaching, so click here to submit your nomination today!
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education is thrilled to announce that University of North Carolina Charlotte will host our 18th Biennial Conference! Mark your calendars for April 1-3, 2021 and make plans to be there.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — Nov 06, 2019
A major brush fire broke out in the early morning hours of October 28, 2019, and consumed over 600 acres to the north and west of the Getty Center. Photo courtesy the Getty Blog.
Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire
Opened in 1997, the Getty Center is a marvel of anti-fire engineering. (Getty Blog)
Bristol University Appoints History of Slavery Professor
Professor Olivette Otele—who in 2018 became the UK’s first black female history professor—will take up the new role in January. (BBC)
Are You an Aspiring Arts Critic? The New York Times Is Launching a Paid Fellowship Program
The paper has launched a one-year fellowship “to help train the next generation of fine arts critics.” (artnet News)
Hampshire College Scraps Majors, Sets Sights on ‘Pressing Issues of Our Time’
The liberal arts college has announced a new curriculum model centered on issues like climate change, artificial intelligence, and social inequity. (Education Dive)
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