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posted by CAA — Jul 05, 2019
Myriam Pilutti Namer reviews the two-volume book Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles by Elizabeth Angelicoussis. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Trevor Stark discusses the English translation of Sebastian Egenhofer’s Towards an Aesthetics of Production. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Yukiko Kawamoto explores A History of Roman Art by Steven L. Tuck. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — Jul 03, 2019
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Capitol Building, Arts Advocacy Day 2019. Photo: Joelle Te Paske
US House Passes Funding Bills with Increased Spending for the NEA and NEH
Great news for arts advocacy! On June 25th, the US House rejected the Trump administration’s budget request to eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by approving $167.5 million in funding for fiscal year 2020. This is an increase for both agencies of $12.5 million over the 2019 funding level of $155 million. The funding increase matches the 2019 Arts Advocacy Day ask, which CAA participated in. The Senate vote will follow after the July 4th recess. (The Hill)
One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”
The RISD Museum has held a Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. “No one would have given it up unless under duress,” the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating is no simple matter. (Hyperallergic)
Art Collector Agnes Gund Signs Letter in Support of Wealth Tax
Agnes Gund is one of 19 multimillionaires and billionaires calling for a wealth tax on the “fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1 percent of Americans—on us.” (ARTnews)
British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons
“Social prescribing” will enable doctors in the UK to prescribe therapeutic art-based treatments. (Smithsonian)
Ten Proposals for a More Ethical Art History: An Undergraduate Perspective
“Higher education institutions seem to spend a lot of time talking about students, talking to students, asking things of students, but not necessarily talking with or listening to students.” (Material Collective)
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posted by CAA — Jun 28, 2019
Marta Zboralska explores the Cooper Hewitt exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Dario Donetti discusses Peter Fane-Saunders’s Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Elena Tiribilli reviews Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt by Campbell Price. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — Jun 26, 2019
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Installation view of 60 Years at Tate Britain. Photo: Naomi Polonsky for Hyperallergic
POWarts Releases the Results of Its Art-World Salary Survey
the nonprofit POWarts recently released the results of its salary survey comparing compensation levels in the visual arts field at for-profit and nonprofit organizations. (POWarts)
Association of Art Museum Directors Calls for End of Unpaid Internships
While the AAMD resolution may be a small measure in the full context of museum operations, it could lead to helpful consequences for workers getting their start. (ARTnews)
Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of sixty women artists from the museum’s permanent collection tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation. (Hyperallergic)
Survey: The Impact of Negative Supervisory Behaviors on the Graduate Student Experience
Are you a former graduate student who had negative encounters with supervisors during your studies? Share your experience in this anonymous survey about advisor-graduate student relationships. (via Twitter)
Artists Reflect on How Stonewall Changed Art
On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, artists, writers, and activists share how that moment affected queer life in New York City, and their own creative practices. (Artsy)
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posted by CAA — Jun 21, 2019
Emilie Boone reviews the catalogue I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100, by Wil Haygood, Carole Genshaft, Nannette V. Maciejunes, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, and Drew Sawyer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Aneta Georgievska-Shine covers the exhibition Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Farshid Emami discusses the book Persian Art: Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A by Moya Carey. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — Jun 19, 2019
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Andrea Bowers’s artwork Open Secret at Art Basel. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
Artist Andrea Bowers Apologizes Over Tone-Deaf #MeToo Piece at Art Basel
“While I believe Bowers’s work is well-intentioned, to use women’s names and stories—and in Helen [Donahue]’s case, photographs of her face—without their consent in a work about consent strikes me as irresponsible at best.” – Deirdre Coyle (The Cut)
Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale Closes Amid Extradition Bill Protests
Artists and cultural workers have been among the most vocal critics of the draft law. (South China Morning Post)
Petition Filed to Create First Union for Guggenheim Museum Staff
The pay scales of workers at prestigious museums are gaining increasing attention. (New York Times)
Fifteen Young LGBTQ Artists Driving Contemporary Art Forward
Fifteen artists share the ideas behind their work and their most recent artistic endeavors. (Artsy)
Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of sixty women artists from the museum’s permanent collection tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation. (Hyperallergic)
CAA Announces Inaugural Recipients of the Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions
posted by CAA — Jun 19, 2019
2018 CAA Annual Conference. Photo: Rafael Cardenas
In fall 2018, we announced CAA had received an anonymous gift of $1 million to fund travel for art history faculty and their students to special exhibitions related to their classwork. The generous gift established the Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions.
The jury for the Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions met in May 2019 to select the first group of recipients as part of the gift.
The awardees are:
Catherine Girard, Eastern Washington University
Class: Topics in Art History: Manet Inside Out
Exhibition: Manet and Modern Beauty at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Luis Gordo Peláez, California State University Fresno
Class: Arts of the Colonial Andes
Exhibition: Art & Empire: The Golden Age of Spain at The San Diego Museum of Art
Alison Miller, University of the South
Class: Japanese Print Culture
Exhibition: Yoshitoshi: Spirit and Spectacle at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Rachel Stephens, University of Alabama
Class: American Portraiture
Exhibition: Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now at the Birmingham Museum of Art
“We’re delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions, a groundbreaking CAA program designed specifically to enhance students’ first-hand knowledge of works of art,” said Hunter O’Hanian, CAA’s executive director. “The new Fund places a spotlight on the critical work art history scholars are doing to grow the field, with CAA as the go-to organization supporting and advancing their work.”
The Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions supports travel, lodging, and research efforts by art history students and faculty in conjunction with special museum exhibitions in the United States and throughout the world. Awards are made exclusively to support travel to exhibitions that directly correspond to the class content, and exhibitions on all artists, periods, and areas of art history are eligible.
Applications for the second round of grants will be accepted by CAA beginning in fall 2019. Deadlines and details can be found on the Travel Grants page.
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — Jun 14, 2019
Emily Orr covers two publications on Norman Bel Geddes, The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip, and Nicolas P. Maffei’s Norman Bel Geddes: American Design Visionary. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Sonya S. Lee discusses the exhibition The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka, currently on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
James King, FRSC, reviews Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries by Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Announcing the Recipients of the 2019 Spring Millard Meiss Publication Fund Awards
posted by CAA — Jun 13, 2019
The Millard Meiss Publication Fund is made possible by a generous bequest of the late Prof. Millard Meiss. Two times each year, CAA awards grants to publishers in art history and visual culture to support presses in the publication of projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit that may not generate adequate financial return.
The Meiss grantees for spring 2019 are:
Bajorek, Jennifer, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa, Duke University Press, 2019.
Busbea, Larry, The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Fozi, Shirin, Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200, Penn State University Press, 2020.
Guinness, Katherine, Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Naoi, Nozomi, Beyond the Modern Beauty: Takehisa Yumeji and the New Mediascape of Early Twentieth-Century Japan, University of Washington Press, 2019.
Newbury, Susanna, Speculations: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles, University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Overton, Keelan, Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700, Indiana University Press, 2020.
Schwartz, Vanessa R., Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion, Yale University Press, 2020.
Sichel, Kim, Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France, Yale University Press, 2020.
Silberstein, Rachel, Embroidered Figures: Fashion and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century China, University of Washington Press, 2020.
VanDiver, Rebecca, Negotiating Traditions: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Composite Aesthetics of Blackness, Penn State University Press, 2020.
Zinman, Gregory Austen, Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, University of California Press, 2020.
Celebrate Pride with CAA’s LGBTQ+ Article Collection
posted by CAA — Jun 13, 2019
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and in celebration of Pride Month, we’ve made a collection of articles from Art Journal and The Art Bulletin focused on LGBTQ+ histories and perspectives free to read and explore online.
These articles will remain open access on Taylor & Francis through August 31, 2019.
We wish to thank Edward Rossa, CAA Summer 2018 intern, for his research on this archive.
Learn more about Art Journal and The Art Bulletin.