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Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — Nov 15, 2010
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles below.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
November 2010
Maryan Ainsworth, ed. Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance; The Complete Works (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2010).
Maurice Berger. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).
Susan G. Figge and Jenifer K. Ward, eds. Reworking the German Past: Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010).
Kenneth FitzGerald. Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010).
Gail Gelburd. Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul (New London, CT: Hispanic Alliance, 2010).
Wendy A. Grossman. Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Sumru Belger Krody, ed. Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats (Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 2010).
Theresa Papanikolas. Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada: Art and Criticism, 1914–1924 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010).
David Raskin. Donald Judd: Specifics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).
CAA Publishes an Important Addendum to Its Tenure Guidelines for Art Historians
posted by Christopher Howard — Nov 08, 2010
At its May 2010 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors approved a resolution that updates the Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians. Submitted by Anne Collins Goodyear, vice president for publications, the addendum urges academic tenure-and-promotions committees to consider and evaluate museum publications when making their deliberations. Exhibition catalogues, the resolution notes, may be published by an academic press or museum, or in association with a nonacademic press.
The following paragraphs, which are part of the addendum, provide background for the resolution:
During the past ten years, while academic publishing has been shrinking dramatically, museum publishing has flourished, moving to the forefront as the venue for much substantial scholarship in our field.
Museum exhibition and collection catalogues are not, by and large, peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. The long lead times required for blind peer review do not accommodate the tight schedules of most exhibition catalogues, which must appear when shows open. Yet exhibition catalogues do undergo a form of peer review. Though not blind, it is thorough, as the collaborative curatorial teams that produce exhibition catalogues, and museums’ editorial departments and consultants, carefully evaluate the scholarship contained within, striving to ensure that it is accurate and of the highest possible quality.
In the past, one argument lodged against exhibition catalogues has been that the essays can vary in quality. Some essays in exhibition catalogues—at times in the same catalogue—contain original, important scholarship, while others can be included for political reasons, perhaps to secure certain loans or financial contributions essential to the successful mounting of a show. In fact, this situation is not fundamentally different from scholarship published in festschrifts, anthologies, or other non-museum collections of scholarly essays. It is not unusual for some authors in such publications to be included for practical, rather than scholarly, reasons. Yet this does not disqualify every essay in these publications from being considered in tenure decisions.
Helen Evans of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lucy Oakley of the Grey Art Gallery at New York University authored the proposal, with input from the Publications Committee. The Professional Practices Committee, which reviews new and revised Standards and Guidelines, endorsed the proposal, which the board then passed.
The addendum has been added to Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians and joins updates made in 2005 and 2007. CAA encourages you to review all official Standards and Guidelines for professionals in the visual arts.
People in the News
posted by CAA — Oct 17, 2010
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the the instructions on main Member News page.
October 2010
Academe
John P. Bowles John P. Bowles, associate professor of African American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has earned tenure.
Eduardo de Jesus Douglas, associate professor of colonial and modern Latin American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has been granted tenure.
Janet Marcavage Janet Marcavage, associate professor of art in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been awarded tenure.
Clarence Morgan has been named 2010–11 Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor in the School of Art and Art History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Linda Williams, associate professor of art history in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been granted tenure.
Museums and Galleries
Margaretta FrederickMargaretta Frederick, curator of the Samuel and Mary F. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, has been appointed chief curator at the museum.
Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, a past president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, has been appointed curator of northwest art at the Portland Art Museum.
Kent LydeckerKent Lydecker, who led the Education Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for eighteen years, has been appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. He succeeds John Schloder, who retired in July after more than nine years.
Alexandra Schwartz, formerly coordinator of the Modern Women’s Project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been appointed curator of art at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.
Daniel WalkerDaniel Walker has become the Pritzker Chair and Curator of Asian Art and Chair and the Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois.
Organizations and Publications
Anne BarlowAnne Barlow, executive director of Art in General in New York, has been appointed curator of the fifth Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art, taking place in Romania in 2012.
William Carroll, an artist, curator, and gallerist, has been chosen director of the EFA Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York. He succeeds Francine Affourtit, who continues at the foundation as director of program development.
Chandra L. ReedyChandra L. Reedy, professor of historic preservation, art history, and Asian studies at the University of Delaware in Newark, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Studies in Conservation, the journal of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — Oct 17, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2010
Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Hawes, Two women posed with a chair, ca. 1850, daguerreotype, whole plate. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. P1999.13 (artwork in the public domain)The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has received a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $150,000 award supports the Access to American Photography initiative, which will allow the museum to digitize and catalogue nearly twenty-five thousand photographs from its collection.
Hedwig Beaker, Beaker with Lions, late twelfth century, blown (perhaps in mold) and wheel-cut, place of manufacture uncertain. Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass, 67.1.11 (photograph provided by the Corning Museum of Glass)The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). The honor signifies that the museum has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and has been subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Kennesaw, Georgia, has accepted a $2 million pledge to build an art museum that will house the school’s permanent collection. To receive a $1 million pledge from Bernard A. Zuckerman, a former carpet-industry executive, KSU must raise at least $1 million of its own in the next nine months.
An illustration class at the Maryland Institute College of Art (photograph provided by the Maryland Institute College of Art)The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has announced several new academic programs that have just started or will launch soon: an MFA in community arts (2010); an MPS in the business of art and design (May 2011); an MFA in curatorial practice (fall 2011); an MFA in illustration practice (fall 2011); an MA in social design (in development, fall 2011); and an integrated double-major BFA in humanistic studies and studio discipline (fall 2011).
Nathdvara, Rajasthan, India, Lotus groves of the Yamuna, nineteeth century, pigments on cotton (pichhavai), 167.5 x 174 cm. National Gallery of Australia, NGA 2009.121 (artwork in the public domain)The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has welcomed a $7 million gift from the Melbourne philanthropist Pauline Gandel and John Gandel AO. The donation will help develop the national art collection for future generations of Australians. Further, the newly named Gandel Hall will host openings, special events, public programs, and school and educational activities.
Claude Lorrain, Ideal View of Tivoli, 1644, oil on canvas, 117 x 147 cm. New Orleans Museum of Art (artwork in the public domain)The New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). This means that the institution has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and was subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — Oct 15, 2010
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles below.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2010
Julia Ballerini. The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael: Maxime Du Camp’s 1850 Photographic Encounters (New York and Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Publishers, 2010).
Anne Burkus-Chasson. Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010).
Carol G. Duncan. A Matter of Class: John Cotton Dana, Progressive Reform, and the Newark Museum (Pittsburgh, PA: Gutenberg Periscope Publishing, 2010).
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass. The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
Andreas Marks. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers, and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2010).
Andreas Marks and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, eds. Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 2010).
Affiliated Society News for October 2010
posted by CAA — Oct 09, 2010
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
The American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) has partnered with ARTES, a group based in the United Kingdom and Ireland dedicated to Iberian and Latin American art, to produce an annual issue of Hispanic Research Journal on the visual arts. To be released in December 2010, the issue will feature studies on Spanish and Latin American topics by Hilary Macartney, Jesusa Vega, Mercedes Cerón, and Rosemarie Mulcahy, plus a tribute to Nigel Glendinning by Marjorie Trusted.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) is currently seeking three new board members. If interested, please contact Karen Milbourne. Current issues of the new ACASA newsletter will now only be available to members; past issues are archived online. Please visit the website for more information on the upcoming 2011 triennial conference in Los Angeles.
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
The University of Houston will host the 2011 AAMG annual conference. Clockwise from top left: the Blaffer Art Museum, the Moores Opera House, and the Roy G. Cullen Building (photographs provided by the University of Houston)
The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) will hold its next annual conference, “Who’s Muse? Challenges to the Curatorial Profession in Academic Museums,” on May 21, 2011, at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum in Texas. Curatorial practices in academic museums and galleries are sometimes highly experimental. Faculty members from a wide variety of fields and with limited curatorial experience periodically recommend and help lead exhibition projects. The organization of exhibitions likewise engages both graduate and undergraduate students, museum-education professionals, librarians, and even area school classes in project leadership roles. Exhibitions thus generated offer unorthodox approaches to curatorial planning and execution. Appropriate to our scholarly mission, they can stretch disciplinary boundaries, cross-fertilize disciplinary methodologies, and generate wholly new paradigms for knowledge. Our academic museums and galleries thus become vital centers of original research, interdisciplinary dialogue, and participatory learning. While this democratic and laboratory approach to curatorial practice contributes in significant ways to the groundbreaking research and all-important teaching missions of our universities and colleges, it can also challenge conventional standards of the curatorial profession. Through the presentation of outstanding case studies and lively roundtable discussions, the 2011 conference will explore the pros and cons of the broad curatorial approaches found in academic museums and galleries. This year, AAMG will include a late-morning, lunch-period session, called HOT TOPICS, on current issues in academic museums and galleries. Submit your ideas for this session with your conference registration, vote, and select a HOT TOPICS table for lunchtime conversation.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) is offering a travel grant to cover CAA Annual Conference expenses up to $500 for an ABD student of historical art of the United States who will travel to the 2011 meeting in New York to participate in the program. The successful recipient must be enrolled in a graduate program and an AHAA member. Deadline: February 1, 2011.
AHAA is seeking to sponsor a 1½-hour professional session at the CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in 2012. Submission guidelines for session proposals are located online. Deadline: March 1, 2011.
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Starting in September 2010, the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) will send its membership directory electronically as a searchable PDF. Members who do not have email will continue to receive a hardcopy by mail.
At the CAA Annual Conference in New York in 2011, AHNCA members are invited to a free, private visit to the New York Public Library Prints and Photographs Study Room on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. Curators Stephen Pinson and David Christie will introduce members to highlights and rarely exhibited holdings in the library’s extensive collection of prints and photographs. There is no cost for AHNCA members, but space is limited. Please contact Elizabeth Mansfield before January 15, 2011, to reserve your place.
Historians of Islamic Art Association
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) will hold its second biennial symposium on the theme of “Objects, Collections and Cultures” at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. Taking place October 21–23, 2010, the program features an opening address by Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler; thematic sessions with formal presentations; seminar-style workshops on art objects in the museums’ collections; and a roundtable discussion on the arts of the object in Islamic art history today. The complete program and registration information are available online.
International Sculpture Center
The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 22, 2010. The evening’s festivities will include a cocktail reception, entertainment, and an art sale featuring works by Fletcher Benton, Chakaia Booker, Mark di Suvero, John Clement, Carole Feuerman, John Henry, Jun Kaneko, Donald Lipski, Jesús Moroles, Manuel Neri, Tom Otterness, Albert Paley, Joel Perlman, Judy Pfaff, Kenneth Snelson, Stretch, James Surls, Boaz Vaadia, and Mia Westerlund, among others to be announced. Also taking place are a raffle—with top prize being a one-week vacation in Saint Martin—and a Chinese auction with fabulous prizes. Honorary hosts for the evening include di Suvero, Snelson, and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz. Space is limited. Tickets are $350 per person, and tables are available for $3,000 and $5,000. Cocktails start at 6:00 PM with dinner at 7:30 PM. For questions or more information, please write to events@sculpture.org.
Japan Art History Forum
The Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) has awarded its the eight annual Chino Kaori Memorial Book Prize, which honors excellence in graduate-student scholarship in Japanese art history, to Christina Striker, a student in the PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Striker’s winning essay is titled “Creating an Origin, Preserving a Past: Arnold Genthe’s 1908 Ainu Photography.”
Pacific Arts Association
The Pacific Arts Association (PAA) will present its affiliated-society session at the CAA Annual Conference in February 2011. Called “Documenting Oceania after the Twentieth Century,” the session focuses on how artists and scholars document Pacific identities in the first decade of the twenty-first century through expressive forms such as social documentary film, the internet, the museum, and poetry. The panel redefines the form and purpose of the “documentary” as a point of reference for current and future scholarship about Oceanic art. Chaired by Bernida Anne Webb-Binder, PhD candidate in the history of art and visual studies at Cornell University, the session includes presentations from: Ursula-Ann Aneriueta Siataga, MA candidate in social documentation, University of California, Santa Cruz; Julie Risser, director and curator at the American Museum of Asmat Art, University of St. Thomas; Luseane Nina Kinahoi Tonga, PhD candidate in art history, University of Auckland; and Craig Santos Perez, PhD candidate in comparative ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Radical Art Caucus
The Radical Art Caucus (RAC) is gearing up to celebrate its tenth birthday at the upcoming CAA Annual Conference in New York. Benj Gerdes and Nate Harrison are cochairing the 2½-hour session, “Video Art as Mass Medium,” and Travis Nygard is organizing the 1½-hour panel, “Environmental Sustainability in Art History, Theory, and Practice.” Plan now to join us for a birthday toast on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:00 PM; see the Conference Program for location in the Hilton New York. Contact Joanna Gardner-Huggett, RAC secretary, if you have additional questions or news to share.
Society for Photographic Education
Student members of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) can apply online for scholarships to offset the cost of attending the 2011 national conference in Atlanta, Georgia, to be held March 10–13, 2011. Ten SPE Student Awards and the SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce feature a $500 travel stipend to attend the conference, one-year SPE memberships, and complimentary 2011 national conference passes. The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography offers a $5,000 cash prize, a one-year membership to SPE, and complimentary 2011 national conference pass. Download the form for complete rules and regulations. Direct questions to membership@spenational.org. Deadline: November 1, 2010.
Society of North American Goldsmiths
The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and Hoover and Strong have joined to create the Harmony Jewelry Design Competition, named after Harmony Metals, the environmentally sustainable metals from Hoover and Strong. Professional jewelry makers and students will compete in separate categories. The top-winning piece will be manufactured and distributed nationally by Hoover and Strong, with profits from sales benefiting the Nature Conservancy. Student winners will receive scholarships, and winners will receive a national award and have their names publicized nationwide; they will also be a part of a remarkable shift to environmentally sustainable materials in the industry. Visit the SNAG website or call 541-345-5689 for more information. Deadline: January 15, 2011.
The 2011 SNAG conference takes place May 26–29, 2011, in Seattle, Washington. Hosted by the Seattle Metals Guild and sponsored by Rio Grande, the exciting program of twelve speakers, exhibitions, and special events will address the theme of “FLUX.” Internationally recognized participants include: the keynote speaker Glenn Adamson; Valeria Vallarta Siemelink, cofounder of Otro Diseño Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development; the artist and sculptor John Grade; and Damian Skinner, an art historian, curator, and editor. Rising stars in the field—David Clemons, Masako Onodera, Miel-Margarita Paredes, Sarah Troper, and Stacey Lee Webber—will give talks on their work. Registration opens in mid-January 2011, and student and educator registration grants and discounts are available. For more information, please write to conference@snagmetalsmith.org.
SNAG seeks submissions of work for exhibitions held in conjunction with the Seattle conference. The Art Jewelry Forum will produce an exhibition onsite at the SNAG 2011 conference hotel in Seattle, curated by Susan Cummins and Mike Holmes. Additional exhibitions include Dual at Traver Gallery in Seattle and Co:Operation Tableware, an exhibition featuring work by pairs of artists who cooperatively create a set of tableware (functional or nonfunctional).
Southeastern College Art Conference
From November 9 to 12, 2011, the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) will hold its sixty-seventh annual meeting, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. The conference headquarters will be the DeSoto Hilton Hotel, located in the heart of historic Savannah. Featuring extensive panels and sessions for the exchange of ideas and concerns relevant to the practice and study of art, the conference will include the annual awards luncheon and the fourteenth annual members’ exhibition, as well as a rich array of tours, workshops, and evening events. The curator Dan Cameron will jury the SECAC members’ exhibition, to be held at one of SCAD’s premier venues, and present the plenary address. For more information, contact secac@secollegeart.org or secac2011@scad.edu.
People in the News
posted by CAA — Sep 17, 2010
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the the instructions on main Member News page.
September 2010
Academe
Cameron Cartiere Cameron Cartiere has been appointed dean of graduate studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia.
W. Mick Charney, professor of architectural history at Kansas State University in Manhattan, has been appointed coordinator of the university’s Faculty Exchange for Teaching Excellence for 2010–12.
Gregg Horowitz (photograph by Diana Pau and provided by Pratt Institute) Gregg Horowitz, formerly associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, will chair the Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Julia Morrisroe has been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Denise MullenDenise Mullen, an artist and academic art administrator, has been appointed president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland.
David RaskinDavid Raskin has been promoted to professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois.
Michael Yonan has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Steven Zucker (photograph by Lorenzo Ciniglio and provided by Pratt Institute)Steven Zucker, formerly dean of graduate studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, has been named chair of the History of Art and Design Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Museums
Brooke Davis AndersonBrooke Davis Anderson has been named deputy director for curatorial planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
Lynette Roth (photograph by David Johnson)Lynette Roth, currently Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, has been named Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, part of the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She will begin her new position on January 3, 2011.
Elizabeth Smith (photograph © MCA Chicago 2010)Elizabeth Smith, formerly chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, has been appointed executive director of curatorial affairs at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Organizations
Deborah Marrow (photograph by David Albanese and © 2005 J. Paul Getty Trust)Deborah Marrow has been chosen as interim replacement director and chief executive officer of board of directors of the J. Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, California, following the unexpected death of James E. Wood.
Jonathan NelsonJonathan Nelson, coordinator of the Art History Department at Syracuse University in Florence, has been appointed to the three-year position of assistant director for programs at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, also in Florence.
Affiliated Society News for September 2010
posted by CAA — Sep 09, 2010
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Committee of the Blue Shield to help recover cultural and historic artifacts damaged by the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010. Since April, volunteer AIC conservators, initially only members of the AIC Collections Emergency Response Team, have been working at the Haiti Cultural Recovery Center (maintained by the Smithsonian) in Port-au-Prince and onsite on wall murals, such as those at the Cathedral of Sainte Trinité. In addition to helping set up conservation labs at the center, conservators have performed assessments and treatments ranging from basic stabilization to more complete aesthetic reintegration. In addition to travel costs for the volunteers, grant support has, to date, enabled the purchase of over $8,000 in supplies and tools. AIC response is made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and AIC’s foundation.
Appraisers Association of American
The Appraisers Association of America (AAA) has launched its new website. New features include online registration and payment for courses and programs and an improved “Find an Appraiser” tool. Fall programs for fall 2010, which include study days, lectures, events, and the national conference, have also been announced. To register, AAA members will need to sign in and create a username and password.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The fifteenth triennial symposium of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, March 23–26, 2011. Proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables addressing the theme, “Africa and Its Diasporas in the Marketplace: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy,” are invited. Please read the triennial theme announcement for submission guidelines and information on travel support and stipends.
Association for Latin American Art
The second triennial conference of the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), called “Origins of State/Origins of Identity,” will be held November 13–14, 2010, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. The event coincides with the museum’s exhibition, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks from Ancient Mexico, and with Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology at the Getty Research Institute. Responding to the idea of discovery, the conference is divided into three panels reflecting the main areas of research undertaken by the association’s members: pre-Columbian art and architecture, viceregal and colonial art and architecture, and modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art and architecture. A PDF of the conference program is available for download.
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) acknowledges that students are one of the prime constituencies of all our institutions as well as our future colleagues and leaders. AAMG values the student voice and student participation, and to kick off this academic year it is offering free one-year student memberships from August 15 to October 15, 2010. To become a member, please send the required information via an online form, along with a digital copy (Word or PDF) of your unofficial transcript or student ID, to Emily Forsgren. Or, mail the application and copy of your student ID or transcript to: AAMG Membership, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2410.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) is offering a travel grant to cover CAA Annual Conference expenses up to $500 for an ABD student of historical art of the United States who will travel to the 2011 meeting in New York to participate in the program. The successful recipient must be enrolled in a graduate program and an AHAA member. Deadline: February 1, 2011.
AHAA is hosting a symposium, called “Current Research in American Art,” to be held at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, October 7–9, 2010. The event is free but attendees must preregister and be AHAA members.
To sustain AHAA’s mission of supporting scholarship, the organization has introduced a new lifetime membership. Dues are $750, of which $730 is tax deductible.
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) has announced that new and standing members may now pay electronically for their annual membership using Google Checkout.
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) is hosting its biannual conference, “ON STREAM,” in partnership with the Mid-America College Art Association, another CAA affiliated society. Held in St. Louis, Missouri, the event will take place March 30–April 2, 2011, at the Ball Park Hilton. The conference will explore connections and question the status quo of how “creativity” is being developed and fostered as we enter the second decade of the third millennium. For more details, please contact Jeff Boshart, conference coordinator.
Historians of British Art
The Historians of British Art (HBA) welcomes Peter Trippi as its new first vice president. Currently editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, he will serve a one-year term before assuming the post of HBA president.
HBA is accepting papers for an upcoming minisession of work by emerging scholars to be held during the HBA business meeting at the CAA Annual Conference in New York, February 9–12, 2011. Current or recent graduate students are invited to submit proposals for consideration. (If an applicant is a PhD recipient, his or her degree must have been earned within the past three years.) Papers may address any topic related to British art, architecture, and visual culture. Presentations or “works in progress” should be limited to fifteen minutes to allow for ample discussion. This minisession is an opportunity for informal presentations of new or ongoing research followed by open discussion. To submit a paper for consideration, send the following items to Colette Crossman, HBA second vice president: (1) a one-page abstract; (2) a CV (limited to two pages); and (3) a brief cover letter explaining interest in the field. Upon selection, presenters are requested to join HBA if they are not current members. Deadline: October 1, 2010; decisions made by November 1.
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
The Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) has announced the recipient of the Mary Vidal Travel Award: Iris Moon, a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. She will conduct research on the French architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.
Historians of Islamic Art Association
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) will hold its second biennial symposium on the theme of “Objects, Collections and Cultures” at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. Taking place October 21–23, 2010, the program features an opening address by Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler; thematic sessions with formal presentations; seminar-style workshops on art objects in the museums’ collections; and a roundtable discussion on the arts of the object in Islamic art history today. The complete program and registration information are available online.
HIAA is pleased to welcome Stephennie Mulder as the new editor of its listserv, H-Islamart, and to thank the outgoing editor Christiane Gruber for her years of exemplary service.
Historians of Netherlandish Art
The Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) has announced the submission deadline—March 1, 2011—for the Summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art: Please consult the journal’s submission guidelines for more information about the process. An open-access, peer-reviewed journal published twice per year, JHNA features articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (ca. 1400–ca.1750) and in other countries and later periods as they relate to this earlier art. These include studies of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, art conservation, museum studies, historiography, technical studies, and collecting history. Book and exhibition reviews, however, will continue to be published in the HNA Newsletter.
International Association of Art Critics
The United States section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA USA) launched a new website in mid-August. Designed to be more interactive and more attractive visually, the website will be an active tool for information about members’ professional achievements, such as new books, exhibitions, awards, participations in major conferences, and the like. In addition, AICA USA will publish cyclical reports on important issues related to art criticism.
AICA USA has elected a new president, Marek Bartelik, to serve from May 2010 to May 2012. Bartelik teaches modern and contemporary art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York and is a graduate critic-in-residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
International Association of Word and Image Studies
The International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) seeks submissions for the Max Nänny Prize for the best article in word and image studies. First awarded in 2008, the prize—named in honor of the late Max Nänny, a former IAWIS president—is presented every three years on the occasion of the organization’s triennial conference. Both members and nonmembers may submit already published articles, dated no earlier than three years before the submission deadline. Deadline: October 31, 2010.
IAWIS seeks proposals for papers for its ninth international conference, on the theme of “L’imaginaire/The Imaginary.” The meeting will take place in Montreal, Quebec, August 22–26, 2011. Descriptions of all sessions can be found online. Deadline: October 1, 2010.
International Sculpture Center
The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 22, 2010. The evening’s festivities will include a cocktail reception, entertainment, and an art sale featuring works by Fletcher Benton, Chakaia Booker, Mark di Suvero, John Clement, Carole Feuerman, John Henry, Jun Kaneko, Donald Lipski, Jesús Moroles, Manuel Neri, Tom Otterness, Albert Paley, Joel Perlman, Judy Pfaff, Kenneth Snelson, Stretch, James Surls, Boaz Vaadia, and Mia Westerlund, among others to be announced. Also taking place are a raffle—with top prize being a one-week vacation in Saint Martin—and a Chinese auction with fabulous prizes. Honorary hosts for the evening include di Suvero, Snelson, and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz. Space is limited. Tickets are $350 per person, and tables are available for $3,000 and $5,000. Cocktails start at 6:00 PM with dinner at 7:30 PM. For questions or more information, please write to events@sculpture.org.
Italian Art Society
The Italian Art Society (IAS) invites proposals for the 2011 Italian Art Society/Kress Foundation Lecture in Italy. The lecture series seeks to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the international community of scholars living or working in Italy. The lecture will be held in Florence in late May or early June 2011. The proposed lecture may address any period in Italian art but must relate to the city of Florence or the region of Tuscany; it also may not have been previously published or presented at another conference or venue. Application details are published online. Deadline: January 1, 2011.
Leonardo Education and Art Forum
The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF), a part of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, hosted a two-part panel on “Grand Challenges in Education” at the Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH on July 28, 2010. The participants addressed issues in education in light of new opportunities for participatory and collaborative learning in society. Speakers also responded to a white paper issued by the MacArthur Foundation called “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.” Panelists were: David T. Goldberg, Rebecca Allen, Pamela Jennings, Sarah Cunningham, Glenn Entis, and Marc Barr. Discussants were Donna Cox, James Foley, Andy van Dam, and Ellen K. Levy, with remarks by Roger Malina.
LEAF sponsored a meeting and workshop, called “Art-Science – Curricular Models and Best Practices,” at the 2010 International Symposium on Electronic Art on August 27, 2010. Leaders of the workshop, which was coordinated by Edward Shanken, were Jennifer Kanary Nikolov, Jill Scott, and Paul Thomas.
Fran Ilich was selected as the winner of the Media Art Histories (MAH) Leonardo Scholarship for notable contributions to the field. MAH is a collaborative project between Leonardo and the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems in Austria.
LEAF is sponsoring workshops at the Ars Electronica Festival, taking place September 2–11, 2010, in Linz, Austria.
Pacific Arts Association
The Pacific Arts Association (PAA) convened its tenth international symposium, “Pacific Art in the 21st Century: Museums, New Global Communities, and Future Trends,” from August 9 to 11, 2010, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. PAA hosted over eighty-three presenters and seventy-five presentations, highlighting issues surrounding the creation, dispersal, possession, repatriation, stewardship, and interpretation of Pacific art in the twenty-first century. The symposium welcomed three keynote speakers: Michelle Hippolite of Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand; Jean-Marc Pambrun of the Museum of Tahiti and Her Islands; and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki of Auckland University. Special exhibitions, artist presentations, and events included Janet Lilo’s TOP16, curated by Ron Brownson; a craft exhibition; Nanette Lela’ulu’s In the House of My Heart; Wrapping the Cook Islands: Tivaivai; and the launch of Art Monthly Australia’s special Pacific issue. Visit the symposium website for a complete list of presenters, abstracts, and schedule of events.
Society for Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) invites CAA members to gather at the Four Seasons in midtown Manhattan next month for conversation about the restaurant’s historical developments. This free event takes place on Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 9:00 PM. The gathering concludes a tour day in which SAH members will have spent studying the work of Richard Kelly, who was responsible for the interior and exterior lighting of the Seagram Building and the Four Seasons. Joining the group will be Belmont Freeman, the restaurant’s current restoration architect, and Dietrich Neumann, the tour leader, past SAH president, and editor of the forthcoming book, The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture.
Society for Photographic Education
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE) offers student scholarships to offset the cost of attending its 2011 national conference, titled “Science, Poetry, and the Photographic Image,” to be held March 10–13 in Atlanta, Georgia. A conference fee waiver and a one-year SPE membership are provided in addition to the cash awards.
Ten SPE Awards and the SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce feature a $500 travel stipend. The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography is generously sponsored by Freestyle Photographic Supplies and offers a $5,000 cash prize and recognition for the sponsoring faculty member.
Applicants must be SPE student members and current full-time students enrolled at a postsecondary institution as an undergraduate or graduate majoring or concentrating in photography but not graduating before the end of academic year 2010–11. Deadline: November 1, 2010.
Southeastern College Art Conference
From November 9 to 12, 2011, the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) will hold its sixty-seventh annual meeting, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. The conference headquarters will be the DeSoto Hilton Hotel, located in the heart of historic Savannah. Featuring extensive panels and sessions for the exchange of ideas and concerns relevant to the practice and study of art, the conference will include the annual awards luncheon and the fourteenth annual members’ exhibition, as well as a rich array of tours, workshops, and evening events. The curator Dan Cameron will jury the SECAC members’ exhibition, to be held at one of SCAD’s premier venues. For more information, contact secac@secollegeart.org or secac2011@scad.edu.
Visual Resources Association
The Visual Resources Association (VRA) 2010 Nancy DeLaurier Award, honoring distinguished achievement in the field of image management, has been given to Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring for their work on the Getty Vocabulary Program. The program is instrumental to standardizing image cataloging across the cultural-heritage community. Professionals in visual-resources collections, libraries, museums, and archives regularly use three important sources: the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, the Union List of Artist Names, and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names—all developed, sustained, and nurtured, primarily by these two individuals, under the auspices of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. Attesting to their ongoing vision of the future is their promotion of a new Cultural Objects Name Authority. The Getty Vocabulary Program not only provides uniform terminology to describe works of art, architecture, material culture, and other associated materials for metadata creation, but it also enhances access to online resources and the knowledge bases on which researchers rely.
Rose Art Museum to Lease Works from Its Collection
posted by Christopher Howard — Jul 12, 2010
The latest development at Brandeis University, which early last year decided to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its prized collection of modern art, is to lease works from its collections through a partnership with the auction house Sotheby’s. Selling works from the museum to alleviate the school’s recession-shattered endowment, critics say, is not off the table. The Rose collection ranges from classics by Willem de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg to more recent works by Dana Schutz, whose first museum exhibition was held at the Rose in 2006.
“The talks between Sotheby’s and Brandeis started a year ago,” writes Ellen Howards of the Boston Herald, but school officials cannot “predict which institutions might lease the art, which works could be made available or what sum a leasing deal would generate.”
A Boston Globe editorial proclaims that “Brandeis should only lend to institutions capable of caring for its artworks. And it should use any revenues to guarantee a future for the Rose.” In a bold statement, the paper also suggests that the university “deserves praise, not criticism, for trying to raise revenue through its collection.”
Geoff Edgars, also of the Boston Globe, offers recent precedents for the Rose’s controversial move: the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta have all rented artworks to other museums and institutions.
In addition, last week Brandeis announced the hiring of a new president, Frederick M. Lawrence, dean of George Washington University Law School. He will fill the position to be vacated by Jehuda Reinharz, who was responsible for the ill-fated idea to close the museum and sell its art, in January 2011.
NEA Releases Report on How Americans Use Electronic Media to Participate in the Arts
posted by Christopher Howard — Jul 06, 2010
According to a new report published by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Americans who participate in the arts through the internet, television, radio, computers, and handheld devices are almost three times more likely to attend live arts events than nonmedia participants (59 percent versus 21 percent). Users of technology and electronic media also attend, on average, twice as many live arts events—six versus three in a single year—and see a wider variety of genres.
The report, called Audience 2.0: How Technology Influences Arts Participation, looks at who is participating in the arts through electronic media, what factors affect their participation, and the relationships among media-based arts activities, live attendance, and personal arts creation. Audience 2.0 has determined that media-based arts participation appears to encourage—rather than replace—attendance at live arts events. Among the conclusions:
- Education continues to be the best predictor of arts participation among adults, both for live attendance and through electronic media. Survey respondents with at least some college education were more likely than respondents with a grade-school education to have used electronic media to participate in the arts
- For many Americans—primarily older Americans, lower-income earners, and racial/ethnic minority groups—electronic media is the only way they participate in arts events
- The 15.4 percent of US adults who use media only to engage with the arts are equally likely to be urban or rural
- Twenty-one percent (47 million) of all US adults reported using the internet to view music, theater, or dance performances in the last twelve months. Twenty-four percent (55 million) obtained information about the arts online
Audience 2.0 expands on the research published in the NEA’s 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). This survey, conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau and released last year, is the nation’s largest, most representative study of arts participation among American adults. Since 1982, SPPA has measured American adult participation in activities such as visits to art museums or galleries and attendance at jazz and classical music concerts, opera and ballet performances, and musical and nonmusical plays. SPPA categorizes these as “benchmark” activities, providing a standard group of arts activities for more than two decades of consistent trend analysis. Audience 2.0 takes a closer look at how audiences use electronic media to engage in these benchmark activities.
In an agency first, the new report is being released only in an electronic format that includes multimedia features. Chairman Rocco Landesman’s video greeting is accompanied by a video commentary on the report from Sunil Iyengar, NEA director of research and analysis. Additionally, each chapter will open with videos from arts organizations that represent each of the benchmark disciplines tracked by the report. Arts organizations can use findings from Audience 2.0 to better understand their audiences’ uses of technology and electronic media.
As part of its ongoing analysis of SPPA data, the NEA is making raw data and detailed statistical tables available to researchers and the public. The tables highlight demographic factors affecting adult participation in a variety of art forms.