CAA News Today
Manager of Annual Conference
posted by CAA — August 04, 2017
College Art Association
50 Broadway, Fl 21
New York, NY 10004
Date posted: August 2, 2017
Position Title: Manager of Annual Conference
Supervisor: Director of Programs and Publications
Full-time, salaried with benefits.
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association (CAA) is the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promoting the field through intellectual engagement, advocacy, programs and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. Each year, CAA offers an Annual Conference, publishes two scholarly journals and offers a variety of other programs. Visit CollegeArt.org for a complete description of programs and offerings.
CAA has more than 9,000 members worldwide. The majority of members are curators, art historians, scholars, visual artists and designers.
Responsibilities include:
- Answers inquiries and provides information related to the CAA conference. Maintain all conference-related records.
- Manages and maintains all proposal submissions for the CAA conference through the proposal submission database. Manages related correspondence.
- Assists Director with meetings of the Annual Conference Committee and with the scheduling of Annual Conference program including conference sessions, meetings, workshops, events, etc.
- Manages all aspects of applications to poster sessions and ARTexchange.
- Develops and maintains a pool of volunteers and mentors to serve CAA’s professional development program needs. Selects and assigns mentors and mentees. Manages mentoring workshops at the CAA conference.
- Assists Student and Emerging Professionals Committee and Services to Artists Committee with program planning and scheduling of activities and events.
- Assists Director with the planning of and correspondence related to special panels.
- Manages conference registration, reimbursements, and/or payments for special guest scholars, artists, and workshop leaders.
- Coordinates the CAA conference Awards for Distinction ceremony including: making arrangements for awardees; assisting with Convocation production.
- Assists with the development and drafting of all conference publications. Coordinates with designer. Maintains session information on website.
- Provides Communications department with content for CAA conference communications and presentations.
- Creates CAA staff schedule for the conference.
- Manages complimentary hotel reservations, including staff rooms, and acts as point person with service provider.
- Coordinates all aspects of on-site temporary conference staff including hiring, scheduling, training, supervising, and following up on invoicing and payments.
- Facilitates conference sessions and activities on-site. Oversees all AV needs for sessions. Acts as primary contact with AV service provider during the conference.
- Administers various travel grant programs. Maintains records and coordinates applications for travel grant applicants and recipients. Manages reimbursements.
- Works collaboratively to ensure smooth planning, operation, and close out of the annual conference.
- Assists with other program management as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum B.A., preferably in the visual arts, art history or related field.
- A minimum of three years experience planning large events and/or supporting academic conferences is required.
- Ability to work independently, organize work, and follow through on details.
- Experience with spreadsheets, systems and database management, and generally accepted programs and office equipment required.
- Excellent writing and editing skills and oral communication.
- Excellent customer services skills. Pleasant demeanor. Ability to remain poised under pressure.
- Flexibility, creativity, and initiative.
- Should possess tact, discretion, and the ability to work confidentially.
- Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
- The ability and willingness to work evening and weekend hours as needed. Some travel may be required.
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to Tiffany Dugan, Director of Programs and Publications via email (with “Manager AC” and applicant’s last name in subject line) at tdugan@collegeart.org. Applications accepted until all positions are filled. Please include the names and contact information for three references who can speak to your ability to perform the tasks requested. No telephone inquiries will be accepted.
The College Art Association is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression or political affiliation.
HOH/TD/August 2, 2017
Media and Content Manager
posted by CAA — August 04, 2017
College Art Association
50 Broadway, Fl 21
New York, NY 10004
Date posted: August 2, 2017
Position Title: Media and Content Manager
Supervisors: Director of Communications, Marketing, and Membership
Full-time, salaried with benefits.
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association (CAA) is the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promoting the field through intellectual engagement, advocacy, programs and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. Each year, CAA offers an Annual Conference, publishes two scholarly journals and offers a variety of other programs. Visit CollegeArt.org for a complete description of programs and offerings.
CAA has more than 9,000 members worldwide. The majority of members are curators, art historians, scholars, visual artists and designers.
Responsibilities include:
- Act as lead writer and editor for the communications, marketing, and membership department. He/she will be responsible for editing and creating content for CAA’s websites, newsletters, and member communications. The content and media manager is the protector of the CAA style guide and will convey a strong understanding of CAA voice.
- Strategize and collaborate on CAA’s social media growth and outreach. The content and media manager oversees content creation for social media platforms at CAA. The media manager should feel at home in the world of social media, both at CAA offices and outside the offices. A strong grasp on digital analytics is desirable with the ability to translate those analytical findings into actionable steps for social media growth.
- Serve as point person for a variety of incoming regular member communications and updates from CAA constituencies for editing and posting to website
- Handle press relations with the director of the department, acting as a writer of press releases and disseminator of news about CAA to the media. The media and content manager will also track press mentions and coverage of CAA.
- On occasion, the media and content manager may be asked to take on editing for other CAA departments.
- Additional responsibilities as needed.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of four years of college, preferably in the visual arts, art history or related fields.
- Strategic thinker and strong writer who thrives in a mission-driven organization
- Experience working with the press and media, including pitching stories and writing press releases
- Understanding of membership organizations and/or non-profits, preferably in the arts.
- A passion for social media practices and growth
- A strong grasp on digital analytics for social media
- Pleasant demeanor.
- Flexibility, creativity, and initiative.
- Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to Nick Obourn via email at nobourn@collegeart.org with Media and Content Manager and applicant’s last name in the subject line. Applications accepted until all positions are filled. Please include the names and contact information for three references who can speak to your ability to perform the tasks requested. No telephone inquiries will be accepted.
The College Art Association is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression or political affiliation.
HOH/NO/August 2, 2017
Programs Assistant
posted by CAA — August 04, 2017
Please note: This position has been filled. Thank you.
College Art Association
50 Broadway, Fl 21
New York, NY 10004
Date posted: August 3, 2017
Position Title: Programs Assistant
Supervisor: Manager of Programs
Reporting to: Assistant Director for Annual Conference and Director of Programs and Publications
(Part-time position, with approximately 25 hours per week, schedule may vary with flexible hours
Salary range: $20.00/hour. Limited benefits available.
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association (CAA) is the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promoting the field through intellectual engagement, advocacy, programs and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. Each year, CAA offers an Annual Conference, publishes two scholarly journals and offers a variety of other programs. Visit CollegeArt.org for a complete description of programs and offerings.
CAA has more than 9,000 members worldwide. The majority of members are curators, art historians, scholars, visual artists and designers.
Responsibilities include:
- Assists with data entry support, detailed record keeping, database document production, and producing reports.
- Assists with the coordination of the scheduling of the CAA conference sessions and events. This includes, but is not limited to, data entry, preparing spreadsheets, proof reading, and creating reports. Communicates with CAA departments on conference details as requested.
- Corresponds with conference participants, service providers, book and trade fair exhibitors, and general membership on conference-related matters.
- Provides internet research to source prospects for the CAA conference book and trade fair and college and university network hall.
- Prepare mailings sent to conference participants, exhibitors, advertisers, jurors, committee members, and volunteers. Document production and photo-copying.
- Assist with the development of all conference publications.
- Assists with the coordination of temporary conference staff including, scheduling, correspondence, and training.
- Provides on-site conference support, including but not limited to assisting with all aspects of conference logistics, checking set-up arrangements, posting signs, and providing hospitality as needed.
- Staffs Speaker Ready Room during the conference providing assistance to conference presenters and chairs as needed.
- Provides post-conference support including compiling and summarizing event statistics.
- Assists with financial recording keeping, including but not limited to, processing purchase orders and transactions, creating invoices, tracking expenses, and preparing ledgers and reconciliation reports.
- Provides research and creates reports.
- Assists with the Affiliated Society program.
- Performs various administrative and clerical duties for the Director of Programs and Publications.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum B.A., preferably in the visual arts, art history or related field.
- Ability to work independently, organize work, and follow through on details.
- Experience with spreadsheets, systems and database management, and generally accepted programs and office equipment required.
- Excellent writing and editing skills and oral communication.
- Excellent customer services skills. Pleasant demeanor. Ability to remain poised under pressure.
- Flexibility, creativity, and initiative.
- Should possess tact, discretion, and the ability to work confidentially.
- The ability and willingness to work on-site at annual conference as well as hours outside typical business day, as needed.
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter and resume to Tiffany Dugan, Director of Programs and Publications via email (with “Programs Assistant”and applicant’s last name in subject line) at tdugan@collegeart.org. Applications accepted until all positions are filled. Please include the names and contact information for three references who can speak to your ability to perform the tasks requested. No telephone inquiries will be accepted.
The College Art Association is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression or political affiliation.
HOH/TD/August 1, 2017
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — August 04, 2017
Amy Buono reads Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era, edited by Heidi King. The volume is “an important contribution to a profoundly complex yet largely overlooked artistic genre: Andean featherwork.” It “highlights both the difficulties of interpreting ancient Andean featherworking and its rich scholarly potential” and “is a superb resource for understanding how featherwork fits into the larger arena of Andean artistic practices.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Rhonda L. Reymond reviews Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality and African American Women, both edited by Laura Coyle and Michèle Gates Moresi, which are part of a series published by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. “These volumes deserve a place on library bookshelves enriching the photographic section in general and adding to the significant number of books examining or reproducing images of African Americans.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Anne Leonard discusses Interiors and Interiority, edited by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Beate Söntgen. Featuring “twenty-two essays, mostly by German and U.S. scholars,” the book argues that “the relationship between interiors and interiority is not limited to private spaces and individual psychology but engages just as ineluctably with complex dynamics of performativity, cultural mobility, technology, and material agency.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jenny Lin examines Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade by Winnie Won Yin Wong. The author “not only overturns accounts of Dafen as a factory full of exploited assembly-line painters, which she successfully reveals as strategically crafted fictions, but also unsettles contemporary art’s unspoken hierarchies and topples modernist and postmodernist assumptions about originality, authenticity, and authorship.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
CAA Launches CAA Commons in Partnership with MLA
posted by CAA — August 03, 2017
Dear CAA members,
For the past year we have watched conversations grow in discussion groups on CAA Connect, our online social community for members. We see how our members want to stay in touch and develop ideas around the visual arts and their work outside of our Annual Conference. Our CAA-Getty International Program Scholars, for example, have a discussion group with 280 posts and twenty library items. Our Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP) group has over 100 resources posted.
Now it’s time to expand the network. CAA is joining forces with the Modern Language Association (MLA) to become part of their Humanities Commons platform, and CAA will also have its own CAA Commons network as part of the partnership. The two networks (Humanities Commons and CAA Commons) will serve different purposes for our members, but we believe each will be of value. Humanities Commons is an open-access network where one can create a professional profile, discuss common interests in groups, develop new publications, and share work. The Humanities Commons network is open to anyone. CAA Commons will be the CAA member portal on the same network, where CAA members only can start discussion groups, contribute to discussion groups, and post resources for professionals in the visual arts.
CAA is not alone in joining Humanities Commons. Other members include The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), and the Modern Language Association (MLA), of course. Going forward we expect many more associations and organizations to join the network, creating a dynamic, interdisciplinary forum that CAA members can explore and use to expand the reach of their professional work.
Features of CAA Commons and Humanities Commons
- Join discussion groups or create your own on CAA Commons or on Humanities Commons
- Browse the Core Repository or deposit your own work: A collection of papers, images, and materials with open-access
- Create your own WordPress Website
Logging in to CAA Commons and Humanities Commons
Which email should I use to create an account?
If you do not have a Humanities Commons or CAA Commons account, you must create one. The CAA Support page can guide you through creating an account. Please note when creating an account, you must use your primary CAA member email address. If you do not remember this email address please log in to your CAA account to check.
I already have a Humanities Commons account
If you already have a Humanities Commons account, then you will automatically be added to the CAA Commons platform and have full access.
Please note that you DO NOT use your CAA Member ID to log into Humanities Commons or CAA Commons.
For more information about creating an account and extensive FAQs about CAA Commons and Humanities Commons, please visit the CAA Support page.
By joining CAA Commons, you are accepting the Terms & Conditions of the platform.
If you have any questions, please contact us at caa@hcommons.org.
Sincerely,
Hunter O’Hanian
Executive Director
Chief Executive Officer
Kathleen FitzpatricK
Project Director,
Humanities Commons, Modern Language Association
August 2017 Picks from CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts
posted by CAA — August 01, 2017
Hương Ngô: To Name It is to See It
Firelei Báez: Vessels of Genealogies
DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton, Chicago, IL
April 27–August 6, 2017
Hương Ngô, study for the video Hidden from Plain Sight, 2017 (artwork © Hương Ngô)
In concurrent exhibitions, the DePaul Art Museum presents Firelei Báez, Vessels of Genealogies, and Hương Ngô, To Name It is to See It. Báez, a Miami-based Dominican-American artist, is known for her use of textiles, patterns, and bright colors. She often depicts identity through the use of hairstyles and tattoos in her large-scale paintings, evoking both beauty and political implications “for those whose cultural identities have remained traditionally absent from dominant culture.” While Báez migrated to the United States, her work also addresses identity formation experienced by those who grew up in Latin, Caribbean, and African regions. She “challenges the basic idea of how race is experienced in the US—a condition defined as binary and black or white. In her work, one can appreciate that she is many cultures. She expresses the consciousness of a new generation eager to embrace their cultural prowess in terms of hybridity.”
In To Name It is to See It, Ngô, focuses on Vietnamese anticolonial organizer Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai. Ngô draws connections between language and seeing. The artist said, “‘To Name It Is To See It’ evokes the promise of a discursive practice, identifying an injustice by name is the first step to understanding it and working towards change. At the same time, there is deception to the title because identification was a preoccupation of the colonial authorities….” The exhibition by Ngô features more than twenty-five individual pieces of art ranging from photos to video and fabrics.
SaveArtSpace: The Future is Female
Through Summer 2017
Various locations throughout New York City
In this all-woman gallery and public art exhibition, The Future Is Female by SaveArtSpact features female artists on advertising spaces and billboards throughout the New York City area during summer 2017. The exhibit aims to expand upon the mainstream definition of “the female gaze” through works that reflect the multifaceted reality of womanhood in the twenty-first century and that expand upon society’s traditional ideals of femininity.
“One such woman is artist Elise Peterson,” writes Priscilla Frank in a HuffPost review, “whose piece Grace Meets Matisse injects a photographic image of Grace Jones into Henri Matisse’s 1910 Dance, placing her in the center of a ring of naked dancers. The image puts Jones’ black body into an image previously filled with white bodies, juxtaposing the flesh of the painted figures with the three-dimensional glow of Jones’ self-actualized body, mid-performance.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/feminist-art-new-york-billboards_us_594abba7e4b0312cfb60fb92)
The work was curated by Meryl Meisler, Marie Tomanova, Alyse Archer-Coité, Sandra Hong, and Brittany Natale. In addition to Peterson, artists include Allie Kelley, Beth Brown, Fanny Allié, Jess Whittam, Julie Orlick, Lissa Rivera, Mónica Félix, Nina Summer, and Sara Meadows. Peterson’s work can be viewed in various locations throughout New York City, including Grand Street and Ludlow Street (343 Grand Street).
Jeanine Oleson
Commonwealth & Council
3006 W 7th St. Suite 220, Los Angeles, CA
July 8–August 19, 2017
The amplification of sound and image is at the center of Jeanine Oleson’s powerful exhibition at Commonwealth & Council. Using natural materials such as shell and glass within a performance-based lexicon, Oleson examines the effects of production under late capitalism, the meanings of community, and bodily experience. Three-dimensional imaging technology is employed to render visible what we already see but which we might not value; and elsewhere a transducer speaker made of shell expertly turns an object of childlike wonder into a proxy for political speech. Although not specifically positioned as a pendant to Oleson’s Hammer exhibition, concurrently on view, many of the interests in the two shows are similar, and benefit from a close read. At issue in both is how one might become a conductor—realizing the longing for a political elsewhere—using materials of the body and the world?
CUNT
Venus Over Los Angeles
601 S Anderson St, Los Angeles, CA
July 15–September 2
Although more iconographic than strictly historical, this group exhibition brings together six feminist artists who address the visuality of female bodies and their attendant sexualities. Betty Thompkins, Carolee Schneemann, VALIE EXPORT, Judith Bernstein, Dorothy Iannone, and Marilyn Minter may each depict the vulvic, but their similarities end there. Iannone’s confessional work, I Was Thinking of You (1975/2006), displays a video of artist’s face while she masturbates, housed in a lovingly decorated cabinet which recounts an old story of love and abuse (the text on the cabinet’s exterior begins: “You walk into my quarters 2000 years ago which are outside the city gates….”) The exhibition features new work by some of the artists—most notably a large black-light mural by Bernstein, in which a giant limp phallus covered in swastikas comes to stand for the “Trumpery” of America’s current political hierarchy. Nearby, a vagina dentata seems to be growing out of the official seal of the United States. It is a caustic and damning work—one filled with heaps of rage and anger—revealing why explicitness in our lives, politics, and art are as necessary as ever.
As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
July 1–October 9, 2017
As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings presents twelve of this major Abstract Expressionist artist’s large-scale paintings. Made over the course of her long career, these works explore the tension between abstraction and representation and demonstrate her engagement with the landscape painting tradition. In particular, she found inspiration in the idyllic, wooded landscapes of the northeastern United States, home of the Clark Art Institute. Spanning the full range of styles, techniques, and formal preoccupations that Frankenthaler explored over five decades of work, these paintings are primarily abstract, yet reveal recognizable elements from the landscape that function, paradoxically, to reinforce their abstraction: as in nature, but not as in nature. As she said of one of her most iconic paintings, Mountain and Sea (1952), “The landscapes were in my arms as I did it. I didn’t realize all that I was doing. I was trying to get at something—I didn’t know what until it was manifest.”
A publication, authored by guest curator Alexandra Schwartz, with contributions by Christina Kee, accompanies this exhibition.
Marina Abramović: The Cleaner
Gammel Strandvej 13
DK 3050 Humlebaek, Denmark, Copenhagen
June 17–October 22, 2017
This summer, the Louisiana Museum of Art presents Marina Abramović: The Cleaner, the first major European retrospective presentation of this pioneering body and performance artist. The exhibition at Louisiana comprises more than one hundred works and spans more than five decades—from early concept sketches, paintings, and sound works to presentations of the artist’s performances—including her collaboration with former partner Ulay. Reperformances of an early work form part of the exhibition as well. The exhibition is structured chronologically, beginning with her Sound Corridor (War) of 1971, where the spectator is inundated with the sounds of gunfire, and ending with her quieter and more transformative works.
Marina Abramović: The Cleaner has been developed in a dialogue with the artist and is organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, and Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — July 28, 2017
Kris Cohen visits Josh Kline: Freedom at the Portland Art Museum. “The first work in a projected five-work cycle,” Freedom imagines “a future that extends out from the present’s particular techno-economic landscapes.” The artist “takes the technologies and labor economies of neoliberalism not just as the context for his work but as the medium,” and the show is “far more esoteric than Kline admits.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Elaine K. Gazda reads Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples: Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE–79 CE) by Mantha Zarmakoupi. The author “argues that by appropriating selected elements of Hellenistic and Roman architecture designers created a new architectural language for Roman luxury villas.” The book’s “primary contribution” lies in its “analyses of the physical components of this language.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jessica Stephenson reviews Shannen L. Hill’s Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness. The author “offers a convincing reconsideration of the contributions” that Black Consciousness and Stephen Biko’s “meaning and legacy” give “to a visual culture of liberation in South Africa.” Presenting “an impassioned redress,” she argues that this history has previously been marginalized and willfully misread. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Making Changes for the Future
posted by CAA — July 27, 2017
Dear CAA members,
CAA exists to serve its members and the wider community of arts and culture professionals. Many of our members are facing challenging fiscal dynamics in their own institutions. They have seen opportunities to attend professional conferences and discretionary departmental budgets decrease. Even more concerning is the lack of new professional opportunities for those entering the field as the number of full time and tenured positions continues to decline.
We know how integral our staff is to serving our 9,000 individual and 600 institutional members. Recently, we took a closer look at our staffing at CAA in relation to changes in the higher education landscape, the visual arts field, and the ecosystem of associations. We discovered that in order to move forward as an organization CAA had to reduce its organizational footprint. Coming to this realization was difficult but we also knew we did not want to simply cut staff.
With this reality in mind, last spring we worked to reduce the size of the CAA staff. Based on my recommendation, the Board of Directors adopted a 2018 budget that matched realistic revenue projections against actual expenses. We offered an Employee Exit Incentive Plan, a plan of choice, to all staff. Several people took the plan. We are saddened to see staff at CAA leave. Some have served the organization for many years and contributed to much of what makes CAA tick. But we also know they are headed for new adventures professionally and personally, and we are proud to offer them support and security as they embark.
The departures at CAA gave us a rare opportunity to restructure the organization, to look at every department and assess its work and goals. It also gave us the chance to hire for a few new mission-driven positions. Programming is important to CAA and its members, and as part of the new structure we expanded programs and placed publications, one of our flagship programs, in that department. The publications department will not change fundamentally and will continue to produce exemplar issues of Art Journal and The Art Bulletin, as well as outstanding digital content in Art Journal Open and caa.reviews. Tiffany Dugan has been named the director of programs and publications to lead the new department. Communications and marketing will also grow as a department as it joins forces with membership services, a pairing that will bring more clarity to how we communicate with our members and how we will look to build our membership in the coming years. The newly formed communications, marketing, and membership department will be led by Nick Obourn. Lastly, our finance department will take the IT department under its wing, forming what will be the center of operations for CAA. Teresa Lopez will lead that department.
We know this is a lot to digest, but we felt it necessary to explain things in full. Restructuring CAA was difficult for us as an organization, but it was a decision we had to make to gain stability and ensure that we exist to serve our members and professionals in the visual arts for another 106 years. These changes will not result in any reduction of services or support to our members and the visual arts field at large.
In the coming weeks we will also announce exciting new offerings for our members at CAA. Stay tuned!
We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles, February 21–24, 2018 for the 106th Annual Conference.
Please reach out to us at 212-691-1051 or nyoffice@collegeart.org if you have any questions at all.
In Memoriam: Dina Bangdel, Art Historian and CAA Board Member
posted by CAA — July 26, 2017
We were very sad to learn of the early and sudden passing of CAA Board Member Dina Bangdel. Dina, who was a long-standing member of CAA, joined our Board of Directors in 2016. Prior to that, she was on CAA’s Nominating Committee and served as the Board liaison to the Education Committee. In addition, Dina was active in the Student and Emerging Professionals Committee (SEPC) and the Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA). She is survived by her husband, Dr. Bibhakar Shakya, and her children, Deven and Neal.
Dina was Director of the Art History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. A more complete obituary can be found here.
In addition, here is a wonderful interview with her.
We will all miss her warm smile and thoughtful participation at CAA.
To send condolences to her family:
Dr. Bibhakar Shakya
3029 Crossfield Road
Richmond, VA 23233
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — July 21, 2017
Edith Wolfe visits Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans. The exhibition is “charged with a political urgency at odds with the artist’s restrained forms,” yet “the triumph—and challenge—of Pendleton’s language-based enquiries reside in their capacity to interrogate system and process as provocatively as they explore the African American experience.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Erin M. Rice reviews African Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection with contributions by Duncan Clarke and Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga. While “the text itself does not provide the groundbreaking research the authors call for, it does highlight parts of a collection with great potential for future in-depth, object-based research,” and “the book is superbly illustrated with quality, color photographs.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Elisa A. Foster reads Toledo Cathedral: Building Histories in Medieval Castile by Tom Nickson. The author “endeavors to untangle the complicated and often tacitly accepted ‘building history’ of the cathedral’s construction.” “A wonderfully interdisciplinary study,” the “impressive” volume “is a significant contribution to recent scholarship on medieval Spain as well as Gothic architecture more broadly.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Tirza True Latimer discusses the reopening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Although the architecture, which “more than doubles” the galleries, offers “the tacit promises of disruption,” “the artworks exhibited in SFMOMA’s inaugural year are predominately canonical.” Only “time will tell what stories can be told and how the holdings can be differently expanded, displayed, and contextualized.” Read the full review at caa.reviews.