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caa.reviews Seeks One Editorial-Board Member
posted by CAA — February 01, 2011
An online journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of new books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts.
caa.reviews Editorial Board
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for one individual to serve on the caa.reviews Editorial Board for a four-year term, July 1, 2011–June 30, 2015. Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals with stature in the field and experience in writing or editing book and/or exhibition reviews; institutional affiliation is not required. The journal also seeks candidates with a strong record of scholarship and at least one published book or the equivalent who is committed to the imaginative development of caa.reviews.
The editorial board advises the editor-in-chief of and field editors for caa.reviews and helps them to identify books and exhibitions for review and to solicit reviewers, articles, and other content for the journal; guides its editorial program and may propose new initiatives for it; and may support fundraising efforts on the journal’s behalf. Members also assist the editor-in-chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, and events in their fields.
The caa.reviews Editorial Board meets three times a year: twice in New York in the spring and fall and once at the CAA Annual Conference in February. CAA reimburses members for travel and lodging expenses for the two New York meetings in accordance with its travel policy, but members pay these expenses to attend the conference.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please send a letter describing your interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to: caa.reviews Editorial Board, College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001; or email the documents to Alex Gershuny, CAA editorial associate. Deadline: April 15, 2011.
Updated on March 30, 2011.
Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for January 2011
posted by CAA — January 10, 2011
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following symposium, conference sessions, and exhibitions should not be missed. Check the archive of CWA Picks at the bottom of the page, as several museum and gallery shows listed in previous months may still be on view.
January 2011
Women and the Word: Muslim Women Artists Explore Spirit, Form, and Text
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
1433 Madison Street, Oakland CA 94612
January 3–March 30, 2011
The art gallery of the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California is the first San Francisco Bay Area space to specialize in Muslim artists and Islamic art. From January to March 2011, the gallery will mount three one-woman shows of work by local artists who explore the Islamic tradition of calligraphy and abstract forms. The artists’s names and dates of presentations are: Rubina Kaz, January 3–February 2; Rabea Chaudhry, February 4–March 2; and Salma Arastu, March 4–30.
!Women Art Revolution
New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival
Historic Miners Hospital, 1354 Park Avenue, Park City, UT 84060; and Salt Lake Art Center, 20 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
January 20–30, 2011
!Women Art Revolution is a documentary film exploring the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present. The filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson includes interviews with artists, innovators, art historians, and critics taken over a forty-year period, asking why so many female artists are little known and why museums fill their walls with the works of men. Accompanying the film is RAW/WAR, an interactive, community-curated video collection that allows users to access archival footage about the achievements and practices of women artists and to share their own stories through text, images, video clips, and links.
Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop
Grollier Club
47 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
December 8, 2010–February 5, 2011
Curated by Kathleen Walkup, Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop features forty books by thirty-six artists created over a thirty-year period. The four artists who founded the workshop—Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge—wanted to operate and maintain a workspace that would encourage the visions of individual women artists, provide professional opportunities for them, and promote programs designed to stimulate public involvement with and support for the visual arts.
The Grollier Club also presents two tandem events. On Tuesday, January 25, three of the exhibition’s artists (Clarissa Sligh, Susan Mills, and Emily Speed) will talk about their work from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Jae Jennifer Rossman, assistant director for special collections at Yale University, will moderate the panel. On the following day, Walkup will speak on “Women Making Art: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop” from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94105
October 1, 2010–January 30, 2011
The history of women in comics is well documented, and the Jewish contribution to the art form is widely acknowledged. Curated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah Lightman, Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women is the first museum exhibition to combine both groups in a single exhibition. Many of the original artworks on display have never before been shown in public. Among the eighteen American, European, and Israeli artists are Sharon Rudahl of Wimmen’s Comix and Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Diane Noomin of Twisted Sisters—all pioneers from the 1970s and 1980s—alongside younger artists. The exhibition catalogue was designed and published as an eight-page newspaper broadsheet.
Affiliated Society News for January 2011
posted by CAA — January 09, 2011
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has appointed two new members to its board of directors. Beginning three-years terms are Ingrid Bogel, executive director of the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Jeanne Drewes, chief of binding and collections care in the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Bogel and Drewes will help the board to implement a new three-year strategic plan that includes expanding and strengthening the organization’s core educational purposes, building awareness and advancing support of the conservation profession, and strengthening AIC’s organization and structure.
Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology
Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology (AHPT) has announced two new officers: Marjorie Och, professor of art history at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has become president; and Sarah Scott, assistant professor of art history at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, is secretary.
The AHPT business meeting will take place at the CAA Annual Conference on Wednesday, February 9, 7:30–9:00 AM in Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York. Immediately following the meeting is the AHPT-sponsored session, “Technology and Collaboration in the Art History Classroom,” chaired by Och and featuring Susan Healy, Frances Altvater, Janice Lynn Robertson, and Eva J. Allen.
AHPT has recently become an affiliated society of the Southeastern College Art Conference and plans to sponsor sessions at that organization’s annual meeting in addition to those at the CAA conference.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
Trevor H. J. Marchand’s The Masons of Djenné won the Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association
A book on African expressive culture, Trevor H. J. Marchand’s The Masons of Djenné (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), shared the 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Award, given by the African Studies Association for an outstanding original scholarly work on Africa. A member of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Marchand is senior lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (The cowinner is Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town.) Last year’s Herskovits Award was given to Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie for Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008).
Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
The Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History (ATSAH) will sponsor a session, called “Symbolism, Its Origins, and Its Consequences II,” at CAA’s upcoming Annual Conference and under the umbrella of Art, Literature, and Music in Symbolism and Decadence, a newly formed society. Taking place on Thursday, February 10, 12:30–2:00 PM, in Sutton Parlor North, Hilton New York, the session seeks to foster a dialogue among scholars on the origins and consequences of the Symbolist movement in art, literature, and music following an international conference, “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” held at the University of Illinois’ Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello in April 2009. The CAA papers address topics that span the fifteenth through the twentieth century and cross a number of disciplines such as the visual arts, music, literature, and philosophy, with a particular focus on the different ways in which artists associated with Symbolism have engaged with artistic tradition and referred to other forms of expression in their quest to develop new forms and to illuminate the many facets of aesthetic experience. Chaired by Rosina Neginsky and Deborah H. Cibelli, the session features papers by Brendan Cole, Cassandra Sciortino, Leslie Steward Curtis, and Davide Lacagnina. Please see the Conference Program for full details.
Also at the CAA conference, ATSAH will hold its business meeting on Friday, February 11, 12:30–2:00 PM at the Hilton New York, Gramercy A, 2nd Floor. All members are welcome to attend the discussion.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) has announced a new board cochair: Jenny Carson, assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She assumes the role at the upcoming CAA Annual Conference.
Jeffrey Weidman, senior librarian in the Spencer Art Reference Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, has provided a set of useful, extensive links, called Web Resources for American Art, which covers work up to 1945. In August, 2010, Choice magazine gave the compilation a three-star rating, highly recommending it.
AHAA is sponsoring two sessions at the CAA Annual Conference in New York. Chaired by Melanie Herzog and Frances Pohl, the first, “(Re)Collecting Memory: Oral History as Testimony of Lived Experience,” takes place on Thursday, February 10, 2011, 12:30–2:00 PM, Hilton New York, Gibson Room, 2nd Floor. Participants are Avis Berman, Theresa Leininger-Miller, Margo Machida, and Liza Kirwin. The second session, “Color and Nineteenth-Century American Painting,” chaired by Peter John Brownlee, is scheduled for Friday, February 11, 2011, 2:30–5:00 PM, Hilton New York, Madison Suite, 2nd Floor. Speakers are Lance Mayer, Gay Myers, Adrienne Baxter Bell, Michael Rossi, Matthew Bailey, and Maggie M. Cao; serving as the discussant is David Bjelajac.
Just before the second session is the AHAA business meeting, taking place on Friday, February 11, 2011, 12:30–2:00 PM, Hilton New York, Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor. Light refreshments will be served. All members and interested parties are invited to attend the meeting and two sessions.
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
The annual business meeting for the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) will take place at the CAA Annual Conference in New York on Thursday, February 10, 5:30–7:00 PM at the Hilton New York, Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor. Elections will be held for president, program coordinator, and members-at-large.
Also at the CAA conference, AHNCA members are also invited to take part in a private visit to the New York Public Library Prints and Photographs Study Room on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. The curators Stephen Pinson and David Christie will introduce highlights and rarely exhibited holdings in the library’s extensive collection of prints and photographs. Among other things, Christie plans to show prints related to the 1853 World’s Fair in New York as well as works by both well-known and not-so-famous “heroes of print.” There is no cost for AHNCA members, but space is limited. Please contact Elizabeth Mansfield before January 15 to reserve your place.
AHNCA now publishes its membership directory online as a searchable PDF. The Newsletter is also sent electronically. Members who do not have email will continue to receive a hardcopy by post.
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) and the Mid-America College Art Association, another CAA affiliated society, will present a joint conference, called “ON STREAM,” at the Ball Park Hilton in St. Louis, Missouri. Taking place March 30–April 2, 2011, the conference will explore how artists and teachers develop and foster creativity in the second decade of the third millennium. For more details, visit the FATE website or contact Jeff Boshart, conference coordinator.
Historians of British Art
The Historians of British Art (HBA) will host a special panel of “Young Scholars, Works in Progress” during the HBA business meeting at the CAA Annual Conference on Friday, February 11, 7:30–9:00 AM. The meeting will be held at the Hilton New York, Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor. Informal audience discussion will follow three fifteen-minute presentations: Amanda Lahikainen, “‘British Asignats’: Satirical Representation and the Politicization of Paper Currency in 1797”; Keren Hammerschlag, “Artistic Scientists and Scientific Artists at the British Royal Academy 1860–1900”; and Emily Davis, “British Literary Periodicals Transform the Female Form in Turn-of-the-Century Glasgow.” All are welcome to attend.
Historians of Islamic Art Association
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) has announced the election of Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as president-elect.
The annual majlis, or meeting, takes place at Hunter College in New York on February 12, 2011, 1:00–5:30 PM in the Lang Auditorium, North Building. Details of the program are published online. The HIAA business meeting and reception follow the presentations.
International Association of Word and Image Studies
The International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) recently sponsored an international conference devoted to the emerging theme of architecture and fiction, called “Once upon a Place: Haunted Houses and Imaginary Cities,” that took place October 12–14, 2010, in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference tackled the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they appear under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture. Questions that were addressed included: What kinds of stories do spaces and buildings tell us? What insights into architectural knowledge and experience can literary forms convey? Are designs, buildings, and cities a fabrication on the world? Does form follows fiction? Can fiction foresee architecture and urban futures? The program gathered over thirty papers by architects, scholars, and artists. Among the presenters were Alberto Manguel, Colin Fournier, Kazys Varnelis, Ângela Ferreira, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Jane Rendell, François Schuiten, and Benoît Peeters. An associated event of the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the IAWIS conference was a joint initiative of CIAUD/Faculty of Architecture Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, with the collaboration of CUC-Centro Cultura Urbana Contemporânea and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
The next IAWIS conference, “Imaginary/L’imaginaire,” will take place in Montreal, Quebec, this summer: August 22–26, 2011.
Leonardo Education and Art Forum
As part of its collaboration with the conferences Media Art History and SIGGRAPH, Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) seeks participants for “Media Art History 2011: Rewire,” the fourth international conference on the histories of media art, science, and technology. The event will be held in Liverpool, England, from September 28 to October 1, 2011. The call for papers is now open. Deadline: January 31, 2011.
LEAF also encourages the submission of papers and/or digitally mediated art for SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition, selected works will be published in a special issue of Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Deadline: January 14, 2011.
National Council of Arts Administrators
Jim Hopfensperger of the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo was elected president of the board of directors at the recent annual conference of the National Council of Arts Administrators (NCAA), held November 17–20, 2010, in Austin, Texas. In addition, Kim Russo of the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, and Sergio Soave from the Department of Art at Ohio State University in Columbus, were elected to three-year terms as board members.
At the upcoming CAA Annual Conference in New York, NCAA will present a session, called “‘Will You Friend Me?’ Social Media Possibilities, Responsibilities, and Challenges in Art Administration and Teaching,” on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:30 PM. The four participants—Cora Lynn Deibler, Andrea Eis, Kim Russo, and Georgia Strange—will present a panel on the uses and abuses of social media and cloud computing in the academic environment.
Also at the CAA conference, join NCAA for its annual reception on Thursday, February 10, 5:30–7:30 PM, for networking and dialogue. See the Conference Program for the exact location of the reception in the Hilton New York. NCAA welcomes current members, new members, and innocent bystanders to all events.
Public Art Dialogue
Anne Pasternak has received Public Art Dialogue’s annual award (photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and provided by Creative Time)
Public Art Dialogue (PAD) is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2011 Award for Achievement in the Field of Public Art: Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director of Creative Time, based in New York. PAD will honor her immediately after a brief business meeting to be held at the CAA Annual Conference, on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:00 PM in Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York. On receipt of the award, Pasternak will discuss the ongoing need for activist art in the public realm. Her talk will be followed by a brief conversation with Harriet F. Senie, PAD cochair, about Senie’s favorite projects. After the discussion, audience members may join the dialogue. This meeting and award presentation are free and open to the public. PAD gives the annual award to an individual whose contributions have had profound influence on the field, and its winners receive honorary lifetime PAD membership. The artist Suzanne Lacy was the inaugural award winner, in 2009. Last year, PAD recognized the achievements of the curator Mary Jane Jacob.
The latest newsletter for Public Art Dialogue (PAD) newsletter has been published online. This issue contains information about the upcoming launch of the journal Public Art Dialogue, edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie, which will be available in early 2011. Subscription to Public Art Dialogue—at a discounted rate—is a benefit of organizational membership. The newsletter also details the inaugural PAD Portfolio Reviews, to be held during the CAA conference in New York. For further information, please write to Juilee Decker, PAD membership coordinator.
Radical Art Caucus
Celebrate the tenth birthday of the Radical Art Caucus (RAC) with a slice of cake at the annual reception, held at the CAA Annual Conference on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:00 PM; see the Conference Program for the exact location. RAC will also discuss questions of unions and academic labor and make strategic plans for CAA’s 2012 and 2013 meetings. Don’t miss the RAC-sponsored sessions: “Video Art as Mass Medium,” chaired by Benj Gerdes and Nate Harrison; and “Environmental Sustainability in Art History, Theory, and Practice,” organized by Travis Nygard, RAC copresident. Look out for updates on the RAC Facebook page or contact Joanna Gardner-Huggett, RAC secretary, if you have any additional questions or news to share.
Society for Photographic Education
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE) forty-eighth national conference, called “Science, Poetry, and the Photographic Image,” will examine the confluence of the ideologies of scientists and poets in the context of photography. To be held March 10–13, 2011, at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Georgia, the conference will feature presentations from artists, educators, historians, and curators, as well as one-on-one portfolio critiques and informal portfolio sharing, a print raffle and silent auction, and film screenings, exhibitions, tours, and receptions. Speakers include Abelardo Morell, Catherine Wagner, Carolyn Guertin, Justine Cooper, and more. Student volunteers receive discounted admission.
Society of North American Goldsmiths
Registration opened on January 11, 2011, for the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference, “FLUX,” taking place May 26–29, 2011, in Seattle, Washington. Hosted by the Seattle Metals Guild and sponsored by Rio Grande, the conference includes two important programs with conference registration: the Education Dialogue, a three-hour session that gives educators a place to discuss the current issues they are facing in academia; and the Professional Development Seminar, a three-hour event providing concrete information that will change the way you approach your work and the way you do business. Review the full conference schedule, available as a PDF. Register now for the Demo Days preconference workshops produced by the Seattle Metals Guild; only eighty tickets will be sold. Student, educator, and guild registration grants and discounts are available. For more information, please write to SNAG.
Visual Resources Association
The Visual Resources Association (VRA) and the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) will hold their second annual joint conference March 24–28, 2011, in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With the theme “Collaboration: Building Bridges in the 21st Century,” the conference will provide a two-in-one opportunity for attendees to obtain cutting-edge information about current trends in the book and image realms. In addition to pertinent sessions, exhibitions, and workshops, the full schedule includes several exciting events that are planned throughout the culturally vibrant Twin Cities. Experience an Italian Renaissance architectural gem by attending the fundraising “Founders’ Fête” at the historic Gale Mansion. Afterward, the Minneapolis Institute of Art will open its doors for attendees to view the exhibition, Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. The welcome party, called “The Icebreaker,” will take place at the Walker Art Center. Conference attendees can also experience artists’ collaboratives focused on book arts, printmaking, and ceramics or take architectural tours.
Women’s Caucus for Art
Join the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) for its 2011 annual conference, “LIVE SPACE: women + art + activism,” with events running concurrently with the CAA Annual Conference in New York. For a morning of networking, sharing work, performances, videos, and panels, please visit the WCA Live Space Confab on Thursday morning, February 10, 2011, 8:00 AM–NOON at the Hilton New York, New York Suite, 4th Floor.
Later that day (5:30–7:00 PM), head uptown for the artists’ reception for Sanctuaries in Time, an exhibition of the Jewish Women Artist Network (a WCA caucus) at Columbia/Barnard Hillel, Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, 606 West 115th Street. The show is on view January 21–March 1. Also on Thursday, the Young Women’s Caucus will present What Young Women Artists Want at Raandesk Gallery of Art, 16 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor (7:00–9:00 PM). This event will showcase independent films from members and allies of the Young Women’s Caucus, a moving canvas of theater pieces in a collaborative gallery setting, and outdoor flash mob art performances. From 6:00 to 9:00 PM, a reception for Control, a traveling exhibition from WCA’s South Bay and Peninsula chapters, will be held at Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 201.
On Friday, February 11, New Century Artists will host a reception for Hidden Cities, the WCA national juried exhibition, that will take place 7:00–9:00 PM at the gallery at 530 West 25th Street. Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, juried the exhibition.
Angela Rosenthal: In Memoriam
posted by CAA — January 04, 2011
David Bindman is emeritus professor of the history of art at University College London.
Angela Rosenthal
Angela Rosenthal, associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, died on November 11, 2010. She was an exceptional scholar whose boundless energy, intellectual fecundity, and charismatic personality endeared her to her colleagues, students, and friends.
Born in Trier, Germany, Rosenthal attended university there, receiving her PhD magna cum laude in 1994. She had previously studied in England—at University College London, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Westfield College—between 1986 and 1989. After working as curator of contemporary art at the Stadtgalerie in Saarbrücken (1994–95), she moved to the United States to become Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University (1995–97). She came to Dartmouth in 1997 as an assistant professor.
Unusually wide ranging in the field of early modern visual culture, Rosenthal’s work embraced a global perspective, with an emphasis on cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonialism. Although her focus was on eighteenth-century British art, she wrote eloquently in recent years on images of slavery and whiteness, and on contemporary art of the African diaspora. Her most important publication was the magisterial Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), which she developed from her Trier University thesis on this Neoclassical painter. She was also working on a second major book, The White of Enlightenment: Racializing Bodies in Eighteenth-Century British Visual Culture, at the time of her death.
Angela Rosenthal’s Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility
An energetic force in the academic tradition of essay compilations, Rosenthal partnered with Bernadette Fort to edit The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), which won the 2002 Historians of British Art Book Award for the best multiauthor volume of the year. In addition, she compiled the forthcoming volume Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World, 1630–1890 (University of Chicago Press) with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and was working on another collection, No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, that was based on the proceedings of a Humanities Institute she organized at Dartmouth in 2007.
Rosenthal also produced many articles in English and German on eighteenth-century art and contemporary subjects, some of which have become widely influential. Although it is difficult to pick just one from the many, her essay on “Visceral Culture: Blushing and the Legibility of Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture,” published in Deborah Cherry’s Art: History: Visual: Culture (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005), has become particularly seminal.
Rosenthal’s death at such an early stage of her career is an incalculable loss, but she will live on in the remarkable work she had already produced, and in the fond memories of all who had been touched by her vitality and warmth. She is survived by her husband, Adrian Randolph, Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College; her sister, Felicia Rosenthal, chief executive officer of CellGenix Technologie Transfer; and her parents, Peter and Anne Rosenthal.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — December 22, 2010
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2010
Abroad
Melissa Potter, Swinging Little Lamb, circa 1974 (feminine traits from Gender Assignment), 2010, print-on-demand book (artwork © Melissa Potter)Melissa Potter. Zvono Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, November 15–27, 2010. New Works by Melissa Potter. Painting, photography, video, and print-on-demand book.
Mid-Atlantic
Dahlia Elsayed, And Then Some, 2010, acrylic on paper, 14 x 11 in. (artwork © Dahlia Elsayed)Dahlia Elsayed. Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, October 28, 2010–January 8, 2011. … And Then Some. Painting.
Dennis Farber, The Album Project, 2010, collage, cabinet cards, and inkjet print (artwork © Dennis Farber; photograph provided by the Maryland Institute College of Art)Dennis Farber. Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, January 28–March 13, 2011. Mixed media.
Joseph Lewis III, I Can Still Win, 2008, digital print on Stonehenge 300 gram paper, 38 x 47½ in. (artwork © Joseph Lewis III; photograph provided by the Maryland Institute College of Art)Joseph Lewis III. Meyerhoff Gallery, Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, December 9, 2010–January 9, 2011. THE WORD. Digital prints.
Kathleen Vaccaro, Thanksgiving, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 75 in. (artwork © Kathleen Vaccaro)Kathleen Vaccaro. Draw the Line Gallery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, November 5–29, 2010. Winter Nostalgia. Painting.
Midwest
Rachel Epp Buller, Swirling Stories, 2010, monoprint, 22 x 30 in. (artwork © Rachel Epp Buller)Rachel Epp Buller. Balcony Gallery, CityArts, Wichita, Kansas, December 5–30, 2010. Stories: Monoprints and More. Monoprints, woodblock prints, and handmade books.
Alison Crocetta, production photograph of Lift, 2004 (artwork © Alison Crocetta; photograph by David Pardoe and provided by the Weston Art Gallery)Alison Crocetta. Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17–August 28, 2010. Moving Images by Alison Crocetta. Film and video.
Marcia Freedman, Cluttered, 2009, oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in. (artwork © Marcia Freedman)Marcia Freedman. Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, Illinois, October 26–November 18, 2010. Marcia Freedman: Inside/Outside. Painting and drawing.
Megan Geckler. Wexner Center for the Arts, University of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio. November 9, 2010–January 2, 2011. Spread the ashes of the colors. Environmental sculpture.
Jennifer Palmer, In My Secret, 2007, mixed media on poplar, 3 x 5 in. (artwork © Jennifer Palmer)Jennifer Palmer. Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, December 10, 2010–January 14, 2011. Asleep and Dreaming. Painting and drawing.
Northeast
Joy Garnett, Roil, 2010, oil on canvas, 54 x 60 in. (artwork © Joy Garnett)Joy Garnett. Winkleman Gallery, New York, October 15–November 13, 2010. Boom & Bust. Painting.
Pamela Pecchio, On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal #1, 2010, archival pigment print from large-format negative, 30 x 40 in. (artwork © Pamela Pecchio)Pamela Pecchio. Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery, New York, January 6–February 12, 2011. On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal. Photography.
Mary Ting, Insomnia, 2009–10, watercolor and collage, 24 x 18 in. (artwork © Mary Ting)Mary Ting. Lambent Foundation, New York. October 10–December 23, 2010. Insomnia and Other Stories. Drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and sculptural installation.
South
Sharon Lee Hart, Aries, Resident of Catskill Farm Animal Sanctuary, 2010, archival inkjet print, 40 x 40 inches (artwork © Sharon Lee Hart)Sharon Lee Hart. Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, December 4–23, 2010. Sanctuary. Photography.
Marcus Kenney, KicKitic, 2010, reclaimed taxidermy, fabric, gar, felt, turtle shell, beads, twine, buttons, plastic, and miscellaneous objects, 36 x 38 x 25 in. (artwork © Marcus Kenney)Marcus Kenney. Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18, 2010–January 1, 2011. Romance 2020. Mixed-media painting and sculpture.
Marcus Kenney, Defend Boundaries (Establish Validity), 2007, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in. (artwork © Marcus Kenney)Marcus Kenney. Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana, November 4, 2010–January 22, 2011. Marcus Kenney: Almanac 2020. Mixed-media painting and sculpture.
Conrad Ross, Chinese Landscape #1, oil, digital prints, and sand on canvas (artwork © Conrad Ross)Conrad Ross. Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, Alabama, September 12–November 12, 2010. China on My Mind. Mixed-media painting, intaglio, woodcut, relief, and collé.
Linda Stein, Defender 696, 2010, leather, metal, and mixed media, 38 x 22 x 14 in. (artwork © Linda Stein)Linda Stein. Neil Britton Art Gallery, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia, January 5–February 16, 2011. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
People in the News
posted by CAA — December 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.
December 2010
Academe
Anthony Cutler at work in the Cappella Palatina at Palermo, SicilyAnthony Cutler, the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, has been selected by the University of Oxford in England to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art for 2011–12, in association with All Souls College. Cutler will present eight lectures and four seminars during Oxford’s Hilary Term, January to March 2012.
Beauvais LyonsBeauvais Lyons, professor of art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has been awarded a James R. Cox Professorship from 2010 to 2013. The Cox professorships honor faculty members who are outstanding teachers, who dedicate their service to the University, community, and their profession, and who model excellence in scholarship.
Bissera Pentcheva has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Museums and Galleries
Aram Moshayedi, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, has been appointed assistant curator at the Gallery at REDCAT, also in Los Angeles.
Klaus OttmannKlaus Ottmann, formerly Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, has become the first curator at large at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. He will manage the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art.
Organizations and Publications
Sandra SiderSandra Sider, an independent curator and critic based in New York, has been appointed president of Studio Art Quilt Associates, an international arts organization with headquarters in Storrs, Connecticut. She will serve in this capacity until 2013.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — December 17, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
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December 2010
Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, has established a new master of fine arts, called New Projects. The terminal-degree program prepares professional artists to become creative leaders in the community and world at large through a multidisciplinary coursework with an entrepreneurial emphasis. Students complete four semester-long projects that they propose, develop, and execute, culminating in a senior thesis with oral defense.
The Department of Art and Art Professions in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s at New York University offers opportunities for undergraduate studio-art majors to live and work for a semester in Global ArtSites in Berlin, Germany, and Accra, Ghana. In addition, MFA students may participate in a Paris–New York studio exchange for a year and take classes in Berlin, London, and Venice, and in India, during calendar year 2011.
The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has opened its new Office of Community Engagement, which will assess, strengthen, and coordinate the college’s academically based community partnerships. The college has a strong history of engaging academic and community partners—locally and globally—and the new office will provide oversight to existing initiatives on campus, develop and coordinate new programs, facilitate collaboration with external partners, and provide visibility and support for community engagement and service-learning initiatives that advance the mission of the college.
The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence has announced two new graduate programs: a master of arts in interior architecture, a one-year program; and a master of design in interior studies (adaptive reuse), a two-year degree. Combining elements of architecture, conservation, and design, the degrees offer studies in history, theory, materials, and technology, among other areas.
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has received two awards from the American Association of Museums in its 2009 Museum Publications Design Competition. The center’s Calendar of Events series won second prize, and the Mrs. Delany’s Flowers gallery guide received an honorable mention.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — December 15, 2010
Grants, Awards, and Honors
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
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December 2010
James CahillJames Cahill, professor emeritus at the University of California in Berkeley, has been awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal by the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The medal recognizes Cahill’s lifetime of contributions to the history of Chinese and Japanese art.
Henry Drewal, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has been awarded a senior fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at his school. During the four-year appointment he will research and write a book on art and the senses.
Nancy Feldman has received the 2010 Founding Presidents Award from the Textile Society of America for “Shipibo Textile Practices 1950–2010,” a paper written with Claire Odland and presented at the society’s twelfth biennial symposium in October.
Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has been honored for curatorial excellence by the Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The November 2010 celebration was the first of five annual events leading to the center’s one-hundredth anniversary in 2015.
Hal Foster, the Townsend Martin ’17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, has received the 2010 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Established in 2006 and awarded every two years, the Clark Prize recognizes individuals whose critical or art-historical writing has had a significant impact on public understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
William R. Levin,
professor emeritus of art history
at Centre College in
Danville, Kentucky, has received two prestigious award from the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) at its October meeting: the Award for Excellence in Teaching, granted each year to a member “who demonstrates an exceptional command of his or her discipline through the ability to teach effectively, impart knowledge, and inspire students”; and the occasionally bestowed Award for Exemplary Achievement, “the organization’s most prestigious award, given in recognition of personal and professional development as well as long-standing service to SECAC.”
Beili Liu, Lure/Wave, Grand Rapids, 2010, thread and sewing needles, dimensions variable (artwork © Beili Liu; photograph by Brian Kelly)Beili Liu, an artist based in Austin, Texas, has received third place in the 2010 ArtPrize, an annual competition established last year, for her installation Lure/Wave, Grand Rapids at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her award includes a $50,000 prize.
Jules Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has been recognized by the Bookbuilders of Boston for his book, The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2009). The title won Best of Category in Professional Illustrated Books at the fifty-third annual New England Book Show, which recognizes outstanding work by New England publishers, printers, and graphic designers.
Shelley Rice and Kenneth Silver (who was also named a chevalier) celebrate with their “horses,” compliments of their fellow NYU professor Finbarr Barry Flood (photograph by Miriam Basilio)Shelley Rice, Arts Professor in the Department of Art History and in Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, both at New York University, has been named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, assistant curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has received the thirtieth annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America for Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), an exhibition catalogue coedited with Mark Laird.
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has announced the recipients of its 2010 grant cycle. Among the winners are these CAA members and their projects: Douglas Crimp, for his book Before Pictures; Clare Davies, for short-form writing; Matthew Jesse Jackson, for his blog Our Literal Speed; Raphael Rubinstein, for his blog The Silo; Irene Small, for her book Hélio Oiticica: Folding the Frame; and Sandra Zalman, for her article “Whose Modern Art? Huntington Hartford, MoMA, and the Fight for Modern Art’s Legacy.” Participating in the program’s 2010 Writing Workshop, which pairs a practicing writer with an established critic through the International Association of Art Critics/USA Section, are Colin Edgington of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Christina Schmid of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The National Academy Museum and School in New York has elected eighteen American artists and architects as members of the 185-year-old institution. Two are CAA members: Garth Evans, an abstract sculptor; and Nancy Friese, a landscape painter and printmaker.
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a nine-week summer-residency program for emerging visual artists in Skowhegan, Maine, hosted the following CAA members in 2010: Yui Kugimiya, for video and film; Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, for installation; Abraham Storer, for painting; and Cullen Washington Jr., for drawing.
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has named its 2010–11 fellows. Among the recipients are these CAA members: Adrienne Childs, University of Maryland, College Park; Dario Gamboni, Université de Genève; Michèle Hannoosh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mark Ledbury, Power Institute, University of Sydney; Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds; Susan Siegfried, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Adrian Sudhalter, independent scholar.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — December 15, 2010
Check out details on recent exhibitions organized by CAA members who are also curators.
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December 2010
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, ca. 1870, oil on canvas, 83.8 x 122.1 cm (artwork in the public domain)Scott Allan and Mary Morton. The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, June 15–September 12, 2010.
Leslie K. Brown. Traces: Daniel Ranalli, Cape Work 1987–2007. Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, October 15, 2010–January 16, 2011.
Rachel Epp Buller. Mothers. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. November 5–December 23, 2010.
Fahamu Pecou, POP, 2010, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 66 x 49½ in. (artwork © Fahamu Pecou; photograph provided by Artadia and Lyons Wier Gallery, New York)Dina Deitsch. Southern Exposure: Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta. Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, November 19, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Installation view of A Turning Point (photograph by Ann Lane Hedlund)Ann Lane Hedlund. A Turning Point: Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century. Cooper Gallery, Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1–November 30, 2010.
Robyn G. Peterson. Eye for an Eye: Photographs of Modern Artists by Modern Artists from the Collection of John W. Green. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, October 7, 2010–January 9, 2011.
Three unisex motorcycle uniforms (photograph © The Museum at FIT, New York)Valerie Steele. Japan Fashion Now. Museum at FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, September 17, 2010–April 2, 2011.
Richmond Barthé, Self Portrait, ca. 1940, painted plaster, lifesize. Collection of Phillip H. Rubin (artwork © Richmond Barthé; photograph by Margaret Rose Vendryes)Margaret Rose Vendryes. Richmond Barthé: The Seeker. Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi, November 6, 2010–June 12, 2011.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — December 15, 2010
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles below.
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December 2010
Scott Allan and Mary Morton, eds. Reconsidering Gérôme (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010).
Diane E. Booton. Manuscripts, Market, and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010).
Blake de Maria. Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).
Henry John Drewal. Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria (Long Island City, NY: Museum for African Art, 2009).
Ann Lane Hedlund. Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, in association with the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 2010).
Andreas Luescher. The Architect’s Portfolio: Planning, Design, Production (New York: Routledge, 2010).
Pamela Pecchio. 509 (Carrboro, NC: Daniel 13 Press, 2010).
Valerie Steele, with Patricia Mears, Yuniya Kawamura, and Hiroshi Narumi. Japan Fashion Now (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, in association with the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 2010).
Michael Yonan. Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).