CAA News Today

“What Do We Know about the Future of Art History?”: Nancy Um mines sixty years of CAA’s dissertation data to examine the field’s past and potential future. Read the full essay at caa.reviews.

Cynthia Fowler reviews the traveling exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Liza Oliver reviews L’art et la race: L’Africain (tout) contre l’œil des Lumières by Anne Lafont. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Christopher P. Heuer considers Michael Gaudio’s Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Dina Ramadan writes about the exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Yin Ning Kwok reviews Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

David Haberstich considers the exhibition catalog Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop by Sarah L. Eckhardt. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Laurence Schmidlin discusses Christina Weyl’s The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Stephanie Nadalo discusses the Louvre retrospective Léonard de Vinci. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Akiko Walley writes about Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O’Neal. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Gayle Clemans reviews the exhibition In Plain Sight at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Robert Bork considers Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon’s Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Valerie Gonzalez reviews Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture by Jennifer A. Pruitt. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Francesca Balboni virtually explores the Amon Carter Museum exhibition The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lihong Liu writes about Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain by Wen-shing Chou. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alexander Nagel considers the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

David M. Lubin discusses Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States by Rebecca Bedell. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Shelley Hales considers Nathaniel B. Jones’s Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Komozi Woodard reviews The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture by Jo-Ann Morgan. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Imogen Hart discusses the exhibition and catalog James Tissot: Fashion & Faith, Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Read the full review at caa.reviews.