CAA News Today
Valerie Powell and Jeffie Brewer
posted Oct 30, 2017
The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.
This week, Valerie Powell, Assistant Professor of Art & the Foundations Coordinator at Sam Houston State University, and Jeffie Brewer, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stephen F. Austin State University, discuss collaborative student learning using public art projects.
New in caa.reviews
posted Oct 27, 2017
Carolyn Dean reviews The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Izumi Shimada. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Kelly Presutti discusses Wasteland: A History by Vittoria Di Palma. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Allison Miller reads Beyond the First Emperor’s Mausoleum: New Perspectives on Qin Art edited by Liu Yang. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Introducing CAA News Monday
posted Oct 26, 2017
Protest wall at CAA 105th Annual Conference New York, 2017. Photo: Ben Fractenberg
We’re excited to introduce you to CAA News Monday, a new weekly newsletter that takes a different approach to the start of your week. The Monday newsletter will embrace advocacy as its raison d’être, with a lead story each week and a round up of advocacy-related stories and news. Along with hot topics from the art, higher education, and advocacy worlds, we’ll be highlighting noteworthy jobs and opportunities from CAA’s network, and spotlighting a new weekly podcast as part of the CAA Conversations series. The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast seeks to continue the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field. The CAA Conversations Podcast will also be posted each Monday to the CAA website.
If you already receive CAA News on Wednesday you will automatically receive CAA News Monday. You don’t need to do a thing.
If you don’t get our Wednesday newsletter, sign up below for both.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Oct 25, 2017
Judy Chicago in front of The Dinner Party. Photograph: Donald Woodman
Each week CAA News summarizes articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.
Judy Chicago: ‘In the 1960s, I was the only visible woman artist’
An interview with the trailblazing artist as the Brooklyn Museum explores the process behind The Dinner Party. (The Guardian)
Artist Omer Fast’s Take on Chinatown Angers Community Organizations
Omer Fast’s exhibition at the Chinatown branch of James Cohan Gallery has drawn ire from local groups. (Hyperallergic)
The Professor Is In: 4 Steps to a Strong Tenure File
Helpful advice from Karen Kelsky, former tenured professor at two universities, and founder and president of consulting service The Professor Is In. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Artist and Art Materials Artist Survey 2018
Take NAMTA’s 2018 survey and help artist associations, websites and art supply businesses serve practicing artists better. (International Art Materials Association)
Disaster Preparedness & Response Resources
Invaluable resources for organizations, museums and collections facing the threat of natural disasters. (American Alliance of Museums)
Artsy and the Rise of the Matchmaker Market
The online art market has been transforming how art is sold at auction. (The Art Newspaper)
Indigenous Futures in Art Journal
posted Oct 23, 2017
Postcommodity, Repellent Fence, 2015, installation view (artwork © Postcommodity; photograph by Michael Lundgren provided by Postcommodity)
Recent years have seen a boom in the creation of new art by Indigenous artists across North America—and a concomitant surge in scholarship about this art. The recently published issue of Art Journal is devoted to both the art and the research. In addressing the theme “Indigenous Futures,” editor-in-chief Rebecca M. Brown turned to the scholars Kate Morris and Bill Anthes as guest editors.
Works by dozens of Indigenous artists are featured in the issue, among them Kay WalkingStick, Kent Monkman, Shan Goshorn, Rebecca Belmore, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Will Wilson, and Edgar Heap of Birds. The artist collective Postcommodity created a project for the issue that includes the covers. Two artists wrote substantial texts: Jolene Rickard explores the theme of sovereignty in Indigenous art, while Marie Watt enjoys a frank chat with Joseph Beuys’s Coyote—who is amazingly au courant about today’s art.
In addition to Morris and Anthes, the scholars Jessica L. Horton, Dylan Robinson, and Sherry Farrell Racette provide insights into bodies of work by specific artists. A strong curatorial thread runs through the issue as well, with essays by Candice Hopkins and Heather Igloliorte; a magisterial essay by the curators Kathleen Ash-Milby and Ruth B. Phillips traces the history of critical exhibitions in North American museums and galleries since 1992, the year of the controversial “celebration” of the Columbus quincentennial.
The Reviews section of the issue features a 2015 book by W. J. T. Mitchell (reviewed by Caroline A. Jones), a substantial anthology on the postwar avant-garde in Scandinavia (by Karen Kurczynski), the exhibition and catalogue of Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (by Camila Maroja), a multiauthor and -artist volume on the Indian city of Chandigarh (by Tracy Bonfitto), and the exhibition and catalogue of Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 (by Erica DiBenedetto).
CAA sends print copies of Art Journal to all institutional members and to those individuals who choose to receive the journal as a benefit of membership. The digital version at Taylor & Francis Online is currently available to all CAA individual members regardless of their print subscription choice.
New in caa.reviews
posted Oct 20, 2017
In addition to the wrap-up below of our caa.reviews content from this week, you might also notice the site got a little update. We made it easier to navigate and balanced the look and feel of the site. More changes are coming soon. Happy reading!
Phil Lee discusses Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method by Joan Kee. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Erin Schoneveld reviews Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images by Chelsea Foxwell. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jessica Locheed visits Degas: A New Vision at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Mio Wakita reads A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke Gartlan. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Oct 18, 2017
Catherine Opie, Cathy (London), 2017. ©Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
Each week CAA News summarizes articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.
An Interview with Catherine Opie
In this interview, artist Catherine Opie discusses her new portrait series, portrait aesthetics, misogyny in the current political climate and the art world, and more. (Read more from Artnet).
Ai Weiwei’s Sculptures Now on View Throughout New York City
Ai Weiwei’s Good Fences Make Good Neighbors brings new sculptures by the artist to many public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City. (Read more from The New York Times).
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s Presidential Portraits
Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have selected artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to paint their official portraits. (Read more from Vanity Fair).
Frankenstein’s Monster and Queer Art
Charlie Fox looks at Frankenstein’s Monster in relationship to queer art, including artist Alex Da Corte’s 2017 film, Slow Graffiti. (Read more from The New York Times).
Yayoi Kusama Book for Kids
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity by Sarah Suzuki, with illustrations by Ellen Weinstein, is a new children’s book about the life and artwork of artist Yayoi Kusama. (Read more from Artsy).
The Art of Violet Oakley
Carrie Rickey takes a close look at muralist Violet Oakley (1874–1961), who is the focus of the exhibition A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance, currently on view at the Woodmere Museum in Philadelphia. (Read more from Hyperallergic).
Rodin in New Jersey
Auguste Rodin’s bust of Napoléon Bonaparte, which had been lost since the 1920s, has been found in a borough in suburban New Jersey. (Read more from The Art Newspaper).
A New Podcast from Paddy Johnson and Willam Powhida
Art F City’s founding editor Paddy Johnson and artist William Powhida have started a new contemporary art podcast called “Explain Me.” (Read more from Art F City).
Registration is Open for CAA’s 106th Annual Conference
posted Oct 16, 2017
Curator and anthropologist Niama Safia Sandy at the CAA 105th Annual Conference New York, 2017. Photo: Ben Fractenberg
Change has been an ongoing topic of conversation in planning the 106th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, February 21-24, 2018. In our meetings with LA-based civic and cultural organizations, the topic came up over and over again. From the new museums opening in downtown, housing astonishing collections, to the protests in Boyle Heights over gentrification, LA is undergoing a metamorphosis. The parallels to CAA, which is undergoing its own transformation, were hard to ignore. We held close these discussions about changes, both CAA’s and LA’s, in designing the content and experience for the Annual Conference. We look forward to bringing together the international visual arts community once again to connect and learn in the great city of Los Angeles.
Registration form for mailing for faxing.
Book your hotel room at the lowest rates and take advantage of travel discounts.
For registration rates and deadlines visit the registration page.
View the schedule for the 2018 Annual Conference.
The 2018 Annual Conference will include over 300 themed sessions, covering discussions on medieval tapestry, contemporary issues in Latinx art, and community engagement through the arts, among many other topics. The Annual Conference will include its Annual Artist Interviews, as part of ARTspace, made possible in part with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Past interviewees have included Coco Fusco, Katherine Bradford, Joyce Scott, and Rick Lowe. The schedule for the 2018 Annual Conference is packed with more professional-development workshops than ever, a long list of LA-museums and cultural institutions our attendees can visit for free with their conference badges, and Special Events like a reception at The Getty, guided tours of “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth” at The Broad, and breakfast at LACMA, to name a few.
We are thrilled to welcome Charles Gaines and Wu Hung as our Keynote Speaker and our Distinguished Scholar for 2018.
Convocation Keynote Speaker
Charles Gaines, 2018 Keynote Speaker, Photo by Katie Miller
Charles Gaines is an LA-based artist whose complex grid-work and mapping pulls from conceptual art and the field of philosophy. More on Charles Gaines and his 2015 solo show at the Hammer Museum, “Charles Gaines: Gridwork: 1975-1989.”
2018 Distinguished Scholar
Wu Hung, 2018 Distinguished Scholar, Photo by Kuni Takahashi
Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations at The University of Chicago. Wu is a scholar of traditional and contemporary Chinese art and a curator. See the 10 artworks to see China differently that Wu Hung chose for CNN.
The remainder of the CAA Awards for Distinction will be announced later in the fall, as well as the inaugural recipient of CAA’s new Excellence in Diversity Award.
Also new this year is the Cultural and Academic Network Hall, an opportunity for participating museums, colleges, and universities to reserve a full booth to promote academic or cultural programs to conference attendees, as well as the general public. It will be a great way for department leadership and alumni offices to connect with past students and faculty and to meet new students and instructors. Participants will be able schedule time in one of the sixteen interview booths that will be created adjacent to the booth area within the Network Hall.
As always, we thank all our sponsors at all levels who help make this amazing conference possible.
We look forward to seeing you in LA!
New in caa.reviews
posted Oct 13, 2017
Christopher Taylor reviews the exhibition Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael (The Whitworth, University of Manchester, UK, September 30, 2016–May 29, 2017) and its accompanying catalogue, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied, edited by Edward H. Wouk. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Mey-Yen Moriuchi discusses Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Tara Zanardi. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jesse Locker reads Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Zeynep Yürekli reviews The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is and the Architecture of Coexistence by Stephennie Mulder. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Oct 11, 2017
PHOTO VIA ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT.
Each week CAA News summarizes articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.
In the art world, is sex more controversial than race?
There has been a lot of discussion recently about particular pieces of art that have caused agita for museum administrators, curators, artists and the general public. But what are the real touch points? (Read more from Nylon).
Changing sex and gender?
Artist Nayland Blake’s Gnomen at the New Museum changes sex and gender. (Read more from Hyperallergic).
Hmmm. Can anyone reshape art history?
The sculptor, Ruth Asawa challenges traditional notions of art history. (Read more from The New Yorker).
Engage the humanities faculty for greater career outcome
Figuring out how an education in the humanities can make a career impact. (Read more from Inside Higher Ed).
Building a new rubric for artists
The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation is looking to build a better rubric for successful artists. And they need our help. (Read more from Artists Thrive).
Art history with your eyes closed
Podcasts to download that will fill your brain with rich images. (Read more from Salon).