The Microsoft Corporation donated more than $1.5 million worth of software to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to upgrade its computer systems and help the museum put more of its collection online. Meanwhile, the Art Institute of Chicago will soon launch an app that...
source: Art Newspaper
A group of major Detroit creditors said four investors have made tentative billion-dollar bids for the Detroit Institute of Arts—or key portions of its collection—in a move aimed at undercutting the city's competing...
source: Detroit Free Press
The job crisis facing young American PhDs today has an analogue in one earlier historical period: the situation of newly minted lawyers and physicians in early-nineteenth-century France. After the French Revolution abolished the guilds, regulation of recruitment ceased in...
source: Perspectives on History
Recently two professors participated in a workshop on team-based learning at Brooklyn College, a process in which students are divided into permanent teams for the semester and work during class on activities based on readings. Team-based learning was developed by professors...
source: Art History Teaching Resources
More than half the nation's most vulnerable college students are in courses taught by part-time, adjunct faculty members who lack the job security, credentials, and experience of full-time professors—as well as the campus support their full-time peers receive. Community...
source: Inside Higher Ed
Several years ago, Michael Nieswiadomy released a paper on the LSAT scores of economics majors. I thought I'd make some inquiries to law schools who have LSAC for some data on this subject to follow up. Applicants to law schools who...
source: Excess of Democracy
"When is it okay to work for free? Is it acceptable as long as you're working with—or for—another artist? What is an artistic service?" These are some of the questions raised by Shannon Jackson, director of the Arts Research Center at the University of California,...
source: Daily Serving
When Haunch of Venison closed in 2013, the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos was left without a gallery in London or New York—the two cities where Haunch, which was bought by Christie's in 2007, had spaces. Since her gallery closed, Vasconcelos's career has been...
source: Art Newspaper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, James Turrell: A Retrospective (May 26, 2013–April 6, 2014). Reviewed by James Nisbet.
source: caa.review
Sarah Blake McHam, Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the "Natural History" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013). Reviewed by Melinda Schlitt.
Sophie Gordon, Cairo to Constantinople: Francis Bedford's Photographs of the Middle East...
source: caa.review
Conference registrants may now download a PDF of Abstracts 2014, which summarizes the contents of hundreds of papers and talks that were presented in program sessions. They can also search the online 2014 Directory of Attendees, which contains the names and contact information...
source: Annual Conference Update
You may order a set of MP3 audio recordings for all recorded sessions at the 2014 Annual Conference in Chicago, which will come as either MP3 downloads or a DVD-ROM, for $199.95. Individual sessions are available as downloads only for $24.95 each.
source: Annual Conference Update
CAA invites individual members to submit abstracts for Poster Sessions at the 2015 Annual Conference in New York. Poster Sessions—presentations displayed on bulletin boards by an individual for small groups—usually include a brief narrative paper mixed with illustrations,...
source: Annual Conference Update
CAA has published the 2015 Call for Participation, which invites members to propose a paper or presentation for regular program sessions at the next Annual Conference, taking place February 11–14, 2015, in New York. You can now download...
source: Annual Conference Update
Watch "Fair Use: How, Why, Where, When, and for Whom?", a video that features a panel discussion on CAA's ongoing fair-use initiative that took place at the 2014 Annual Conference in Chicago.
source: CAA News
