Watch "Fair Use: How, Why, Where, When, and for Whom?", the first in a series of videos from the 2014 Annual Conference in Chicago. This video features a panel discussion about CAA's ongoing fair-use initiative that explored the findings of the organization's recently released...
source: CAA News
A fake Marc Chagall painting, owned by a businessman from Leeds who had bought it for $167,309 in 1992, was ordered to be burned last month, and an Istanbul art gallery closed down its Joan Miró exhibition in 2013 after directors of the Spanish Surrealist painter's...
source: Tapei Times
Works by contemporary artists born after 1945 generated $17.2 billion in worldwide auction sales last year, a 39 percent increase from 2012, according to figures just released by the French database Artprice. Last November, a triptych by Francis Bacon sold for $142.4...
source: New York Times
Much discussion exists about how to escape the adjunct's life of indentured servitude for tenure-track positions. After all, positions in the coveted ivory tower will always outrank a life of little pay and heavy, lower-level teaching loads. Despite the many pitfalls of...
source: Adjunct Blog
Representatives from Frieze New York met with local union leaders for the first time to discuss the organization's labor practices. The fair, which is set to return to Randall's Island in May, has been criticized by artists and activist groups for employing nonunion workers...
source: Art Newspaper
Their ages span four generations, and their careers follow no linear path. They have enough letters behind their names to form a small university. They've worked in Switzerland, Qatar, and too many small towns to count, hailing from regions as diverse as the southern hemisphere...
source: Washington Post
In July of last year, a man named Sidney Sealine went to see the Mona Lisa in Paris. The idea was to spend some time with the picture, to see for himself the special spark that made the painting so famous. But he couldn't even get close to Leonardo's famous work.
source: National Public Radio
What's in a trademark? To many people in higher education, mention of the term—which denotes the legal protection afforded words or other devices that identify a good's or service's source—leads to bewildered looks. "You mean the designs on shirts sold in the...
source: Chronicle of Higher Education
The Getty Research Institute has released the Art and Architecture Thesaurus as Linked Open Data. The data set is available for download at vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License. The Art and Architecture Thesaurus,...
source: Getty Iris
Registration is open for the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) annual conference, which takes place April 9–13, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Austin in Texas. The event will offer thirty-five sessions along with public programming that includes guided architectural...
source: Affiliated Society News
The Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) will hold its forty-first annual conference in Saint Louis, Missouri, from April 3 to 5, 2014. In addition to more than twenty scholarly sessions, conference activities will include a special viewing of the Pulitzer Foundation for the...
source: Affiliated Society News
The Italian Art Society (IAS) has announced the selection of the fifth annual IAS/Kress Lecturer in Italy: Jean Cadogan, professor of fine arts at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, who will speak on "'Maravigliose istorie:' The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto...
source: Affiliated Society News
The forty-third annual conference of the Glass Art Society (GAS), titled "Strengthening Community, Collaboration, Forging New Bonds," will be held March 19–22, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. GAS will hosts its conference at well-known venues such as the historic Palmer...
source: Affiliated Society News
The Herron School of Art and Design will host "Tectonic Shifts," the thirty-fifth biennial national conference of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE), in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 25–28, 2015. As the title of the conference, "Tectonic Shifts" suggests,...
source: Affiliated Society News
Students from Columbia College Chicago, including graduates and undergraduates in a variety of disciplines, wrote about their 2014 Annual Conference experiences on this year's conference blog.
source: Annual Conference Update
