The use of online discussion in both blended and fully online courses has made clear that those exchanges are more productive if they are structured, if there's a protocol that guides the interaction. This kind of structure is more important in the online environment because...
source: Faculty Focus
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's big, new move into twentieth-century art—propelled by Leonard Lauder's recent $1 billion gift of eighty-one Cubist masterpieces—is altering the balance of power among New York's biggest museums, a change compounded by the...
source: Vanity Fair
First, the release of the NEA report, A Decade of Arts Engagement, on arts attendance and participation—widely reported almost everywhere. Not much new here. Confirmation that attendance in the core arts continues a two-decade decline, while distribution of arts via...
source: Barry's Blog
Facebook has been taken to court by a French user whose account was closed after he posted an image of Gustave Courbet's racy painting L'Origine du Monde (1866). According to Le Figaro, the world-famous oil on canvas was part of a promo for an art-history video about the...
source: ArtNet News
The typical structure of 99 percent of American nonprofit arts organizations includes segregated artistic, administrative, and development departments. My colleagues who work in such segregated institutions experience chasms between departments and waste time bickering and...
source: ARTSblog
If you've spent any time at an academic conference, you know the scene: a stage full of scholars have just finished presenting their papers. As the Q&A session begins, a woman rises from the audience and prefaces her remarks by saying, in so many words, that she hadn't been...
source: Vitae
Rebecca Schuman recently called for the death of the conference interview for faculty jobs. A key reason she listed was the expense, citing the Modern Language Association's recent convention as a case in point. In fact, she went to considerable length to prove that anyone...
source: Vitae
I'm relieved to see that more departments, in a diverse array of fields, are choosing to offer alternatives to the traditional convention interview—or to forego the first-round conference interview altogether, like they should, since, as many sane voices have already...
source: Vitae
At CAA's Annual Conference in February, the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture will sponsor two sessions: "Infiltrating the Pedagogical Canon," chaired by Marie Gasper-Hulvat;...
source: Affiliated Society News
The Pacific Arts Association will hold a session at the 2015 CAA Annual Conference in New York called "Early Missionary Activity on Erromango and Its Impact on Local Material Culture." Four panelists will examine the interplay between imposed change and local innovation...
source: Affiliated Society News
The International Center of Medieval Art was recently awarded a renewal of its grant from the Kress Foundation—$10,000 a year for the next three years—to support travel costs for members participating in conference sessions sponsored by the organization.
source: Affiliated Society News
The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries has appointed Christopher Bedford, director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, to be the keynote speaker for the organization's next annual conference, taking place April 24–26, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia.
source: Affiliated Society News
The American Society of Appraisers will host the upcoming 2015 Personal Property Conference, titled "Issues in Determining the Authenticity in Visual Art and Objects, the Catalogue Raisonné, Art Scholarship, and Value in the Marketplace." The conference will be held...
source: Affiliated Society News
Having a 2015 Annual Conference badge will allow attendees to receive free admission to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the Jewish Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Ukrainian Museum, among others.
source: Annual Conference Update
If you plan to tweet during the 2015 Annual Conference in New York, please use the official hashtags—#CAA2015 for the overall meeting, #ARTspace for all events happening in ARTspace, and #CAAfairuse for copyright initiatives—to let your followers and all conference...
source: Annual Conference Update
