Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Motherwell: Early Collages (September 27, 2013–January 5, 2014). Reviewed by Robert S. Mattison.
source: caa.reviews
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal (Pittsburgh: Periscope, 2012). Reviewed by Min Kyung Lee.
Dianne Harris, Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Minneapolis: University...
source: caa.reviews
If you made it to the campus-visit stage, then yes, in my opinion, you can contact the search-committee chair or department chair and ask for some feedback on your candidacy. But there's a caveat: you have to stick to general, nondesperate sorts of questions. Questions like:...
source: Vitae
In the course of a normal workday, Sharela Bonfield may order supplies, supervise interns, clean, answer the telephone, arrange meetings, create PowerPoint displays, handle paperwork, administer archives, and do "whatever else needs...
source: Gallerist
Universities have a lot of names for the professor who works with a graduate student on a thesis or dissertation and later signs off on it. The main titles are "adviser," "director," and, more rarely, "sponsor." Some universities, including my own, call a professor in this...
source: Chronicle of Higher Education
This summer has seen another bumper year of MA and MFA students. As ever, the work coming from international art schools is good, bad, and everywhere in between. There is also an increasing professionalization of the artists coming from the academic system. Degree-show presentations...
source: Artsy
Yelp does a lot of things, including a number of things that make people hate it. But one thing it does is provide a platform for vernacular art criticism, a different kind of writing about art and the public spaces where it is seen. Vernacular criticism can reject the guidelines...
source: New Inquiry
I have collected art, and been involved with artists and the art world, for almost fifty years. Through all that time, I have wondered why female artists have less success, fewer exhibitions, and less attention than male artists. I own works by women artists; it is hard...
source: Huffington Post
A new report analyzing the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts almost doubles the previous estimates of what the works are worth, putting their value at $8.5 billion. The new fifty-page assessment, a copy of which...
source: Detroit News
The Volkswagen Foundation aims to strengthen transatlantic academic relations, especially in the field of the humanities, via a funding initiative called Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities...
source: Volkswagen Stiftung
Your contribution to CAA's fund for the Annual Conference Travel Grants allows MFA and PhD students, as well as international artists and scholars, to cover expenses for attending the New York meeting in February 2015. Travel grants are funded solely by donations from members—please...
source: Annual Conference Update
CAA will award a limited number of $500 grants to artists or scholars from outside the United States who are CAA members as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to attend the 2015 Annual Conference in New York. Successful applicants will also receive complimentary...
source: Annual Conference Update
CAA will award a limited number of $250 grants to advanced PhD and MFA graduate students who are CAA members as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to attend the 2015 Annual Conference in New York. Successful applicants will also receive complimentary conference...
source: Annual Conference Update
The CAA-Getty International Program offers a travel grant for fifteen visual-arts professionals to attend the 2015 Annual Conference in New York. Applicants must be practicing art historians who teach at a university or work as a curator in a museum, or be artists who teach...
source: Annual Conference Update
Reservations for advertising in the first-ever digital Conference Information and Registration booklet—a vital resource for anyone attending the Annual Conference—will be accepted through August 18, 2014. Reach thousands of artists, art historians, students,...
source: Annual Conference Update
