FULL HIGHLIGHTS Nov 11, 2008
Michael Fried, professor of humanities and art history at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of some of the most influential art history and art criticism in recent history. His works include Art and Objecthood, Absorption and Theatricality, Manet s Modernism and most recently, Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
John Cooper: Beyond West Kootenay L... Nov 10, 2008
They also emerge in spontaneous lectures on art history, and at his own artist s retrospective talk at Nelson's Touchstones Gallery, a fullscale impromptu colour-theory class---proof that John Cooper has never lost touch with the essential purpose behind his avant-garde roots. The copyright of the article John Cooper: Beyond West Kootenay Landscapes in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
'To the Ends of the Earth' explores poles' mystery and majesty Nov 9, 2008
One of the great examples in art history is William Hodges, who traveled with Captain James Cook on the second of his three voyages to the Pacific. In 1772, Hodges became the first Western artist to paint an eyewitness view of antarctic ice. (Boston Globe)
How to Raise $500 Million Nov 9, 2008
The wife of Jeff Vinik, who is known to many as a former manager of the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund, she has a background in finance, international studies, and art history but dedicated herself to raising their four kids. Even her volunteer work had centered on her children, particularly their schools. (Boston Globe)
Scenes of disappearing small-town lifeSecaucus resident Doug DePice exhibits artwork Nov 9, 2008
Although he primarily teaches traditional art classes - drawing, paining, silk screening, art history, photography, and a portfolio class for kids interested in studying art in college - his heart is really into forgoing an interdisciplinary approach to education across the board. "The problem that I find with public education is, it's way too linear," he stated. (West New York Reporter, NJ)
North Iowan was part of a human eagle Nov 9, 2008
(Globe Gazette photo by Deb Nicklay) MASON CITY Most knew the late Carl Cunningham as a quiet, unassuming guy but he stood in the middle of art history. A Floyd County Army enlistee and Dougherty native, Cunningham helped create a living art form made popular during World War I.. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Chronicling Joan Miró's assault on painting Nov 8, 2008
Then in a third series the hands-on painter comes back with a vengeance to demolish art history. In a work called "Dutch Interior," Mir. (International Herald Tribune)
Speaker to explore use of water in Impressionist art Nov 7, 2008
Robyn Roslak, an associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, will present Impressionism and Water: Peering Beneath the Surface at. 7 p.m. Tuesday in Winona State University s Somsen Auditorium. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Korea Foundation partners with UH Manoa Nov 4, 2008
When fully funded, the $2 million endowment will support a chair position at CKS which will rotate among Korea-themed disciplines such as anthropology, art history, religion and theatre/drama. In 1903, 102 Koreans emigrated to Hawai'i to work on the sugar plantations. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Grant brings art, history and learning to life for FMS Nov 4, 2008
Serving Callaway County communities since 1875. Tuesday, November 04, 2008. (Fulton Sun, MO)
Russian Senator's Exhibition of Scythian Gold Draws Viscount Linley and Other VIP Guests to Southeast Siberia Nov 4, 2008
In addition to chairing Christie's, the world's largest auction house, Linley is a noted art history expert who has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Other high-profile guests at the event included Princess Salimah, peace ambassador for the humanitarian non-governmental organization SOS Children's Villages, and Lord Bruce Dundas, son of the Marquis of Shetland and managing director of luxury goods seller Asprey. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
CTV's Kitchener News Anchor Kyle Ch... Nov 2, 2008
After graduating from high school he enrolled at the University of Victoria, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in art history and a minor in film. Talent Agent. (Suite101.com)
From Baroque to tattoos, new museum celebrates art Nov 2, 2008
"This is my gift to the world of art history," Haukohl said. "One would not normally see this, even in Florence.". (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Today in the Cedar Valley Nov 1, 2008
Details: Attend a free showing of this documentary film by Dr. Christopher Roy, professor of African art history at the University of Iowa for 30 years. Admission: Free. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The world's most famous cemeteries Oct 31, 2008
$7 online stock trades. Evocative spots from Cambridge and Tombstone, to Buenos Aires, beyond. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Oct. 30 edition: Obituaries Oct 31, 2008
Born July 28, 1928, and raised, in Manchester, N.H., she graduated from Smith College in 1949, the New England Conservatory of Music in 1950, and received her master s in art history from Harvard-Radcliffe University in 1953. She taught French and Spanish at Newton South High School in Newton for 21 years. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Candidate questionnaire: Jen Benson Oct 31, 2008
Education: Bachelor s degree in art history, Florida Atlantic University, 1995. Make sure you vote. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Arts in brief Oct 30, 2008
Pepe Karmel, associate professor of art history at New York University, will present a lecture today at the Palmer Museum of Art. The lecture, "From Collage to Combine: New York Art in the 1950s," will begin at 6 p.m. Karmel is the curator of New York Cool: Paintings and Sculptures from the NYU Art Collection, which has been on display at Palmer since September. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Walk Historic Downtown Hood River O... Oct 29, 2008
Walk Historic Downtown Hood River Oregon: Eat at the Big Horse Brew Pub Overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. Walk Historic Downtown Hood River Oregon. (Suite101.com)
Ivies fore Californians Oct 29, 2008
After that, Wescoe declared himself an art history major, and he's proposed a thesis: The Art of Golf Courses. It's opened up a whole new world, said Wescoe, who's now considering being a golf course architect. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
CNN to visit SU, encourage participation in upcoming election Oct 29, 2008
"I think it's more to get CNN's voice out," Megan Sunzeri, a junior art history and television, radio and film major, said. Clayton Parker, senior information management and technology major, agreed with Sunzeri. (Daily Orange, NY)
'Twilight' Star Robert Pattinson Moves From Edward Cullen To Salvador Dali -- Check Out Photos Here! Oct 29, 2008
For thos 000037AB e of you who haven't been keeping up on your art history, Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal. i Dom. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Visiting artists hope to raise student awareness of unconventional arts Oct 28, 2008
The artists visiting the UI School of Art and Art History today don't use such names as "painter" or "ceramist." Instead, they call themselves "culture hacker," "ineffective inventor," or "humorist." These quirky visitors aren't coming to teach technique but rather to open students to ideas such as reverse shoplifting ("shop dropping," they term it) and art via the Internet. These unconventional artists are part of the New York-based Eyebeam organization, which supports creative work combining... (Daily Iowan, IA)
Have time, will travel Oct 28, 2008
"Our question was to ask people, 'OK, now that you've found this direction, how do you sustain it. One woman worked as an elementary teacher for 10 years and wanted to go to work in art history. Now she's a curator of an art museum." By. This document was originally published online on Tuesday, October 28, 2008. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
School future hangs in the balance Oct 27, 2008
5 million in state funds each year - is caught between two systems, says its head of art history and theory, Jacques Delaruelle. "The problem is we were never properly separated from TAFE," Delaruelle says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The cost of official portraiture varies, but can cost taxpayers nearly $50,000 Oct 26, 2008
David Bjelajac, a professor of art history at George Washington University, said portraitists must subordinate their artistic vision to the wishes of the subject. For that reason, top-flight artists normally are not interested in accepting such commissions, he said. (Boston Globe)
· Who was Doris Leeper? Oct 26, 2008
Born in 1929 in Charlotte, N.C., Leeper graduated from Duke University in 1951 with a degree in art history and went to work in commercial graphic arts and fine arts. Just seven years later, Leeper moved to Eldora, in what is now Canaveral National Seashore. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Test your art history Oct 25, 2008
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Casper briefs Oct 25, 2008
The original pieces came from Penn State and it has traveled to colleges across the country," said Valerie Innella, art history instructor and gallery director."This exhibit is unique," said Innella, "because it encourages the reader to interact by adding their own images or comments to spaces on the page, to mar the 'sacred book' with the 'graffiti' of their thoughts. "The exhibit is free and open to the public. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Article Rating... (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Careful with work activities Oct 25, 2008
There are writing groups, art history lectures, current events discussion groups, genealogy instruction, computer classes, crafting classes. the list goes on and on. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Mary Craig McLane Oct 24, 2008
She earned her master's degree in art history from Radcliffe College in Cambridge in 1953. She never married. (Boston Globe)
Glimpses of the abyss Oct 23, 2008
There is Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee, whose quiet, photo-based work generally explores the places where art history can be seen to touch pop culture (he just won this year's prestigious Sobey Art Award). Then there's the endlessly acerbic, Vancouver-based Rodney Graham, whose highly cerebral art operates at an irony level probably only detectable by bats: His Yokohama exhibition consisted of his mordant video documentation of his performance piece Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong... (Globe and Mail)
Region celebrating State Humanities Month Oct 23, 2008
Barringer, an Englishman, is the Paul Mellon Professor at the Yale University Art History Department. According to Jacks the lecture will revolve around England. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Literary events planned at U of I Oct 21, 2008
Participants in the Translating the Middle Ages conference will include medievalists who work in various disciplines from literature and language to history and art history and in national traditions from Scandinavia to Greece, focusing on the movement among vernacular languages Arab and Latin. Twenty-two distinguished scholars are scheduled to read original papers during the conference. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Critical Inspiration Oct 19, 2008
As an art history major, I could not see myself ever making the effort it would take really to imagine the pervasive sensibility of times and cultures other than my own ... As an art history student overdosed on projected slides, I found the physicality of the work stirring to the point of shock. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Saddam's doctor paints to ease war's horrors Oct 19, 2008
"After all, Saddam did not think he was an oppressive ruler nor that Iraqis hated him," said Nada Shabout, an art history associate professor at the University of North Texas. "Thus, art that expressed suffering and oppression was always about imperial powers and their inhuman policies against Arabs.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Fast Break With Soccer's Brian Martin Oct 18, 2008
I've taken art history classes and often to go museums or exhibits in San Francisco. I've also done photography on my own and in classes. (Santaclarabroncos.com)
Saddam's Doctor Navigates His Way to Art Oct 18, 2008
"After all, Saddam did not think he was an oppressive ruler nor that Iraqis hated him," said Nada Shabout, an art history associate professor at the University of North Texas and an expert on Middle Eastern art. "Thus, art that expressed suffering and oppression was always about imperial powers and their inhuman policies against Arabs.". (Newsmax)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Oct 16, 2008
He spans generations, said Robert Mattison, a professor of art history and architecture at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. There is a parallel between (Wright s) idea of organic architecture and what we call sustainability today, and that s what makes it interesting. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
John McCain lives! Oct 16, 2008
McCain s wife has individual plastic with a half million on each of them, and the daughters have 50 grand on each of there s. McCain s daughter graduated Columbia with an art history major and years later has never held a job for a day ... McCain s wife has individual plastic with a half million on each of them, and the daughters have 50 grand on each of there s. McCain s daughter graduated Columbia with an art history major and years later has never held a job for a day ... McCain s wife has... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Drawing the lines Oct 16, 2008
Sophomore art history major Ambrose Naumann has been tattooed three times by Rose at his Halo Tattoo shop on Marshall Street. Naumann got his first tattoo on his 18th birthday. (Daily Orange, NY)
'Descartes' Bones' by Russell Shorto Oct 15, 2008
Art history entered the equation when a Frans Hals portrait of Descartes - and thus that portrait's usefulness as proof that the skull fit the man - had its authenticity challenged. The portrait of Descartes that hangs in the Louvre was thought to be Hals's work. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Tate's vision of a London under fire Oct 14, 2008
She added that she had placed replica artworks alongside the bunk beds as a nod to art history. "it is a work which is intense and turbulent, saying: 'Fasten your seatbelts,' but it is not a pessimistic work. it has a dark side but if you spend more time in it, it's not only dark," she said. (Independent)
Richard and Mica Hadar Scholars Dream Big and Overcome Adversity in Their Pursuit of College Education Oct 14, 2008
"I could not picture a future without my father, who I love so much. But life has to go on. That's when the realities of life kick in. The first, and harshest, reality is that my father provided most of the income to my family. The thought of paying for college was daunting and made me feel sick to my stomach. There seemed to be no way to remedy the situation. When one of my teachers nominated me for the Richard and Mica Hadar Foundation scholarship, I only had a vague idea of how the... (PR Newswire)
A 'Night Out' at the UI cultural centers Oct 14, 2008
Jennifer Delgado - The Daily Iowan. Issue date: 10/14/08 Section. (Daily Iowan, IA)
New exhibit puts focus on Gordon Parks Oct 11, 2008
Heather Campbell Coyle, associate curator at the Delaware Art Museum and a University of Delaware doctoral student in art history, was teaching a class in the history of photography when she learned of the Parks retrospective. She jumped at the chance to bring it to Wilmington. (MSNBC -- News)
Job market tight, even for MBAs Oct 11, 2008
But with the global financial crisis worsening by the hour, business majors may be left wondering whether they should ve studied art history or philosophy instead. That s how uncertain it has become for students completing a master s in business administration, or other business-related degrees. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Local pitcher to throw for U.S. on international team Oct 11, 2008
University of Rochester fireballer and art history major Joseph Ullman can relate both ways. Ullman, a Claverack native and Hudson Little League product, is about to broaden his horizons even further. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Love's Labour's Lost Oct 10, 2008
Love's Labour's Lost. 3 stars Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon. (guardian.co.uk)
Humanities Day provides new opportunities for discovery Oct 10, 2008
Daisy Delogu, Assistant Professor of French in Romance Languages & Literatures and the College, and Aden Kumler, Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, will collaborate on a lecture, titled Love s Looks, Love Books, about one of the library s most prized holdings: the 14th-century manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose, or The Romance of the Rose. It was arguably the single most influential text of the later Middle Ages, one that also inspired extensive programs of illumination designed... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Art history professor coedits new book on Roman role models Oct 10, 2008
Sinclair Bell, a new assistant professor of art history in NIU s School of Art, and Inge Lyse Hansen, an assistant professor of art history at John Cabot University, are the editors of a new book of essays that examine those questions. Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation, was published in August by the University of Michigan Press. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Stanford gets $200 million for arts education Oct 10, 2008
Stanford will construct a new building for its Art and Art History Department, uniting the department under one roof, thanks to more than $200 million in gifts earmarked for arts education at the university ... "Great sparks happen when people come together in one place," Kristine Samuelson, chair of the Department of Art and Art History, said. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Labour peers urge Brown to back down in detention fight Oct 10, 2008
PM warned he faces heavy Lords defeat on 42 days Downing Street advised to avoid confrontation. Westminster correspondent. (guardian.co.uk)
Ignorance is no excuse Oct 10, 2008
The premise for this war was not security but politics - and it is our politicians who should be in the dock. Monday February 9 2004. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)
George Palade, Nobel Winner for Work Inspiring Modern Cell Biology, Dies at 95 Oct 10, 2008
Related News from NYT Health. By ANDREW POLLACK The New York Times Published: Oct 10, 2008. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
From across the centuries, a different view of Picasso Oct 10, 2008
The nonlinear arrangement startlingly reveals the conscious or subconscious connections forged by Picasso, as though he had processed all of Western art history through an ingenious computer - his brain. "This exhibition is a revolution in the way we look at art," said Anne Baldassari, director of the Picasso Museum in Paris, who curated the show at the Grand Palais. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design Oct 10, 2008
Soon, word spread that Maeda was thinking of axing the sacred Foundation Studies program, with its emphasis on drawing, art history, and building actual physical objects. Panic spread from the glass blowers' kilns to the weavers' workshops. (FastCompany)
* An old hand at the helm Oct 8, 2008
Chou, who received her doctorate in art history and archaeology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, served as secretary to two of the museums directors and headed its Exhibition Department for 16 years, during which time she organized numerous international exhibitions, including groundbreaking shows such as Monet and other Impressionists: Collections from Musee Marmottan Monet Paris (1993), Western Landscape in Paintings from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (from the collection of... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Vancouver's Tim Lee takes Sobey Art Award Oct 8, 2008
I ask Lee how he accounts for this learned preoccupation with precedent in Vancouver art, and we talk about the strength of the art and art history departments at UBC where he did his MFA work, and the vitality of the discussion about art that goes on in the city at large ... He cites art history professor John O'Brian, artist Ken Lum and also Scott Watson as important mentors. (Globe and Mail)
Artists, educators nervous about porn bill Oct 6, 2008
Television, especially, should be more closely monitored, said Setiawan Sabana, an art history professor at Bandung Institute of Technology. Still, he said, adequate enforcement of existing laws would be preferable to the new porn bill. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Atlanta man expert on cemetery symbols Oct 4, 2008
I have a background in art and art history and have been identifying symbols since then, he said. For instance, the weeping willow means mourning and grief. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
After-class mixer at the MFA Oct 3, 2008
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Rae does it again with self-portrait Oct 3, 2008
Rae's paintings reflect her interest in art history ... As a teenager Rae went to the Julian Ashton school in Sydney, then took up academic studies of art history and theory, but she missed the smell of the oil paint and at 25 took up painting again. (The Australian)
University, South Side communitiescan feast on the arts with Arcopia events Oct 3, 2008
The exhibition curator, Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and the College, will kick off the show with a discussion at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2. A Jihad for Love, with film director Parvez Sharma, International House, Friday, Oct. 10: I-House will present the award-winning documentary film, which explores the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Oct 3, 2008
There will be an opening reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, with a lecture by exhibition curator Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History. A reception will follow. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
