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Since the exhibition opened in September, class participants in History of Art and Architecture 228: African Art, Museums and the Politics of Representation have been introduced to African art and had the opportunity to engage in a critical examination of traditional approaches to the study of non-western art. A review of the exhibition in The Middlebury Campus ("Tribal sculpture show shifts African bias," Sept. 19) provoked a stimulating discussion session for the class, which inspired students... (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Marlins cut final tie to fans Dec 6, 2007
They're coming while the team's owner is willing to donate a reported $20 million to build the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art at Yale University, his alma mater, but draws the line at spending $20 million to keep Willis and Cabrera around. They're coming while South Florida fans are already suffering with the Dolphins and the Heat and the Hurricanes and have no patience with being told yet again that the Marlins, twice world champions, will be dynamite once somebody builds them a... (The Palm Beach Post)
First look: Rosemary Hill Dec 1, 2007
At university I read English but I was also drawn to history, especially the history of ideas and history of art, and increasingly I became interested in the connections between ideas and objects. I wondered how it is that a culture, a religion, a political system expresses itself through functional things - tables and chairs and houses. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Is The Beauty Of A Sculpture In The Brain Of The Beholder? Nov 24, 2007
The history of art is replete with the constant tension between objective values and subjective judgments. This tension is deepened when artists discover new aesthetic parameters that may appeal for various reasons, be they related to our biological heritage, or simply to fashion or novelty. (Science Daily)
Theatrics of Art in the Work of Durga Kainthola Nov 21, 2007
From November 14 until the 18th, 2007, Indian Contemporary features Durga Kainthola at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre in "Warhol and the History of Art - Part II" ... "In a selection of her work that relates to her Warhol and the History of Art series some of the images such as Amrita Sher-Gil, Marilyn Munroe and Dalis clock re-enter her canvas that she seems to liken to a stage. She has also worked on photographic images of Frida Kahlo. The work in layers invites the viewer to uncover it in... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Yorktown University Launches Courses and Seminars at iTunes Nov 15, 2007
Dr. Arthur Pontynen, History of Art 10. Dr. Eugene Heath, Virtue and Business Faculty biographies are posted at and Mr. Pollock's genealogy service is located at These thirty-one courses and seminars are being made available free of charge by Yorktown University. (PR Newswire)
Hirst is all class, even when the pupils are pickled Nov 14, 2007
"This to me covers surrealism, the history of art, the hanging of meat the whole thing is great.". The film star was salivating over the centrepiece of Damien Hirst's latest art installation-cum-marketing stunt: a 3. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Honors straight from the heart Nov 13, 2007
"There was a competitive spirit. Cities competed with each other to put together more lavish monuments," said Kirk Savage, associate professor and chairman of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of History of Art and Architecture. The construction of monuments became a business as every community wanted to build something to salute its military men, Savage said. (Albany Times Union)
Lecture to focus on Renaissance art Nov 12, 2007
Joseph Connors, professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard University and director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, will lecture at 6 tonight regarding the baroque artwork of Giovanni Baglione during the Italian Renaissance. Palmer Museum, the art history department and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will sponsor the event. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Kate Middleton's colleagues throw her a leaving party Nov 10, 2007
The History of Art graduate, who's been told her fashion job is still open to her if she wants to return, is believed to be interested in taking still-life and artistic pictures. An alternative career selling luxury yachts from an office next to Prince Charles' Clarence House is also apparently on the table. (hellomagazine.com)
Hirst's latest leaves art world drooling Nov 10, 2007
"This to me covers surrealism, the history of art, the hanging of meat ... the whole thing is great.". The film star was salivating yesterday over the centrepiece of Damien Hirst's latest art installation-cum-marketing stunt: a 12-foot-high tank that contains 10,000 litres of formaldehyde. (Guardian Unlimited)
Carnegie Museum Celebrates 100 Years Nov 9, 2007
"The Carnegie's timing was either very good or very bad. (Its cast collection was) assembled in 1907, just at the moment that originality was pouring forth," said Franklin Toker, a University of Pittsburgh professor of the history of art and architecture who has studied the Carnegie's cast collection. Instead of destroying its casts, the Carnegie kept its collection in the cavernous halls built especially to house them. (Newsmax)
Hard Rock Walzer Contemporary Austrian Sculpture Nov 8, 2007
Just as it happens in the paradoxical works of Gelitin who, with spectacular provocations like the giant pink rabbit laying on a mountain, make everyday and history of art collide. Hard Rock Walzer Contemporary Austrian Sculpture continues the exploration of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Villa Manin of neighbouring countries, nations whose identities and visions the visitor can further discover. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Ways to make you think better Nov 8, 2007
"We'd have these revision parties. It was usually about three of us, we'd get wired on Ritalin, and I'd do my anatomy revision, another would work on her economics coursework, and the other would do a history of art essay. We'd sit there working like mad, really racing through it, totally focused, turning out good quality work for hours and hours."I ended up taking Ritalin in every exam during the first semester at medical school - I was just so snowed under that I couldn't cope with the work... (Guardian Unlimited -- Society)
Colleges like commodities: sell, sell, sell Nov 4, 2007
A discussion of who should be the colleges namesake has begun amongst alumni, and talks about who will design the colleges are in motion amongst various professors from the School of Architecture and the History of Art department. The History of Art Department even plans to hold a conference in January about residential college design, and several art historians and architects have been invited. (Yale Herald, CT)
Julie Rrap: Body Double Oct 27, 2007
They imply that the history of art has been largely a story of men painting pictures for other men to enjoy, with women playing the role of desirable objects. However, this is hardly a revelation and none of Rrap's revisionist images have a trace of the finesse we associate with those notorious chauvinists of the past with whom she chooses to associate. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; figurative L.A. painter Oct 24, 2007
"He also had an enormous appreciation for the history of art and felt very close to the European tradition of art.". Peter Goulds, owner of the L.A. Louver gallery in Venice, met Kitaj in 1979 and maintained a fairly close association with him over the years. (Los Angeles Times)
A RealPlayer end to the chalkboard era Oct 22, 2007
Eager, anxious, yet poised, Diana E.E. Kleiner, the Dunham Professor of Classics and the History of Art, awaits the upcoming unveiling of her brainchild. About seven years in the making, Kleiner has watched the Video Lecture Project emerge from the ashes of the fallen Alliance for Lifelong Learning, or AllLearn, a collaboration between Oxford, Stanford, and Yale, to present learners with a variety of non-credit courses at a minimal fee. (Yale Herald, CT)
Arts council grants internship funding Oct 19, 2007
Twice a year, the Arts Council meets with COTA - a group of representatives from the Departments of History of Art and Architecture, Studio Art, Film and Media Culture, Dance and Theater, the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA), the Mahaney Center for the Arts and the Performing Arts Series. This year, however, the selected project does not focus on one specific department or organization. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Shakespeare portrait passes ink test Oct 18, 2007 Joseph Jeffers Dodge: A Passion for Art Oct 17, 2007 Watercolor exhibit short on passion, substance Oct 15, 2007 Around the Ivies Oct 6, 2007 Digested read Sep 25, 2007 Discussions to complement India exhibition Sep 12, 2007 Read Indepth Article Aug 31, 2007 Take notes: websites for students Aug 25, 2007 U2 could be shrunk down to size Aug 22, 2007 Life after Kate: a happier ending Aug 19, 2007 Princess Beatrice's A-level success Aug 18, 2007 ''Into the Pixel'' to Exhibit at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival Aug 16, 2007 Clay Center finds a new art curator Aug 3, 2007 Turning the Pages Jul 24, 2007 Pondering free access to French museums Jul 19, 2007 Record tipped for Possum's desert epic Jul 13, 2007 Intimate landscapes glow with light, shadow, and misty tones Jul 12, 2007 * Writing's on the gallery wall for graffiti Jul 12, 2007 Bliss in the Berkshires Jun 28, 2007 Pissarro exhibit spans four generations of artists Jun 22, 2007 Bite-Size Art Jun 19, 2007 The Venice Biennale Jun 17, 2007 When 8,601 diamonds are a collector's best friend Jun 17, 2007 BLAKELEY GRIFFITH TABBED ESPN THE MAGAZINE FIRST TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICAN Jun 15, 2007 Friends recall Glass House, now open to public Jun 14, 2007 Lesley walks out of Big Brother house Jun 11, 2007 Takenaka: Enshrinement Politics Jun 11, 2007 Holograms, giant sloth among museum's exhibits Jun 11, 2007 Boys allowed - the Big Brother house greets two more males Jun 9, 2007 'Between God & Man': 'Angels' exhibit appeals to the masses Jun 9, 2007 Trojans Put Six On 2007 Pac-10 Women's Rowing All-Academic Team Jun 8, 2007 Friends fear for Montreal woman held in Iran Jun 2, 2007 Russian super-rich pour cash into art May 31, 2007 Ten Bulldogs Named Academic All-Ivy for Spring May 26, 2007 Cleveland and Taylor Named Second Team Academic All-District May 25, 2007 Geelong Art Gallery May 18, 2007 Anne Lyman Powers: By the Shore Reception May 18, 2007 All the world is his gallery May 13, 2007 Herbert Hymans, 72; ex-diplomatic official, Getty Center executive May 11, 2007 Nothing Left To Sell But His Business Partner May 10, 2007 Historic Indian drawings on display in Escondido May 10, 2007 Arts students 'plan careers less' May 9, 2007 Bross, Danziger lectures to focus on work of Bosch, view of pop culture through lens of Greek tragedy Apr 27, 2007 Power Hungry Apr 22, 2007 - Mary Riddell Apr 22, 2007 Lost altar paintings go for 1.7m Apr 20, 2007 Met's roamin' empire Apr 20, 2007 Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007 The observer Apr 9, 2007 Modernism's odd man out Apr 9, 2007 History of medieval books on display at library Apr 8, 2007 Art versus Artifact Apr 4, 2007 The night that Picasso was a little plastered Apr 3, 2007 Eight Brown Icers Earn ECAC All-Academic Honors Apr 3, 2007 Replicas vibrate with life and soul Apr 2, 2007 What Women Have Done to Art Mar 24, 2007 "Air Guitar Nation" DVD out on Friday Mar 21, 2007 Community News Briefs: Polar plunge raises funds for Special Olympics Mar 16, 2007 Art Boom? What Art Boom? Collectors Head to Japan in Search of Bargains Mar 16, 2007 Jennifer González receives publication grant Mar 12, 2007 Prince William WILL get married to Kate, House of Commons told... Mar 7, 2007 UAE, France sign agreement to build Louvre Abu Dhabi museum Mar 7, 2007 Behind the curtain Mar 3, 2007 Conference focuses on interdisciplinary studies Feb 26, 2007 The Thinker in rehab Feb 14, 2007
It's probably the most tested painting not only of all the Shakespeare portraits but also likely one of the most tested in the history of art, he said. The ink was the only thing that hadn't been tested and now that it's done it's huge for our painting there's nothing more to prove forensically. (Globe and Mail)
Porn again?Erotic art exhibition fuels debate on explicit works Oct 17, 2007
Martin Kemp is one of the show's curators and a professor of history of art at Oxford University. Sex and joy. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Joseph Jeffers ("Jerry") Dodge (1917-1997) was an important figure in the history of art and culture in Jacksonville. His legacies within and outside the community are multi-faceted. (Florida Times-Union)
In the history of art, such tiny forces have literally changed the world. It is, in practicality, unrealistic for any one artist to expect similarly great consequences. (Anchorage Daily News)
This semester, the Harvard class Justice, comparable to Yales The Moral Foundation of Politics, has a record-breaking enrollment of 1,115 undergraduates more than the number of students in Introduction to the History of Art, Introductory Economics, and Introduction to Cognitive Science put together. Taught by Professor Michael Sandel, class lectures take place in the 1,166-seat Sanders Theatre, barely enough space for all the students. (Yale Herald, CT)
"I'm Livvy, an American history of art student, and even though you are congenitally stupid I'm going to fall in love with you and take you to Florence to appreciate the wonders of Italian art.". It was the final play of the Italian Super Bowl and Parma was trailing. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tomorrow's topic is "Traditional vs. Contemporary Approaches in Visual Art." Panelists are Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies (art and architecture), Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania; Arani Bose, collector, gallerist, Bose Pacia Galleries, New York, and Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi; and exhibiting artist Anita Dube. On Oct. 24, "Gender, History and Popular Culture in Indian Film" will be discussed by Neepa Majumdar, associate... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Starting with Adad Hannah's most recent piece, Burghers of Seoul, this exhibition brings together works by this artist that take as their point of departure narrative models or conventions stemming from the history of art. The idea of replaying and reconsidering conventions in order to recast them began with Museum Stills. (AbsoluteArts.com)
A nine-part, online video course, formerly shown on PBS, on the history of art in the Western world. 1. (Los Angeles Times)
"The three of them combined, that's my work. I think I'm lucky that I was brought up in any kind of faith. It could have been Buddhism, it could have been Islam. I think it just gives you an extra dimension The history of art, particularly pre-Renaissance, is intertwined with the history of the Catholic Church. When people were illiterate and they couldn't read the Bible they'd look up [in church] and there were visual versions of the Bible.". If he has an eye on the transcendent, he also has an... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
His brother became an army officer while he took quite a different life course: going off to Manchester University to study history of art. His family, he says, have always had 'wide-ranging' political debates, and although they haven't seen the film yet he doesn't see any conflict between their occupations and his current subject matter. (Guardian Unlimited)
The 17-year-old royal achieved three As in politics, history of art and art and one B in English. The princess' parents were overjoyed with the daughters' success. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Established as an independent institution in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has assembled a permanent collection that includes approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United States. Located in the heart of one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, the museum uses its collection and resources to provide a variety of educational and cultural... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
We had to watch those boring Kenneth Clark videos about the history of art. Now I have them on video. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
But the thrill of turning a page virtually in the history of art using the British Library's TTP technology is well worth the investment in time and effort. Sources. (Suite101.com)
"For decades, art historians have been united in demanding that the history of art be required teaching in high schools," Pierre Rosenberg, the former president-director of the Louvre, wrote recently in the Paris daily Lib. ration. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
"It's a large, swaggering, technically good work from an artist who is important and is well written into the history of art. And I don't even like Clifford Possum.". While more than half the contents of Sotheby's Important Aboriginal Art auction is expected to go overseas, Possum's painting has no export permit and is expected to stay in Australia, possibly on the walls of a public gallery. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sarah Wentworth's tongue-in-cheek installation "The Complete History of Art (abridged)" is funny and provocative. Wentworth has installed a wall full of empty frames, wrapped bundles, empty canvases, and blocks of wood in a Mondrian-like grid. (Boston Globe)
It mirrors the history of art production, which often begins with outsiders and the critics saying, 'That's not art,' then it becomes the norm. Writing graffiti is as ancient as cave painting and tagging is about as basic as a dog marking its territory by urinating against the wall. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
which features an eclectic range of visiting exhibits and houses more than 12,000 works spanning the history of art. For dynamite Mexican food or a simple burger, you can't beat dinner at Desperados (246 Main St., 413-458-2100) before heading over to the Williamstown Theatre Festival (1000 Main St., 413-597-3400. (Boston Globe)
This spring Lyora withdrew her application to study philosophy at a university because she decided to study history of art instead. It appears the Pissarro art gene is surfacing in a fifth generation. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
" And with it the series turns toward an inquiry implicit in its title, pondering the "power" of artworks compared with that of armies and politicians. Schama represents "Guernica" -- Picasso's great protest against the unprovoked German and Italian bombing of a defenseless Basque city -- as his greatest work, after which followed "the longest, saddest anti-climax in the history of art": the remaining three decades of Picasso's career. Never mind real and possible arguments to the contrary.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
These are encrusted here and there with imagery drawn from historical illustrations or the history of art. (The figures looked to my eye like explorers or philosophers, some like angels. (Globe and Mail)
Not that I'm suggesting the artist is a glorified pitchman, or that the skull - "without precedence in the history of art," the gallery's promotional material whispers - is merely a promotional item. In fact, once you've climbed the stairs with 10 other folk to the top of the gallery, dumped your bag, and been warned by the stern Euro bouncer that you have "two minutes only!" the skull is quite breathtaking to behold. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
History of Art and Architecture. TENNESSEE. (Utladyvols.com)
Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture, Yale: He was so hospitable there, in the early days. I visited first when the house was under construction, in 1948. (San Francisco Chronicle)
He sees Big Brother as a "living specimen installation" and has degrees in history of art and classical archaeology, but is also an admirer of Paris Hilton. Devoted Jacko fan Seany travelled to California for the pop star's child abuse trial in 2005 and stood outside the courtroom waving an Irish flag emblazoned with the words: "Michael, Ireland believes in you!". (ITV.com)
Akiko Takenaka teaches architectural history and theory in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author (with Laura Hein) of "Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995," in Pacific Historical Review 76. (Zmag.org)
An impressive display of culture is in the "Cuba: A History of Art" collection, which includes historical and cultural interpretations. Noted as the most complete public collection of Cuban art outside of Havana, this exhibit includes paintings, pottery, lithographs of sugar plantations and ceramics that allow visitors to follow Cuba's rich history and understand much of its industry from the past. (Ocala Star-Banner)
Gerry, who moved to the UK 12 years ago, has degrees in history of art and classical archaeology, but says sex is his only vice. The pair join 26-year-old model and music producer Zak Lichman who has been the only male in the house for a week. (BBC News -- UK)
"Anyone walking through the exhibition rooms will immediately see how the image of angels has changed in the history of art as times, styles and cultures have changed, but also how it has remained substantially the same ... down to our own day," Vatican Museums director and Angels curator Francesco Buranelli said. "In giving form to these purely spiritual beings, each artist has made explicit both man's most intimate desires - divine aid and contact with God - and his most uncontrollable... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Pac-10 Conference - Conference of Champions Official Athletic Site. Conference of Champions. (Pac-10.org)
Also following the case closely is Olivier Asselin, who teaches history of art and film studies at University of Montreal. Ms. Solouki took a course with Prof. (Globe and Mail)
using this Soviet style big canvas but they put in their paintings a sexy woman, a new way of looking at politics, which places them in the history of art so it is more understandable for the West and also for Russia. They have a pop-art element plus a heritage element. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site. - Ten Yale student-athletes were honored as the Ivy League released its list of those selected for Academic All-Ivy recognition in spring sports Tuesday. (Goyalebulldogs.com)
A history of art major, Cleveland is the coxswain for Yale's varsity eight boat, which is ranked second in the nation heading into this weekend's NCAA Championships. Yale earned an Eastern Sprints and Ivy League title, with the varsity eight winning the Grand Final at Sprints for the second time in three years. (Goyalebulldogs.com)
The gardens of good are reminiscent of Monet's beautiful waterlily paintings, while the gardens of evil highlight the artist's concern with the history of art and human conflict. By referencing Picasso's Guernica as well as Alighieri's Dante's Inferno and other well-known works, La Gerche continues the tradition of the artist as social commentator amidst world crisis. (MCV)
While at Vassar, she studied sculpture and history of art and also took a summer course in sculpture at Columbia University with Hugo Robus. After World War II, she studied drawing, painting and graphics at the Boston Museum School; her instructors included Karl Zerbe and Ture Bengtz. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Gormley was sent to Ampleforth, the Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire, where he won all the art prizes and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read archeology, anthropology and history of art. After graduating in the Sixties, lacking confidence as an artist, he hit the hippie trail to India. (Guardian Unlimited)
From Times Staff and Wire Reports May 11, 2007 Herbert Henri Eduard Hymans, 72, former assistant director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, which subsequently became the Getty Research Institute, died Saturday of heart disease at a hospital in Paris. Hymans joined the fledgling Getty Center as its assistant director in 1984. (Los Angeles Times)
BY MAUREEN MULLARKEY Faking it is as old as the recorded history of art. The fifth-century B.C.E. sculptor Phidias is said to have signed the work of talented students. (New York Sun)
Eventually (after its nearly untimely demise in the trash), it came into the hands of the organizers of the PILA Project, Wright said, at which time it "hadn't been opened in a hundred years. When I first saw it I turned white as a sheet. The spirit just came over me! I was seeing something that few eyes have ever laid on in the history of art ---- it has opened a Pandora's box. People are saying, 'Why is this in Escondido? Why isn't it in Washington, D.C., or New York?' ... We do hope to put... (North County Times)
Student James Shaddock, who is reading history and history of art at Oxford Brookes University, took issue with the whole premise underlying the careers survey. "What is so wrong with not having a job lined up or making sure it pays well? Could it be that students like myself don't actually care?" he told the BBC News website. (BBC News)
Joseph Koerner, a professor of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, will untangle the mystery of the nature of evil as depicted in Hieronymus Bosch s Renaissance triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. Koerner will set up the mystery in a presentation at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 9, at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Recent course corrections in car design may also be playing a role in this aesthetic realignment, says C. Edson Armi, a professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has written books on American car design. Just six or seven years ago, Armi says in an e-mail, Aspirational luxury brands such as BMW and Mercedes were designed for the stealth wealth crowd, with softer, understated curves dominating style on the exterior. (Boston Globe)
From Ghirlandaio's Slaughter of the Innocents to Goya's Disasters of War, the history of art is littered with spree-killing. Add the psychopathy and remove the genius and Cho's home movie is Titian in QuickTime video clips. (Guardian Unlimited)
Michael Liversidge, a family friend and former head of the History of Art department at the University of Bristol, identified the masterpieces, which were hanging behind a door in a spare room at the home of Miss Preston, who died earlier this year aged 77. He said Miss Preston had always enjoyed the two small, modest portraits of saints in medieval clothing. (BBC News -- UK)
The timeline, which offers chronological, thematic and geographical contexts for history of art, provides a more thorough analysis of the ancient Mediterranean world, including details on Eastern religions that thrived under Roman rule, intellectual pursuits of the Hellenistic age, and ancient Roman theater. Finally, the museum is adding "Once Upon a Time in Rome" to its series of family guides, available free at the information desks. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
First in graphite, then in crayon, later in colored pencil and finally in chromatically rich washes of India ink, acrylic and other materials, the wall drawings are a unique contribution to the history of art. Like the modular sculptures, they are composed from precise sets of logical, often mathematical instructions that anyone could be trained to execute. (Los Angeles Times)
Michael Kammen's most recent book is " Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in the United States. " He is editing an abridged edition of " Democracy in America " for college use. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
MONTREAL The French 19th century is so beloved a period in the history of art that it's kind of hard to imagine there's much unturned soil left to plow. At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), however, the current exhibition of the art of Maurice Denis does just that, bringing to light a quiet but endearing talent deserving of his moment on the world stage. (Globe and Mail)
This exhibit on the history of the medieval and renaissance book was organized, prepared, and installed last quarter by students enrolled in History of Art and Visual Culture 153. The class was held in McHenry Library and taught by Elisabeth Remak-Honnef. (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
The Dartmouth Online. Wednesday, April 4, 2007. (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
At the height of an uproarious party in his Bloomsbury flat one November night in 1950, Professor John Desmond Bernal, the scientist, asked his most distinguished guest to draw on the living-room wall. Pablo Picasso climbed on to a stool and, fuelled with red wine and urged on by his fellow guests, improvised a pair of angelic figures. (Times Online)
2007 ECAC All-Academic Team Members: , History of Art and Architecture , Human Biology , Business Economics , Undeclared , Community Health and Sociology , Biology , Slavic Studies and Religious Studies , Undeclared. (Brownbears.com)
To my knowledge, this is a first in the history of art. It's kind of a big oversight, when you think about it. (Globe and Mail)
Until 1986, H.W. Janson's History of Art, the standard college text, did not include a single woman among the 2,300 artists mentioned in its pages. That year it was revised to admit 19. (Time.com)
"If you look at the history of art through the ages, it's been a move towards abstraction. The question is how much more abstract can air guitar be? The answer is none, none more abstract.". . (Newsday -- Entertainment)
In these courses, student projects and assignments will be linked to the history of art and contemporary movements in visual art within London and the surrounding areas. O'Cain received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago and a master's degree from the UC San Diego. (North County Times)
Japan is one of the last places where you have a long history of art, some of it quite good, with depressed prices,'' said Edwin Merner, president of Tokyo-based Atlantis Investment Research Co., which manages more than $1 billion in Japanese equities. Atlantis has a long-term buy recommendation for Tokyo- based Shinwa Art Auction Co., which held the country's first public auction of contemporary Japanese art last year. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
History of art and visual culture associate professor Jennifer Gonz;lez has received a $16,000 publication grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art in suppport of her forthcoming book: Subject to Display: Restaging Race in Contemporary Installation Art (MIT Press). The grant is awarded through the College Art Association to support the publication of books on American art. (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
" The couple met at St Andrews University in September 2001 when they both studied History of Art. At the time Miss Middleton was dating another student, Rupert Finch, but was sharing a student house with the prince. They began dating, in secret, around Christmas 2003. Their relationship first became public when they were photographed together on a ski holiday with Prince Charles in 2004. Since graduating the couple have holidayed together regularly and spend weekends together at her Chelsea... (The Drudge Report)
"We have decided to create together a museum destined to foster cultural dialogue between East and West by exhibiting works of major importance from all the domains of the history of art, spanning all historic periods, including the contemporary, and all geographic regions," Vabres said. "The Louvre Abu Dhabi will make use of the most innovative techniques in the field of museography, fulfilling, at all times, the quality criteria and scientific and museographic aims of the Louvre," he added. (People's Daily Online)
For the history of art is perishable. The babble of art is eternal. (Guardian Unlimited)
Presented by UCSC s Visual and Performance Studies faculty and cosponsored by Cowell College, the conference is supported by a UC Presidential Chair grant awarded last summer to history of art and visual culture professor Catherine Soussloff ... Karen Barad, feminist studies, UCSC Karen Bassi, literature, UCSC Donald Brenneis, anthropology, UCSC Sheila Crane, history of art & visual culture, UCSC Gina Dent, feminist studies, UCSC Mark Franko, theater arts, UCSC Lisbeth Haas, history, UCSC Randy... (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
He's one of the most famous (and most parodied) figures in the history of art and now he's pondering the future in all his naked glory on a street corner in Barrie, Ont. Last month,, officials with the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, a lakeside city of 150,000 about 100 kilometres north of Toronto, unveiled a large bronze reproduction of The Thinker, Auguste Rodin's masterpiece of manly, moody meditation, the original plaster version of which was created in 1880, 37 years before Rodin's death. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
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