Strengthening Partnerships with CAA's Affiliated Societies
CAA News
For the third year in a row, members of the CAA Board of Directors met with twenty representatives from the affiliated societies at the 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles to review the accomplishments of the past year and to discuss future directions.More

CAA Seeks Publications Committee Member
CAA News
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for one member-at-large to serve on its Publications Committee for a three-year term: July 1, 2012–June 30, 2015. Candidates must possess expertise appropriate to the committee's work. Deadline: May 2, 2012.More

Join the Editorial Boards for The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and caa.reviews
CAA News
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for positions on the editorial boards of the organization's three scholarly journals for four-year terms: July 1, 2012-June 30, 2016. Deadline: April 16, 2012.More

caa.reviews Seeks Field Editors for Books and Exhibitions
CAA News
caa.reviews invites nominations and self-nominations for six individuals to join its Council of Field Editors, which commissions reviews within an area of expertise or geographic region, for a three-year term: July 1, 2012–June 30, 2015. The new field editors will commission reviews of books on contemporary art, Iberian and colonial Latin American art, and Precolumbian art, and of exhibitions in the Midwest and Southeast and on the West Coast. Deadline: April 25, 2012.More

Awards Juries Seek Members
CAA News
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for individuals to serve on seven of the twelve juries for the annual Awards for Distinction for three years (2012–15). Terms begin in May 2012; award years are 2013–15. Deadline: April 20, 2012.More

CAA Directories of Graduate Schools
CAA News
The complete versions of Graduate Programs in Art History and Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts are now available. Each full volume costs $41 for CAA members and $51 for nonmembers, plus shipping and handling. In addition, all entries within six of eight program types are sold as discrete, perfect-bound, soft-cover books. Alternatively, you can order all entries within each program type as an ebook.More

Propose a Paper or Presentation for the 2013 Annual Conference
Annual Conference Update
CAA has published and mailed the 2013 Call for Participation, which invites members to propose a paper or presentation for regular program sessions at the 101st Annual Conference, taking place February 13–16, 2013, in New York. You may download a PDF of the document from the CAA website to peruse the session descriptions. Deadline: May 4, 2012.More

Propose a Poster Session for the New York Conference
Annual Conference Update
CAA invites individual members to submit abstracts for Poster Sessions at the 2013 Annual Conference in New York. Poster Sessions—presentations displayed on bulletin boards by an individual for small groups—usually include a brief narrative paper mixed with illustrations, tables, graphs, and similar presentation formats. Deadline: May 4, 2012.More

Thanks to 2012 Conference Supporters and the Annual Conference Committee
Annual Conference Update
CAA extends special thanks to the many supporters who made the 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles possible, including the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Broad Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The organization also acknowledges the work of the Annual Conference Committee and others who provided invaluable service for the event.More

Thanks to 2012 Career Services Mentors and Leaders
Annual Conference Update
CAA wishes to thank the artists, art historians, curators, critics, educators, and other professionals in the visual arts who generously served as mentors and leaders in the various Career Services programs at the 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.More

Audio Recordings from the 2012 Annual Conference
Annual Conference Update
Audio recordings for eighty-three conference sessions—including "Picturing Urban Space in Central Europe since 1839," "Oleg Grabar's Impact on the Practice and History of Art," and the two-part "Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making"—are now available for sale.More

Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
Member News
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.More

Books Published by CAA Members
Member News
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles by CAA members. More

Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
Member News
Check out details on recent exhibitions organized by CAA members who are also curators. More

People in the News
Member News
This section lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three areas: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.More

Grants, Awards, and Honors
Member News
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.More

Institutional News
Member News
Read about the latest news from CAA institutional members.More

Arts Advocacy Day 2012
Americans for the Arts
The twenty-fifth annual Arts Advocacy Day, taking place April 16-17 in Washington, DC, is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America's cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts. CAA is a national cosponsor of Arts Advocacy Day.More

Professors Seek to Reframe Salary Debate
Chronicle of Higher Education
When a parent asked Vice President Joseph Biden this year why college costs keep rising, he cited faculty pay as one culprit. "Salaries for college professors have escalated significantly," Biden said in January during a town-hall meeting in Pennsylvania. The vice president's rhetoric is part of a broader story about faculty pay and productivity that the American Association of University Professors wants to rewrite. The group is seeking to use the results of its latest annual report on faculty salaries as a myth buster for the politicians, activists, and others who have argued that professors are earning too much while working too little.More

Santa Monica College Trustees Postpone Two-Tier Fee Plan
Los Angeles Times
Santa Monica College in Los Angeles has recently cancelled a two-tier fee program that sparked student protests, opposition from the state's community colleges chancellor, and national debate about the mission of public institutions. The college's board of trustees voted unanimously to postpone implementation this summer of the dual-fee plan and to gather wider input from students, faculty, and staff on how best to increase access to classes—which have suffered drastic reductions in recent years because of state funding cuts.More

Professional Service: Getting Involved in Your Discipline
Inside Higher Ed
Professional service is one of the many elements of becoming a professional that many graduate students don't consider to be an important component of graduate school. It often slides under the radar, somewhere well below writing, research, and teaching. While almost all students understand the importance of joining professional organizations, attending conferences, and presenting at those conferences, few take their involvement beyond that step. However, there are many different ways to be involved in your professional organization, and a number of important reasons to do so.More

Barnes Foundation Preview
Artnet
The public-relations army behind the controversial new Barnes Foundation, which opens next month in a $100 million building in Philadelphia, was in full force during a preview luncheon at Manhattan's Le Bernardin on April 4, 2012. For those unfamiliar with the saga, the cantankerous doctor Albert C. Barnes launched the foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1922 to showcase his superb collection of eight hundred Postimpressionist and modern artworks, estimated now to be worth some $25 billion. Barnes, ever the antiestablishmentarian, stipulated in his will that the collection never be loaned, rearranged, open to the public, or moved from the building. More

Afterlife Meeting
DanceBeat
The composer John Cage died suddenly in 1992. The following year, his partner, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, premiered a new dance, Doubletoss. This past March, close to the nineteenth anniversary of the original performance of Doubletoss, Robert Swinston, the former director of choreography for the now-nonexistent Merce Cunningham Dance Company, premiered Four Walls/Doubletoss Interludes at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Swinston assembled eight former Cunningham dancers for the project, and the new work is intriguing—both in its riskiness and in the vision it creates.More

US Museums Rebuild but Fears of Relapse Linger
Art Newspaper
Leading US museums are finally in recovery mode and their directors are much more optimistic about the financial outlook than a year ago, but few are feeling bullish. Endowments may have increased but have not regained their peak of 2007. Of the ten richest museums surveyed by the Art Newspaper, seven were within sight of their previous levels, but the wealthiest, the Getty Trust, is only a third of the way to the $1.8 billion it lost during the downturn. The road to financial health will be long for all but a fortunate few, and many fear that the economic recovery may prove short lived.More

Call Yourself a Critic?
Frieze
What does the way in which critics define themselves today tell us about how they conceive of their relationship to art and to writing? A recent panel discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, titled "The Trouble with Art Criticism," included writers, editors, and curators, but only one of the five participants was identified as a critic. Of course, disavowing the term gets around the thorny issue of whether or not it's the critic's business to be dealing in judgments, but with what should it be replaced?More