New CAA Standards and Guidelines on the Fair Use of Images
CAA News
At its February 2012 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors adopted two new documents, published by the Visual Resources Association and the Association of Research Libraries, that address fair use of visual resources in teaching, scholarship, and libraries.More

2012 National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting
CAA News
Linda Downs, CAA executive director, reports on the 2012 annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance, an event held last month that stressed the practical significance of the humanities for a democratic society and highlighted the important contributions of recent research projects.More

Report on the CAA International Travel Grant Program
CAA News
Last February, twenty art historians and curators from eighteen countries around the world attended the 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles through a new grant program, generously funded by the Getty Foundation. For many grant recipients, this visit was their first to the United States, and for most of them it was their first time at the CAA conference.More

April Picks from CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts
CAA News
The April picks from CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts include solo exhibitions of work by Kate Gilmore in Miami, Dara Friedman in Raleigh, and Juane Quick-To-See Smith in Santa Fe. Across the pond, Tate Modern is hosting a Yayoi Kusama retrospective, and the Camden Arts Centre is showing photographs by Zoe Leonard; both are on view through June 2012.More

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

April 20 Deadline for Award Jury Applications
CAA News
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for individual members 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 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 and be current CAA members. Deadline: May 2, 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. Candidates must be current CAA members. Deadline: April 25, 2012.More

Advertise in the Summer 2012 Art Journal
CAA News
Reach an estimated 35,000 readers of CAA's quarterly publication devoted to modern and contemporary art with a display advertisement in the Summer 2012 issue. Deadline: May 10, 2012.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 proposals for papers and presentations 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. All presenters must be current CAA members. 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

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

Book Reviews
caa.reviews
Cynthia J. Bogel, With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icons and Early Mikkyō Vision (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Reviewed by Hank Glassman. OPEN ACCESS

Maureen Murphy, De l'imaginaire au musée: Les arts d'Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931–2006) (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2009). Reviewed by Yaëlle Biro.

Heather Hyde Minor, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Richard Wittman.

Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte, eds., Die gottlosen Maler von Nürnberg: Konvention und Subversion in der Druckgrafik der Beham-Brüder (Nuremberg and Emsdetten: Museen der Stadt Nürnberg, Albrecht-Dürer-Haus, and Edition Imorde, 2011). Reviewed by Larry Silver.More

Exhibition Review
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy (April 3–June 24, 2011). Reviewed by Roni Feinstein.More

Ethical Living: Can Art Be Environmentally Friendly?
Guardian
It's true: the visual arts do not always produce the prettiest of pictures. There are lashings of toxic pigments, solvents, petrochemicals, formaldehyde, and other ecologically destructive preservatives thrown into the mix of a working studio. Overall, things are getting better. Certain cadmiums, cobalts, and lead-based paints have been banned due to European Union regulation. Such materials were heavily polluting and hazardous to more than just the artist using them.More

Colleges Are Pressured to Open Up Student Data
Chronicle of Higher Ed
College campuses are hothouses of data, including course schedules, degree requirements, and grades. But much of the information remains spread out across software systems or locked on university servers. Now a crowd of start-ups has emerged with hopes of prying out those rich data sets to build an app economy for universities—a world of new personalized services that could transform the student experience. More

Online and Underpaid
Inside Higher Ed
Argosy University has cut pay rates for adjunct faculty who teach online—by as much as 33 percent in some cases. In a January email message, obtained by Inside Higher Ed, an Argosy administrator described the pay cut: "Effective February 7, 2012, Argosy University Online will transition to one adjunct rate for undergraduate courses of $1,600 and one rate for graduate courses of $1,800."More

British Columbia Student's Bra Artwork Sparks Controversy over Portrayal of Muslim Dress
National Post
Sooraya Graham, a Muslim Canadian and a fine-arts student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, didn't expect to find herself in the middle of a virtual hostage-taking when her project for a photography class was hung in the hallways of the university's art department. Her photo, a mural print of a woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding a bra in her hands while folding laundry, was ripped off the wall by an outraged university staffer.More

From Massachusetts to Muqarnas
Art History Newsletter
Walter Denny, senior consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new Islamic galleries, was my first art-history professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. When I walk into Denny's office to interview him for this article, I no longer have concerns about tests or papers. As he finishes off his chocolate milk, I pull up a chair, excited to learn where he came from, how he chose Islamic art, and his impressions of working at the Met.More

US Visa Rules Deprive Stages of Performers
New York Times
Everything seemed set for the American debut last month of Pitingo, the rising young flamenco singing star: the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center had been booked, tickets and program prepared, a publicity budget spent, nonrefundable airline tickets purchased. But when he went to the United States Embassy in Madrid to pick up his visa, he learned that his name was on the "no fly" list.More

India Hopes Google Will Clean Up Its Museums' Acts
Washington Post
When a team from the Google Art Project visited the rarified corridors of the Indian cultural bureaucracy last year and offered to gigapixelate and upload museum collections, one senior official, Vijay Madan, grew very suspicious. “After I condescended to meet them, I asked: What is in it for Google? What’s their agenda? Is there a catch?” Madan recalled Tuesday, inaugurating the partnership between Google and two Indian museums in New Delhi.More

Out of Adversity, Visions of Life
New York Times
Even in stable times, life can be hard for artists in western Africa. Not that art ever stops being made. Cities like Abidjan, Dakar in Senegal, and Bamako in Mali are saturated in it, but the elements that in the West make a healthy contemporary scene—galleries, museums, collectors, journals, critics, and a steady, responsive audience—are in short supply.More