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 Anne Collins Goodyear Is CAA President Elect CAA News Share    
At its October meeting, the CAA Board of Directors appointed Anne Collins Goodyear, associate curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, to serve as the organization's next president. More
CAA Welcomes New Staff Members CAA News Share
CAA welcomes three full-time and one part-time employees who have joined CAA since summer 2011. Two work in the Publications Department, and two more in the Membership, Development, and Marketing Department. More Online Registration for Humanities Advocacy Day CAA News Share
The National Humanities Alliance has opened online registration for its annual meeting and for Humanities Advocacy Day, taking place March 19–20, 2012, in Washington DC. CAA is a sponsor of Humanities Advocacy Day. More
Recent Deaths in the Arts CAA News Share
CAA's semimonthly roundup of obituaries recognizes the lives and achievements of those whose work has had a significant impact on the visual arts. Included this month are numerous internationally recognized artists, scholars, curators, and collectors. More  Free Admission to Museums and Galleries with Your Conference Badge Annual Conference Update Share
During the conference, registrants may present their conference badge for free admission to a variety of museums and galleries in southern California, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. More
Reunions and Receptions Annual Conference Update Share
A variety of colleges, universities, and arts organizations will hold reunions and receptions at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel during the 100th Annual Conference. See if your alma mater is on the list. More Feminist Art Project Sessions Annual Conference Update Share
In conjunction with the CAA conference, the Feminist Art Project will present a day of panels, titled "Shares and Stakeholders" and organized by Audrey Chan and Elana Mann, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on Saturday, February 25, 2012. More
Sign Up for Annual Conference Mentoring Annual Conference Update Share
As a CAA member, you have access to a diverse range of mentors during Career Services at the Annual Conference. All emerging, midcareer, and even advanced professionals in the visual arts may benefit from one-on-one discussions with dedicated mentors about artists' portfolios, career-management skills, and job-hunting strategies. More Participate in ARTexchange at the Los Angeles Conference Annual Conference Update Share
CAA's Services to Artists Committee invites artist members to participate in ARTexchange, an open forum for sharing work at the upcoming Annual Conference. The Friday-evening event also offers an excellent opportunity to network with fellow artists and other conference attendees. More
Booth and Table Reservations for the Interview Hall Annual Conference Update Share
CAA encourages schools and institutions that will be interviewing job candidates in Los Angeles to reserve a booth or table in the Interview Hall. The early deadline is December 16, 2011. More  caa.reviews publishes critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies. Book Reviews caa.reviews Share
Molly Emma Aitken, The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Catherine Glynn. Cornelia H. Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, eds., Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010). Reviewed by Siona Wilson. OPEN CONTENT David Cast, The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009). Reviewed by Jonathan Unglaub. David Kunzle, ed., Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007); David Kunzle, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007). Reviewed by Patricia Mainardi.
Exhibition Review caa.reviews Share
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life (October 30, 2009–February 14, 2010). Reviewed by Ching-jung Chen.  In Defiant Gesture, Chinese Surge Forward to Help Ai Weiwei Pay Tax Bill Christian Science Monitor Share
Thousands of individual donors swamped the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's internet account, offering to help him pay a $2.4 million tax bill he was handed earlier this week, in a striking show of defiance against the government. More than 1,600 supporters had pledged or paid more than 400,000 RMB ($63,500) by midafternoon last Friday, just a few hours after the wave of donations began to surge, the artist said. More
The Getty Museum Is in a Legal Fight over Armenian Bible Pages Los Angeles Times Share
The J. Paul Getty Trust failed to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated medieval manuscripts—755-year-old works that are masterpieces and, to the church, spiritually and historically sacred. After a brief hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Abraham Khan denied the Getty's motion to dismiss the claim. More Nineteen Questions for Art Critic and Work of Art Judge Jerry Saltz Artinfo.com Share
How has your life changed since you started Work of Art? I get out of the house now at least ten times a year (once for taping each episode) to do things that don't have to do with writing. Lots of strangers stop me on the street and in airports to talk about art. Which is fun. More
The Origin of Spray Paint New York Times Share
That a paint salesman from northern Illinois created the tool through which rebels, gang members, artists, and anti–Wall Street protesters alike have expressed themselves merely confirms that inventors can neither control nor predict the impact of their innovations. More After Gadhafi, Hope for Modernity Wall Street Journal Share
Fatheia al Howasi, the director of Libya's National Museum since 2007, is soft-spoken, determined, and refreshingly honest in her serviceable English. She is also eager to get to work bringing the museum up to international standards and reopening it to the Libyan public—it has been closed since the revolution started in Benghazi on February 17, 2011. More
Leonardo da Vinci—in Your Living Room Guardian Share
The Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of many inventions that uncannily anticipated the modern world, from alarm clocks to a flying machine. But even he might have been surprised and mystified by the latest technological innovation in modern culture: the private view live-cast. More The Richard Prince Appeal: A Compendium Newsgrist Share
Newsgrist has posted several recent articles on the Richard Prince appeal: one is from Greg Allen of greg.org, another from Rachel Corbett of Artnet; notable is the statement and amicus brief filed by the Warhol Foundation. Included are links to both the PDF brief and the 135-page appeal. The images, with the exception of the painting by Prince, are taken from the amicus brief. More
Software Catches (and Also Helps) Young Plagiarists Chronicle of Higher Education Share
The spread of technology designed to combat academic cheating has created a set of tricky challenges, and sometimes unexpected fallout, for faculty members determined to weed out plagiarism in their classrooms. In the latest development, the company that sells colleges access to Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection program that checks uploaded papers against various databases to pinpoint unoriginal content, now also caters directly to students with a newer tool called WriteCheck, which lets users scan papers for plagiarism before handing them in. More |
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