From: CAA News... 105th Annual Conference of the College Art Association New York, 15–18 February 2017 Proposals due by 18 April 2016 For the CAA 105th Annual Conference, CAA will change the format of the conference as we look to liven up the experience for all our members. The changes highlighted below are the result of a […]
Folks, I am pasting below the text from the flyer for an upcoming tour of the Sierra Gorda missions and art and architecture of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. The tour is sponsored by a small but influential non-profit based in Tecate, Baja California called Corredor Histórico/CAREM, A.C. (http://www.carem.org/). I have been working with this organization […]
Kathryn C. Buhler Lecture:
Penny Morrill, adjunct professor, George Mason University
For the past 85 years, in workshops all over the Mexican city of Taxco, rosewood, tortoise, obsidian, and amethyst quartz have been combined with silver to create jewelry and decorative objects inspired by pre-Columbian art and village crafts. In 1931, William Spratling founded Las Delicias, where hundreds of maestros and silversmiths were trained, many of whom went on to establish their own workshops. Examine the unprecedented variety of form and design that has brought the world to Taxco.
“Art at Large: Public and Monumental Arts in the Americas” Hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, the conference will be held the weekend of March 18–20, 2016 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate […]
Scholarly sessions will be held at the DePaul Center in Chicago’s Loop at Jackson and State.
International Symposium Art before History: Towards a History of Ancient Andean Art Arte antes de la Historia: Para una Historia del Arte Andino Antiguo June 22–24, 2016 Auditorio de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima Although art of the ancient Americas has been a subject of study in art history programs in the United […]
Design for Eternity Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas October 26, 2015–September 18, 2016 #DesignforEternity From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, artists from the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural models to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic, wood, and metal […]
Feb 9 mini-symposium COASTAL CONNECTIONS at the De Young Museum, San Francisco. https://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/coastal-connections-mini-symposium
April 21, 2017 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Los Angeles County Museum of Art April 22, 2017 8:30 a.m - 7:00 p.m Cal State LA FOR FULL INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION, PLEASE GO TO: www.calstatela.edu/arthistorysociety/events This Mesoamerican Symposium in homage to Eduardo Matos-Moctezuma, organized by the Art History Society of California State University, Los Angeles and […]
This conference investigates Brazilian modernist photography, its relationship to race, and its place within a dynamic international network of images and ideas. From experimental work that resonates with broader postwar trends of creative photographic expression to modern forms with local and sometimes ethnic inflections, photographers were instrumental in formulating new visual languages in Brazil. Since […]