The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.
In 2004, the British press reported that the album cover Damien Hirst had designed for Band Aid 20’s re-recording of the 1984 single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” had been rejected by the organizers, for fear it would frighten small children. “The record, that’s the important part,” explained Midge Ure. “The cover doesn’t really matter. Throw the cover away. Buying it is the important thing.”
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Historian of American Art
Colby College Department of Art invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning September 1, 2013, in the history of American art of all periods. We welcome applicants with scholarly and teaching interest in one or more of the following areas: African-American art, Native-American art, Asian-American art, Latino-American art, or Diaspora Studies. Candidates with Ph.D. in hand and with at least two years of college-level teaching experience preferred.
The successful candidate would develop a body of courses ranging from individual and collaborative surveys to topical courses and seminars based on his or her research interests. Ideal candidates would enrich the college’s interdisciplinary networks and engage with the Colby College Museum of Art.
Please submit the following items electronically to arthistory@colby.edu: cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, and representative sample of current scholarship, e.g., reprints of recently published work. Review of applications will begin on Dec. 11; interviews will be conducted at the College Art Association annual meeting in New York City in mid-February.
Colby College is committed to equality and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will contribute to the cultural and ethnic diversity of our college. Colby College does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, or age in employment or in our educational programs. For more information about the College, please visit our website: http://www.colby.edu
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The School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College announces Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowships for 2013-14. The fellowships support promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy in order to better prepare them for tenure track appointments within liberal arts or comprehensive colleges/universities.
Applications are welcome in the following areas: Art History, Communication Studies, English, Economics and Modern Languages and Literatures. The School of Humanities and Sciences houses additional interdisciplinary minors that may be of interest to candidates: African Diaspora Studies, Latina/o Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian American Studies, Muslim Cultures, Native American Studies and Women’s Studies. Fellows who successfully obtain the Ph.D. and show an exemplary record of teaching and scholarship and engagement in academic service throughout their fellowship, may be considered as candidates for tenure-eligible appointments anticipated to begin in the fall of 2014.
Position Responsibilities and Terms of Fellowship: Fellowships are for the academic year (August 16, 2013 to May 31, 2014) and are non-renewable. The fellow will receive a $30,000 stipend, $3,000 in travel/professional development support, office space, health benefits and access to Ithaca College and Cornell University libraries. The fellow will teach one course in the fall semester and one course in the spring semester and be invited to speak about her/his dissertation research in relevant classes and at special events at Ithaca College. Enrollment in an accredited program leading to a Ph.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution, evidence of superior academic achievement and commitment to a career in teaching at the college or university level is required. Candidates must also be authorized to work in the United States. Prior to August 15, 2013, the fellow must be advanced to candidacy at his or her home institution with an approved dissertation proposal. Preference will be given to those candidates in the last year of dissertation writing.
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The Department of Art History in the School of Humanities & Sciences at Ithaca College invites applications for a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor appointment beginning August 16, 2013. The successful candidate will serve the department’s new Museum Studies concentration within the Art History B.A., with specialization in any area and be responsible for courses on museum and gallery practices, museum outreach, and curatorial issues. Applicants must have the ability to teach general-education courses in art history, as well as develop more advanced courses in museum studies and practices, including exhibition seminars. The candidate will have a curatorial role in conjunction with the Ithaca College Handwerker Gallery, and will work closely with the gallery director, as well as serving as internship coordinator. The Museum Studies concentration extends the art history major into experiential and theoretical areas of display, museum and gallery practices, and the museum as institution.
Qualifications: Ph.D. preferred (a Masters degree with significant museum experience will be considered). The candidate we seek will have a strong and thoughtful commitment to undergraduate education and scholarship in a liberal arts context. Previous teaching experience and museum or gallery experience desirable. The candidate must be committed to providing an interactive and engaging learning experience in a multi-screen digital classroom environment and to experiential learning in the gallery and museum setting.
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The Caribbean is in mourning at the sudden passing of one its small group of art historians, Dr. Petrine Archer-Straw. Not many of us knew that she suffered from sickle cell disease which literally allowed the grim reaper to scythe her yesterday, on the eve of her 56th birthday. I didn’t know her closely, but we both wrote about art and sometimes found ourselves in the same forum, as in 2002 at the Documenta11 platform on Créolité and Creolization in St Lucia. Our views on art and culture often diverged but i will miss her meticulously kept blog which chronicled most art events worth recording in Jamaica. Her entries were brief, to the point and allowed you to get a quick sense of whatever it was she was documenting.
Interestingly in a recent posting she found herself confronted by the freewheeling visual prodigy Peter Dean Rickards, who challenged her description…
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The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem
Edited by prof. Elizabeth McGrath (Warburg Institute) and prof. Jean Michel Massing (University of Cambridge)
Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20
(Editors: Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett)
The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore (London and Turin, 2012)
This volume explores the imagery of slaves and enslavement – white as well as black – in early modern Europe.
Long before the abolitionist movement took up the theme, European art abounded in images of slaves – chained, subjected, subdued figures. Often these enslaved figures were meant to be symbolic, for slavery was widely invoked as a metaphor in both religious and secular contexts. The ancient Roman iconography of triumphalism, with its trophies and caryatids, provided a crucial impetus to this imagery, particularly for Renaissance artists who developed their own variations. Here the use of classical models had a peculiar force, since nudity…
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