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On the heels of the recent publication of their books Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories and Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, Amelia Jones and David Getsy initiated a conversation about these books and the current state of and future directions for art history’s engagements with gender and sexuality.<a...
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Design is a rich word. Its core meaning is a plan, so it refers by extension to evidence of the activity of planning, such as blueprints, technical drawings, and sketches on the backs of envelopes. However, it is also used to refer to the products of the activity of designing, such as designed objects, systems, and behaviors. Design history encompasses the study of design in order to find out about the past, and the study of the past in order to better understand...
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Exhibition schedule: Tate Modern, London, May 15–16, 2015
[See the multimedia version on Scalar.]
Introduction: “If caa.reviews were performance.reviews?”
This jointly authored review of Boris Charmatz’s If Tate Modern Was Musée de la Danse? (2015) inaugurates a new initiative, spearheaded by the editorial board of caa.reviews, to review...
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September 8, 2016
Exhibition schedule: Tate Modern, London, May 15–16, 2015
[See the multimedia version on Scalar.]
Museum Metaphysics: 20 Dancers for the XX Century and Dance’s Ontology in the Museum
As I walked through Tate Modern’s “Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky: Pop 1957–67” gallery on May 15, 2015, I encountered Frédéric Seguette removing T-shirt after T-shirt in a performance of Jerôme Bel’s Shirtology (1997). Seguette’s performance was part of Boris Charmatz’s 20 Dancers for the XX...
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September 8, 2016
Exhibition schedule: Tate Modern, London, May 15–16, 2015
[See the multimedia version on Scalar.]
Unauthorized Performance in the Turbine Hall
Boris Charmatz’s If Tate Modern Was Musée de la danse? transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into a space for the display of movement. (Previous inhabitations of Turbine Hall have had similar aims. An indicative list might be found in the series of installations that made up Tate’s <a...
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September 8, 2016
Exhibition schedule: Tate Modern, London, May 15–16, 2015
[See the multimedia version on Scalar.]
Adrénaline: A Dance Floor for Everyone
Adrénaline: A Dance Floor for Everyone, an open disco hour reminiscent of a pop-up dance club, emerged twice a day at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, under a shimmering giant disco ball. Led by the enticing sets of DJ Oneman and DJ Jonjo Jury,...
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September 8, 2016
Eddie Chambers
Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections, caa.reviews.
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Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections
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Today marks a historic moment for caa.reviews, because with our fourth installment of “Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections” the journal is acknowledging its commitment to reviewing scholarly books about African, African American, and African Diaspora art. No one is more responsible for this focus than field editor Eddie Chambers, who since July 2014 has tirelessly shepherded more than twenty reviews from commission to...
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Pamela Fletcher
Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections, caa.reviews.
College Art Association
Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections
caa.reviews
With “Reflections on Digital Art History,” caa.reviews inaugurates a new field of coverage, since our future is now. In fact, immediately prior to drafting these remarks, I noticed a headline on Hyperallergic.com asking, “Can an algorithm determine art history’s most creative paintings?” I was only curious enough to skim a paragraph or two, yet surely many of us sympathize with the convergence it represents. On the one...
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Conference at the University of Vermont, Burlington, October 18, 2013.
In the time since Sarah Blake McHam lamented the relative dearth of scholarship on Italian Renaissance sculpture in her introduction to Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) (click here for review), the field has been enriched by a number of voices and publications, as well as the application of new interpretive methodologies. The same period has also seen a striking number of...
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