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New York 2007

This is a partial listing; information is subject to change. Additional tours may be added to the program. Visit www.collegeart.org/special for updated listings.

Tuesday

A one-day symposium focusing on the intellectual and material context for the growing interest in ancient Greece in the middle of the eighteenth century. Designed to accompany an exhibition on "James Athenian Stuart" at the BGC, the symposium will include discussion of the "meaning" of ancient Greece in an environment shaped by antiquarianism, archaeological expeditions, philosophical travel and learned architects. Reception to follow. RSVP to attend: (212) 501-3011, programs@bgc.bard.edu.

Directions: 1 train to 86th Street

This one-day symposium will examine how New York's many art worlds have evolved from the nineteenth century through the present. Morning talks will focus on the emergence of communities of artists, as well as institutions that supported them (such as schools, galleries, and museums) in the period in which New York City emerged as a world cultural center. An afternoon panel will bring together critics, artists, and historians to discuss the role of New York as an art center in an increasingly globalized world. Reception follows.

Wednesday

Become an engaged and educated voter. Learn the positions and backgrounds of the candidates for the CAA Board of Directors.

All members are strongly urged to attend.

Keynote address and presentation of awards for excellence.

Join friends and colleagues to celebrate the opening of the conference. Ticket includes wine, soft drinks, and light hors d’oeuvres.

Advance tickets will be included in your registration packet. Onsite price: $40, credit card, check, or cash. Onsite tickets are available in the registration area during registration hours.

Thursday

This session uses the legacy of Linda Nochlin’s work to raise questions about the historiography, dreams and aspirations of the ongoing project of feminist art history.

Chair: Tamar Garb, University College, London

The Student Movement
Molly Nesbit, Vassar College

Interiority
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University

The Twilight Zone: Photography and the Uncanny
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, University of California, Santa Barbara

Of Aby Warburg, Writing, and Time
Moira Roth, Mills College, Oakland

Discussant: Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

This year's Distinguished Scholar Session is co-sponsored by The Feminist Art Project and The Rutgers Institute for Women and Art. CAA is deeply grateful for the genrous support provided by these organizations.

The Feminist Art Project is a national initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and its impact on art history and contemporary art practice. Its purpose is to bring public attention to the significant and continuing impact of women and their art on all aspects of contemporary art practice, highlighting their international influence, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future. The Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (IWA) supports and sponsors scholarship, research, exhibitions, and programming on topics pertaining to women in art, including attention to inequities and their implications for change in policies, institutions, attitudes, and social structure. The IWA acts as a catalyst for creating an intellectual community among scholars and practitioners associated with Rutgers University, enhancing its development as an internationally-known center for the study of women and art.

Judy Chicago: Jewish Identity

Directions: A, C, E to West 3rd Street; R, W to West 8th Street; 6 to Astor Place. Bus: M5, M6 on Broadway.

Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 25th Steet, then walk west.

Winter Group Show: new prints by Sebastian Bremer, Ryan McGinness, and others.

Directions: Subway #1, 2, 3, A, C, E, B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, or W line to 34th Street/Herald Square station; or bus M10, M16, or M20 down 8th Avenue to 37th Street.

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle

Free admission

Directions: Subway #A, B, C, D, E, F, or V line to West 4th Street station; or W or R line to 8th Avenue station; or 6 line to Astor Place station.

Margaret Grimes, Blue Mountain Gallery

John Goodrich, Bowery Gallery

Tina Olsen, Prince Street Gallery

Peter Fingesten Gallery
1 Pace Plaza
Group Exhibition

Pace Digital Gallery
163 Williams Street
Group Exhibition

Directions: A, C to Broadway/Nassau Street; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Fulton Street; 4, 5, 6 to City Hall.

This exhibition, in its second year, presents works by students enrolled in BFA programs in the New York region.

212.924.5770: Ellen K. Levy and Steven Brower (Project Room)

Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 26th street, then walk west.

It Takes a Lifetime: Paula Barr, Rosemarie Castoro, Melissa

Kretschmer, Mary Obering, Annie Shaver-Crandell

Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 26th street, then walk west.

The CAA MFA Exhibition, held concurrently with the conference, presents work by students currently enrolled in MFA programs in the greater New York area. Hunter College will host this expansive exhibition, a survey of work from 20 institutions within a 100-mile radius of New York.

Exhibition hours during the conference: Tuesday–Saturday 1:00–6:00 PM

Friday

The Annual Business Meeting is open to all members of the Association. At this meeting, the Board of Directors and CAA staff review the year’s major accomplishments and the Association’s financial status, and new members of the Board of Directors are elected.

CAST YOUR VOTE! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! As a member, you have the option to vote online by Friday, February 16, or in person during the conference. All voting will end at 5:00 PM EST February 16. New board members will take office at the spring 2007 Board of Directors meeting.

If you wish to vote during the conference, visit the computers in the registration area for online voting and a ballot box for paper ballots. Replacement ballots are available.

Meet the Candidates: Wednesday, February 14, 4:00 PM –4:45 PM, just before Convocation.

Questions about voting or about the Board of Directors? Please contact Laurel Peterson at lpeterson@collegeart.org.

Highlights from the Collection

Free Admission

Directions: N, W train to 39th Avenue

Join the members of AIGA's Design Education Community of Interest Steering Committee for a reception and viewing of the AIGA Annual Design Exhibition, 365. This exhibition makes a definitive statement on the quality of communication design in the past year and is widely recognized as the most selective representation of design excellence.

The reception is free and open to any CAA conference attendees.

Curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute College of Art

Atlantic Gallery Artists
Directions: Near Canal Street and Spring Street subway stops; on Wooster Street between Grand and Broome Streets, one block east of West Broadway

With a special reception for CAA members, this exhibition presents work by the 30 artist members of Atlantic Gallery. Soho's Atlantic Gallery, a non-profit cooperative gallery since the 1970s, will sponsor its first invitational exhibition for CAA artist members in 2008. Artists interested in participating are invited to visit the gallery.

Networked Nature will present installation work that comments on the nature of public space through the use of locative media, such as GPS devices, mobile telecommunications tactics, space-imaging technology, and other cartographically based tools. The works will make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as earth works, landscape, performance, photography, and sound art, while also demonstrating the growth and complexity of networked art, as a larger new-media art practice.

Three critics join moderator David Cohen of The New York Sun to discuss current exhibitions of contemporary art in New York.

Panelists include: David Grosz The New York Sun; Carol Kino Art & Auction, The New York Times; Roberta Smith The New York Times

Directions: Subway #4, 5, or 6 line to 86th Street station; or bus M1, M2, M3, or M4 on Fifth or Madison Avenue to 89th Street.

Sue McNally: New Paintings

Directions: Subway #L line to Bedford Avenue station, then walk north to Grand Street and 1 block west.

Paula Trope’s Meninos do Morrinho

Free admission, 15% discount on books

Directions: Subway #6 line to 68th Street/Hunter College station.

Lines of Flight, curated by Celina Jeffrey and Gregory Minissale

Directions: Subway #6 line to 68th Street/Hunter College station.

Lines of Flight addresses the following themes: the lines between technological, scientific, and artistic practices from differing cultural perspectives; the negotiated status of the networked artist as an agent interacting and transacting in a global context; the flight from the self in collective creativity; spatial mediation suggested by open, interactive, and real-time systems; mediation between inclusions and exclusions, insiders and outsiders; and processes of taking flight from the gravity of digital capitalism, digital privilege, and stratification. Artists: Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Thompson and Craighead, Peter Horvath, and audiovisual performances. Sponsored by the Leonardo Education Forum, the Hunter College MFA in Integrated Media Arts and Film and Media Department, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Bitforms Gallery.

Contemporary Iraqi Book Arts

Meet representatives of CAA’s Professional Interests, Practices, and Standards Committees:

• Committee on Diversity Practices
• Education Committee
• Committee on Intellectual Property
• International Committee
• Museum Committee
• Professional Practices Committee
• Services to Artists Committee
• Student and Emerging Professionals Committee
• Committee for Women in the Arts

Discuss current projects and find out how you can get involved. Refreshments will be served. Open to the public. Space is limited; to reserve a place, please contact Sean Dosier at sdosier@collegeart.org by February 1, 2007.

Saturday

A day of exciting short discussion panels, in association with the Feminist Art Project (see feministartproject.rutgers.edu for more information), on the following topics:

This session explores issues of generational, ethnic, racial, and gender crosscurrents, contextual obstructions, and indomitable spirit as they have shaped this movement, and suggests a paradigmatic shift of contemporary cultural expectations.

The influence of feminism on the practice of art history in the academy has been well charted, but the interaction between feminism and museum practices has not.

This panel explores the heritage of feminist theoretical and strategic notions in activist and community-based public art trends today, both national and international.

Is feminism absent from recent art, or merely different? Might today’s context mean that expressions of sexual politics by younger artists inevitably diverge from earlier paths? Moreover, how does the art of third-wave, lesbian, transgender, and cyberfeminists respond to this legacy?

Transformation is the ostensible goal of social revolution. Whatever occupies our hearts determines our capacity to transform society and culture. Using performance, scholarly presentation, conversation, and open dialogue with the audience, session participants delve into feminist art over the past forty years that performs self-transformation.

This panel reexamines the role played by critical theory in the 1980s in promoting a more thoughtful and critical approach to art. Focusing primarily on art by women, how may we develop similar strategies in relation to the current market-driven art discourse and its preference for primarily expressive or decorative approaches to art making?

This panel considers how American artists exploit or condemn sexual trauma. How do artists prior to the 1970s deal with themes of sexual violence, rape, and incest? How do artists after the 1970s overtly expose the sexism in sexual violence, rape, and incest against women and men?

The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) Lifetime Achievement Awards and the CAA Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) Recognition Awards will be presented at a cohosted event on Saturday, February 17, 2007, 6:00–7:00 PM (reception) and 7:00-9:00 PM (awards ceremony), in the Trianon Ballroom at the New York Hilton. The WCA awards recognize Barbara Chase-Riboud, Wanda Corn, Buffie Johnson, Lucy Lippard, and Elizabeth Murray, and the WCA President’s Award goes to Connie Butler. The CWA awards honor Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin.

Advance tickets ONLY available through the webform on the National WCA website, www.nationalwca.org/applicants/raffle.php. Times and prices are: 6:00–7:00 PM for the reception, Petite Trianon ($40/person); and 7:00–9:00 PM for the ceremony Trianon Ballroom (included in reception ticket, or $10/person). Any remaining tickets will be sold on site at the conference for $45/$15.

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