Program Sessions
This list is subject to change.
ALL | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY
Centennial Session
Against Acknowledgement: Sexuality and the Instrumentalization of Knowledge
Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jonathan Katz, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Janet Marstine, University of Leicester
Harmony Hammond, independent artist
Richard Meyer, University of Southern California
Wendy Olsoff, PPOW Gallery
Open Forum Discussion on Professional Development Curriculum in Fine Art Programs
Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jackie Battenfield, Columbia University
This session continues the dialogue begun last year at CAA in Chicago in order to develop a network of instructors with shared interests. It is open to faculty already teaching professional development classes, or those interested in adding them to their curriculum.
National Coalition Against Censorship
Policing the Sacred: Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Faith
Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Eleanor Heartney, independent critic and writer
Richard Kamler, University of San Francisco
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles
Alma Lopez, independent artist, Los Angeles
Svetlana Mintcheva, National Coalition Against Censorship
Boryana Rossa, independent artist, Bulgaria
Shirin Neshat, independent artist
Shoja Azari, independent artist
Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
Modern Arab Art and Its Historical and Methodological Relationships to the Post-Colonial Context
Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sarah Rogers, Columbia University Middle East Research Center
This session is dedicated to Rhonda Saad.
Prita Meier, Wayne State University
Robin Greeley, University of Connecticut
Nada Shabout, University of North Texas
Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Information Session
Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marsha L. Semmel, Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Crisis in Art History
Wednesday, February 09, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Patricia Mainardi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Stephen Murray, Columbia University
Virginia Rutledge, New York City Bar Association
Patricia Rubin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
David Joselit, Yale University
Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Elizabeth Easton, Center for Curatorial Leadership
CAA Strategic Plan Focus Group Discussion Part I: Communication
Thursday, February 10, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sue Gollifer, CAA Board Member
The group will discuss new forms of communication using innovative and improved technology.
Centennial Session
Global Art Histories/Multiple Modernities
Thursday, February 10, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute College of Art; Sarah Lewis, Yale University
Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art
Lowery S. Sims, Museum of Arts and Design
Edward J. Sullivan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Paul Chaat Smith, National Museum of the American Indian
Nayland Blake, International Center for Photography
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH Grant Opportunities
Thursday, February 10, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Barbara Bays, National Endowment for the Humanities
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Future Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art History
Thursday, February 10, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Maria Gindhart, Georgia State University
“The Streets as Art Galleries”: Hubert Herkomer and Advertising Posters
Andrea Korda, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Venetian Renaissance: The Blue Bower and the Seduction of Color
Carolyn Porter, Furman University
National Undress: Rusalka Images in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Margaret Samu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Offsite Session
The Museum and the Market: Complementary Career Paths?
Thursday, February 10, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
1334 York Avenue, Main Floor, Sotheby's
Chair: Jason Herrick, Sotheby's
Richard Brettell, University of Texas at Dallas
Charlotte Eyerman, French Regional & American Museum Exchange
Chris Apostle, Sotheby's
Maria Bonta de la Pezuela, Sotheby's
Centennial Session
Feminism
Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Norma Broude, American University; Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Attaining Full Equality: Women Artists, Museums, and Markets
Connie Butler, Museum of Modern Art
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Documenta 13
Carol Duncan, Ramapo College Emerita
Catherine Morris, Brooklyn Museum
Katja Zigerlig, Private Client Group, Chartis Insurance
New Directions and International Perspectives in Feminist Art History
Elsa Hsiang-Chun Chen, National Yang Ming University
Joan Kee, University of Michigan
Laura Malosetti-Costa, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and University of Buenos Aires
Charmaine Nelson, McGill University
Jenni Sorkin, Getty Research Institute
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Be Our Guest: Time and Space to Create at Artist Residencies
Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities
Kathy Black, Vermont Studio Center
Linda Marston-Reid, Bellagio Center
Margaret Murphy, Fine Arts Work Center
Mario Caro, Res Artis
CAA Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Jonathan Brown
Between Iberia and New Spain: The Scholarship of Jonathan Brown
Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Edward J. Sullivan, New York University
Jonathan Brown at the Institute of Fine Arts
Edward J. Sullivan, New York University
Never Tilting at Windmills: Jonathan Brown, Champion of New Fields of Study
Inge Reist, Frick Collection
Paris-Madrid, 1653-1655: Two Crowns Exchange Family Portraits towards Peace and Marriage
José-Luis Colomer, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid
Portraits and History
Reva Wolf, State University of New York, New Paltz
Elusive and Hidden Treasures: Jonathan Brown's Contributions to the Study of Spanish Works on Paper
Lisa Banner, independent scholar
Looking Ahead: Painting in Spanish America, Conquest to Independence, a Co-Edited Volume by Jonathan Brown
Luisa Alcala, University of Madrid
Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Critical Histories
Thursday, February 10, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Tim Griffin, Artforum International; Christine Mehring, University of Chicago
Thomas E. Crow, New York University
Diedrich Diedrichsen, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University
Barbara Rose, independent art historian and curator
Diasporic Asian Art Network Meeting
Thursday, February 10, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Margo Machida, University of Connecticut; Alexandra Chang, New York University
CAA Strategic Plan Focus Group Discussion Part II: Career Enhancement
Friday, February 11, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jean Miller, CAA Board Member
The group will discuss advocacy, career development, and workforce issues in order to assist professional growth.
Centennial Session
Experience
Friday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Edouard Duval Carrié, independent artist, Miami; Robert S. Nelson, Yale University
Theirs, Mine, or Ours? Untangling the Experience of Ancient Art
Irene Winter, Harvard University
Talking to Statues and Conversing with the Dead
Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, Rome Program
Modalities of Mojo
Donald Cosentino, University of California, Los Angeles
Aprica Idiom: Contemporary African Diasporic Images in Photography
Carl Hancock Rux, independent artist, New York
Discussant:David Carrier, Case Western Reserve University
National Endowment for the Arts
Grants Workshop: Federal Support for Arts Projects
Friday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Robert Frankel, National Endowment for the Arts; Meg Brennan, National Endowment for the Arts
ARTspace: Annual Artists' Interviews
Krzysztof Wodiczko will be interviewed by Patricia Phillips, Rhode Island School of Design. Mel Chin will be interviewed by Miranda Lash, New Orleans Museum of Art.
Friday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair:
Studio Art Open Session: Green and Sustainable Art
Friday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Anita Cooney, Pratt Institute; Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, Pratt Institute
Garment/Research: A Point of Reference, a Portable System of Investigation and a Tool of Connection
Kelly Cobb, University of Delaware
Transient Interconnection
Rachel Miller, Pratt Institute
Embodied Ecology
Chris Taylor, Texas Tech University
Frames, Balance, and Limitations
Cal Lane
ARTspace
Annual Artists’ Interviews
Friday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Patricia Phillips, Rhode Island School of Design
Krzysztof Wodiczko
A second interview will be announced.
Centennial Session
Our Demons
Friday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Renee Stout, independent artist, Washington, DC; Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago
What the Devil Doesn’t Know
Dallas Denery, Bowdoin College
J.C. My Demon: Spirits of Paradox
John W. Ford, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Demons Within, Without, and All About
Carol A. Beane, Howard University
Michael B. Platt, independent artist
Garment Work
Anne Elizabeth Moore, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Cancer Chronicles
roycrosse , independent artist
Organizing for the Worst of the Worst—Sex Offenders and Supermax Prisoners
Laurie Jo Reynolds, Columbia College Chicago
Sleepwalk and Satz
Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Emory University
Moose Medicine, Mouse Medicine
Mary Patten, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Witch Who Created the World
Jenifer Borum, New York University
Center for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection
Beyond Provenance and Biography: Shaping New Approaches to the History of Art Collecting in America
Friday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Inge Reist, Center for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection
Death, Debt, and Divorce: A Directory for Archival Records on the History of Collecting in America
Samantha Deutch, Center for the History of Collecting in American, The Frick Collection
A Rare Commodity: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, a Female Collector in a Man's World
Margaret Laster, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Democracy and the "Death" of Art: Researching Hugh Lane in America
Morna O'Neill, Wake Forest University
Centennial Session
Globalization
Saturday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University
David Carrier, Case Western Reserve University
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
Michael Ann Holly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Cultural Appropriation, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse G, Concourse Level, Hilton New York
Chairs: Elizabeth K. Mix, Butler University; Gabriel P. Weisberg, University of Minnesota
Cahier d’Oiseaux Chinois: The French and Fantastic Appropriation in the Chinoiseries of Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Annika Johnson, University of Minnesota
Bhabha’s Cultural Hybridity and Early Twentieth-Century Modifications of Fez, Morocco
Colette Apelian, Berkeley City College
Erasure, Eternal Return, and Empathic Restitution
Susanne Slavick, Carnegie Mellon University
A New Look at the Costs of the Cultural Appropriation of Canada’s Traditional Totem Poles
Chisato O. Dubreuil, St. Bonaventure University
America Tropical and the Multi-Sited Mural
A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester
Offsite Session
Henry Darger: Intersections with Contemporary Art, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Auditorium, Two Levels Below Ground, American Folk Art Museum
Chairs: Mary Trent, University of Wisconsin, Parkside; Brooke Davis Anderson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
On the Element of Repetition in Henry Darger’s "In the Realms of the Unreal”
Juliana Driever, City College of New York, City University of New York
The Limits of Happiness: Paul Chan on Henry Darger
Patricia Kelly, DePaul University
Tinderbox: Tragic Fires (Big or Small) and Endangered Childhood
Leisa Rundquist, University of North Carolina, Asheville
On Remaining Unseen: Henry Darger, Ditto, and Envelopes
Litia Perta, Cooper Union
Is the Janitor Lower than the Subaltern in Discourses of Power? Henry Darger and the Contemporary Turn
Colin Rhodes, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Bernard Herman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
National Committee on the History of Art
Fostering a Global Community: A Dialogue with Scholars from Parts of the World where Art History is an Emerging Discipline
Saturday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Elizabeth Cropper, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; Nicola Courtright, Amherst College
AP Art History
The College Survey and the AP Art History Course
Saturday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Ray Hernández-Durán, University of New Mexico
Rethinking the Survey: New Trends
Allie Terry-Fritsch, Bowling Green University
A Bridge to Academic Success in Higher Learning: AP Art History and World Arts
Ray Hernández-Durán, University of New Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Critical Craft Forum: Platform for Exchange
Saturday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Namita Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art; Elisabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Contemporary "Querelle" of the Ancients and Moderns, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Benjamin Binstock, The Cooper Union; Mary Stieber, The Cooper Union
Ancients, Early Moderns, and Post-Moderns at Dinner
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
Rembrandt, the First Modern
Benjamin Binstock, The Cooper Union
Baroque Style in the Light of Science
Alexander Ness, New York University
Perrault Revisited: The Case of Pasolini's Edipo re
Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University
Empire and Tyranny: From the Coliseum to Cable
Holly Haynes, The College of New Jersey
The Erasure of Contemporary Memory, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: John Conomos, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney; Brad Buckley, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Memories “Under Erasure:” Re/Con/Figurations of Absence in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
Maia Toteva, University of Texas at Austin
Performing the Recorded Image: Documentation, Memory, and Disappearance
Emma Hogarth, Rhode Island School of Design
Returning to Scratch: Joshua Neustein’s Erasures and the Movement of Deconstruction
Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto
Undoing as Doing: Erasure in Post-War Drawing
Ed Krĉvma, University College Cork
Light Erasures and Shifting Temporalities in Recent Work by Michael Snow
Martha Langford, Concordia University
Imitation, Copy, Reproduction, Replication, Repetition, and Appropriation Part II
Saturday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse G, Concourse Level, Hilton New York
Chairs: Paul Duro, University of Rochester; Malcolm Baker, University of California, Riverside
Copy Nature, Imitate the Materials
Richard Shiff, University of Texas at Austin
Rethinking the Simulacrum: On the Singularity of Early Photography
Vered Maimon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Postcolonial Appropriation: How Indigenous Art Murdered Postmodernism
Ian McLean, University of Western Australia
In a Near Future: Theorizing Quotation in Contemporary Art
Patrick Greaney, University of Colorado
Tale of Two Arts: Dafen and Chinese Contemporary Art
Vivian Li, University of Michigan
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Music and Other Paradigms for Nineteenth-Century Art, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: James H. Rubin, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Painting Poetry, Song, and Sound: Thomas Cole and the Eden Pictures
Roberta Gray Katz, DePaul University
Music as Muse: The Realist Agenda of Thomas Eakins's "Elizabeth at the Piano"
Debra Hanson, Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts, Qatar
"Toute emotion sort de vous, elargit un milieu; ou sur vous fond et l'incorpore": Dance as a Performative Paradigm in Late Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics
Sarah Burkhalter, Université de Genève
Sibelius, Gallen-Kallela, and the Musical Landscape
William L. Coleman, University of California, Berkeley
Interweavings: Music, the Decorative, and Klimt’s "Beethoven Frieze"
Rachel Sloan, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Dark Matter of the Art World, Part II
Saturday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Louisiana State University
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
Gregory Sholette, Queens College, City University of New York
The Waag Society’s Productivism: Possibilities and Problems of a Utilitarian Practice
Philip Glahn, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
The Second Whiskey Rebellion: A Distillation of the American Spirit
Jim Costanzo, Pratt Institute
“Monster Institutions”: Occupied Social Centers in Europe
Alan W. Moore, independent scholar
Furtherfield.org Inside Out
Charlotte Frost, Writtle School of Design, University of Essex
Discussant:Nato Thompson, Creative Time
