Odober 1 Miscellany Datebook Deadline for nominations for CAA standing committees and awards committees July 26 Deadline for applications for Millard Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Associa­ Deadline for submissions for Septem­ Meiss Publication Fund grants tion. Anyone attending our session at ber/October CAA News the CAA annual conference in Boston in February who paid cash for member­ November 1 ship or gave written special requests, August 2 Deadline for receipt of ballots for please notify Roberta Tarbell, 250 Fine Deadline for applications to serve on the election to the Board of Directors Arts Bldg., Rutgers University, Camden, CAA Nominating Committee NJ 08102; fax 609/225-6330. Some records were lost in transit. 5 Deadline for eAA awards nominations January 31, 1996 Deadline for applications for Profes­ sional Development Fellowships in September 18 American Art Deadline for theme proposals for 1999 CAA eAA conference Deadline for applications for Profes­ sional Development Fellowships for Artists and Art Historians to September 27 Deadline for submissions for Novem­ ber /December CAA News February 12-15 L.A. CAA annual conference, New York n April 20, 1996, the CAA Board of Directors voted to Nonprofit Organization O reverse its boycott of Califor­ U.S. Postage nia as a possible location for the 199,9 annual conference. This boycott, ,. Paid unanimously passed by the board on 5 NewYork,N.Y. April 22, 1995, had been enacted in Permit No. 4683 response to Proposition 187, which is a Judy F. Baca, La Ofrend a to the Domestic Worker, 1993, acrylic and mixed media, July/August 1996 law that denies certain public services to illegal immigrants in the state of 14' x 6' College Art Association California. 275 Seventh Avenue Initially, the CAA Board of Direc­ Prop 187 and it would signal CAA's California). CAA President Leslie King­ New York, New York 10001 tors felt that a boycott would help draw embracing of a large percentage of its Hammond pointed out that it is CAA attention to the issues surrounding membership." At the same time, policy to meet in all regions of the California immigration advocates began country, adding that "it is crucial to Board of Directors immigration that have always had a significant impact on the arts and challenging the initiative in the courts select this area as a site to serve the Leslie King-Hammond, President education in this country. Soon after this immediately after it became law, nearly 3,000 constituents who live in the John R. Clarke, Vice-President decision was announced, CAA constitu­ drawing significant media attention to West." The board is hopeful that Nancy Macko, Secretary ents in California protested, arguing the issue and tremendous national sessions at the Los Angeles conference John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer public outcry. will foster debate over the issues that Barbara Hoffman, Esq., COUl1sel that CAA had not held its conference in Susan Ball, Execl/five Director Los Angeles since 1985. Many indi­ In light of the court challenge to have been raised by the boycott. vidual CAA members wrote letters in Proposition 187, and the significant Proposition 187, known as the Ellen T. Baird Arturo Lindsay support of the annual conference being CAA membership concern, the CAA "Save our State" initiative, denies the Judith K. Brodsky Victor Margolin held in California, among them Steven Board of Directors voted by a clear following public services to illegal Diane Burko John Hallmark Neff F. Ostrow, president of the Art Histori­ majority to have the 1999 conference in immigrants in the state of California: Bradford R. Collins Beatrice Rehl ans of Southern California, who stated, Los Angeles. The board felt strongly social services and all welfare, admis­ Whitney Davis Rita Robillard that it could not ignore the fact that sion to public schools and universities, Vishakha Desai Norie Sato "Ending the boycott and bringing the CAA has not met in southern California and all forms of publicly funded Jonathan Fineberg Roger Shimomura CAA annual meeting back to California Shifra M. Goldman Lowery Stokes Sims would therefore serve two significant in over ten years, since 15 percent of its medical care, except necessary emer- Susan L. Huntington Jeffrey Chipps Smith ends: it would more forcefully commu­ membership resides in California (and Michi ltami Nancy J. Troy nicate our organization's opposition to more than half of those are in Southern CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Christine Kondoleon Alan Wallach Irving Lavin Deborah Willis Joe Lewis the issue. Professors are going in with Gary Radke, the textbook Art in We have much to think about in Contents CAAin different directions with introductory Paoletti Renaissance Italy (Abrams, forthcoming). terms of the continuing evolution of the art history, he says, although 'right now He has contributed articles to such Art Bulletin. Technology is the area of journals as Apollo, Arts Magazine, and the concern perhaps uppermost in all of our Volume 2/, NUll/be/"4 everyone is thinking about going somewhere, but no One is sure where to Named Art Bulletin. President of the New minds. A move to publish reviews online July/August 1996 the News go.' So, he reports, colleges are holding England Renaissance Conference and will give us important information for on to the survey while trying to incorpo­ vice-president of the Italian Art Society, assessing how technology might affect rate new material. 'That's creating a Art Bulletin he has been a member of CAA since the dissemination of our material in the 1 CAA to L.A. tremendous strain.' ... 1962. future. But there are other less obvious 'While professors believe that the Editor As editor designate of the Art areas that I think we need to investigate. shift in how art history is taught makes Bulletin, he will select and edit manu­ I think it is important that the colleagues 2 CAA in the News intellectual sense, they agree that scripts for publication. Submissions with whom we work in other countries students don't always take to the new should be sent to: John T. Paoletti, Art also feel that the Art Buf/etin is a place Paoletti Named Art Bulletin Editor Artworld approach easily. At the College Art Dept., Wesleyan University, where their scholarship is welcome. Kaplan Named Art journaL "The College Art Association voted to Association meeting, some professors Middletown, CT 06459-0442. Along these lines we might also consider 3 Executive Editor rescind a year-old boycott of California said enrollments might drop if changes publication more often of research by as a site f<:r its annual conference during scholars whose stated discipline is not were introduced too hastily or if ohn T. Paoletti, professor of art its April board meeting. The boycott was students lose their bearings in courses Art Bulletin art history but whose work is critically CAANews history at Wesleyan University, 5 in response to Proposition 187, which that give up on chronology. 'It no longer Editor Designate's Statement important for the study of visual and denies state services to undocumented has been appointed editor looks like art history,' said Ann J Insofar as the Art Bulletin is the publica­ material culture. immigrants. After lengthy acrimonious designate of the Art Bulletin. He will Bermingham of the University of tion of the College Art Association, its Any plans for the future of the Annual Conference Update debate, letters from concerned constitu­ succeed Nancy J. Troy as editor-in-chief, 8 California at Santa Barbara. 'The new editorial policies are in very real ways journal are, however, deeply dependent ents and intense internal and external effective July 1, 1997. curriculum can be irritatingly disap­ directed by the scholarly needs and on the submission of challenging and lobbying, the CAA decided to hold its Paoletti received a B.A., as well as pointing to undergraduates.'" predispositions of CAA's membership. critically constructed articles by scholars Directory of Affiliated Societies 1999 annual conference in Los Angeles. an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history, from 9 -Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, Given that we represent scholars in the field. I hope that an open editorial The board, which passed the initiative Yale University. His fields of specializa­ 1996 working on historical issues concerning policy will generate ever more active by an overwhelming majority, felt the tion are Italian Renaissance art and all art for all times in all places, and participation by colleagues in the future Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members association could better address the twentieth-century painting and sculp­ 13 More Hot Type given the varieties of new methodologi­ history of the Art Bulletin. issues raised by Proposition 187 in ture. He has been at Wesleyan since "Case studies are a popular way to cat theoretical, and critical approaches special conference panels held during a 1972, prior to which he taught at introduce undergraduates to art history. now entering the mainstream of the People in the News meeting in California than by throwing Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, 15 Rarely is such a course as eclectic, wide­ discipline, it is only reasonable to expect stones from, let's say, Houston, Texas. Yale University, and the Phillips ranging, and time-hopping as the a great diversity in the nature of the "The last time the CAA met in Academy. He is the author of several version of 'Introduction to the Visual articles published in the Art Bulletin. In a 16 Grants, Awards, & Honors southern California was in 1985. book-length studies, among them The Arts' that was developed by a group of field where center and periphery no Approximately 20 percent of the Siena Baptistry Font: A Study of an Early 13 graduate students at the University of longer have meaning as terms, but Kaplan association's more than 13,000 members Renaissance Collaborative Program, 1416- Texas at Austin.