( 5 Criticism/' in New York 2000. Chapman As editor designate of the Art Bulletin, Chapman will select and edit manuscripts for publication. Submissions Named Art should be sent to: H. Perry Chapman, Dept. of Art History, 318 Old College, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Bulletin 19716. Editor Designate's Editor Statement Art history-what it is, how we do it, and the objects we study-has changed dramatically in recent years. The Art ( Bulletin has become more innovative and Perry Chapman, professor has published more articles and critical of art history at the Univer­ essays that define instead of just respond H. sity of Delaware, has been to our discipline. As a comprehensive appointed editor designate of the Art journal, it faces the dual challenge of Bulletin. She will succeed John T. Paoletti competing with field-specific ones for the s as editor-in-chief, effective July I, 2000. best articles and enticing people to read Chapman received a B.A. in art outside their immediate areas of interest. history, with a minor in history, from H. Perry Chapman My goal is to enhance the Art Bulletin's May 1999 PHOTO: ANN MAAS Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in art intellectual accessibility to the diverse College Art Association histOlY from Princeton University. She National Gallery of Art, WaslUngton, populations CAA serves. 275 Seventh Avenue has been at the University of Delaware D.C., and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam One way to do this is to foreground New York, New York 10001 since 1982, prior to which she taught at (1996-97), and she co-authored the methodology. Especially today, articles Swarthmore College and American accompanying scholarly catalogue. that are exemplary not just for their University. Chapman has held fellowships from the scholarship but also for their art histori­ Board of Directors A specialist in seventeenth-century Woodrow Wilson International Center cal approach or combinations of ap­ John R. Clarke, President Dutch art, she has dealt in her work with for Scholars and the National Endow­ proaches are likely to engage a wider EUen T. Baird, Vice President, Committees self-portraiture, early modem biography ment for the Humanities and her work audience. I encourage potential authors Richard Martin, Vice-President, External Affairs has been supported by the Getty Grant to be explicit about their research method E. Bruce Robertson, Vice-President, Annual Conference and art theory, and issues of individual, Joe Deal, Secretary artistic, and political identity. She is the Program and the American Philosophical or interpretive stance. Exhibition review John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer author of Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Society. She currently serves on the essays offer another way to reach a Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity executive committee of the Folger broader constituency while acknowledg­ Susan Ball, Executive Director (1990) and numerous articles in such Institute, and on the boards of the ing the importance of the museum as the journals as the Art Bulletin, Art History, Historians for Netherlandish Art and the site of exciting scholarly work With Catherine Asher Christine Kondoleon Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Nederlands University of Delaware Press. A member CAA.Reviews as a forum for timely Michael Aurbach Patricia Leighten Holly Block Arturo Lindsay Kuntshistorisch Jaarboek, and Simiolus. She of CAA since 1976, Chapman has coverage of current shows, the Art Marilyn R. Brown Valerie Mercer co-curated (with Wouter Kloek and presented numerous papers at the Bulletin should be the place for a type of Bailey Doogan Yang Soon Min Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.) the major loan annual conferences and will co-chair broader consideration of the entire Nancy Friese John Hallmark Neff exhibition "Jan Steen: Painter and (with Mariet Westermann) a session, curatorial, scientific, and scholarly Joanna Frueh Archie Rand Storyteller," which was shown at the "Early Modern Biography as Art Vanalyne Green Jeffrey Chipps Smith CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Linda C. Hults Edward Sullivan Dorothy Johnson Alan Wallach 01 Chapman Named Art Bulletin Editor to the conceptual. Millennial Manhattan: qualities and attributes of the candidates nationally and internationally on the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The City Imag(in)ed will be curated by And the among whom they choose. No more field. Romy Golan (associate professor of art than 10 letters per candidate will be CAA/Heritage Preservation Award considered. Vo/wlle 24, Numher 3 enterprise surrounding a major exhibi­ history, Graduate School and Universityi, (formerly National Institute for Conser­ All nomination campaigns should May 1999 tion or series of exhibitions. I also want Center and Lehman College, CUNY) \Nominees vation) for distinction in scholarship and to revisit the "state of research" reviews, and Harriet F. Senie (director of mu­ include one copy of the nominee's c.v. conservation was created to recognize but as assessments of how new perspec­ seum studies and professor of art (limit: two pages). Nominations for book an outstanding contribution by one or awards and exhibition awards (Morey, more persons who have enhanced 1 Chapman Named Art Bulletin Editor tives are reshaping traditional fields and history, Graduate School and University Are . .. defining the emerging, One aim of these Center and City College, CUNY). !twill Barr, and the Award for a Distinguished understanding of art through the critical essays is to bridge the troubling take pace at Gallery 365 in the new Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation, application of knowledge and experi­ gap, in the Art Bulletin's readership, or Performance) should be for authors ence in conservation, art history, and art. 2 Annual Conference Update CUNY Graduate School building between people who are energized by designed by Gwathmey Siegal. The of books published or works staged in Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award was critical theory and those who are street level gallery has three large bays very year at its annual confer­ the calendar year 1998. established in 1980 in honor of a former alienated. facing Fifth Avenue and one on 35th Distinguished Teaching of Art director of the Museum of Modern Art And the Nominees Are, , , ence, the College Art Associa­ 3 By emphasizing art history'S Street. There will be ari illustrated tion presents awards for Award is presented to an artist of and scholar of early twentieth-century increasing methodological self-con­ E distinction who has developed a painting. It is presented to the author or catalogue. For an application, send a outstanding achievements in the fields Annual Conference 2001: philosophy or technique of instruction authors of an especially distinguished sciousness and diversity, I intend to SASE to Romy Golan and Harriet F. Senie, of art, art history, criticism, and conser­ 4 CaLI for Session Proposals based on his /her experience as an artist; catalogue in the history of art, published signal an openness to scholarship that Millennial Manhattan Exhibition, vation. Nominations are now being challenges conventional thinkiIJ,g and who has' encouraged his/her students to during the penultimate calendar year Graduate School and University Center, sought for the awards to be presented in develop their own individual abilities; under the auspices of a museum, proposes new ways of seeing. Above all, Art History Dept., 33 W. 42 St., New 2000. By submitting nominations, CAA CAANews and/ or who has made some contribu­ library, or collection. 7 I want to publish articles that spark York, NY 10036-8099. members have the opportunity to widen debate, set high standards for our tion to the body of knowledge loosely Frank Jewett Mather Award, first the pool of candidates for awards discipline, and, in today's interdiscipli­ called theory and understood as presented in 1963 for art journalism is 2000 Annual committees to consider. Committee nary climate, push to establish art embracing technical, material, aesthetic, awarded for published art criticism that Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members Conference members who determine the recipients 8 history as a model. I encourage submis­ and perceptual issues. has appeared in whole or in part in of these awards are appointed because sions that address this challenge. In Book and Trade Exhibit Distinguished Teaching of Art North American publications during the of their individual expertise and turn, I plan to see to it that manuscripts The Annual Conference 2000 Trade History Award is awarded to an preceding year. Attention is paid to the People in the News collective ability to represent the broad 10 are reviewed by appropriate specialists Show will be presented in the Americas individual who has been actively range of criticism that appears through­ range and diverse in~erests of the in as timely and fair a manner as Hall I and II at the New York Hilton and engaged in the teaching of art history for out the country. membership, In the absence of nomina­ possible. To this end, I call on the Towers, from Wednesday, February 24 most of his/her career. Among the range Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, tions from the membership, awards 11 Grants, Awards, & Honors members of the Art Bulletin's board for through Saturday, February 26, 2000. of criteria that may be applied in named in honor of one of the founding committees choose recipients based on their advice and support. Finally, I Hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.in. evaluating candidates are: inspiration to members of CAA and first teachers of their own knowledge and contacts welcome your thoughts on how the Art Thursday and Friday, and 9:00 a.m. to a broad range of students in the pursuit art history in the United States, is within the field. Conferences & Symposia Bulletin is doing and what it should be 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. More than 120 of humanistic studies; rigorous intellec­ presented for an especially distin­ 12 If you would like to see someone doing at pchapman®Udel.edu.