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Reimagining Tenure

Amidst the shifting landscape in academia, sixteen scholars offer their insights on how to rethink a beleaguered institution, and what the future might hold. In our current moment of economic uncertainty, many universities have reduced or otherwise eliminated some tenure-track positions as a cost-saving measure. Read on for how these changes may impact the field as academic institutions begin to welcome back students for in-person learning. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
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GW's Corcoran School Announces New Director

Longtime educator, scholar, producer, and museum professional Lauren Onkey, currently the senior director of NPR Music, will lead the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University beginning July 12. Learn more.

News from CAA

Serve on CAA's Editorial Boards

The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and caa.reviews have open editorial board, editor-in-chief, and reviews editor positions. Applications are due April 15, 2021, and positions start July 1, 2021. Learn more.

Submit a Proposal for CAA 2022

Submit a proposal for the CAA 2022 Annual Conference. The submission deadline has been extended to May 12!

The CAA Annual Conference is the largest professional convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators, and others in the visual arts. Each year, we offer sessions with a wide range of program content submitted by our members, committees, and affiliated societies.  

The Annual Conference Committee & Council of Readers review over 1,000 submissions each year. They take into account subject areas and themes that arise from accepted proposals to present as broad and diverse a program as possible. While the format and framework for CAA 2022 has yet to be determined, we invite submitters to identify whether their content falls into the following three content threads: Women-Centered; Climate Crisis, Social Justice. 

The deadline to submit has been extended to May 12, 2021, 11:59 p.m. (EDT).

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CAA Conversations Podcasts

Join Jay Buchanan and Holly Gabelmann, co-creators of Idiosynchrony, in conversation with Caroline Giddis and Clarissa Chevalier, founders and co-editors of Tesserae Press. They discuss "Collaboration, finding purpose, occupying intermediate space and making noise together!"”

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Art and Academic News

Activists Convene Near Museum of Modern Art to Envision a “Post-MoMA Future”

About 50 protesters, among them current and former MoMA workers, gathered at the plaza in front of the museum. Activists say that their goal is to reimagine MoMA as an institution untethered to billionaire donors engaged in predatory practices, hoping to usher in a “post-MoMA future.” (Hyperallergic)

The Right Way to Rebuild Cities for Post-Pandemic Work

Since the pandemic forced millions of workers out of their offices, questions have loomed about the rise of remote work and what it means for cities. Some have focused their economic development efforts on trying to attract potentially newly remote workers to move to their area. (Bloomberg)

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Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain

Thomas McGrath discusses gender and domesticity as explored in Gregory Salter’s Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

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