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A Seminar Introduces a New Design Program in Bangkok
posted by CAA — September 26, 2017
Since 2015, CAA's International Committee has put out a call for papers on international topics in the visual arts to be published by CAA. Brian Curtain, an art historian and curator based in Bangkok, submitted the following article to Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut, a member of the International Committee. www.briancurtinbangkok.com
The Department of Communication Design (CommDe) of the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, will inaugurate a new MA program (CommMa) in 2018, to be led by Dr. Juthamas Tangsantikul, the current Deputy Director of CommDe. CommMa will be a practice-based research program with a focus on Southeast Asia. An introductory seminar and hands-on workshop, The Ghost in the Machine, was held on July 13, 2017, to present the program's core methods and interests: the study of regional visual and material cultures as a means to explore questions of indigeneity and the critical potential of comparisons with other contexts. The seminar title evokes the relationship of animism and modernity—indeed, a colonial distinction. Participants conjured the local legacies of this relationship and also considered the metanarratives of politics, representation, and the fictive.
The featured speakers at the seminar, Dr. Clare Veal, MA Asian Art Histories lecturer at LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, and Thai photographer Piyatat Hemmatat share an interest in Walter Benjamin's understanding of photography as an "optical unconscious," which can capture and shape what can be thought but is normally beyond perception. Veal's research on photographic histories and Hemmatat's ethereal visions quite literally slow down our consumption of photography, the former by tracing varieties of meaning in what can be framed and the latter by providing expanses of detail.
Veal's lecture moved beyond the paradigmatic examples of the infamous "Cottingley Fairies" photographs—early twentieth-century works displaying images of fairies that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle contended proved the existence of the supernatural—to an account of how desires and ideologies haunt colonial-era photography, including both landscape and figural representations. The context of Siam/Thailand allows for particular consideration of the performative aspects of photography. Photography was introduced in Siam by King Mongkut Rama IV (1851–1868), who thereby broke a longstanding taboo on visual representation of royalty outside idealized and conventionalized mural types. Veal deftly noted an exchange between the indexical and iconic with this introduction: in a word, a representation of something comes to stand for something. Here, the locating of a "Thai" tradition of cultural beliefs proves less compelling than the noting of shifting regulations of representation, ones that have become exceptionally aggressive in the recent years of military rule.
Participants' works from Ghost in the Machine workshop (photograph by M. A. Trusler)
Hemmatat's alchemical understanding of photography was complementary to Veal's insights. His practice explores the deceptively illusionistic image in abstraction and representation as well as the suggestion that systems are at work within nature. While allowing for the captivating, seductive qualities of photography, his images are rooted in both the artist's eye and experimental photographic techniques. The diversity of Hemmatat's oeuvre suggests a restless inquisitiveness. He is currently making sculptures inspired by Hindu and Christian icons, dovetailing three-dimensional works with his longstanding engagement with photographs-as-objects.
Hemmatat presented objects for a mysterious cabinet of curiosities without telling the participants what they were: such things as volcanic Mayan glass, a camera lucida, and washi paper, a Japanese paper purported to last thousands of years. Inspired by the seemingly esoteric implications of these objects and Veal's sharp critical guidance, participants then set out to take photographs in the immediate vicinity of the seminar. Images of graffiti, air vents, and architectural details were shaped with enigmatic auras, and subsequent group discussion debated the vagaries of perception and the relationship between the recognizable and the illegible as well as the concrete and the abstract.
Fair Use Events in France: A Recap
posted by michaelh — July 11, 2017
On June 4 and 6, CAA, represented by Hunter O'Hanian, participated in three events in France about CAA's Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts. The first took place on June 4 in Fontainebleau, when O'Hanian spoke at a session on "Fair Use and Open Content," at the seventh annual Festival of Art History, held during the annual Fontainebleau Festival. Organized by Martine Denoyelle of France's Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), other speakers included Hana Leaper from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art (UK) and Mikka Gee Conway from the J. Paul Getty Trust. Approximately seventy-five people attended the session, which concluded with a lively discussion about copyright issues in France, the UK, and USA. To share the content of the Code of Best Practices as widely as possible, CAA produced a version in French translation that was available throughout the three day festival.
Read the Code of Best Practices in French
On June 6, O'Hanian was part of a panel about fair use during the annual conference of ICOM Europe, held at the Musée des Arts et Metiers in Paris. Titled "Copyright Flexibilities in the US and EU: How Fair Use and Other Flexibilities are Helping Museums to Fulfill their Mission," the session also included Peter Jaszi, professor of law at the Washington College of Law, American University, and a principal lead investigator for CAA's fair use initiative. The event was introduced Luis Raposo, president of ICOM-Europe, and included Ronan Deazley, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Paul Klimpel, iRights Lab Culture, and ICOM Germany member; Claire La Henaff, Musée National Picasso (Paris), and ICOM France member; and Charlotte Waelde, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. Approximately one hundred museum professionals from countries throughout Europe attended the event.
Earlier the same day, CAA convened a small planning meeting to explore next steps in sharing the Code of Best Practices with decision makers in the EU interested in increasing copyright flexibilities. The Terra Foundation generously made their Paris offices available for the meeting, which included, in addition to O'Hanian and Jaszi, Francesca Rose from the Terra Foundation; Anne Goodyear, codirector of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and chair of CAA's Committee on Intellectual Property; Martine Denoyelle, Chief Curator of Heritage, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art; Ronan Deazley, School of Law, Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland; and Stef van Gompel, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. The discussion focused on ways in which European countries were increasing access to information and images, including open access and fair dealing (in the UK), and the usefulness of gathering data about current EU practices in the use of copyrighted materials. The group plans to reconvene during the CAA annual conference in Los Angeles in 2018.
CAA's participation in these events was underwritten by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Getty Supports the CAA-Getty International Program for a Seventh Year
posted by CAA — June 05, 2017
The Getty Foundation has awarded the College Art Association (CAA) a grant to fund the CAA-Getty International Program for a seventh consecutive year. The Foundation's support will enable CAA to bring twenty international visual-arts professionals to the 106th Annual Conference, taking place February 21-24, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. Fifteen individuals will be first-time participants in the program and five will be alumni, returning to present papers during the conference. The CAA-Getty International Program provides funds for travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, conference registrations, and one-year CAA memberships to art historians, artists who teach art history, and museum curators. The program will include a one-day preconference colloquium on international issues in art history on February 20, this year to be held at the Getty Center.
The deadline for applications is August 21, 2017. Guidelines and application.
The CAA-Getty International Program was established to increase international participation in CAA and the CAA Annual Conference. The program fosters collaborations between North American art historians, artists, and curators and their international colleagues and introduces visual arts professionals to the unique environments and contexts of practices in different countries.
Since the CAA-Getty International Program's inception in 2012, ninety scholars have participated in CAA's Annual Conference. Historically, the majority of international registrants at the conference have come from North America, the United Kingdom, and Western European countries. The CAA-Getty International Program has greatly diversified attendance, adding scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, Caribbean countries, and South America. The majority of the participants teach art history (or visual studies, art theory, or architectural history) at the university level; others are museum curators or researchers.
Earlier this year, CAA organized a reunion to celebrate five successful years of the CAA-Getty International Program. Twenty alumni were selected to present papers at the Annual Conference in New York, held February 15-18, 2017. Organized into four sessions about international topics in art history, these Global Conversations were chaired by distinguished scholars from the United States and featured presentations by the CAA-Getty alumni.
Read Global Conversations: 20 Papers from the 2017 CAA-Getty Alumni
One measure of the program's success is the remarkable number of international collaborations that have ensued, including an ongoing study of similarities and differences in the history of art among Eastern European countries and South Africa, attendance at other international conferences, publications in international journals, and participation in panels and sessions at subsequent CAA Annual Conferences. Former grant recipients have become ambassadors of CAA in their countries, sharing knowledge gained at the Annual Conference with their colleagues at home. The value of attending a CAA Annual Conference as a participant in the CAA-Getty International Program was succinctly summarized by alumnus Nazar Kozak, Senior Researcher, Department of Art Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "To put it simply, I understood that I can become part of a global scholarly community. I felt like I belong here."
About CAA
The College Art Association is the world's largest professional association for artists, art historians, designers, arts professionals, and arts organizations. CAA serves as an advocate and a resource for individuals and institutions nationally and internationally by offering forums to discuss the latest developments in the visual arts and art history through its Annual Conference, publications, exhibitions, website, and other programs, services, and events. CAA focuses on a wide range of advocacy issues, including education in the arts, freedom of expression, intellectual-property rights, cultural heritage and preservation, workforce topics in universities and museums, and access to networked information technologies. Representing its members' professional needs since 1911, CAA is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, criticism, and teaching.
About the Getty Foundation
The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Through strategic grant initiatives, it strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develops current and future leaders in the visual arts. It carries out its work in collaboration with the other Getty Programs to ensure that they individually and collectively achieve maximum effect.
Southeast of Now: Introducing a New Journal about Contemporary and Modern Asian Art
posted by Chye Shu Wen, Publicity and Marketing Manager at National University of Singapore Press — May 25, 2017
One of the great challenges of our time is to make sense of the world on a global scale, even while facing ever more urgent concerns at various local levels. While artists, curators, critics, and scholars of art have embraced this challenge for some time now, the global discourse of contemporary and modern art remains stubbornly asymmetrical, with many contexts for discussion oriented to the North and the West, and also to the new and the now.
Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia was established by a collective of scholars and curators as a discursive space for creating encounters between critical texts of contemporary and modern art produced in, from, and around Southeast Asia. The editorial board includes researchers from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, and Malaysia. It is presently the only scholarly journal dedicated to the recent art of this region.
The journal presents a necessarily diverse range of views not only on the contemporary and modern art of Southeast Asia, but indeed of the region itself: its borders, its identity, its efficacy, and its limitations as a geographical marker and a conceptual category. As such, the journal is defined by a commitment to the need for and importance of rigorous discussion of the contemporary and modern art of the domain that lies south of China, east of India, and north of Australia.
Why 'Southeast' of 'Now'?
The title of the journal has a playful yet provocative function as a reminder that Southeast Asia is named, and to a large extent discursively defined, in relation to an imagined geographical center in the North and the West. It is also a reminder that discussions of contemporary and modern art are increasingly framed by an imagined temporal center: that of the now.
The lack of educational infrastructure of art history in most countries in Southeast Asia was one of the principal motivations behind the creation of the journal. Resisting the pressure to be always up-to-date and forever new, the journal instead values the historicizing of recent practices, from the nineteenth century (and before) to the present (and after). This historical perspective is a foundation for contributions which may otherwise draw on a diverse range of disciplines and methodologies.
Of Themes and Form(ations)
The playful disquiet evoked by the title of the journal, which troubles linear notions of space-time and destabilizes any certainty of an imagined temporal center, gave rise to the inaugural volume's theme: Discomfort. The provocations that the Southeast of Now editorial collective sought included pieces that reflect on the burdens and future possibility of wielding "regionalism" as a framework. The editors hope to locate this source of tension and anxiety through various discourses and narratives. Texts published in the journal's first issue suggest also the possibility to discover some comfort within unease, even if merely within shared discomfort.
One key feature of the journal is the inclusion of less academically-driven sections ('Interview', 'Archive', 'Artists' Projects' and 'Review')—spaces the editors felt were necessary for creating discourses about contemporary and modern Southeast Asian art, and providing access to conversations that are already ongoing. It was important for them to create an open platform within the journal where they could create opportunities for artistic responses as well as scholarly articles. Many contemporary artists are engaged in artistic research and are eager to present their views in formats other than written texts, essays, or reviews.
In Volume 1, Number 1, for example, the section titled Artists' Projects features a video by Tom Nicholson and Grace Samboh, in which they documented their interview with Pak Edhi Sunarso, one of Indonesia's most eminent sculptors. Southeast of Now is a fitting place where this kind of research material could travel beyond the site of the physical exhibition in which it was originally viewed, which was the Jakarta Biennale. Within the context of the journal it is not only an artwork to be experienced; it is also a primary source of research material about a valuable figure in Indonesia's modern art history.
The structure of the journal also provides numerous curatorial possibilities. The Artists' Projects pages offer a space for a specifically curated sequence of images or texts, either by a member of the editorial collective, a guest curator, or a respondent to a call for proposals. This follows new approaches to publishing where printed matter may be considered as an exhibition format in two-dimensional form. In future issues the editors will alternate such presentations with archival pages from various collections within and beyond the region, as well as translations and other resources.
The Art of Re/De-Categorizing
Southeast of Now effectively aims to be a platform where the categories of "contemporary and modern art," indeed of "art" in general, as much as the category of "Southeast Asia" itself, will always be open for debate. The editors anticipate continuous challenges in redefining these categories, by looking at aspects of culture that do not usually qualify as "art," by treating the region's borders as fluid, and also by looking at research that transcends these borders.
The journal strives to remain committed to the importance of an historical approach, however interwoven with methodologies from other disciplines and practices. The editors hope that future issues of the journal will look further back in time, to the nineteenth century (and before) with the goal of placing the historical research in dialogue with issues of today.
The journal is published by the National University of Singapore Press and it is published twice a year (March and October), in print and online via Project MUSE.
To find out more about submission guidelines and subscription information, visit www.southeastofnow.com or the National University of Singapore Press website.
Images from video interview with Pak Edhi Sunarso by Tom Nicholson and Grace Samboh
CAA Amicus Brief on Trump's Travel Ban
posted by CAA — May 22, 2017
CAA added its name to two amicus briefs in opposition to the United States president's travel ban, officially known as Executive Order 13,780. We joined the Association of Art Museum Directors and American Alliance of Museums, along with ninety-four art museums. The cases are: International Refugee Assistant Project v. Donald J. Trump in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; and State of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh v. Donald J. Trump in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The brief argues that the travel ban inhibits the work of museums. "The negative effects of the Order are already being felt," the document reads, "as several museums have postponed or canceled future exhibitions that require foreign artists, lenders, collectors, curators, scholars, couriers, and others whose ability to contribute can no longer be assured." Specific examples include the Cleveland Museum of Art, which canceled a music performance, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which has doubts about securing loans for an exhibition of Persian art.
We consider joining this amicus brief as inherent to our advocacy efforts and our international reach at CAA. The travel ban impacts the international attendees of our Annual Conference, it impinges on the flow of information and discussion between colleagues, and it harms the practice of research more broadly.
Read about CAA's International Program
posted by CAA — May 18, 2017
The following papers on international topics in art history were presented at four sessions during the 2017 Annual Conference. Organized to commemorate five years of the CAA-Getty International Program, each session includes five alumni scholars from around the world, joined by a distinguished scholar from the United States. The papers can be read in their entirety at the links below.
Unsettling the Discipline: Decolonizing the Curriculum
Chair: Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute
Decolonizing the Curriculum: Synthesizing "Multiple Consciousness" into the Art History Curricula of Nigeria and Ghana
Abiodun Akande, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo, Nigeria
The Emancipatory Potential of Karaman's Concept of "Peripheral Art": Still Operative?
Laris Borić, University of Zadar, Croatia
"Does this really matter?" Art History, Feminism, and Peripheral Positions
Georgina Gluzman, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
Decolonizing in the Age of Globalization: Experience of a Bangladeshi Art Historian
AKM Khademul Haque, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dangers of Eurocentrism and the Need to Indigenize African and Grassfields Histories
Hugues Heumen Tchana, Higher Institute of the Sahel, University of Maroua, Cameroon
Dominant Ideologies and Political Trauma: Can Art History Be Reborn?
Chair: Frederick M. Asher, University of Minnesota
After the Wall: Cultural Trauma and Methodological Challenges in Polish Art History
Irena Kossowska, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences/Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
How My Art History Was Reborn
Nazar Kozak, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Portia Malatjie, Goldsmiths, University of London (South Africa)
Visible and Invisible: How Art History Can Be Reborn from Dominant Ideology in China
Shao Yiyang, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
"Reconstructing" Art History
Sandra Uskoković, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Trouble with (The Term) Art
Chair: Mary Miller, Yale University
SENI MODEN as an Evolving Term and Practice in Malaysian Art
Sarena Abdullah, School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia
"When Did Beauty Become So F…n' Ugly?" Troubles with Art and Its Functions
Davor Džalto, The Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity, Belgrade/American Academy in Rome (Serbia)
Short Introduction on Applying the "Homonymic Curtain" to Recent Exhibitions
Richard Gregor, Trnava University, Slovakia
Art History and Cultural Hegemony in Brazil: the Risks of Misunderstanding Indigenous Art and Colonial Art
Ana Mannarino, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Why Is the Miniature Painting Not History?
Ceren Özpınar, University of Sussex (Turkey)
Transnational Collaborations and Interdisciplinarity: Generating New Knowledge
Chair: David J. Roxburgh, Harvard University
Tracing the Transfer of Cultural Objects/Challenging the Burdens of the Past
Ljerka Dulibic, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia
Aby Warburg and the Science Without a Name
Rosa Gabriella de Castro Gonçalves, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Decolonizing Mimesis: Mad Metaphors and Slippery Similarities in a Classical Sanskrit Text on Painting
Parul Dave Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Decolonizing Cartography? Visual Culture and the Poetics of Space in Critical Contemporary Art
Cristian-Emil Nae, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania
Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in Western Painting
Ding Ning, Peking University, China
CAA Goes to France
posted by CAA — May 08, 2017
The College Art Association has been invited to speak about its Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts at two conferences taking place in France in early June. On June 4 in Fontainebleau, executive director Hunter O'Hanian will participate in a session on "Fair Use and Open Content" at the seventh annual Festival of Art History, along with speakers from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art (UK), the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the French Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art.
Two days later, on June 6, Hunter will join Peter Jaszi, lead principal investigator on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, in Paris to speak at a session on fair use during the annual conference of ICOM Europe. They will be joined by speakers from England, France, and Germany, to discuss "Copyright Flexibilities in the US and EU: How Fair Use and Other Flexibilities are Helping Museums to Fulfill their Mission."
Both conferences provide opportunities for CAA to share its work on fair use with EU visual arts professionals. Though this feature of copyright law is virtually unique to the United States, there is increasing interest in Europe to provide greater access to copyrighted materials, especially in the cultural sectors of these countries. Travel costs for CAA's participation are underwritten by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Letter from Melbourne: An Exhibition at the Victorian College of the Arts Tackles Contested Lands and Landscape
posted by Sean Lowry, Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies,Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia — April 27, 2017
We live in a world in which deeply contested perceptions of time and place coexist on lands shared by diverse populations. The unresolved politics of land that confront Indigenous cultures in Australia are a prime example of how such contestations continue to play out in a postcolonial context. Such tensions are particularly apparent when contrasting radically divergent artistic and historical representations of landscape. Australia is a vast and ancient continental landmass upon which a little over two centuries of colonization has savagely interrupted 50,000 years of continuous human culture expressed through over 500 distinct collective nominations. Presence, an ambitious exhibition curated by David Sequeira in the Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne (March 3–April 1, 2017), entered this seemingly inexpressible contestation with a curatorial strategy that provisionally marked out something of the possibility of aggregating these radically disparate understandings. As this text will attempt to demonstrate, Sequeira, in bringing otherwise ineffably distinct representations of the Australian landscape together, implicitly suggested that violently incompatible senses of time and place might indeed share space—and possibly even begin to communicate with one another.
Upon entering the dramatically darkened gallery, the viewer encountered a series of small uncaptioned spot-lit paintings by some of the VCA's most distinguished alumni. These works appeared to be floating like a constellation of celestial objects around a large moving image projection at the center of the exhibition space. Sequeira strategically positioned Empire, a film by the late Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley, at the heart of this carefully considered installation of historical and contemporary landscape paintings.
Contextualizing work by Eugene Von Guerard, Frederic McCubbin, Fred Williams, Clarice Beckett, Louise Hearman, and Rick Amor with that of Riley, Sequeira seductively stipulated that the viewer become mindful of Indigenous understandings of landscape that existed for 50,000 years prior to the VCA's own 150-year history.
Not inconsequentially, Riley was not a VCA alumnus. This was a brave and deliberate curatorial gesture on the part of Sequeira to mark the occasion of the institution's 150-year celebrations: "For most of its 150-year history, the Victorian College of the Arts ignored Indigenous Australian culture and art practices. I wanted the large-scale projection (including its soundtrack) by Indigenous artist Michael Riley to be the filter through which the other works of art are perceived."[1]
Significantly, the deliberately modestly sized selection of paintings orbiting Riley's intermittently expansive and forensic visual meditation upon the impact of colonialism and Christian missionary activities on Australian Aboriginal land and culture, were subsequently drawn inward to perform in concert with the deeply melancholic musical score by composer Antony Partos and performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra that accompanied Riley's filmic essay. Sound is clearly an important part of Sequeira's matrix of considerations. Considered together with the lighting design, we can see why Sequeira describes a "multi-sensory approach" as "critical in the process of generating new [historical] resonances." Already an ode to the simultaneous expansiveness and minutiae of Australian landscape, once experienced on a big screen at the center of Sequeira's installation, Empire commanded a hitherto unconsummated presence (especially when considered in comparison with earlier broadcast and exhibition presentations).
It was clear that none of these works had ever been exhibited like this before. Consequently, one of the most marked features of this exhibition was the conspicuous visibility of Sequeira's curatorial voice. Moreover, it was not a stretch to reimagine this poetic exploration of new possibilities in selection and display as an installation by an artist rather than the work of a curator. Here, networks of relations marked between very different artistic materializations and senses of placemaking clearly instantiated the space of the exhibition itself as medium. In demonstrating profound new ways in which very different conceptions of landscape might sing together, and by extension, how accepted lineages of art history might in turn learn to incorporate understandings of Indigenous Australian art and culture, Sequeira created a work of art that far exceeded a sum of its parts. Although Sequeira understands his responsibilities to these histories "as part of a bigger commitment as an artist," he also recognizes that curatorship demands very particular responsibilities. Despite the fact that we might reimagine the exhibition as an installation by Sequeira the artist, Sequeira the curator nevertheless understood that this would invariably "reflect a different style of authorship." Interestingly, he appeared at once emboldened and troubled when asked to consider the exhibition as an installation by him as an artist. Clearly, Sequeira necessitates that these activities remain ontologically separate—for as Ruth Noack put it in 2015—just as "the other of the artist as curator is the curator," it is also apparent that "the other of the curator as artist is the artist."[2]
Importantly, Sequeira sees his "own subjectivity is a departure point for the exploration of other histories." As a "middle-aged gay Indian born Australian man," he sees his "subjectivity as an access to the disclosure of new understandings of art and art history." For Sequeira, "creating opportunities for the revelation of new or previously undistinguished facets of history is integral to this process." In order to facilitate this process, he first considers "selection and display strategies used in the construction mainstream histories" and then begins to develop alternative formats that suggest "new resonances within both individual works of art and a group as a whole." When asked to imagine this exhibition as the first in a series, and that its next instantiation might be in the United States, Sequeira excitedly described one possible scenario:
the compelling video work of Mohawk artist Alan Michelson could be a potent context for re thinking American landscape painting. For example, set within a suite of small historic and contemporary landscape paintings by artists such as Thomas Cole, Josephine Chamberlin Ellis, Frederick Church, Georgia O'Keefe [sic], Alma Thomas, Andrew Wyeth, Michelson's large scale projection (on a screen of turkey feathers), Mesprat, 2001 could expand the understandings of consumerism, spirituality, the sublime, environmentalism and ownership associated with considerations of landscape.
From exhibitions to nation states, delineations of place are destined to be dynamic and temporary. Unlike space, which possesses abstract physical and formal properties, the value of place is socially constructed. Against a backdrop of inevitable change, art performs both a mnemonic and a transitive role. This role is perhaps most apparent when art is experienced as a dynamic constellation of elements rather than as ossified objects. Although the idea of landscape is central to the sense of being in Australia, it can clearly evoke complex and unresolved historical and political tensions. Artists that deal with landscape as subject are by default connected to these tensions. The island continent of Australia is at once a timeless geological formation and a historically layered series of cultural projections. For a mere blip in historical time, a new nation has been superimposed over an ancient geological formation and accompanying appropriated nations. Landscape, like painting, is a register of gestures enacted upon a surface. Marks, together with conspicuous omissions and evacuations, can imply both desolation and new possibilities. Painting, like film, is a fertile ground upon which to stage a dynamic play between registers of information and space for the imagination to flourish. By suggesting new possibilities through the poetic play of disparate representations of landscape, and at the same time reminding the viewer that full comprehension is impossible, Sequeira has created an evocative vehicle with which to reimagine absence and presence.
[1] David Sequeira, email conversation with the author, March 31, 2017. All subsequent quotations by Sequeira are from email conversations that took place between March 31 and April 3, 2017.
[2] Ruth Noack, "The Curator as Artist?" (symposium presentation, Central Saint Martins, London, November 10, 2012). See http://afterall.org/online/artist-as-curator-symposium-curator-as-artist-by-ruth-noack/.
2017 CAA-Getty International Program Reunion
posted by CAA — November 10, 2016
CAA Names Recipients for
2017 CAA-Getty International Program Reunion
Celebrating five successful years of the CAA-Getty International Program, the College Art Association (CAA) is pleased to announce the selection of twenty alumni to participate in a reunion program during the 2017 CAA Annual Conference, taking place in New York City from February 15-18. Funded by a generous grant from the Getty Foundation, the alumni will join distinguished scholars from the United States for a series of four conference sessions on international topics in art history.
The twenty alumni chosen for the reunion program will travel to the Annual Conference from home countries as varied as Malaysia, Cameroon, and Argentina, to name a few. As scholars, their work encompasses an equally wide spectrum, including topics such as international modernism, Islamic architecture in Southeast Asia, and contemporary aesthetics and art. Connecting the diverse mix of cultural, environmental, and scholarly backgrounds is central to the mission of CAA.
2017 CAA-Getty International Program Reunion participants
Since 2012, the Getty Foundation has supported CAA in bringing between fifteen and twenty scholars from countries around the world to its Annual Conference. Open to professors of art history, curators, and artists who teach art history, the program boasts ninety alumni from forty-one countries. Many scholarly collaborations and exchanges have ensued, both between these international scholars and North American members of CAA, and among the international scholars themselves. The 2017 reunion will celebrate these accomplishments and deepen ties with these international scholars.
"It is a pleasure to work with CAA on the international program, which has brought so many interesting scholars from all over the world to the United States for the Annual Conference," said Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation. "We have learned so much from the scholars' participation and are delighted to support the upcoming reunion program. Congratulations to CAA and these remarkable alumni."
This past summer, alumni helped to shape the reunion plans, working with members of CAA's International Committee. Using CAA Connect, CAA's new digital discussion platform, committee members Elisa Mandell (California State University, Fullerton), Judy Peter (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), and Miriam Paeslack (University of Buffalo), in consultation with committee chair Rosemary O'Neill (Parsons The New School for Design), moderated an online discussion about a wide range of international issues, looking for ideas that would make particularly good topics for the four conference sessions to be held in February. Linked under the heading "Global Conversations," the daily sessions will address the following topics: "Decolonizing the Curriculum, "Dominant Ideologies and Political Trauma," "The Trouble with (the Term) Art," and "Transnational Collaborations and Interdisciplinarity."
Joining the alumni at these sessions will be four members (or former members) of the National Committee for the History of Art (NCHA). Since it began, the CAA-Getty International Program has benefitted from the participation of NCHA members, both as speakers and hosts to the international colleagues. This year, Frederick Asher (University of Minnesota), Michael Ann Holly (Research and Academic Program, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), Mary Miller (Yale University), and David Roxburgh (Harvard University) are each moderating one of the Global Conversations, adding their expertise to the discussions.
CAA is grateful to the Getty Foundation for its ongoing support of this program, and to the members of CAA's International Committee and NCHA who have contributed their time and expertise to making the program a success.
About CAA
The College Art Association (CAA) is dedicated to providing professional services and resources for artists, art historians, and students in the visual arts. CAA serves as an advocate and a resource for individuals and institutions nationally and internationally by offering forums to discuss the latest developments in the visual arts and art history through its Annual Conference, publications, exhibitions, website, and other programs, services, and events. CAA focuses on a wide range of advocacy issues, including education in the arts, freedom of expression, intellectual-property rights, cultural heritage and preservation, workforce topics in universities and museums, and access to networked information technologies. Representing its members' professional needs since 1911, CAA is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, criticism, and teaching. Learn more about CAA at www.collegeart.org.
About the J. Paul Getty trust and the Getty Foundation
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South African Diary
posted by Janet Landay, Project Director, CAA-Getty International Program — October 18, 2016
Posted by Janet Landay, Project Director, CAA-Getty International Program (for CAA News and the International Desk)
This summer I was invited by two alumni of the CAA-Getty International Program—Karen von Veh and Federico Freschi, both from the University of Johannesburg—to attend the 31st Annual Conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH). In the first five years of the CAA-Getty program, seven art historians from South Africa have participated—the most from any single country. Their strong presence at CAA's Annual Conferences suggests a robust community of scholars, and I was eager to witness it firsthand.
In late July I flew to Johannesburg, where I met up with Rosemary O'Neill, associate professor of art history at Parsons the New School of Design and chair of CAA's International Committee, who was also participating in the conference. On the day we arrived there was an intense thunderstorm followed by large hail. Our hosts, Karen von Veh and her husband Bengt, assured us that this was not normal for a Johannesburg winter. By the next day the sun had come out, and it remained sunny and pleasantly cool for the rest of our stay.
The weather may well serve as a metaphor for the abnormal state of affairs in South Africa: unusually stormy one day, seemingly calm the next. Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, the country, and especially its university system, is in an enormous state of flux. Since March 2015, students have militated against South Africa's twenty-three government-funded universities in two related protests. The first was Rhodes Must Fall, which demanded the removal of a sculpture of Cecil Rhodes, the embodiment of British racist colonial imperialism, from the University of Cape Town (UCT), and included the broader demand for decolonizing the university system, including curricula, language of instruction, and workers' rights.
In October 2015 came Fees Must Fall, prompted by the announcement of a steep increase in fees at the University of Witwatersrand. Both movements have had successes: the UCT sculpture of Rhodes was removed, and many other public symbols of colonial rule have been taken down or defaced; students at Rhodes University persuaded authorities to consider renaming the school; and the government announced there would be no tuition increase for 2016. (This issue is being debated again, as increases for 2017 have elicited renewed protests.) These events are taking place at the same time that the government is reducing financial support for the universities.
This was the context for SAVAH's Annual Conference, as approximately sixty professors of art history, visual culture, and studio art gathered at the University of Johannesburg for three days of papers and discussion. Organized by Federico Freschi (executive dean), Brenda Schmahmann (research professor), and Karen von Veh (associate professor), all from the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, the conference was titled "Rethinking Art History and Visual Culture in a Contemporary Context." The ongoing crisis in higher education charged the sessions and discussions with particular intensity. The subjects addressed, whether historical, pedagogical, or political, were not chosen solely for theoretical considerations; speakers were seeking practical solutions to the immediate challenges they face as scholars and teachers in post-apartheid South Africa.
An underlying theme of the conference—how can art history be relevant and useful to scholars and students at this charged moment in time?—was a subtext in Steven Nelson's eloquent keynote address. In a discussion of works by Houston Conwill, Moshekwa Langa, and Julie Mehretu, Nelson—a professor of African and African American art and director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles—considered how the use of mapping and geography by these artists has reshaped our understanding of African ancestry, notions of diaspora, and urban spaces. The weaving of past and present, continental Africa and the African diaspora, and art-historical analyses of traditional forms and new media exemplified the ongoing relevance of the art-historical discipline to understanding contemporary art and culture.
Session topics during the two-day conference ranged from "International Curatorial Practices" to "The Politics of Display in South Africa" and "Decolonizing Education (Parts I and II)" to "Postcolonialism beyond South Africa." Alison Kearney, a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, delivered a paper titled "Art history is dead—long live art history!" in which she explored the deeper meaning of decolonizing the university, beyond the tokenistic call for more black authors and artists. This decolonization will lead to "the inevitable end of art history" and a return to the work of art and an interdisciplinary approach as a "deliberate means of destabilizing a single disciplinary gaze." Fiona Siegenthaler, a senior lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Universität Basel, compared the call for decolonization in South Africa to the one in Uganda. Because the population in Uganda is overwhelmingly black, the call for decolonization has little to do with the racial profile of its teachers or students. Rather, the country is focused on rewriting curricula to be more relevant to their students' lives. Both countries, she stated, are skeptical about the hegemony of neoliberalism as a form of neocolonialism, on the one hand, and the need for access to international contemporary art, art institutions, art markets and funding organizations, on the other.
Several speakers explored alternative approaches to current studies in South African art history. Lize van Robbroeck, from the University of Stellenbosch, spoke about "settler colonial studies" and a multinational research project she is part of that examines settler life in five former British dominions: New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and the United States. The cultural, economic, and political circumstances in each of these colonies, in spite of particular dynamics in each, created comparable artistic products in the early to mid-twentieth century. The group's research suggests that the demands to establish national art canons in each of these locations led to a corresponding art-historical neglect of the striking cross-national similarities in the art produced by artists in each place.
A paper by Jackson Davidow, from the Department of Architecture at MIT, called on the discipline of art history to enlarge its approach to "traverse geographies, temporalities, environments, and communities." He made the case by discussing a global history of AIDS activist art, which must still be historically contextualized within local landscapes. His paper posed a crucial question to contemporary scholars: "How can global art histories work to decolonize and deconstruct the practices of our discipline rather than perpetuate its oppressive structuring?"
The conference ended with two papers from other humanities disciplines. The first one, by Brett Pyper from the University of the Witwatersrand, was about curating indigenous musical performances at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Leana van der Merwe, of the University of Pretoria, delivered the second, which was about an "African" feminist philosophy of art. Many of the conference papers will be published in an upcoming issue of De Arte, a peer-reviewed South African journal on visual arts, art history, and art criticism.
The SAVAH conference was not the only significant art event taking place in Johannesburg during my visit. The meetings coincided with a historic exhibition held downtown at the Standard Bank Gallery: the first-ever presentation on the African continent of paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse.
Juxtaposed against the topic of the conference—rethinking art history in a contemporary context—this major exhibition provided another bellwether of the state of art history in South Africa. The absence of Matisse exhibitions in the entire continent until now can partially be explained by practical reasons related to insufficient resources (shipping and insurance costs, museum-quality exhibition spaces, etc.), but it is also likely due, in part, to a reluctance or lack of interest on the part of European and American collections and African-based organizers to bring the artist's work to African audiences, in spite of Matisse's great interest in African art. During my visit to South Africa, I was struck by the lack of Western art displayed in the museums, with the exception of a small collection on view at the National Museum in Cape Town. Little access to this art is yet another challenge for professors of art history, and it must relate to the absence of Matisse exhibitions as well. Why should South Africans be interested in his work if, for many, he is an unknown, dead white European artist? There is an audience for Matisse in South Africa, including the well-educated professional class and an active, sophisticated group of collectors who support a growing number of commercial galleries. There is also a vibrant community of artists in South Africa whose work characteristically draws on indigenous artistic traditions as well as global art. In spite of the limited audience—or perhaps because of it—a Matisse exhibition in Johannesburg is an important event, a major step toward broadening an appreciation of global art and its history.
In Johannesburg, the Matisse exhibition was the fourth in a series of presentations at the Standard Bank Gallery of works by twentieth-century modern European masters. Previous projects focused on Mark Chagall, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. Through the curatorial efforts of Federico Freschi and Patrice Deparpe, director of the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, the exhibition Henri Matisse: Rhythm and Meaning was on view at the Standard Bank Gallery from July 13 to September 17, 2016. It included significant paintings, drawings, collages, and prints covering all the dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre, from his early Fauvist years to the paper cut-outs produced in the last years of his life. As Freschi noted in introductory remarks, "Of particular interest to South African audiences is the inspiration Matisse took from African and other non-Western art forms during the early 1900s while struggling to find a new visual language to express the particular experience of the new, modern age."
To open the SAVAH conference, a lecture, gallery talk and reception for the exhibition was held the evening before the conference proceedings began. Rosemary O'Neill presented a thought-provoking lecture titled, "Henri Matisse: Fluid Memory, Embodied Signs." Her paper considered aspects of Matisse's work in relation to the construct of memory, time, and intuitive expression, as well as the influence of the ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson. In discussing Jazz, O'Neill identified ways in which his Tahitian memories from 1930, as well as his own cultural context and artistic trajectory, resulted in the realization of the innovative process and expression soon evident in Matisse's late cut-outs; their importance in relation to a revival of the decorative impulse in postwar France; and their analogous relationship to poetic and musical phrasing—that is, a system of ensemble signs—as articulated in the writings of the poet Louis Aragon. Freschi's subsequent gallery talk elaborated on Matisse's exploration of African modes of representation in his early works; then, calling special attention to the series of prints that comprise the artist's book, Jazz, he emphasized the influence of his travel to Tahiti and the archipelago islands that appear in his use of patterns and rhythms, ephemeral materials, and a conceptual rather than perceptual approach to image making.
For an American visitor, the conference and exhibition provided much food for thought. It was impossible to ignore similarities in the dissatisfactions of university students in both countries. Like their South African counterparts, U.S. students are demanding a greater diversity of voices in the curriculum, on the faculty, and in the administrations of colleges and universities. In both countries, growing complaints about racial inequality and ties to apartheid or slavery have resulted in important, if mostly symbolic, changes. At about the same time that South African authorities were removing sculptures of Cecil Rhodes and suspending tuition hikes, leaders at Georgetown University announced efforts to make amends for its complicity in the nation's slave trade, including preferential admissions for descendents of slaves sold in 1838 by Maryland Jesuits to stave off the college's bankruptcy. Other schools, such as Brown University, Harvard University, Emory University, and the University of Virginia, have made their historical ties to slavery public and announced plans such as renaming buildings, creating racial justice programs, and erecting memorials acknowledging their ties to the transatlantic slave trade.
[Just last week in New York City, as part of an anti-Columbus Day protest, a diverse group of protesters, united under the banner "Decolonize This Place," demanded the removal of an equestrian sculpture of Theodore Roosevelt (flanked on either side by a Native American and an African American) at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History. The crowd included activists from the Black Lives Matter, Indigenous rights, and other labor and social justice movements. Calling it "the most visible symbol of white supremacy in New York," the group also called for "decolonizing of the museum," citing specific exhibits within the museum that highlight its history of white supremacy and colonialism. The demonstration was one of many across the country protesting the continued observance of Columbus Day, demanding that it be replaced by Indigenous People Day.]
From my vantage point as a participant at the SAVAH conference, the most striking similarity between the two countries was the paucity of people of color among art history professors and students. This was the great unspoken problem at the conference, evidenced by the prevalence of white faculty and students at a gathering focused on decolonization, art and activism, and keeping art history relevant. There were a small number of people of color at the conference among both speakers and attendees, but much like at a CAA Annual Conference, the dominant color was white. The answer is not, as some radical South African students demand, to rid the curriculum of all European content, or to replace all white professors with black ones; rather, it lies both in a multiplicity of voices and a questioning of assumptions rooted in the foundational texts of the field. Solving this problem may be the greatest challenge to art history's relevance, even as progress is made alongside the slow path to racial equality.
South Africa is sometimes called a Petri dish for studying race relations. Only twenty-two years away from government-enforced racism, the country's efforts in building a democratic, racially equal society offer many lessons about effective and less effective ways to accomplish radical change. The art historians I met in Johannesburg have created a vital community in which to study and struggle with these lessons. They are keeping the discipline of art history alive and relevant to the cultural and political challenges they face. But how they do it may provide important guidelines for scholars in the United States. In spite of numerous differences between the two countries—especially in scale, resources, and history—both South African and U.S. art historians are grounded in the same antecedents. How to retain the strengths of a discipline born in nineteenth-century Germany while stretching its geographic parameters to include all cultures is a challenge we all face.
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Well it seems like it's that time of year again. Although the weather has been surprisingly cool so far, summer in New York has arrived. There are several rules that over time one learns to adhere by, for example, don't eat at a hot bar after 2 PM, invest in a great pair of flats, and ALWAYS try to leave the city as much as possible during the summer.
Everyone has until 2PM on Friday, the official start of corporate summer hours, then the city inhabitants become Moses and the Israelites by getting the fuck out of dodge. It became evident to me pretty quickly that all the downsides of being in the City are just compounded during the summer. When the sweltering temperature starts rising, the congestion, the garbage and the noise is enough to make you want to hitch hike along the FDR just to get out of this god forsaken place. If financially possible one should always have travel plans or gather friends to head out to the Hamptons or the Shore or if you are slutty enough, start banging someone who has access to the Hamptons or the Shore...ew gross the Shore, forget I suggested that. With all the amazing things I can boast about life and the advantages of living in the city, summer is not at the top of the list. Once I get out for a weekend, I always start questioning what compels me to come back. This time of year is when we all have to honestly pay our dues. The reality is, New York has marketed itself with everything it is able to provide just as much as what it can't. That's how crowding assholes to elbow on roof top and paying $15 a cocktail all of the sudden becomes a privilege. During this time of the year, we must come face to face with our extreme lack of perspective, and it's typically pretty ugly when that happens. For instance, how is it that access to a tiny rooftop for fresh air is mark of high status when the rest of the country has acres in it's backyard?
I was recently granted the rare opportunity to leave the city to enjoy a weekend away in the countryside of Bucks County Pennsylvania. I was with a great group of friends and it was such a gift to experience the beauty and splendor of nature as if it were the first time. All those months and years in the city has numbed that spark and seeing an incandescent shower of fireflies in complete silence illuminated that familiarity. There are those life long New Yorkers who love it so much that they NEVER leave, I couldn't be one of them any more than I can see myself as an Alabama native. I want it all, my life in the city and the option to admit that it sucks, why not? Isn't that what makes me truly fit to be a metropolitan gal?
When I returned from the weekend. My senses were assailed with the riotous noise of traffic and the Puerto Rican Day parade...AAaarrghh Viva Boriqua but honestly it sucked balls, give me the country for a few more days. The city's voice during these moments are honest and brash, it doesn't pretend to be anything else. The questions that beckon it's inhabitants of why we stay here are perennial but honestly the answer is the one thing that binds us all.


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The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Odeon SHZE 401]
Label: Odeon
Catalog Number: SHZE 401
Country: Germany
Release Date: 1967-Jan-01
Format: Vinyl (LP)
First HÖR ZU release with white Odeon labels with golden border and red print. Different label catalog number with a horizontal red line and page numbers 1 & 2 as well as other minor differences that are visible. Gatefold Sleeve contains a "Sgt. Pepper Cut-Outs"-Sheet: ℗ 1967 © All lyrics copyright 1967 for the world by Northern Songs Ltd. England Printed in Germany Labels: Made in Germany
This is one of
437 Releases of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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- A1) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- A2) With A Little Help From My Friends
- A3) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- A4) Getting Better
- A5) Fixing A Hole
- A6) She's Leaving Home
- A7) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
- B1) Within You Without You
- B2) When I'm Sixty-Four
- B3) Lovely Rita
- B4) Good Morning Good Morning
- B5) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- B6) A Day In The Life
You might like the list: Magical Albums from 1967 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Definitive 200


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Getting Rid of Stocks
Why are there apps on the iOS that I can't delete even though I never use them? Why does Apple insist that I keep Tips and Stocks on my iPhone when I'd like nothing more than to delete them? For Cook the question seems a familiar one. "This is a more complex issue than it first appears," he says. "There are some apps that are linked to something else on the iPhone. If they were to be removed they might cause issues elsewhere on the phone. There are other apps that aren't like that. So over time, I think with the ones that aren't like that, we'll figure out a way [for you to remove them]. … It's not that we want to suck up your real estate; we're not motivated to do that. We want you to be happy. So I recognize that some people want to do this, and it's something we're looking at."
The best part of the whole article.
(I'd guess that the issue with removing Stocks, for example, is the Siri integration – the fact that it's included in the Today screen doesn't matter, since that's also available to 3rd-party developers, but nobody outside of Apple has Siri integration.)


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It's fair to say the fixture schedule has not been kind to Manchester United.
The Red Devils play again on Sunday less than 72 hours after their goalless draw against Manchester City.
To make matters worse for Jose Mourinho, injuries continue to wreak havoc with his squad. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo both suffered serious knee injuries in the Europa League against Anderlecht last week, and they will now be joined in the treatment room by Timothy Fosu-Mensah.
The 19-year-old came on in the 86th minute of the Manchester derby to shore up the defence following Marouane Fellaini's needless red card for a headbutt on Sergio Aguero.
As reported in the Mirror, it's feared Fosu-Mensah has dislocated his shoulder having fallen awkwardly.
Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, and James Wilson are also out, leaving Mourinho with a major headache for this weekend's game against Swansea.
The manager will no doubt be criticised for his defensive tactics at the Etihad, but at this stage of the season results are the only thing that matter – and he can hardly be blamed for encouraging his team to sit back given how many players he is without.
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Yesterday I had a phone call for N. It was from a testing company for which he read aloud the tests for those not capable of reading, for one reason (like blindness) or another. He did the reading very frequently because he was almost without any accent, and he was very patient. In return for doing this, the company made a donation to the Literacy Volunteers. A win-win set up. Anyway, the caller was very upset, so I guess she knew N pretty well. I suppose she never reads the obituaries in the newspaper, it was in there 4 times. I never knew before that the newspaper charges by the column inch for an obituary, any of them except the tiny little 2 sentence ones, and they want the money up front. And it is not a trivial charge, either. Anyway, perhaps that will be the last call. The carpet we ordered is in, and when Lowes called to schedule the installation, they asked for N instead of me, and here I thought we got that cleared up when we were at the store. But yesterday's call was sadder because they actually knew N.
The house is looking worse by the day, as I shift things around trying to find my belongings in the heaps. One more week, I think I will make it. At least my walk-in closet was not flooded, I can't imagine how I would have handled that. As it is, the biggest nuisance is that my bed is resting on cement blocks, to get the bed frame (with drawers) up off the floor to remove the wet carpeting and let the bed frame dry. Every time I roll over the bed goes **Scrape** and wobbles a bit. I want my bedroom back.
I ordered sand bags yesterday so we can make a barricade against water at the doorway into the house. I think we have done all we could to divert water away from the roll-up garage door, unless we make a bigger lip on the outer side of the door. I plan on having a new door for the one that goes into the house, once the money is there, with the "style" that is whatever will make the threshold water-tight. ( I could buy a lot of yarn for that amount of $.) And fortunately, all the yarn was either in plastic tubs, or on shelving up above the floor.
You can also see the white cat (named, White, how imaginative) and her very own door, which is shut and fits tightly when the weather threatens.
Ah well, this too will pass.
"For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction."


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Oooo where to start! The past few days have been a bit rough for me. Trying hard to shake some comments, but you know...it's really hard to do when the enemy uses these people to attack insecurities.
I am being humbled.
I was able to talk to my best friend and my mom about it which really helped a lot. I keep feeling led to do something but it's not entirely clear to me as to what...(hmmmmm)
So I had a surprisingly relaxing weekend and I am very happy about that! Friday night Joey had to tutor at Starbucks so I went with him to read a book (yea...right). I didn't read but probably two pages. Instead I talked with my best friend from back home and looked at Facebook about every two seconds on my iPad. DISTRACTION!
After Joey was finished we had a mini (late) date night dinner at a small pizza place. We had driven by this place over and over again always mentioning to each other that we wanted to try it. Well we finally did! This was AMAZING pizza and I have to recommend it. If you are ever in town, you need to try Sweet Tomatoes Pizzeria. This place is wayyyy beyond just your average pizza :)
I was able to get some chores around the apartment done on Saturday morning before going with Joey again. I actually went to a few stores to look around for about two hours while Joey did some more work. We then went into Orlando for some shopping at LUSH! I picked up a few bath bombs, bubble bars, and some soap. I have a LUSH haul video and blog post coming soon :)
Sunday was then a lazy day! It was Mother's Day so I talked to my mom a bit and also Skyped with my sister because she just picked up her new puppy...Oliver. He is too cute! I hope Rebel and Oliver get along when we are home! The rest of the day was just relaxing... I can't tell you how nice it is to just keep your feet up all day.
So that was my weekend...Did y'all do anything fun?
Soooo the highlight of my weekend was my Birchbox coming in the mail! YAY! Was so excited... (I have mentioned it before... I have a product problem). I opened it on video so here is the link. Then I wanted to include it here on my blog :)
The Birchbox theme this week was Gossip Girl because the season finale is tonight actually and they included samples inspired by the series as well as Manhattan's chicest events.
This was the box sleeve.
Before I opened it :)
Drum roll pleeeeeaaaassssseeee!
The first product is the Dr. Jart+ Waterfuse BB Cream.
I actually freaked out about this because I have wanted to try the Dr. Jart BB Cream. I don't normally purchase BB Creams but I have wanted to. This was a very small sample size but I was able to try it yesterday and it was great. The Dr. Jart+ Waterfuse BB cream is a four-in-one moisturizer, serum, sunscreen, and skin- perfecting tint. So it is like a tinted moisturizer. It feels very good on your skin, but it smells a bit too much like sunscreen in my opinion.
The full size pricing for this is $32.
The second product is Color club Nail Polish in Disco Nap.
This is sort of hard to see (sorry about that). But this Color Club Nail Polish that was included came in the color Disco Nap. This is a metallic gold polish that is supposed to look glam day or night (according to the little card they send along). I have not tried this yet, I will before the next Birchbox open...I will do a review on May's box. BUTTT, I did in my video show you the color more in depth. I am not really a fan of bright or metallic nail polish personally but I am excited to try it nonetheless.
The full size bottle is priced at $8.
The third product sample was Kerastase Cristalliste Lumiere Liquide (wait...what...?).
The name of this gave my trouble in my video...So I'm sorry that I do not pronounce this correctly. But this sample (very, very small for my hair...) is to be smoothed through they dry strands of your hair to add lightweight gorgeous shine. I have very dry hair but I am excited to try this on the ends of my hair to give them some pick up. I'm not sure how this will work on curly hair like mine, but I will let you know :)
The full size product is priced at $42.
The last of the four main samples is the Stila Sparkle Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner.
This was a pretty big size for a sample. I am a boring eye liner person, I usually stick with black and grays however this is blue with sparkles! It actually looks really pretty and would look good with a more done up eye makeup application. The card says, this pearly shimmer meets intense pigment in this lasting liner. Better yet, the pen-like wand makes wiggle-free application a breeze. (hmmmm...sounds GREAT) I swatch this on the video and it looks very pretty...they are not lying when they say this is long last because I had to RUB it off my hand.
The full size of this eye liner is $22.
They also included some extras and I'm just going to let them for you.
Kerastase Cristalliste Bain Cristal: Shampoo that removes oil from roots while leaving ends healthy and soft. (Full Size, $36)
Kerastase Cristalliste Lait Cristal: Hydrating aloe rich conditioner seals in shine and moisture. (Full size, $39)
Notecards: This was an example of some modern stationary with an xoxo (Gossip Girl themed) on the front. (A set of 12 cost about $10)
Welp...that is my blog post for today! Tomorrow is LUSH! Yummmmmmmy :)
Have a great Monday!


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The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Sub-committee on International Relations (IR) Sub-committee has met with Minister of Regional Cooperation of the State of Israel, Mr. Tzachi Hanegbi.
The meeting which took place at the ANC's Head offices in Johannesburg on Monday, was held at the request of Minister Hanegbi's office. The delegation was received by Comrade Edna Molewa, Chairperson of the International Relations Sub-Committee together with members of the Sub-Committee.
Minister Hanegbi was accompanied by the ambassador of Israel to South Africa, Mr. Lior Keinan as well as representatives from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBOD).
The ANC regularly receives meeting requests from members of the diplomatic community based in South Africa.
Yesterday's meeting formed part of the regular engagement by the ANC and its subcommittees with a wide range of stakeholders, as well as forming part of party-to-party engagement.
The International Relations Sub-Committee has this year alone met with representatives and delegations from Venezuela, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Cuba, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Colombia, Vietnam, the People's Republic of China and Liberia. The Sub-Committee has also met with various groupings such as the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) as well as the European Union.
A number of issues were discussed, including a recommendation of the recently held National Policy Conference (NPC) relating to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict: namely the downgrading of South Africa's embassy in Israel. The Subcommittee has informed the delegation that the recommendation stands as coming from NPC and that a decision in this regard would be taken at the ANC's upcoming National Conference in December.
The International Relations subcommittee further reiterated the ANC and its Alliance's commitment to the Two State solution and emphasized that urgent steps should be taken to resume talks between both sides. It is in the interests of both Palestinians and Israelis that this protracted conflict should come to an end and a lasting solution found.
The ANC remains committed to playing a constructive role in the Middle East peace process and within the international relations arena in general; and as such views regular engagement with actors across the political spectrum as key to its efforts.


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Mont de Coeuve bike (route no. 721)
"What fun to ride a mountain bike through the Ajoie! Rolling hills with gentle ascents, small forests and lots of cultivated fields. Beautiful old washhouses in the village of Coeuve, idyllic landscapes with orchards. What a nice surprise to be able to observe some storks near the village of Damphreux. At the end of our tour we stop at the Restaurant du Mont de Coeuve. In the evening we visit the old city of Porrentruy."
Denis, Marc, Séverine and Muriel
Route: Porrentruy (Station) - Coeuve - Les Pâles /Montignez - Sur le Mont de Coeuve - Pont d'Able - Porrentruy (Station)
Distance: 23 km
Gradient: 420 m
Easy. One climb before Le Mont de Coeuve.
Good to know
- It is possible to take a bus in Porrentruy, Coeuve and Sur le Mont de Coeuve.
- Restaurants in Coeuve or Sur le Mont de Coeuve.
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Daddy Trailer (1991)
23 October 1991 Drama, Romance, TV Movie 100 mins
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. Oliver unsuccessfully tries to save his marriage, until Sarah announces that she is seeing someone else. The children start acting out as a reaction and life is complicated by the death of Oliver's mother and accepts a job in L.A. where he falls in love with Charlotte Sampson. Life again challenges Oliver when Charlotte is offered her dream job on Broadway.
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New Years always seems to see the start of health kicks and detoxes; juices and cleanses. But for once why not let's throw that to the road side and celebrate the start of a New Year with cake! In the spirit of healthy eating let's talk vegan muffins. For those of you who don't know about vegan muffins, I'm pretty sure the dictionary's definition is that you can eat four times as many as a normal muffin and they're still darn good for you. For real. These muffins are full off health boosting ginger, metabolism kicking coffee, and omega packed rapeseed oil. What more do I need to say for you to want to make these light, delicate and insanely moreish muffins? So let's carry on the year as we mean to begin, filled with cake!
These muffins are the simplest thing to make. No creaming butter and sugar. No slowly adding eggs and flour. Three simple steps and we are in vegan muffin heaven. To begin we chuck all our dry ingredients into the bowl and give it a good mix. Easy so far right?
Next wet meets dry and we have ourselves another stirring party. Then the magic happens – we add the vinegar and mix like crazy to help activate the baking soda till we get a bubbling, chocolate flecked batter. Bubbles…
Once we have our gorgeous batter is time to fill our muffin trays. Fill these baby's up high even though they'll rise a load in the oven. As we're not topping with a frosting the bigger the better. Then it's orange syrup time.
Drenched in orange syrup and topped with caramelised orange peel, we have gorgeous fluffy muffins that you would never believe were vegan. Don't get me wrong I love my butter but these little joys might have just made me a convert.
Ingredients (makes 24 large muffins)
Dry ingredients
3 cups all-purpose (plain) flour
2 cups golden caster sugar
2/3 cup dark chocolate powder, or other unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
Wet Ingredients
1 2/3 cups cold fresh brewed coffee
1 cup rapeseed oil, or another form of vegetable oil if preferred
3 tablespoons orange zest
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons freshly grated ginger
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
Orange sugar syrup
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup golden caster sugar
- Pre-heat oven to 350F (190c). Line two muffin trays. Put on 'Perdido' by Duke Ellington, preferably.
- Combine all of the dry ingredients in a bowl and stir well to combine.
- Add all of the wet ingredients, up unto the vinegar, and mix well to combine all the ingredients.
- Add the vinegar and whisk together, the mixture will turn a slightly paler colour and once the baking soda and vinegar have reacted together fully, the colour will turn back to a chocolate dark brown.
- Pour the mixture into the muffin linings and bake for 15-20mins, checking after 15.
- Whilst the muffins cook, place all of the orange sugar syrup ingredients in a pan and gently heat until the sugar has dissolved.
- Once the muffins are cooked, bring them out of the oven and leave to cool for 5 mins. Gently poke holes in the top of the muffins while still warm and generously brush over the warm orange sugar syrup. I like to do 2-3 coats of the sugar syrup to ensure the orange syrup is fully soaked in.


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Today, Uncle Jeff got tickets for us to the Townsquare Sportsman's Expo at the Shreveport Convention Center. Everyone had a great time looking at the boats, ATVs, travel trailers, and other great vendors in the convention center. But hands down, the highlight of the day for William, Audrey, and Amelia was the portable trout stream and fishing put on by Lawton's Trout Farm. They had been talking about it all morning in anticipation to going fishing.
Audrey was very attentive when fishing and she did not want any of my help. She wanted to do it herself.
The first person to "catch" a fish was Audrey. As you can see, she was very excited, as was the fish as it wiggled around on the fishing line.
William soon followed with "catching" a fish. Coincidentally, the fish looked exactly the same as Audrey's catch and was the same size, too.
The last one to catch the trout was Amelia. Eerily, the trout looked identical to the two previously caught. We might need to call in the X-Files!
Amelia really liked the fish and she was the only one brave enough to touch it. Way to go, Amelia!
After catching trout, William drove Audrey and Amelia in his newly purchased Can-Am Spyder. What a ladies' man!
I would like to thank Jesse Lawton of Lawton's Trout Farm. He was really good with the kids and made sure that they had a great time.
So, what are you thoughts? Please leave a comment (or two) below! Thanks!
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