Didn’t make it to the College Art Association’s 96th annual confab, held February 20-23 in Dallas? Perhaps you’re just wondering what’s on the minds of art historians these days. The Art History Newsletter extracts “a few choice bits” from the collected abstracts of papers presented at the gathering.
My favorite, which describes a paper prepared by Jessica Priebe of the University of Sydney: “At his death François Boucher had more than fifteen hundred shells in his collection. Yet it was not the sheer number of assembled objects that his conchological colleagues admired.”
(Image by Flickr user yeowatzup. Posted under a Creative Commons license.)
