Blog Archive

October 11, 2024

Remembering Gerda Panofsky-Soergel

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Tyler Professor Emerita Gerda Panofsky-Soergel was a pixie of a woman with a prodigious intellect that earned her widespread recognition as one of the 20th century scholars who helped define the study of Italian art of the 15th to 17th centuries.Beloved by her students and colleagues alike, she was slight and wiry, with a soft voice—all of which belied her muscled, driven, and courageous scholarship in art history. Her students remember her as dedicated, humble, energetic, and robust of spirit. Panofsky-Soergel, Professor Emerita in the Art History Department, passed away in September at the age of 95.    Read More

October 10, 2024

Graduate Admissions Information - Virtual Open House

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Meet with representatives from our architecture, art education, art history, city and regional planning, design and illustration, landscape architecture and studio art graduate degree programs.Sign up to attend one or more hour-long information sessions via Zoom.Join a general Graduate Application Webinar on Monday, November 4 at 10 a.m. |  register here  For the Art History specific Virtual Open House : Read More

October 3, 2024

Professor's Exhibition Critiques Health Care System Through Real Illness

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Tyler Professor Pepón Osorio has been celebrated worldwide for his provocative and immersive large-scale, multimedia installations that explore complex, systemic problems in American life through the lived experience of others. But his current exhibition Convalescence, now on view in the heart of Thomas Jefferson University’s medical center, is the first time he has used his personal story – of cancer diagnosis and treatment – to shine a light on inherent health and health care inequities in the United States. Read More