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February 4, 2025

Tyler Art History at CAA 2025!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tyler is being well represented, by students and faculty at the CAA 2025 Annual Meeting. Congratulations to all!-Feb 12 (Wednesday)Li Machado (PhD candidate) is a discussant in the panel, "The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*Prof Leah Modigliani is presenting, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure” in the session Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes and the Urbanocene·Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship” in the session Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages-Feb 13 (Thursday) Read More

February 4, 2025

Alpesh Patel awarded grants and appointed on editorial committee

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Alpesh has received two research grants for his book project, which explores the conceptual overlaps among glass as a material, “trans” as a prefix, and decolonial theories: a British Paul Mellon Centre research grant to study the glass works (some of which incorporate lethal gas) of British-Pakistani Hamad Bhutt, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s, and a Danish Arts Foundation research grant to meet artists who take a decolonial thematic approach to glassblowing and other artmaking practices. Alpesh is currently on leave working on this book project. And, Alpesh was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee for Getty Research Journal. Read More