September 16, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
In the Fall 2024 semester, Tyler faculty members Mariola Alvarez and Pablo Meninato are co-teaching a seminar that explores artistic and architectural developments that have taken place in the largest city in Latin America – São Paulo, Brazil – from the early 20th century through the present day.
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September 3, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Philip Glahn, Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies at Tyler, has coauthored a new book about Mobile Image, a pioneering new media art collective founded in 1977 by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz. The Future is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image (The MIT Press, 2024), coauthored with Cary Levine, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, highlights the collective's prescient vision, as well as its continued importance and resonance.
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August 30, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Assistant Professor of Instruction Joseph Kopta co-organized, together with Dr. Ugo Mondini, a panel at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds, UK. The session, "Breaking Points: Reaction to Change in Byzantine Art & Literature, 10th—13th c. CE" investigated the Congress theme of "Crisis" from the perspective of the Byzantine world. The panel was sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, and took place on July 3, 2024. Kopta also presented a paper, "When the Ink Runs Dry: Limitations as Opportunity in Middle Byzantine Manuscript Production," the subject of his ongoing book project.
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August 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Tyler's commitment to his students and his dedication to the study of art history is summed up in his teaching statement: "By bringing passion and enthusiasm every day to my classroom, and by being genuinely invested in my students’ education and their unique interests, I lead by example and show my students the excitement and the value that art history provides in offering new or different perspectives with which to view and experience the world." The faculty of the Art History Department were gratified to see this passion in his creative syllabi and assignments and in the quality of the work done by his students. Congratulations, Tyler, on a job well done!
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August 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The exhibition, “Queer Geographies”, coincided with the 8th anniversary of the Orlando, Florida shootings at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Pulse. The artist Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo and community members made “disco mosaic rocks”—extant rocks from the park adorned with shards of a disco mosaic ball. The stones were stacked up like a “cairn” (a manmade marker for burial) in the gallery (see picture). Each rock was eventually returned to the park at the end of the show.Patel refers to this piece as “galactic queerness” because the pile of rocks was exhibited in a room set up to mimic stars in the sky.
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August 26, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Department of Art History in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Associate Professor or Professor rank specializing in the Art and Visual Culture of the African Diaspora, to start fall 2025.
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August 24, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
You can read the article, co-authored with Nyugen E. Smith, "World-building and Futurity through Collaboration in Caribbean Diasporic Art Practices: A Conversation" in Art Journal Open 2024 here: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=18982
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