October 31, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Art History Guild threw a great party with games and prizes and pizza! Pictured here is Kamryn Narducci (Social Events Organizer) as Keith Haring, Gabby (V-P) as Maurizio Catalan's Banana Duct Taped to a Wall, Luke Pelcher (Pres) as Vincent, Norah Sheehan as last-minute costume but fan of the Mary Wallopers, and cowgirl Sophia Thome.
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October 24, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Sarina Miller's (Adjunct Instructor, MA and BA alum) book, Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design has just come out through Vernon Press (https://vernonpress.com/book/1700). The chapters, one of which was authored by Christa DiMarco (PhD 2015, MA 2007), explore the ways in which visual and physical space have been designed and experienced in different cultures. This book amplifies the significance of space as a design element by examining its implications in various contexts through a global perspective of art and design.
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October 17, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Victoria Austen, the Robert Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow in Innovation in the Humanities and Classics at Carleton College, will be lecturing on gardens, which have come to be understood as a powerful setting in which societies embed a series of beliefs, myths and fictions. This talk will highlight the use of garden space in acts of commemoration form two seemingly disparate cultural and temporal contexts - the Mausoleum of Augustus and the Founder's Garden at Temple University - and explore how an ancient Roman tomb, reimagined in the sixteenth-century as a sculpture garden, can help us consider the ways in which the Founder's Garden mediates between past and present, real and imaginary, naturla and monumental.
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October 16, 2023
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Glass is classified as neither a solid nor liquid— rather, it fluctuates between these states of matter. This scientific phenomenon was a point of inspiration for Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, a new exhibition curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Tyler’s Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Art, at the Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, New York.As Patel explained, the exhibition “meditates on the slipperiness rather than the fixity of identity categories” such as gender, sexuality, nationality, and race. In curating Form and Formless, he sought to foreground works that complicate the notion of identity as something that is singular and static.
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October 11, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Jessica Braum delivered her paper "Plurilocal Subjectivity: Kim Lim’s Transnational Praxis and Cosmopolitan Imagination" on Saturday, September 30, as part of the "Conceptualizing Trans-Asia" double panel co-organized by Alpesh Patel and Jane Chin Davidson for the annual conference of the international organization Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP).
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October 10, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emily is on the team of six international scholars that received an NEH Collaborative Research Grant of $249,000. The three-year project is titled, "Visualizing Local Christian Communities in Muslim Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the 19th and 20th Centuries". The team will use multi-lingual sources to reconstruct the demography and topography of Istanbul's Greek Orthodox communities, producing articles, podcasts, interactive maps, data visualizations, and virtual and in-person exhibitions. As one of the key collaborators on the project, Emily will be investigating the built environment and architecture of these minority communities in one of the world's largest and most diverse cities. The project will be housed at UC Berkeley.
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October 10, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Megan presented the paper "Rupturing 'White Time' in the Museum: When Contemporary Artists Invoke Ancestors to Repair Colonial Ontologies" at ASAP 14 in Seattle. The conference theme - Arts of Fugitivity - addressed strategies of survival and imagination as concepts, practices, and methods in contemporary art and culture.
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October 5, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a terrific group of scholars presenting at the annual SECAC conference this month:Gillian Yee (PhD student): “Life, Death, and Everything in Between: Peter Hujar’s Capuchin Catacomb Portraits” (also session chair)Brittany Rubin (PhD student): “’All the Tricks of Aretin[o]’: The Affective Lives of Samuel Pepys’ Reproductive Portrait Collection”Joseph Kopta (Asst. Prof. of Instruction): “The Trebizond Alexander Romance and Representations of Kingship” Noah Randolph (PhD candidate): “Atop the Pedestal: Paula Wilson’s ‘Living Monument’”Ali Printz (PhD candidate): “Upending the Plantationocene: The Coal Sculptures of Charles Edgar Patience”
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