Art History

    November 1, 2023

    Emma Holter (PhD student) to take masterclass at the Courtauld

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Emma P. Holter, a second-year PhD student and University Fellow, will attend a masterclass in Venetian drawings in the Prints Department at the Courtauld Gallery in London this November. The masterclass will be offered by renowned expert Dr. Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum) in conjunction with the Courtauld Gallery's current exhibition "La Serennissima: Drawing in 18th-century Venice" https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/la-serenissima-drawing-in-18th-century-... Read More

    October 31, 2023

    Art History Guild celebrates Halloween 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. Read More

    October 24, 2023

    Sarina Miller edits new book

    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. Read More

    October 17, 2023

    Art History co-sponsors talk: Gardens of Commemoration, from Rome to Philadelphia

    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. Read More

    October 16, 2023

    Tyler Professor Curates Exhibition "Form and Formless" for UrbanGlass

    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. Read More

    October 11, 2023

    Jessica Braum delivers paper at Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference

    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). Read More

    October 10, 2023

    Emily Neumeier receives collaborative NEH grant

    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. Read More

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