November 6, 2023
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Tyler Art History graduate student Hatice Köroglu Çam’s research is at the center of a recent Insider article about ongoing disagreement over the attribution of a 16th century marble statue of the Greek god Pan. Çam, a first-year PhD student whose work focuses on Italian Renaissance art, argues that the statue was created by one of the most renowned artists of the Western canon: Michelangelo.
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November 2, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Assistant Professor—Art and Visual Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora
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 Assistant Professor rank
specializing in the Art and Visual Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora, to start fall 2024.
Though the chronological parameters of research are flexible, the committee welcomes
applicants whose teaching and scholarship are centered on cross-cultural encounters and
exchanges—examining the ways in which art is produced and circulates through networks of
trade and immigration, and how its discourse is formed by the dynamics of race, colonialism,
post-colonialism, and globalization. We are especially interested in candidates who can
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November 1, 2023
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-...
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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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