October 21, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The conference, "The Appearance" is hosted by the Americas Society and the Asia Society will be in-person Oct 29 in New York. the conference was organized in collaboration with the current exhibition, "The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean".
Dr. Alvarez will be one of the roundtable presenters from 3:30-5:00 at the Asia Society (725 Park Ave) https://www.as-coa.org/events/appearance-conference-presented-americas-s...
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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
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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July 31, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof. Neumeier's work during her Society of Architectural Historians Research Fellowship "Exploring Islamic Architecture in American Imagination" can be found here: click here
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July 10, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Alpesh's article, "Forever Becoming: Teaching “Transgender Studies Meets Art History” and Theorizing Trans Joy" was based on the course he taught in Fall 2022. It is available as open-access in Arts. 2024; 13(4):115. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040115
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June 4, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Tyler Glass Adjunct Professor Judith Schaechter was recently profiled by WHYY News about her role as the current artist-in-residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, which explores the biological basis of aesthetic experiences. Schaechter's residency project is a stained-glass dome that speaks to the concept of biophilia— the human tendency to seek deep connections with nature. Read more.
Image: Judith Schaechter and her biophilic dome project in progress. Photo credit: Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
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