Faculty News

    December 12, 2024

    Art History students and faculty presenting at CAA meetings!

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Tyler Art History is being represented by an excellent group of students and faculty at the CAA Annual Meetings, Feb 12-15 2025. The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*: · Discussant: Li Machado (PhD candidate)Prof. Leah Modigliani, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure”Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate), “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship”Reimagining British Art: The Contributions of Transnational Artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s· Chair: Jessica Braum (PhD candidate) Read More

    December 10, 2024

    Erin Pauwels publishes an essay on contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Pauwels article, "Kay WalkingStick’s Layered Landscapes and Critical Stewardship in American Art History", is featured in a special section of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art called "American Artists x American Symbols" that considers how artists working with nationalist symbols teach us to think critically and expansively about the history of art in the Americas.   Read More

    October 21, 2024

    Dr. Mariola Alvarez to speak at a conference

    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... Read More

    September 16, 2024

    Tyler Faculty Co-Teach Course on São Paulo’s Art and Architecture  

    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.      Read More

    September 3, 2024

    Associate Professor Philip Glahn Publishes New Book on Visionary Art Collective

    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. Read More

    August 30, 2024

    Professor Joseph Kopta Co-organizes Sponsored Panel at the International Medieval Congress

    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. Read More

    August 27, 2024

    Dr. Alpesh Patel curates an exhibition at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota

    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. Read More

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