January 31, 2023
Author: Emily Herbein
Tyler Art History Associate Professor Alpesh Kantilal Patel has been chosen as the 2023 Curator-at-Large at UrbanGlass, a Brooklyn, NY nonprofit that fosters experimentation and advances the use and critical understanding of glass as a creative medium. He will organize four exhibitions under the theme, “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans Subjectivity.”
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December 2, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Durusu-Tanrıöver will be giving a lecture, "Kıyısız? Hitit İmparatorluğu ve Geç Tunç Çağı'nda Akdeniz Ticaret Ağları/The Hittite Empire and Late Bronze Age Maritime Mediterranean Trade Networks" in the conference Aquatic Worlds of Anatolia at the 17th International ANAMED Symposium hossted by Koç University, Istanbul, Dec 8-9 2022.
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December 2, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Durusu-Tanrıöver's talk, "One King to Rule Them All: Royal Singularity and Divine Plurality in Hittite Art" will be given as an online lecture organized by the ARWA Art History & Visual Studies Liaison Group.
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November 17, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Professor of Sculpture Karyn Olivier recently unveiled her commission for the Newark Liberty International Airport, two stacks of 17 floating metallic rings that dangle 52 feet in the air. This is Olivier's largest installation to date. The sculptures, titled Approach, feature "panoramic photographs of New Jersey imprinted on the top and bottom of each flat circle, ranging in diameter from 5 to 19 feet. The fluid, telescoping shape of the sculptures, in opposite yin-yang configurations, seem to compress and expand as they are circumnavigated. Fragmented views of New Jersey’s skylines, shipping ports, salt marshes and infrastructure, like its infamous turnpike, conflate and realign in dizzying mosaics," New York Times writer Hilarie M. Sheets describes.
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October 25, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Susan Moore, Professor Emerita of Painting, sadly passed away on September 29. Moore first came to Tyler in 1979, taught briefly at Washington University in St. Louis, and then returned to Tyler and taught at Temple Rome, Elkins Park, and Main Campus until her retirement in 2020. Dean Susan Cahan remembers Moore as a “beloved painting and drawing professor who stretched her students to grow in ways they didn’t expect, truly embodying the Tyler mission to encourage students to exceed their own expectations.”
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October 21, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The talk, "Decentering Empire: Ways of Being Hittite in Late Bronze Age Anatolia" will be presented at 4:30 on Nov 11, 2022 in person, at the Classics Colloquium of Bryn Mawr Collegem Carpenter Library B21,
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October 18, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
At the annual meeting, a gathering of archaeologists, art historians, philologists, epigraphers and historians interested in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, Dr. Muge Durusu will be presenting a paper, "Curating the Past: Cities and Ancestral Nostalgia in the Hittite Empire" (co-authored by N. Ilgi Gercek) at the in-person meeting on November 17. Dr. Jane DeRose Evans has organized and will be moderating a workshop, "Cultural Heritage, Contested Heritage: A Workshop Organized by the ASOR Cultural Heritage Committee", of which she is the committee chair. This workshop will take place at the virtual section of the ASOR meetings, October 20.
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