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November 2, 2023

Position open: full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank specializing in the Art and Visual Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora

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 Read More

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

Guild officers in Halloween costumes
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

poster for talk
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

Zoom screen shot of Jessica Braum delivering her lecture
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

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