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    April 4, 2025

    Prof. Alpesh Patel to give talk at the Kinomuzeum in Warsaw

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Nécessité concert + ENDLESS screening + talk with Alpesh Kantilal Patel06.04.2025 18:00KINOMUZEUM invites you to a Nécessité light concert by Stefan Węgłowski, a screening of the film Endless (dir. Wojciech Puś), and a conversation with film director conducted by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, in which Magdalena Wawrzyńczak, Pat Dudek, Stefan Węgłowski i Jorge Benavideswill take part. The conversation will be in English. Read More

    March 31, 2025

    Prof. Erin Pauwels to give Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchbag Seminar

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    The virtual lecture is Thursday, April 3, 12–1 PM ETIn her role as Terra Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of American Art, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Pauwels will be lecturing on her latest research, "Unsettled Ground: Richard Throssel’s Photographic Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation". Read More

    February 4, 2025

    Tyler Art History at CAA 2025!

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Tyler is being well represented, by students and faculty at the CAA 2025 Annual Meeting. Congratulations to all!-Feb 12 (Wednesday)Li Machado (PhD candidate) is a discussant in the panel, "The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*Prof Leah Modigliani is presenting, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure” in the session Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes and the Urbanocene·Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship” in the session Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages-Feb 13 (Thursday) Read More

    February 4, 2025

    Alpesh Patel awarded grants and appointed on editorial committee

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Alpesh has received two research grants for his book project, which explores the conceptual overlaps among glass as a material, “trans” as a prefix, and decolonial theories: a British Paul Mellon Centre research grant to study the glass works (some of which incorporate lethal gas) of British-Pakistani Hamad Bhutt, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s, and a Danish Arts Foundation research grant to meet artists who take a decolonial thematic approach to glassblowing and other artmaking practices. Alpesh is currently on leave working on this book project. And, Alpesh was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee for Getty Research Journal. Read More

    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

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