Tyler Blog

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

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March 19, 2025

Emma P. Holter (PhD candidate) awarded Kress Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma has been awarded the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellowship hosted at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Warburg Institute! As a Kress Fellow, Emma will research and write her doctoral dissertation "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice," which is advised by Dr. Tracy E. Cooper. This highly competitive fellowship, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will offer Emma the opportunity to conduct object-based and archival research on 15th- and 16th-century Venetian drawings, underdrawings, and monochromatic paintings throughout museum collections in the UK and Europe.  Read More

March 10, 2025

Emma Holter (PhD candidate) interns at the Princeton University Art Museum

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma has been awarded the graduate summer internship in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. She will be assisting the curatorial team with provenance research, and with the organization of upcoming collection rotations and special exhibitions, in advance of the museum's reopening in the autumn of 2025. 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