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Metal Ideologies
Art and Technology in the Coastal Dynasties of Ancient Peru
Alicia Boswell
Assistant Professor in History of Art and Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (2023-2024)
POSTPONED
The Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 301
Please join us in congratulating Lynden Miller on receiving this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award, presented annually to the most deserving adjunct instructors across all of CAS. Our department has been lucky to be home to two consecutive winners of this award, as Lynden joins Holly Haff (2023) in earning the well-deserved recognition.
Our URDS program has been very fortunate to have had Lynden as an adjunct faculty member for the past sixteen years. During this time, she has taught a number of popular Special Topics courses for us, with a focus on parks: most notably, The Role of Well-Designed Public Open Space in the City; Creating Successful and Sustainable Public Space; and Parks, Plants, and People. I hope that Lynden will continue teaching our students for many more years to come.
Many, many thanks to all of our alumni who sent in updates for this semester’s “Alumni News” blogpost. Hearty and heartfelt congratulations on all of your achievements, activities, and milestones. We hope to hear from more of you for our next “Alumni News” round-up, which we’ll post sometime in fall 2024. Great thanks as always go to departmental faculty Jon Ritter, Mosette Broderick, Carol Krinsky, and Dennis Geronimus for their contributions; to our Administrative Aide Clara Reed for sending out the call; and to our Manager Peggy Coon for publishing this blogpost.
Johannes Nathan (B.A. Art History ‘87; M.A. Courtauld Institute of Art, Ph.D. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, ‘95) published a letter in the May 2023 number of the Burlington Magazine outlining the need for aid to Ukraine’s cultural institutions, an issue on which he has been working actively. Johannes lives with his wife Antoinette in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. An art dealer, his firm Nathan Fine Arts has offices in Potsdam and Zurich.
Kathryn Gettles-Atwa (B.A. Art History ‘94; M.A. Art History, Institute of Fine Arts ‘97) is Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She is now participating in Pelham Community Rowing Association’s Master’s Program. “In February I participated in the St. Valentine’s Day Indoor Regatta and placed second in my age group,” reports Kathryn.
Beth Citron (B.A. Art History ‘02; Ph.D. History of Art, University of Pennsylvania ‘09) began a new role as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Asian and Asian Diaspora Art at Asia Society on March 18. “This will complement my ongoing role as Consulting Editor of STIRworld and ongoing curatorial projects,” reports Beth. As the announcement on the Asia Society’s website notes, Beth will work closely with the director of the Asia Society “to plan and implement…[the] Museum’s modern and contemporary art exhibitions, as well as build the Museum’s contemporary art collection, initiated in 2003”; further information here.
In February of this year Julia Perratore (B.A. Art History ‘03; Ph.D. History of Art, University of Pennsylvania ‘12), who is Assistant Curator of Medieval Art at The Met Cloisters, delivered a lecture titled “Cloister in the Wilderness: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert” in the Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, a lecture series sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Art History & Archaeology.
Christian J. Zaino, M.D. (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ‘06; MED ‘10) and his wife Joanna Rose welcomed Tommaso Paul into the world on January 19, 2024. Tommaso was born at Morristown Medical Center weighing 7 lbs and 8 oz and measuring 21 inches.
Baby’s first name was a selection by his parents whereas his middle name is to honor his late maternal uncle, Paul Genco. He shares a birthday with his maternal great grandfather, Giuseppe Genco. Mom and baby are well. Dad is very proud. Older brother Alessio is thrilled.
Larisa Grollemond (B.A. Art History ‘07; Ph.D. History of Art, University of Pennsylvania ‘16), Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, has curated two recent exhibitions: Graphic Design in the Middle Ages in collaboration with 2022-2023 Graduate Intern Sam Truman, and most recently, Blood: Medieval/Modern, which juxtaposes medieval manuscript illumination with work by modern and contemporary artists.
Katelin Kutchko (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies, Studio Art minor ‘10) writes, “I have some fun news to share! I recently got engaged to my fiancé Andrew Gleason. He proposed at the TWA hotel, my favorite place in the city. I first learned about Eero Saarinen and the TWA Flight Center back in my “Modern Architecture” class at NYU with Professor Carol Krinsky. I have always loved the building and am so happy it has been preserved and redeveloped into the TWA hotel since my time at NYU!”
Quemuel Arroyo (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ‘12; M.P.A. Wagner ‘20) has been recognized with a New York State legislative resolution for contributions to New Yorkers as a Dominican-American advocate for the disability community. The honor was bestowed by State Senator Luis R. Sepúlveda to help mark the 180th anniversary of the independence of the Dominican Republic, February 29. Arroyo will personally deliver a New York State Senate resolution of friendship and cooperation to the Dominican Senate. Further information here.
Arroyo also been named a young alumni trustee of NYU.
Riad Kherdeen (B.A. Art History, Chemistry minor ‘13; M.A. Institute of Fine Arts ‘16; Ph.D. candidate History of Art, University of California, Berkeley) sends this news: “I’m overjoyed to report that I have landed the Bridge to the Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Art History Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. I will be starting there in the fall. This also means that I am wrapping up my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and graduating next month. My dissertation, titled “Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco’s Agadir Earthquake (1960),” has been advised by Professor Anneka Lenssen; Professors Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sugata Ray, and Stefania Pandolfo have served on dissertation committee. My yearlong fellowship at the Met ends in August, and then I will ship out to Chicago, fifteen years after I first stepped foot in the Department of Art History at NYU in fall of 2009 as a first-year undergraduate student and declared my Art History major. Little did I know then, as a pre-med student at the time, that I would eventually become a social art historian.”
Louise Lui (B.A. Art History, Business Studies minor ‘15; M.A. Bard Graduate Center, New York ‘23) is Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore. Her first exhibition, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection, will open at Peranakan Museum, a sister institution of ACM. It runs from 19 April to 25 August.
Christina Cacouris (B.A. Art History/Journalism ‘17) launched a filmed interview series at Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio focusing on photography; her episode with curator William A. Ewing on luminary artist and photographer Edward Steichen went live this month.
Christina Cacouris In Conversation on Deborah Turbeville
Alice Centamore (B.A. Art History ‘18) has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in Art History at the University of Chicago.
Yue Wu (B.A. Art History ‘18) will pursue a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Culture at Stanford University beginning in Fall 2024. Yue earned an M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University in 2023; her M.A. thesis has been nominated for the Fletcher Award for Outstanding Thesis. Her research projects delve into the global 1960s, avant-garde movements, revolutions, arts and activism, and the intricate social and cultural fabric shaping aesthetics.
Yue has also been active in the art world as an independent curator and writer. She curated the exhibition “A Spring Breeze” in 2023 and realized the digital exhibition “Guerrillas in Flatland: Unite! Digital Voyagers” in 2021 at China’s largest public contemporary art museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai. The latter showcases art in a unique online environment, subverting familiar digital interfaces; with that exhibition, she was recognized for the nationwide Emerging Curator Award in China. Yue was selected for digital residency at Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council in 2022. In 2019 she coordinated the first overseas retrospective “Xu Bing: Thought and Method” at Museum MACAN, the first Museum in Indonesia to have a collection of modern and contemporary art. After graduate school she worked as Associate Director at Green Bus Gallery founded by Richard Lovett in Santa Monica, CA, before the gallery’s sudden closure.
Yue currently manages a community initiative called Point Space for Asian artists, scholars, and entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. For more details on Yue’s curatorial and creative projects, please visit her website.
Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez (B.A. Art History ‘18), who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Stanford University,sends this news: “A few weeks ago I received a 2024-2025 Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. I will use my year in Washington to complete my dissertation, which is tentatively titled The Disappearance of Landscape: Artists on Fire Island, 1937-1983.”
Wayne Chen (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ‘19) has been accepted to the M.Arch. Program in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; he will begin his studies this fall.
Rebecca Coffman (M.A. Historical and Sustainable Architecture ‘19) published an article titled “59 Brick Lane: A History of Adaptive Reuse,” in volume 12 of the journal Architecture and Culture, which appeared in January 2024. Rebecca was a winner of a 2023 Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund Award.
Ashley Kochiss (M.A. Historical and Sustainable Architecture ‘19) was a winner of the 2023 Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund Award.
Emily Conklin (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ‘20; M.S. Historic Preservation, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation ‘23) has been named to the Best of Practice jury sponsored by The Architects’ Newspaper, a widely-read journal of which she is the Managing Editor. She will serve on the jury with prominent architects and planners. Emily’s current areas of research interest include “the architectures of labor and the urban commons.”
Gabriella (Gabby) Chinea (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies; Spanish minor ‘21) sends this news: “I am very excited to start working toward a Masters of Urban Planning at Hunter College this fall! I’m looking forward to expanding on my coursework from undergrad and learning more about housing, transportation, and sustainability. I will pursue the degree part-time as I continue to work in the field and sit on the board of the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust, the steward of thirty-seven community gardens in New York City.”
Gianni Grieco (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ‘21) has been accepted to the M.Arch. Program at SUNY Buffalo; he will begin his studies this fall.
Joe Tuano (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies/German, ‘21) reports, “I have been accepted into the Masters of Urban Planning Program at NYU Wagner for Fall 2024, and I’d like to give a special shout-out to Professor Mosette Broderick for helping with my application.”
Anushka Maqbool (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’21) has been accepted to the Masters Program in City Planning in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Miranda Gibson (B.A. Art History ‘22) has been accepted to NYU Law School and will begin her studies this coming fall.
Honglu Jiang (M.A. Historical and Sustainable Architecture ’22) will begin the M.A. Program in Art History at the University of Warwick (UK) this fall.
Nicole Bitanga (B.A. Art History ‘23) has been accepted to the M.A. program in Arts Administration at Columbia University. Nicole also has been working with TEFAF as their Art Fair Operations Coordinator.
Risa Kimura (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’23) will begin the M.Arch. Program of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Architecture this fall.
Yutong Li (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’23) will begin the Masters in Urban Planning Program at the University of California, Berkeley this fall.
Leonard Zhu (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’23) published “China’s Ghost Cities” in Ink and Image 15 (2023), the journal of undergraduate research of NYU’s Department of Art History/Program for Urban Design & Architecture Studies.
Last night the New York Landmarks Conservancy honored the former 75th Police Precinct Station with a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. This eye-filling work, designed by George Ingram in 1892, evokes both a medieval fortress and a castle inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Today, it has a new life as a men’s homeless shelter and clinic.
Gregory Dietrich Preservation Consulting is proud to have served as the
historic tax credit consultant on this award-winning project!
James A. Doyle
Director, Matson Museum of Anthropology
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology
Affiliate Professor of Art History
Penn State University
Thursday, April, 4 2024 – 6:30 PM EST
The Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 301
| The Department of Art History invites you to attend the second in a series of lectures that forms our Emerging Scholars Series. The aim of this lecture series is to better orient our own faculty, students, and broader NYU community to the exciting field of the arts of the Ancient Americas. James A. Doyle (Director, Matson Museum of Anthropology; Associate Research Professor of Anthropology and Affiliate Professor of Art History, Penn State University) will be presenting the lecture “The Royal Arts of Ancient Panama.” Please Note: All non-NYU community members will need to register for this event in order to gain access to the campus building where this event will be held. Please RSVP below. In ancient times as in the contemporary world, Panama was the center of the Americas, a vital landscape that served as a nexus of intellectual and material exchange between North and South America and between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Ancestral artists from the Isthmus created astonishing painted ceramics and ornaments of cast and hammered metals, greenstone, marine shell, fragrant plant resins, and other materials. These works formed elaborate burial assemblages lavished upon important patrons in some of the richest entombments in the ancient world. The Royal Arts of Ancient Panama represents a long-term research and exhibition project reevaluating the art and archaeology of societies known as Gran Coclé (ca. AD 500-1100) in Central Panama, undertaken in partnership with Panamanian scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders. The collaborative international project aims to reveal new insights about distinct forms of governance in human societies, proposing a new model of divine kingship based on archaeological evidence and 16th-century observations by Spanish colonizers. After establishing the interpretive framework for Coclé artistic production as a courtly, royal practice, the project reconceptualizes the extraordinary forms and iconography of bodily regalia and the production and decoration of ceramic feasting vessels. This fresh take on Gran Coclé artistry also implicates the enduring legacies of U.S. imperialism and highlights contemporary cultural connections with the Indigenous descendants in Panama today. |
| Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 Time: 6:30 PM Location: The Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 301Please use the link below to register. Registration is encouraged, but not required.Reservation Link |
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